Thursday, March 25, 2010

For my Dad: Low fly bys

A friend sent me a link to a You Tube video of low airplance fly bys. It opens with a great scene from Top Gun, but then transitions into great real life fly bys. I'm posting this mostly for my Dad who loves airplanes. (Note, and thanks to Mark, there is some salty language in the opening "Top Gun" segment). I didn't review the video with sound when I first put it up. My apologies.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

In any language, I'm fascinated by magicians

This came to me through e-mail and while it is in a foreign language it won't matter. Watch for a minute or so and maybe you'll be as amazed as me. I'm a sucker for this stuff.

Flint Journal Tuesday newstand edition out today

Today is the day the new Tuesday Flint Journal his the news stands. I hope this is the beginning of a return to 7-day a week home delivery because that's what people need. If you need to know where to find one MLive.com has a locater.

When goalies attack!

No one can deny that Sidney Crosby (I usually call him Cindy) is a great hockey player with excellent skills. But as a player he is a punk. Last year, he missed the tradional post-game handshake with the Detroit Red Wings after they won the Stanley Cup.

He is a notorious whiner. But last night he earned his punk label by going after Henrik Zetterberg when the game was over for the Penguins. That's when rookie goalie Jimmy Howard stepped in and backed up his teammate. Here's the video:

Monday, March 22, 2010

The Shot!


This shot sent the Michigan State Spartans to the Sweet Sixteen at the buzzer. Sweeeeeet!
Found the photo on Facebook without attribution, so if there is a credit to go with it, let me know.