This so applies to me. I care about parking and that’s because I take care of my car. Stop exercising a little while and it gets hard. I visted CocoBongo in Cancun. Just not my thing. I’m not into clubbing…a good beer or wine however… TSA took the fun out of flying. I’m saving for retirement. I enjoy computer generated movies. I don’t get carded buying beer, even though many places have the policy of carding everyone under forty. Oh, am I that close to it? Twenty-somethings were born in the late 80’s.

Symptoms of Being Over 25

by Keiron on February 9, 2008
6 Before going out anywhere, you ask whether there is anywhere to park.
12 You don’t get funny looks when you buy a Disneyvideo or a Wallace And Gromit bubble bath,as the sales assistant assumes they are for your children.
18 The benefits of a pension scheme become clear.
29 You actually clean the house BEFORE guests arrive.
35 It starts to become an effort to stay in shape.
37 Your car is always taxed, insured and mot’ed.
38 Flying anywhere become a major chore that you could just do without.

more at Skillett.com

Sunday, October 12, 2008

GALVESTON — A month later, piles of sheetrock, appliances, furniture and family mementos dot most streets in this island town.

Electronic road signs in Southeast Texas flash, “Watch for cows next 20 miles,” a reminder that few fences remain to hem in livestock. Blue tarps cover 11,000 roofs for 100 miles from Houston to the Louisiana line.

continued at statesman.com

Lamborghini’s new car is slicker than the new Camero, will make an awesome four door sedan.

• sketches
• hybrid

Aston Martin now more expensive than Bugatti Veyron

SSC Ultimate Aero now faster (January).  But the Veyron is now topless. 

This was photographed in Clear Lake.  Clear Lake is southwest of Houston, and northwest of Galveston.

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Picture by WYK

More lightening pictures at http://www.pbase.com/wyk/lightning.

How Not to Propose Marriage

I heard of a man mailing a letter to a girl saying he’s lonely in a field and proposed in the letter. I suppose email could be less romantic, however:

• EMAIL PROPOSAL IN PERSON
• True Story of a Twitter Marriage Proposal

There’s also losing the ring:

The luckless 28 year-old’s dreams of giving his sweetheart, Leanne, 26, the ultimate proposal have literally vanished into thin air.

Hajji, of Hackney, east London, had concealed a $12,000 engagement ring inside a helium balloon. The idea was that she would pop the balloon as he popped the question.

But as he left the shop, a gust of wind pulled the balloon from his hand and he watched the ring — and quite possibly the affections of his girlfriend — sailing away over the rooftops.

– Reuters.com

A news worthy way to propose

A TV weatherman stunned his presenter girlfriend when he proposed to her live on-air. — news:lite

Pictures

• Sunset with HUD
• dropsonde launching
• birds eye few of eye

Links

• The Air Force photo gallery.
• Hurricane Hunters Flickr photoset.

When an internal combustion engine isn’t fast enough for you, just add a jet and rocket engine.  The Batmobile never had a rocket engine.

The 12.8m-long, 6.4-tonne Bloodhound SSC (Super Sonic Car) will be expected to travel faster than a bullet fired from a handgun.

Its 900mm-diameter wheels will spin so fast they will have to be made from a high-grade titanium to prevent them from flying apart.

The car will accelerate from 0-1,050mph (1,690km/h) in just 40 seconds; and at its maximum velocity, the pressure of air bearing down on its carbon fibre and titanium bodywork will exceed 12 tonnes per square metre.

– BBC News

Supersonic car targets 1,000mph

You know the Feast if over when:

• you enter the hectic traffic of I-45
• you’re stopped in the evening rush hour around 4 o’clock
• the sky of half fluffy clouds and half gray rain clouds rain on you
• you post on your blog again. (The previous posts dated during the feast were written before and scheduled.)