Weird weather week continues…mi madre just snapped these from my parents’ front porch in Glasgow, Montana.
incoming
building...
incredible
Weather Underground has this thing at 65 MPH and 13,000 feet. Five miles out. I sure hope I don’t have any follow up pics.
Vivian South Dakota? Ever heard of the place? Yep, neither have I.
It has been a bizarre year around my neck of the woods, weather-wise. Giant hail in Bozeman, tornadoes in Billings and all over the NE corner, micro bursts near Glasgow…weird stuff.
weather != gadgetry, but
awesome weather phenomenon = science FTW
Well, Vivian (from here on out, “Viv”) South Dakota has claimed its colloquial fifteen minutes of fame, in the form of a world record hailstone.
that's-a a spicy-a hail-a-ball
1.9375 pounds. Nicely played, Viv.
I found this story amazing…some local news site interviewed one of Viv’s finest. Les Scott is a death-defying party animal…
“I just happened to see this one fall and the only reason I went out and got it is because it has all these fingers sticking out of it and I thought, ‘Oh, that’s weird.’ So I thought I’d go get that one,” Scott said.
Scott originally wanted to make a daiquiri out of the hail, but decided to contact the National Weather Service instead. Tuesday, they were in Vivian. They carefully took the stone from the freezer and placed it in a cooler with dry ice. The next stop was at the post office where the hail had a date with the federally certified scale. Moments later, the hailstone weighed in at 1.9375 pounds.
Daiquiri? Come the hell on Les. National news, buddy…pick something less feminine about which to wax funny.
This should go on 26outs.com, but, hey, why not throw it here.
Sweet Lou is hanging up his manager-cleats at the end of the 2010 season.
not so sweet, lou
Too bad. I was hoping Piniella would surpass Bobby Cox in the ‘most times sent to the showers early’ category.
Sad day in Mudville.
Here is the end result of my customization.
gangSSta
Kate and I are going to take off and get married. Catch you all in 10 days or so.
I suppose I am picky when it comes to sinks. Not bad picky, but picky enough to know what I want. I spent the better part of a decade with double sink set-ups, between my restaurant and bar work experience. I may not be much of a doer of dishes, but set me up with two sinks, and I’ll do my thing.
SO ANGRY (not to perspective)
Being a minimalist of sorts, I basically have two choices; granite sinks or stainless steel sinks. I’m leaning towards the former, after seeing some sweet, black granite Mr Direct brand sinks. I was under the false assumption that all granite sinks were speckled and dirty looking. Not the case.
+1 hides grime
dig it
…and all of a sudden, I guess I am a granite sink guy.
Hit one of those links above for the details. I most surely will when it is time to remodel our place.
so it begins
My ethernet shield is here…I haven’t talked to it yet. This could be awesome.
I think what I fondly refer to as my laboratory might not classify as a true lab, per se. I have some sweet stuff going for me in my garage workspace…but the lack of lab equipment might leave me with more of a nerd fortress, and less of a lab.
Here is a quick pic:
weak sauce
While most of my projects are electronic in nature, I still get down and dirty with some mechanical projects. Woodworking, too, and of course programming. I would for sure benefit from a laboratory apparatus or two, in order to establish some lab credibility.
Those above links are to Lab Planet…which I stumbled across while looking for some equipment. I was looking into a dry ice machine, which they have, and saw that they have scores of sweet equipment. Centrifuges, microscopes, furnaces…even mass spec stuff.
How sweet would my Arduino projects be with a touch of chemistry?
Times are still tough. Our economy is still a wreck. Foreclosures are still rampant; however, there is no need to give up your livelihood. When push comes to shove, why take a hit and declare bankruptcy, when you can just as easily do a little home loan modification and get your expenditures back in line with your income.
Enter American Residential Law Group. This is their bread and butter.
black and white for the WIN
Give them a shot…it will work out.
I snapped this pic from work (in Four Corners) about twenty minutes before hell wrought down fury upon Bozeman, Montana in the form of large hail.
breath-taking
Hail dents the size of Matzah Balls. Details will follow.
So there I find myself, shopping for watches. Granted, my cellphone has been my primary time keeping device for well over a decade, but every once in a while I find myself looking to accesorize. Watches, why not? Don’t judge me.
+1 gold
Function plus style. Multitasking? You cannot go wrong with a watch. So, I have been poking around a bit, and at first, I had my eye on this jacques lemans watch I found online at bluedial.com:
hmm
Right? Pretty minimal…sleek…bling-ish? Well, hold your breath. I then stumbled across this guy, also by Jacque Lemans
there it is
Tell me that doesn’t look like a robot head. I dare you…tell me. Regardless, bluedial has all sorts of brands, if robot head watches aren’t your thing. If they aren’t, you are completely out of your mind, for what it is worth.
Most likely, I will continue to use the smartphone as my timepiece. Still waiting on my Droid Incredible, which should have the most awesome time app in the histories of both apps and time. There still exists a soft spot in my heart for a good, old fashioned watch…maybe if the Incredible looked more robotic, that would cease to be the case.
