Tandem Snowmobiling

Yeti sighting...

As seen on ESPN...

FYi- Britt Berg,

M.C./O.G. for the Mount Baker Banked Slalom this past weekend.

y.e.t.i.

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Google Earth

ring•wall

Nürburgring Germany, known for the most bad-ass automotive race track in the world, now also has the largest touch screen multi-user information wall in the world.

Now there are two reasons to visit the ring.

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The race against time

Sometimes pressure can become a catalyst..

It's all about being driven to be the best at what you do.

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Beer Goggles

Everybody has worn a pair of these at one time or another..

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Mobility in 2088

Best use for $15 USD...

Aurora from space

What a cool perspective.

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John Deere Green.

You read it here first...
The rural redneck fashion flavor for this fall is... John Deere Green.

Don't forget to accessorize with genuine John Deere products.

Susanna (a.k.a. jane deere) got the JD 5045 to go with her outfit..

Joe Diffie even wrote a song about John Deere Green;

Twang, twang twang...

"They were farm kids way down in Dixie
They met in high school in the sixties
Everyone knew it was love from the start
One July in the midnight hour
He climed up on the water tower
Stood on the rail and painted a 10ft heart
In John Deere green"

"On a hot summer night
He wrote Billy Bob loves Charlene
In letters 3 foot high
And the whole town said that he should have used red
But it looked good to Charlene
In John Deere green"

"They settled down on 80 acres
Raising sweet corn,kids and tomaters
They went together like a hand and a glove
On a clear day from their front yard
If you look and know what to look for
Off to the east you can still read his words of love
In John Deere green"

"On a hot summer night
He wrote Billy Bob loves Charlene
In letters 3 foot high
And the whole town said the boy should have used red
But it looked good to Charlene
In John Deere green...."

It goes on like that.

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The Fun Theory

It does have to be fun to be fun.

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Missile Silo Homes

And now for something completely different...

Steve Mcqueen

The man.

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Cross Country Snowboarding

East coast backcountry.

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Top Gear RC racing

This post is for Nick Simmons...

The smallest car in the world.

The future of personal transportation?

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AVRO Aircraft Co.

I'll bet you didn't know that in the late 50's, the most advanced fighter plane in the world was designed, engineered and built in Canada. The Avro Arrow was nearly twice as fast as the fastest U.S. jet at the time. It could fly higher, faster, and for longer periods than any other jet aircraft at the time...

In an unbelievable political blunder, the Canadian Government scrapped the Arrow program in favor of a dysfunctional U.S. built Bomarc missile system (that was also scrapped at a later date). In the process, the Avro Aircraft Co. went bankrupt. Canada had the most cutting edge aerospace company in the world - that could have literally put man on the moon, and they threw it away.

Jim Chamberlin from Kamloops B.C., went on to become the head of NASA Engineering, and with a team of 33 ex-Avro engineers, helped drive the Gemini and Apollo manned space programs.

Jack Woodman from Sakatoon, Saskatchewan became the director of flight testing for Lockheed Aircraft.

James Floyd became senior designer for the UK SST, working on the Concorde.

John Hodges, and Fred Matthews became flight directors for the Gemini and Apollo space programs.

Tex Roberts became head of the trajectory group at the Mission Control Center.

John Sandford became Director of Engineering at North American Aviation - Space Shuttle Launch Systems.

Mario Pesando became Senior Engineering Scientist at NASA for the Saturn V project.

Bryan Erb became Assistant Manager of the U.S.- Canadian Space Station Project.

Carl Lindow became Development Program Manager for Boeing Space Programs

Ken Cooke became Landing Gear Designer for NASA & the Concorde.

Frank Brame became Chief Project Engineer at Boeing.

And the list goes on....

This was the largest single brain drain in Canadian history. Another 49,000 Canadians lost their jobs as well. Imagine what this group could have accomplished, had Avro been allowed to continue on it's path.

Today's modern F-18 still falls short of performance levels expected of the Arrow in 1959.

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Doggles

Fast dogs need Doggles.

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Race across Japan part 1

Race across Japan part 2

Top Gear Motohome racing!

This post is dedicated to Neil Hartmann and the Car Danchi posse! Neil is about two thousand hours into editing Car Danchi 4 right now. Thought this might offer a good laugh, and maybe inspiration for Car Danchi 5 (?).

If you don't yet know who or what the Car Danchi crew is all about, check out the Car Danchi 3 Trailer...

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Yves Rossy

Yves Rossy is my new hero. What kid hasn't dreamed of being able to fly around like a mini fighter plane? Yves is a Swiss ex-military fighter pilot, who now is a commercial airline pilot for Swiss-Air. He also skydives for fun - so it was a natural progression to combine his knowledge of his various diciplines to take his game to the next level. He saw the potential for self-flight, and set out to make his vision a reality. Yves is clearly -also- a talented Industrial Designer and Mechanical Engineer. He designed, developed and built one very innovative piece of kit.

This rig has 4 micro jet engines, 2 parachutes, a flotation device (in case of an unplanned water landing), and carries enough fuel for over 20 minutes of flight time. You literally fly it through body language. Yves has a fuel guage, altimeter and throttle control - that's it. Steering is controlled by body movement. Your body IS the plane and you are flying by 'active aerodynamics'.

James Bond? Ironman? Merely movies with big special effects budgets - this is the real deal. I was in Paris last year, and watched Mr. Rossy fly over the English Channel live on TV, and it was one of the most inspired feats of human accomplishment i've seen in a long time.

Yves Rossy has actually realized what millions of kids have dreamed of... and forgot.

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