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Merry Christmas You Will Have

From comic/chick artist extraordinare, Adam Hughes.

Physics Sucks

Even in Scotland – perhaps especially in Scotland.

The fun begins at about 0:35.

Opportuntities

(Yeah – I know it’s misspelled. The reason will become obvious soon.)

The interwebs is, as we all know, a mighty dangerous place. Yesterday, I was putting together a PowerPoint presentation for our clients yesterday. (Don’t ask – boring environmental crap). I believe in peppering one’s PowerPoint with interesting pictures that are germane to [...]

The Greatest Ocean Engineering Feat Of The Twentieth Century

That you’ve probably never heard about…Project Azorian

Here’s the book if you want to read all about it… http://www.amazon.com/Project-Azorian-CIA-Raising-K-129/dp/1591146909

Your Tax Dollars at work…part 22 in a continuing series

The F-22 Raptor

I was privileged to see the F-22 Demo Team twice this weekend. If you have ever seen the video of the F-22 going through its routine, it DOES NOT do justice to the real thing. To see this huge fighter literally flip end over end like an aerobatic competition aircraft is [...]

A Bridge Over The River Red

Here’s a time lapse of the building of the Hoover Dam Bypass…too cool.

H/T Ace of Spades

Maybe Fritz knows, are they going to shut down completly the road over the Hoover Dam? If so, get out there and drive across it while you can. Man that was one road that made me pretty [...]

Airborne!

H/T JAWA Report

4 HUMVEE’s and approx 50 paratroopers jump into the darkness.

Here Comes The Boom X 80

A single B-2 bomber releases 80 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition (GPS Guided)) bombs on a target airfield in a single pass during a test.

Here Comes The Boom

Because everyone likes videos of weapons tests. Well, not everyone, but it’s cool as hell.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With a loving tip o’ the hat to milady for thinking enough to bug me at work (priorities), J. Geils Band (up yours, “embedding disabled”) and The Diamond’s finally entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (sure, just the nominee list, but c’mon, we inexplicably haven’t even seen them there yet, so please [...]

Friday Fat Boy Fireworks

Go Fat Boy GO!

h/t: Stosh from da Sticks

“Sometimes I say things I shouldn’t…”

God knows his politics are 180 degrees opposite of mine, but with our love of baseball being on the exact same page, I can more than live with Bill Lee’s love of Castro and socialism. Even though he spent a good portion of it knocking the capitalistic system which gave him a wider platform for [...]

Chim-Chiminey, Chim-Chiminey Chim Chim CherOh My God!

A Bakersfield, CA woman — a doctor — tried to break into her “on-again/off-again boyfriend’s house last Wednesday — hereafter known as Ash Wednesday.

From AOL News:

A doctor involved in an “on-again, off-again” relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend’s home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing [...]

Feeling Hot Hot Hot

Airplanes are, by their nature, awfully beautiful things. And, fixed-wing airframes are far more attractive than their rotary-winged cousins. An Apache is scary as hell, but it’s not very sexy (sorry Outlaw). So, herewith is my top five sexiest fixed-wing aircraft of all time. For the record: I am none too committed to this [...]

Get Your Nerd On

Supersonic shock waves explained…the video is cool as well.

Book Review - Into the Storm

General (ret.) Fred Franks – 2008

Not a new book (published in 1997) but new to me and a fascinating read, Into the Storm: A Study in Command was co-authored by Tom Clancy and General (ret.) Fred Franks. Franks, if you’re not familiar with him, led VII Corps during the First Gulf [...]

What To Get Outlaw For Christmas

The Sikorsky X-2 demonstrator set a new world speed record for rotary-winged aircraft today: 258 mph. The old record of 249 mph, set by a Westland Lynx (British, in other words) had stood for 24 years. Say it with me: U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!!!

No tail rotor, special anti-vibration technology, a pusher propeller and coaxial [...]

Pure Energy!

Window On The Past

If you haven’t been there, allow me to suggest a trip to shorpy.com. Shorpy is a vast interwebs repository of vintage photographs. Not photos of great historical significance mind you, but rather pictures of everyday life. Most are very old, from the 19th century and early twentieth, but there some as late as the [...]

This Is What It’s All About

Via BLACKFIVE comes this link and video regarding the Memorial Day speech of 1LT Dan Berschinski in his hometown of Peachtree, GA. The LT lost both his legs in an IED blast in Afghanistan.