Two books that just happened to be sitting next to eachother in the LC files:
001 47029455
003 DLC
005 20050826211147.0
008 761229s1946 xx 000 0 [...]

Posted June 18, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: bombardment, fireworks, libraries, library, next to eachother, proximity, pyrotechnics, shelf. Be the first one.

Newley Purnell pointed me at this astronomy picture of the day by Antti Kemppainen:
Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. On January 26, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. [...]

Posted March 24, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog. Tags: australia, comet, Comet McNaught, comets, firework, fireworks, lightning. One Comment.

Via NPR this morning:
A Michigan man strapped more than 13,000 firecrackers onto himself, and lit the fuse. John Fletcher publicized it as an effort to support U.S. troops. It was an event to collect cell phones for soldiers. The Daily Press and Argus, in Livingston County, Mich., shows Fletcher standing calmly as the firecrackers explode. [...]

Posted March 12, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: firecracker, firecrackers, fireworks, ghengis john, john fletcher, stunt, support our troops. One Comment.

PES offers these fireworks for any occasion, but when better to celebrate than the new year?
And thinking of that, if all these clocks are correct, the new year has already started in GMT, which means I’m probably a few drinks behind and need to catch up.
PES, eatpes, video, new year, fireworks, celebration

Posted December 31, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: celebration, eatpes, fireworks, new year, PES, video. Be the first one.

I pointed out this Jet Turbine Powered Toyota MR2 a year ago, but now I’ve discovered Ron Patrick’s Jet Powered VW Beatle. The story is well told in a San Francisco Gate article from April (with bonus video), which describes the builder:
Patrick is a 48-year-old Stanford-trained (Ph.D.) engineer who owns ECM (Engine Control and Monitoring), [...]

Posted July 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: afterburner, car, cars, fireworks, flame, General Electric T58, go fast, jet, jet car, jet powered, jet powered bug, jet powered Volkswagen, jet turbine, jetcar, mod, Ron Patrick, speed, turbine, Volkswagen Bug. One Comment.

Cliff worries that his website, Spiralbound.net, doesn’t get indexed by Google often enough. He’s a good guy, so I figure I’ll prime the pump for him. Here, Google Google.
Solaris Docs: Migrating Veritas Volume Manager disk groups between servers
Solaris Docs: Solaris Disk Partition Layout
Solaris Docs: Copying A Boot Drive Between Disks With Different Partion Layouts
If you’re [...]

Posted September 23, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: blog, cafepress, cellophane, disk partition, explosion video, factory explosion, fireworks, fireworks factory, google, servers, solaris docs, sun, tee shirts, things to remember, veritas, veritas volume manager. Be the first one.