An Easy Jet flight that wasn't so easy...

Here are some pictures of an Easy Jet 737 after flying into (and out of) a thunderstorm. The plane looks like it's been through a battle. FYI...Easy Jet is a European discount air carrier.

Rock Over London, Rock on Chicago...

Sadly, the world said goodbye to Wesley Willis, the 40 year old schizophrenic singer/songwriter from Chicago who died on August 21st after a long battle with leukemia. Willis had a simple, yet very unique and quite strange musical style. Here are a few of his song titles that help explain him: Rock 'n Roll McDonalds, I'm Sorry that I got Fat, Birdman Kicked my Ass, and My Mother Smokes Crack Rocks. Reuters has the full story.

The CA Recall Election Taco Poll...

Some Taco Bell employee was really thinking "outside the bun" when they came up with this. It's the Taco Bell Recall Election Taco Poll, and you can vote by buying a Beef Crunchy Taco for Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Chicken Soft Taco for Gray Davis, or a Grilled Stuff Burrito for anyone else. The results should be interesting...and tasty.

The little plane that could...

Recently, a group of aerospace engineers succeeded in flying a small model airplane across the Atlantic ocean - from Newfoundland to Ireland. Other unmanned aircraft have made the crossing, but this one is small enough to qualify as a real "model" airplane and is eligible to claim world records in its category.

More information is available at the Trans Atlantic Model website.

A day for lefties...

Yesterday was Left-hander's Day!! My wife, Linda, was very excited since she wasn't aware that lefties have their very own day. Now she has something to celebrate.

A world-class space museum...in Kansas?

Yes, Hutchinson, Kansas to be exact. Hutchinson is near Wichita right in the center of the U.S. The museum is called the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, and it has a very nice collection of space things - from rare Soviet spacecraft, to a moon rock, to an SR-71 Blackbird. CNN.com has more details on the museum.

Which Fantasy/Sci-Fi character are you...

Have you ever wondered which character from popular sci-fi / fantasy movies your personality fits the best? Well, you can find out by taking the Which Fantasty/Sci-Fi Character are you? quiz.

I was Galadriel from the Lord of the Rings. I'm not so excited about matching with Galadriel, but my second closest match was Aragorn. I'm OK with that.

It's all over at Meigs...

On Tuesday, demolition crews finalized the destruction of Meigs Field, Chicago's lakefront airport. The airport desctruction is the work of Chicago's Mayor Daley, who is the aviation world's "Ace of Spades."

Reinstalling Windows XP...

Here's one man's step-by-step account of reinstalling Windows XP in less than 200 steps. It's pretty funny and not too far from the truth.