Archive of March 2009
31 March
Engineers tested two parachute packing techniques in the world’s largest wind tunnel at NASA’s Ames Research Center. They loaded each chute into a cannon and aimed it down the middle of the tunnel. They then fired the cannon — horizontally — at 85 mph and let the parachute fly. 2009/03/31 - 04:43 PM
29 March
すべての私はやってみたいベッドと泣いているのを巻く
The phrase, "The sky is falling," has passed into the English language as a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. continue reading 2009/03/29 - 07:54 PM
Someday all this mess will make me laugh, I can’t wait, I can’t wait.
"It’s disorienting to spend a lifetime hearing the praises of consuming less — and then, with the economic collapse, being forced to do so. (…) We’ve finally spiked over the edge of the chart — we’re at the place we couldn’t see in social studies classes, when late 20th-century trends like population and raw material consumption and pension indexes were extrapolated along the x- and y- axes into infinity. In my mind we were never really in the future until we hit that edge — and now we have — and because of this, everything we sense in 2009 is going to be new, but that’s what the future was always supposed to be about."via NYTimes
2009/03/29 - 11:42 AM
"The estranged wife of United Technologies Chairman George David says she has weekly expenses of $53,000. (…) The 33 year old has no job, no assets and must depend on the largess of her 66-year-old hubby for her well-being. At a hearing this week in Hartford Superior Court, he agreed to pay her $978,000 until their legal teams work out the terms of their divorce, including whether a $43 million post-nup she signed is still valid. (...) So how does Douglas-David, manage to spend $53,000 a week? Mortgage and maintenance fees and rent for the Park Avenue penthouse, the Hamptons retreat and properties in Sweden account for $27,300 a week, according to a financial affidavit she filed with the court. And then there’s travel ($8,000), clothing ($4,500), a personal assistant ($2,209), horse care ($1,570), domestic help ($1,480), entertainment and restaurants ($1,500), health and skin care ($1,000), dry cleaning ($650), flowers ($600) and a trainer ($250). And it must be noted that Douglas-David is cutting back." 2009/03/29 - 10:09 AM
28 March
'if you sleep with another girl and you still love you're girlfriend it will prove how in love you really are'
2009/03/28 - 07:03 PM
Maybe I’ve Just Invented Some Religion
Chuck Close, Images of Supermodel Kate Moss, series of 9. 2009/03/28 - 06:45 PM
Sunday Morning Occupations to Consider.
The Jesus-Easter-Flower Arrangement, what more could you ask for? Putting the Jesus back into the Consumerist, one $ at a time. 2009/03/28 - 06:40 PM