Tacoma Narrows Bridge stranded at the stateline

Doh! A section of the Tacoma Narrows bridge being shipped from Minnesota got stopped at the Idaho/Washington border when the WA state weigh station declared it to be overweight. It made it through five states, but not Washington.

[News Tribune]

R2-D2 Mailboxes

This is too cool. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Star War, the USPS is coming out with some R2-D2 mailboxes. Hope to see one soon. [link]

RIP Brad Delp of Boston

Brad Delp, lead singer of Boston found dead in his home. [link]
Pretty sad. I know I wore out at least one or two Boston tapes in my youth.

Nortel to restate earnings (again)

For the fourth time in four years, Nortel has to restate earnings to fix accounting errors.

The Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street This Week

Buell getting ready to play in the dirt

At the Buell dealer get-together a couple of weeks ago, the manufacturer announced that they'll be introducing a water-cooled 450cc dirt bike for 2009.
It could be introduced even earlier and they may be planning to compete in the 2008 motocross season, taking advantage of the 1 year production waiver.

Link from SpeedTV [linkage]

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Prefab houses from shipping containers

Check out this post on Stacey's site:
frenettik


It's all about houses made from shipping containers. Pretty slick and not too 'spensive.

I've been looking for a shipping container to use for storing my motorcycles and other toys. This might be a good lead if they also sell the boxes before conversion.

(I had a job in high school painting used shipping containers for a company that rented them to construction sites for temporary storage. I should have snagged one then.)