I have been goofing with a 2.4 ghz airborne camera system. 600mw transmitter, received at a laptop, and recorded on the hard drive. Camera is a Panasonic 131, and needs to be replaced. This was filmed from a 100 inch wingspan powered glider. The initial part of the video is the climb to altitude, and is somewhat rocky.
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Humans rule the earth. We can grab things, escape harsh environmental effects, go off planet, and discuss imaginary stuff that may never come to be. Hooray for Humans!
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My foot is a hand...top that...
Here is the Macaroni and Cheese recipe so it is in a central place!
For 1 box of macaroni shells
Cook the macaroni according to the package directions. Mix in velveeta cheese and some cheddar ? to make it as cheesy as desired
Set aside
then:
Melt 4 tablespoons butter
Once it melts- mix in 4 tablespoons of flour
Mix it together and pour in two cups of milk slowly ? mixing as you pour it in
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until it comes to a boil.
Pour over the macaroni
You can put it in the oven but it will dry it out some ? if it is too thick ?add some milk and mix it in
As long as you use some velveeta it will be creamy – but add whatever other cheese you like
Nikki
Billy – unlike your greasy bacon rolls – we eat this at a lot of parties!
With all the talk about the oil crisis, I am always on the lookout for alternatives to use in the country. We drive an explorer that runs on biofuel but it takes 2x as much so it isn’t really saving us any money and it upsets me that my drive to walmart is causing a Somalian to starve. So after much research – I thought a car running on methane from pig shit was the perfect solution but I really couldn’t stand the smell and I don’t do animals so it would never make it through the week . Since we live in the middle of the mennonites – I have discovered the perfect vehicle –
Nik
The old 27 inch JVC is hitting the skids… when you turn it on it gets a bright thin line across a dark screen. After you beat on it for 5 minutes, the picture will fire up, and last for the night. I didn’t think I would have to deal with this till February of 2009 (when the analog signal bites the dust).. but realized that I have cable and would be able to put off buying a new tv for ever.
Apparently, the time has come, and it brings with it nothing but problems…
First, I have this neat cherry cabinet the old tv sits in, with shelves for nick nacks and a shelf for vcr tapes (they’re still in there..). There doesn’t seem to be a tv for sale that fits in this hole.. unless you get something smaller than your computer monitor..
Then, down at best buy, they have setup fees (around 200 bucks), because you just can’t take them home and turn them on (like the old one). You have to do all this arcane setting of things so that the image will be viewable!
Then you have to upgrade your cable to get HD.. that ain’t cheap! (But obviously I am…)
Then you gotta upconvert your dvd player…
Then HDMI, what is that all about?
Maybe I can take this thing in to get fixed…?
I prepped a new 2008 280hp 6 speed Aero X today. Before today I was kind of on the fence about this car.. gas is going up, and the latest offerings from Saab before this car was a 9-7 SUV (Trailblazer). I was kind of thinking that Saab needs some kind of hybrid or electric car or something, but they seem to keep making cars that get worse gas mileage than the one before.
Well. I gassed it up about 5 miles from the shop (57 bucks), and headed back. I was feeling kind of frisky and thought I would give this car a workout. Then a huge thunderstorm blew up, dumping buckets of water on the road. I didn’t even have to slow down, in fact, I just kept going faster… torrents of water or huge puddles or water washing across the road wasn’t an issue. Never once did I slip a wheel (18 inchers), and it was plowing thru some major water barriers.
I think I found this car’s forte. It was like the old Morris Garages motto… “Safety Fast!”
One of the recent Space Shuttle Discovery’s missions was delivering a new toilet pump to the International Space Station, to fix its troublesome toilet. Watching the docking on Nasa TV http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ was breathtaking!
It seems space stations have come a long way since the old Salyut and Spacelab days… For instance, the Salyut 6 had 90 sq meters of habital area, ran on 4kw of power, and could barely cram 3 guys inside it.
The present International Space Station, by contrast, has about 700 sq meters of area so far, with another 300 on the way, runs on 110 kw of power, and the new Japanese labs interior can strand an astranaut if he loses a handhold and drifts out into the middle of the room!
These space stations still have their problems tho. Recycling issues, radiation from space, and a lack of gravity still cause health woes…
And they still only have one toilet!
greg
I’ve been thinking about Andromeda lately. Not the made for tv movie, but the Galaxy.. It’s a lot like our Milky Way Galaxy, and is observable by the naked eye… Then I found out that our two galaxies are slowly heading for each other, and will collide in about 7 or 8 billion years. That will more than likely make a mess out of our current stable situation in the universe. Add into that the possibility of giant black holes at the center of each galaxy and the possibilites of our demise rise higher.
Well it doesn’t really matter. In about 5 billion years our sun will run out of hydrogen fuel, and in the process of running on helium, will expand and vaporize the entire inner solar system, which unfortunately includes us…
No wonder I’m a worrier…
greg
David and his buddy Ed have a new site:
They are selling Video Bling for your video ipod. It seems that cruizing manhatten, they noticed people carrying ipods around their necks with lanyards. They came up with the cool idea of putting an animation on the ipod, increasing their coolness and pimpness!(?)
From the Website:
What is Digital Bling?
You mean you don’t already know!? Son, you need to get up on this before everyone else!
If you already rock bling then you already know. You just floss.
But “Virtual bling” are specially made blinged out videos that you play on your iPod. These are hand-made 3D models designed to maximize pimpness and ensure elite baller status.
Wow.. greg
We recently took our sweet and demure 55 lb border collie to the veterinarian, to have her nails clipped. Try as we might, she wouldn’t let my wife and I clip her nails.
Once at the Vet, on the examination table. I held the pooch while Mr. Vet tried to clip her nails. After much struggle, another Vet came into assist. I moved to the rear of the pooch, and held my ground. The border collie, named Tippie, began making sounds not unlike those in the excorcist movie. I realized later, these were warnings.
Picture urine and poop flying through the air. Picture it in my hair, on my glasses, my clothes, on the floor, the table, and on the other two men holding the pooch. Quarts, gallons, everywhere, and a stink like something from an autopsy.
One Vet mused “guess I’ll have to shower before I go out to eat dinner tonight”.
Then the Vet who clipped her nails looked at me and said “she isn’t the worst, but she’s in the top 10..”
hooray