What a Race!!

This great race comes to us from Elizabeth.  Thanks, kiddo!

This is the ultimate Drag Race, but it is between a 1000 HP Bugatti Veyron and a Eurofighter.  This is very well done!

The two will start side by side from a standstill.  The car will go 1 mile, slow down enough to turn around on a full width runway, then come back the 1 mile to attempt to cross the Finish Line first.  The fighter will take off as quickly as possible, go straight up 1 mile, turn around and come back down to about 100′ off the deck to fly parallel to the car to attempt to cross the Finish Line first.

Who will win??
http://www.snotr.com/video/568

W00t!!!

Major Milestone

Look! over there at the bottom of the left column!!

1,000 Visitors!!!

Thank you all for stopping by!!

painting of me

Well, this is just too cool! Thanks to Kafleen for this little toy.

Click here to create your own painting.

Click here to create your own painting.

I’m not too sure what’s going on with the bottom half, but I can definitely relate to the top half of the painting.

Questions

I have questions.   Inquiring minds want to know . . .

Do you have to have a canoe to canoodle?

When LEDs (light emitting diodes) fail, do they become DEDs (dark emitting diodes)?

If train A leaves Philadelphia at 10:30 am traveling at 55 mph, and train B leaves Memphis at 12:15 pm  traveling at 72 mph,  how do the trains accelerate from 0 mph to their respective cruising speeds instantaneously?

Do you have answers?  If you do, please send them to me via the comments.

Trees

There must be something of the Druid in me — I love trees. I love their structure — the bare skeletons in the winter with every branch and twig delineated against the sky. And the wonderful cool shade they provide in the summer. The way the sun lights up their colorful leaves in the fall. The beauty of the young buds in spring waiting to unfurl. Oh, yeah, I love trees.

They say you plant trees for your grandchildren. And this is true. When I bought the house in Oklahoma in 1983, the lot was bare — except for a couple of Chinese elms growing in the fence line on the east side. Within a few weeks a co-worker gave me some mountain ash seedlings, and a neighbor gave me some cedar seedlings. I dug holes for all of them in the rock hard yard. And voila! Here it is a mere 25 years later and Jenni has sent me a picture of the ever-adorable Shane raking leaves from those self-same trees.

Keep smiling!
mj