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Vrrroooommm!!!!
Here is the promised 40 second Flash movie of the Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point. Zero to 120MPH in 3.5 seconds.
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Pluto gets demoted! What is the solar system coming to?
Stop the presses: this just in — Pluto is no longer a planet! The International Astronomical Union downgraded it to a “dwarf planet.” if this isn’t an Onion headline waiting to happen, I don’t know what is. For those of you who are counting, this makes Neptune the last planet in the solar system. Poor
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Not as thrilling as the landing at Plymouth Rock, but still pretty good…
This is a clip of John O’Shea talking about the first O’Sheas coming over from Ireland. Flash or Quicktime versions available (but this is a honking big clip at 250MB, so I recommend Flash – if it doesn’t work for you, you’ll need to upgrade to version 8.x of the Flash Player). Coming soon: An
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O’Sheas in Ohio!
We spent this past weekend in Toledo, Ohio at an O’Shea family reunion. I had never been to Toledo and wasn’t quite sure what to expect. It was both much nicer than I expected and much sadder. Nicer in that it’s a friendly place, much slower-paced than So Cal. Sadder in that much of it
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Snakes on a trail!
Okay, that’s not true. I am cashing in on the whole snakes on a plane phenomenon. What is true is that this past Sunday was the annual Rattlesnake Run hosted by our friends Mary & Gerry. It’s a trail run in the Santa Monica mountains (we use that term loosely beacuse the highest peak is
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Yeow! MacPro is here!!
Geek alert! Apple introduced the MacPro at the WWDC keynote today. It looks a lot like the G5 tower, but that’s where the resemblance ends. Check out a blow-by-blow of the keynote here.
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