Relativity

Pardon the bleeting, but we have been hammered this year.  In upstate NY you sorta expect five feet of snow once in awhile.  Not so much South of the Mason-Dixie line.

Into the great wide open

A night launch of the space shuttle.

Penthouse letters got nothing on this

From Ripley's Believe It or Not:

 

On a related note, the new Turbo S is out, in case your better half was filled with ennui at the thought of a mere 500HP from the plane-jane turbo variant.

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Rock'n'roll ain't noise pollution.  Well, okay, some of it is.  These posters can be found he'ah.

Well that explains a lot

New Windows Vista 3.1 upgrade package

Experience Windows 3.1, now in tasty web 2.0 form.   (FWIW, growing up in a teacher's house with Apple II's and Macs, so no MS-DOS/Windows 3's for me.  So yeah, I get to behold its glory for the first time.  The first cut's the deepest, bud.) [via]

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From the excellent Cycle Chic from Copenhagen

ridiculous

There is 24" of snow forecast tomorrow here in the DC area.  People were lined out the doors at grocery stores picking up their emergency potpourri rations (or so I heard - I did my shopping, in a very pedestrian way, yesterday.  Better to be lucky than good, son).  Anyway, someone needs to sacrifice a hecatomb on the stairs of the Jefferson Memorial or whatever it takes, because this weather is nuts.

Uff-da

The pipe make this a perfect 10 [via I don't remember where, sorry!]

How rich industrialists squander their money

1) Betting
2) Mistresses
3) Engineers.

And the third is the most assured way.

New toy

A Browning Buck Mark 22LR target pistol. The full-rail version is notably heftier than the basic version.  The semi-soft (Semi-hard?  Extra-medium?) rubber grips aren't as pretty as some of the rosewood grips, but they are more comfortable and ergonomic.  The trigger is smooth and crisp.  As the saying goes, it's way more accurate than I am.  Routine cleaning is straight-forward, but taking it all the way down requires an allen-key wrench, and you'll need to re-zero the sights once you have it back together.  It's much simpler than the Ruger Mark III family, but it's not a Glock either.  It's the Honda Accord of target pistols.

Words to live by