For those hardy souls who are into running, the Pittsburgh Marathon is being taking place this weekend. Some folks have opted for tattoos to commemorate their efforts:
This bridge tattoo is my favorite.
This is a story here in the Pittsburgh Gazette. Thanks to Robb for this news.
Today is National Jelly Bean Day.
Here are some facts about jelly beans from Jelly Belly:
1. It takes 7 to 21 days to make a single Jelly Belly jelly bean.
2. Very Cherry flavored jelly beans have been the most popular flavor since 2003. Before that Buttered Popcorn was the top spot since 1998.
3. Enough jelly beans were eaten in the last year to circle the earth more than five times.
4. The first jelly bean was created by an unknown American candy maker in the 1800s.
5. The original eight flavors of Jelly Belly beans were Very Cherry, Root Beer, Cream Soda, Tangerine, Green Apple, Lemon, Licorice and Grape.
6. Blueberry flavored beans were made for Ronald Reagan’s presidential inauguration. Over three tons of jelly beans were eaten during the celebration.
7. During the Civil War, advertisements were made recommending people send soldiers jelly beans.
8. Jelly Belly beans were the first jelly beans in space when they were sent on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.
9. 288,000 Jelly Belly beans of 47 different flavors were donated to make “In Your Arms” by Kina Grannis, the first jelly bean stop-motion animation music video. The video was released in November 2011.
What are your favorite types of jelly beans?
There are 50 official Jelly Belly flavors – and they are
Here’s a little video on how they are made . . .
Shades of Star Trek First Contact, an Omaha man is fiddling around in his garage working on warp fields. This story from Dave Reneke.
David Pares is maybe not how you’d imagine a scientist trying to prove the existence of warp fields (and then harness them), but he is the one who seems to be trying the hardest. Its science fiction finally coming true.
Armed with all the money and free time he possesses, Pares has been tirelessly exploring what some people have dismissed as a pointless endeavor. But a lack of funding or scientific support won’t stop him. While NASA’s Harold “Sonny” White is exploring warp bubbles in a more theoretical way, Pares is taking a more hands-on approach.
Dave Pares and his workshop/laboratory
He’s toiling over a Faraday cage and constructing a V-shaped device made up of three panels with fractal arrays that he believes can compress the very fabric of space. Pares does so at the headquarters for Space Warp Dynamics, aka his garage.
Pares contends that warp bubbles occur naturally all of the time right here on earth. Through his work he is attempted to test that theory.
That’s how the Wright Brothers did it.
And the tattoo, because it is Tuesday.
At the DC6 Restaurant at the Coventry Airport in the UK.
Here’s the menu . . .
This is a 1958 Douglas DC6 that has been converted into a restaurant that can seat 40 people. It is also available for parties and events.
Interesting. I knew they were cute; I never knew they were squeekie toys.
Firearms, fibers, any news or behaviors that make me say, "hmm, let me take another look at this."
I still miss my man, but my aim is getting better.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 