Cat Film Festivals are the new craze and today you can see your favourite internet cat stars North and South of the border!
Today, if you happen to be in Vancouver, you can check out Just For Cats, an Internet Cat Film Festival that has been touring the country coast to coast, and if you are in Indy, you can check out the Internet Cat Video Festival!
What does LOLCat have to say about this?
Sixty (60) years ago saw the first flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. Originally designed as a troop, medical evacuation, and cargo transport aircraft, the airframe was adapted over the years to airborne assault, search and rescue, scientific research, aerial refuelling, patrol, and aerial firefighting — and now it is the main tactical airliner for military forces around the globe. There are now over 40 models and variants of the Hercules in service in more than sixty (60) countries.
With a range of 1,300 miles or 2,000 kilometers, take-off capability from short and unprepared strips, and the ability to fly with one engine shut down, back in 1954, the new Hercules represented a considerable step forward in supply and transport capability. And this was just the beginning. A number of enhancements have been made to the Hercules over the years to the point where it’s still poised to be the transport vehicle of choice for years to come. Right now, the US Air Mobility Command, Air Force Materiel Command, and the Air Force Research Labs are in the early stages of defining requirements for the C-X next generation airlifted program to replace the C-130s and C-17s. But this isn’t the first time a program has been proposed to replace, rather than improve, the C-130s. Programs to replace the C-130s were proposed as early as the 1980s, but the end result was always improvement of the C-130 design. The most likely outcome is a next generation C-X that takes into account everything learned over the years and produces a next generation Hercules transport vehicle.
Bryan Adams may have had more commercial success south of the border, but Colin James has been rockin’ it for almost 30 years!
And just like your average long-haul trucker and air-freight express pilot, he has Stone Faith!
Get Your Tired Ass Pulled Over to the Side of the Road
Get Your Hands off the Wheel Before You Lose Your Load
See the Sun Stare You Down Like it Might Explode
You’re All Alone, Tired and Hungry from Your Last Stand
Getting High With the Angles of the Promised Land
When There’s Nothin’ Left to Lose …
LOLKitty Approves!
The voodoo thing
ooh my voodoo thing
Instead of Sustainability Sunday, instead, this week, we bring you Masquerade Monday! Stay Tuned …
LOLKitty approves!
Hey, ho, let’s go!
Hey, ho, let’s go!
Until the 500th anniversary of the sail date of the first Voyage of Circumnavigation! Four Hundred and Ninety Five Years ago today, five ships (the Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepcion, Santiago, and Victoria) under the command of Ferdinand Magellan left Seville, Spain, in an expedition that, even after the death of Magellan in the Philippines on 27 April 1521, would be the first to circumnavigate the globe under the command of Juan Sebastian Elcano (who was Magellan’s second in command) when the Victoria returned to Spain on 6 September 1522. This voyage took the fleet to the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands, Santa Lucia Bay, Rio de Solis, Cabo Virgenes, around the tip of South America, to the Sharks’ Islands, San Pablo Island, the Ladrones Islands, Palawan, Brunei, Tidore, Ambon Iasland, Timor, The Cape of Good Hope, and then back to Spain.
Considering that there is no record of anyone completing the feat prior to this voyage, that the voyage was finished in 3 years in a time when you were sailing by sail alone, and that, even today, circumnavigation efforts take amateur sailors a year and half, this was no small feat*. (For example, Laura Dekker, whose voyage was interrupted at several points, took 518 days to circumnavigate the globe in her 38 foot yacht.)
It was a historic day as Magellan, and Elcano, discovered new trade routes that would be utilized for centuries to come!
* Although it would have been faster had Magellan not tried to convert the Lapu-Lapu of the Philippines to Christianity, which not only cost the voyage time, but Magellan his life.