Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Replica-Caravelle

Replica of a Caravel..
hard to beleive that people use to go on these to explore
the ancient world?
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Mig-25 [foxbat]

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The first claim was for world speed records with payloads of 1,000 and 2,000 kilogram. Test pilot Alexander Fedotov reached an average speed of 2,319.12 km/h over a 1,000 km circuit in 16 March 1965.
For pure speed, with no payload, test pilot Mikhail M. Komarov averaged 2,982.5 km/h over a 500 km closed circuit in 1967, three months after the new aircraft was first shown to the public at Domodedovo. On the same day A. Fedotov reached an altitude of 29,977 m with a 1,000 kilogram payload. But the MiG could go higher and eventually it become the first aircraft to go higher than 35,000 m.
Time to height records were recorded on 4 June 1973 when Boris A. Orlov climbed to 20,000 m in 2 min 49.8 sec. The same day, Pyotr M. Ostapenko reached 25,000 in 3 min 12.6 and 30,000 m in 4 min 3.86 sec.

Friday, November 26, 2010

King Corn

Corn is a grass

Corn is America's most productive and subsidized grain. Upon relocating to Iowa, the pair seeks out the assistance of friends and neighbors in procuring the land, seeds, fertilizers, and herbicides needed to grow a one-acre bumper crop of this highly versatile commodity. As their maize is harvested and the sometimes-troubling realities of modern faming begin to emerge, the pair sets off on a mission to track the progress of their product and find out just how it is used to create a variety of different food products. What emerges is an informative and at times disturbing account of both the food Americans so readily consume without so much as a second though and the alarming state of the contemporary agricultural industry.
Corn is used in the production of alcohol, and distilled spirits, corn syrup, sugar, cornstarch, synthetic fibers such as nylon, certain plastics, in the manufacture of wood resin, lubricating oils and synthetic rubber, as an abrasive, corn cob pipes, corn oil, margarine, saccharin, paints, soaps, linoleum and gasohol.

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.




Thursday, November 25, 2010

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Friday, November 19, 2010

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Sunday, November 14, 2010

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no
way of taking advantage of them. - Anatole France


Friday, November 12, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Lest We....................

Another shite hole.... as my Dad tole me....[Tobruk]



Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Kurt

Some grunge bands have continued recording and touring with more limited success, including, most significantly, Pearl Jam. While in 2006 Rolling Stone writer Brian Hiatt described Pearl Jam as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame," he noted the band developed a loyal concert following akin to that of the Grateful Dead.[52] Despite Nirvana's demise, the band has continued to be successful posthumously. Due to the high sales for Kurt Cobain's Journals and the band's best-of compilation Nirvana upon their releases in 2002, The New York Times argued Nirvana "are having more success now than at any point since Mr. Cobain's suicide in 1994."[53]

Monday, November 8, 2010

Mephisto


Mephisto
Fallen Archangel. Was the apprentice of Michael and was going to be lord of heaven, but lost it to Jesus because of the fall. Some say he left by himself and was not driven out. Now he is The Duke of Hell, The Judge of the Damned, Lord of Fear and Nightmares, second only to Luciferin the hierarchy of hell
He is The Judge before the gates of Hell. The one you get if Peter doesn't let you in the Pearly Gates.


Sunday, November 7, 2010

Saturday, November 6, 2010

BEERalot


"You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons but at the very least you need a beer"- Frank Zappa
"From man’s sweat and God’s love, beer came into the world."–Saint Arnold of Metz, The patron Saint of Brewers
“It takes beer to make thirst worthwhile.” – German Proverb
"People who drink light ‘beer’ don’t like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot."-Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
"Some see the glass as half full, others see the glass as half empty. I just wonder who the hell has been drinking my beer!"- As seen on a T-Shirt in Portland, Oregon
"He was a wise man who invented beer."-Plato

Friday, November 5, 2010

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Frostiez

A feather-hammer gives a double knock.
This Eden day is done at two o'clock.
An hour of winter day might seem too short
To make it worth life's while to wake and sport.
[r.frost]


Monday, November 1, 2010

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics
ruled by Frankenstein logic. - David Russell