I wasn’t one of the millions watching the record setting freefall by Felix Baumgartner live today. But even watching the highlights video below took my breath away. Before you watch that video, here’s some highlights from this guy’s other previous jumps around the world to whet your appetite. Now watch this one. Humans are truly amazing creatures sometimes…
The only version of Hawksley Workman’s “First Snow of the Year” I could find on YouTube right now is copyright controlled so instead, you get a kids’ choir version (which actually adds to the winter/Christmas feel!) One question I haven’t resolved – when I do my annual “first snow of the year” post, what defines […]
It’s been a pretty wild year for storms on the Prairies with lots of attention from so-called “storm chasers” who, ironically, make the storms even more prevalent by giving them a lot of attention, spotting storms that otherwise would go unreported and even using technology to provide live video streams/tweets/photo and blog updates.
This not a metaphor (okay, maybe the last one.) (via MetaFilter)
A great Quora thread that will make you laugh and cry, take your breath away and make you puke and make you realise how big and small we truly are. (The one from Titan is possibly my favourite on the page. So boring yet so amazingly unbelievable.)
Due to a couple large corporate donations and a $1.4 million bequest from a retired farmer, last weekend’s Telemiracle was the most successful of all-time. (Minor claim to fame – I was the guy who added the annual totals section to the Wikipedia entry – yay me!) One of the highlights of watching this show […]
I spent part of today chipping out the last of the ice on our driveway. In mid-February. In Saskatchewan. Last winter was one of the most brutal I can remember – usually we get 1-2 really cold snaps through the whole winter (which usually lasts from October to oh, let’s say April). But last year, […]
Spent the day on Anini Beach swimming with Honu, another amazing Kauai experience. Maui’s going to have to be pretty spectacular to compete with Kauai – everything from our condo and its ground-floor, watch the whales from your lanai, steps to a children’s playground location to the helicopter tour of the island to a visit […]
No, that subject line doesn’t mean Shea is fed up with me (at least as far as I know!) We were heading for the Waimea Canyon today but a rainy morning made us decide to head back to our condo after breakfast. (A good decision – the radio cut in with emergency warnings of potential […]
We’re a couple days into our trip and finally over our jet lag and the time change (four hours earlier than home) though Shea and I still find ourselves going to bed around 8pm (midnight at home) and getting up at 4am (8am at home) so far. We’re on Kauai’s east side so that’s okay […]
