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Might want one of these if you have vinyl
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Sep 20, 2010 11:21 am
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Crosley Radio has just introduced what's possibly the most awesome nugget of retro goodness in the year 2010 AD, the Revolution CR6002. Believe it or not, it is actually a battery-powered, USB-enabled turntable. It's quite obviously designed for travel, but it's purportedly capable of spinning 33 1/3 and 45 RPM records
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In the news
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Sep 14, 2010 11:02 am
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Oprah is taking her entire studio audience down under. And by “down under” we don’t mean beneath one of her tummy rolls.
* The US Capitol was evacuated after a powdery substance was found on the House floor. Yes. Democratic hopes have literally turned to dust.
* Tests showed the powder posed no threat. And Lindsay Lohan's visit to the Hill continued without further interruption.
* Lady Gaga wore a dress made from raw meat at the VMA’s Sunday. Two words: GaGa Tartar
* Michelle Obama calls on restaurants to use less butter. Paula Deen calls on First Lady to mind her own damn business.
* Lighting forced a delay of last night’s Jets-Ravens game. God was called for “un sportsman-like conduct”.
* A new political ad compares Nancy Pelosi to the Wicked Witch of the West. Well, it is true her face is “defying gravity.”
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Back from Florida
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Sep 13, 2010 7:53 pm
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Didn't know you could get a red degree sunburn.but my hands and my left arm are beet red..
Water was very nice, sand very warm wish you were along but you weren't so..
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todays ripped from the headlines
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Sep 7, 2010 11:20 am
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President Obama has proposed 50 billion dollars in new spending on roads, railways and runways. It will be the most spent on construction since Heidi Montag’s last tune-up.
* Al Gore has become the first Vice-President in history to have a Los Angeles school named after him. Appropriately enough, the school will be devoted to studying environmental issues - and how to get erotic massages in hotel rooms.
* Will students call the school “Al Gore High?” We haven’t heard that since Tipper was rolling him joints in the ‘70s.
* Craigslist has shut down its adult services section. The bad news just keeps on coming for Tiger Woods.
* Prince Harry is being accused by animal welfare groups of cruelty to horses. Yeah, apparently, he directed several insults at his stepmother Camilla.
* Six earthquakes hit Oklahoma – for fun over the holiday weekend, God decided to go cow-tipping.
* Sam Bradford has been named the starting quarterback for the Saint Louis Rams. The bad news? Now he has to play quarterback for the Saint Louis Rams.
* White House gate crasher Michele Salahi says she’ll appear nude in Playboy. Although this is odd – you know who’s gonna stand next to her in the photos? Joe Biden.
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This could be fun New Englanders
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Sep 1, 2010 2:04 pm
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A HURRICANE WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FROM WOODS HOLE TO SAGAMORE BEACH
MASSACHUSETTS...INCLUDING MARTHAS VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET.
Sea's and Surf will be an issue up and down the east coast.
At 11 pm 9/2/10
Tropical storm warning: MA coast north of Hull to Merrimack River, and coast of ME from Stonington to Eastport
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Discovery Communications hostage story Updated
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Sep 1, 2010 12:40 pm
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Still ongoing as I write this and it's wall to wall on cable and all the local tv stations. Main big foot anchors are doing the local coverage now in-front of the early news.
Looks like a guy who didn't like the programs..can you imagine if every wing nut did this.. Walk into Fox for example, like you hate Glen Beck..the possibility's are endless.
3 Hostages, no injuries, the suspect shot and his bomb blew up. MSNBC says the suspect is dead. Police searching 1st floor for more bombs. They found 5 bombs and blew them up.
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DM2 Test Fired in Utah
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Aug 31, 2010 10:38 am
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Locked in a massive horizontal test fixture near Promontory, Utah, a huge five-segment solid-fuel booster roared to life with a torrent of flame Tuesday, generating some 3.6 million pounds of thrust in a ground-shaking $75 million test of a rocket the Obama administration wants to cancel.
ATK's Development Motor 2, a more powerful version of the space
shuttle's solid-fuel booster, is test fired in Utah. (
With engineers and spectators looking on a safe distance away, Alliant Techsystem's Development Motor No. 2, or DM-2, ignited at 11:27 a.m. EDT, blasting out a 600-foot-long jet of 5,600-degree flame and billowing clouds of exhaust as it consumed 1.3 million pounds of solid propellant.
Unlike the first five-segment booster firing last year, which was carried out at ambient temperature, DM-2 was cooled to 40 degrees Fahrenheit to collect data on how the rocket performed at the lower limit of its normal 40-to-90-degree operating range. Some 764 instrumentation channels were in place to support more than 50 test objectives.
Generating the equivalent of 22 million horsepower, the 12-foot-wide, 154-foot-long booster fired for about two minutes and five seconds before commands were sent to begin injecting tons of carbon dioxide into the rocket's nozzle to halt combustion.
"There's nothing better for an engineer than to see an amazing test like this," said Douglas Cooke, director of exploration at NASA headquarters. "It's the culmination of a lot of good design work, a lot of dedication by an excellent team. I want to congratulate the NASA-ATK team for what so far looks to be an excellent and successful test. It's spectacular to see all this harnessed energy, 3.6 million pounds of thrust, that this booster produces. Just incredible."
Alex Priskos, manager of the Ares first stage project at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., was equally pleased with the initial results.
"The chamber pressures and thrust pressures that we were expecting, you couldn't tell there were two lines there for the most part," he said. "So the preliminary data looks excellent. We captured all the data we were after and we're looking very much forward to being able to further assess it."
The DM-2 motor was chilled to 40 degrees Fahrenheit to gather
performance data at the lower end of the rocket's operating range.
The five-segment booster, developed as part of NASA's Constellation moon program, is an upgraded, more powerful version of the four-segment rockets used to help space shuttles climb out of the lower atmosphere.
The five-segment version was intended to serve as the first stage of NASA's manned Ares I rocket, intended to boost new Orion crew capsules to low-Earth orbit to support the International Space Station after the shuttle is retired. To date, NASA has spent about $1 billion on the Ares I program.
NASA also planned to use five-and-a-half segment boosters to help power a huge new heavy-lift rocket called the Ares V that would be used to propel manned capsules and landers to the moon.
The Obama administration wants to cancel the Constellation program in favor of commercial rockets and capsules to service the space station and yet-to-be-defined NASA rockets and spacecraft that would be used for future yet-to-be-defined deep space missions.
But supporters of the Ares design believe large solid-fuel boosters like the five-segment motor tested Tuesday will be crucial for development of a new heavy-lift rocket.
Under the Constellation program, NASA and ATK planned to carry out four development motor test firings - two are now complete - and three qualification motor tests. Each test firing costs about $75 million, Priskos said. As of now, only one more test motor, DM-3, is funded. The others are contingent on political consensus - and funding - for a post-shuttle manned space program
"Obviously, we're in an uncertain environment at this point," Cooke said. "The president has laid out an exploration future for us. There are bills in process in the House and Senate and we'll be working with all of them in the coming weeks and months to get to resolution.
"A real positive aspect of that is everybody is interested in the future exploration of space with people going beyond low-Earth orbit to multiple destinations. It will take the kind of work we saw coming out of this test today to lead us into that future."
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