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...Nelly Furtado because she is hot like fire.

Corrective lenses for Eagles

The F-15 Eagle is a venerable air superiority fighter with an honorable record: over 100 splashes to none. However, it remains a relic of the Cold War with at least some underpinnings to match, such as mechanically-steered radar. Fresh tech to the rescue!

The Air Force this year deployed F-15C Golden Eagle warplanes with new active electronically scanned arrays (AESA) that can track more targets with precision and can guide several missiles at once. AESA’s digital beams, which replace radar that turns mechanically, are agile enough to spot cruise missiles and enable the F-15C to shoot them down with air-to-air missiles. (The Air Force is now testing a system that enables the F-15Cs, built in the late 1970s, to shoot down ballistic missiles as well.) The radar upgrade will also change dogfighting strategies. Although engineers designed the targeting radars of the F-22 Raptor stealth airplane to be hard to detect, there is always a chance other crafts’ sensors could spot the Raptor’s electromagnetic emissions. To guarantee a Raptor can shoot and remain unseen, an F-15C can do the targeting for it, using AESA to track an opposing airplane from outside the enemy’s radar range while the Raptor closes in for the kill. The F-15C then beams the targeting data to the Raptor, which takes the shot with a heat-seeking missile.

Play it cool, man!

Lift

A pretty woman in a dirndl who enjoys the big mug of beer is why Oktoberfest needs to happen year-round.

Found on Hawtness.

Breakfast Granola for 9/24/10

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We leave you this Thursday...

...with Christie Lee Sharpe, of unknown origin, but mesmerizing construction.

Bonus quatloos if you can identify the tattoo over her appendix. Hint: it's powerful.

Found on F-listed.

Post-lunch dessert

After some tasty pandine from Tomatina, I need something sweet to round off my meal. Feast complete.

Found on Coco's Twitter.

Gimme my In-n-Out!

There is an In-n-Out proposed for Pleasant Hill, bordering Walnut Creek, but at least some in Walnut Creek are opposed:

"We know you [the Walnut Creek City Council] are involved, but we need more from you," said Laura Milstead. She is worried about the possible crime and the kind of late-night crowd it might attract to the area.

One resident was so upset by the thought of an In-N-Out next to her neighborhood that she cried as she pleaded with the council for help.

Seriously? I think you need to calm your asses down. Here are the talking points:

1. It attracts long lines of idling cars that emit exhaust fumes contributing to asthma.

2. It serves noisy crowds that blare car stereos with no regard for whom they irritate.

3. It is a late-night magnet for inebriated young adults who are in need of food to sober up.

4. It distributes wrappers, bags and napkins to patrons who litter neighborhood streets.

To this, I reply:

1. Make sure the restaurant is appropriately situated, sufficiently large, and has the capacity to serve everyone quickly. Add traffic lights or other road measures to keep things moving and it'll pay off soon enough.

2. Call the cops, issue tickets, make arrests, collect fines (money). Disturbing the peace is a crime. Don't make it seem like loud stereos are a new mineral.

3. Call the cops, issue tickets, make arrests, collect fines (money). Public drunkenness and DUI are crimes. At least they're stopped and want to be not-drunk. Beats them plowing through your house while you're asleep.

4. Call the cops, issue tickets, make arrests, collect fines (money). Littering is a crime, and an easy +$1000 for the jurisdiction that gets it.

In short, there is a gap in In-n-Out coverage; look it up, there's a distinct blank in the triangle constituting Walnut Creek-Concord-Martinez. From The Mine, the alternatives are Pinole or San Ramon, so being able to get the In-n-Out fix without traveling at least a dozen miles is most appreciated.

Besides, it's in Pleasant Hill. Walnut Creek, stay out of the way of the grown folks!

Oktoberfesting

With the NFL back in session and fall officially here, beer season is now fully upon us. So, while Kim Kardashian has a swirly cone -- and not ein glas bier -- she does have the pigtails and dirndl going on.

Found on F-listed.

Breakfast Granola for 9/23/10

Y'know how you're supposed to take what's behind Door #2 on Let's Make a Deal? Unless there's some pillows and cheesecake back there to take Jordan Carver to, things don't get much better.

Found on Hollywood Tuna.

One from the UFO Archives

A little slow on the uptake, but it gives me the opportunity to reveal a sample from The Mine's Unidentified Fine Ore Archives. She's apparently labeled as "Wania" but I can locate only this trace of her throughout the intergoogles.

Breakfast Granola for 9/22/10

Long time, no see, Shay Maria. Downside: she lost some weight, which shrunk her boobs and I think made her face a little gaunt looking. Upside: those boobs are still big and she looks just as interestingly Chilean/German/French as ever.

Now there's a hybrid I'd love to test drive.

Found while wandering the intergoogles on The Smoking Jacket.

Daggering 2.0?

This gives a whole new meaning to "beat her ass."



Found on Media Take Out.

The Only NFL Review You Need for Week 2

The Niners lost and the Raiders won. Week 2 was heartbreakingly bad.

Chicken Dinner goes to Chicago's Jay Cutler for hucking the upset of the week over the Cowpukes. This week's Goat goes to the Niners' Phillip Adams, who is decidedly not a return specialist and probably should've dressed in black and gold for how detrimental he was.

Breakfast Granola for 9/21/10

Well, here's what Monday Night Football was apparently like, no thanks to Alex Smith. I gave up when he hucked his first pick and watched some Chuck instead; Olivia Munn has long legs, and that vision will comfort me until at least Week 3. It'll have to.

Found on Holy Taco; stay tuned for Week 2's NFL review.

Dammit Alex Smith!

I have a bad feeling about tonight's game.

The journalist's paradox

Journalists are an odd breed; most are at least liberal, and are rapid proponents of the freedoms of speech and press. On the other hand, they tend also to be rabidly anti-gun, by and large.

And so we cut to Mexico, where El Diaro de Juarez kowtows to the drug cartels so that they may be consumed last:

In a front-page editorial Sunday, El Diario de Juarez asked drug cartels warring in this city across from El Paso, Texas, to say what they want from the newspaper, so it can continue its work without further death, injury or intimidation of its staff.

"Leaders of the different organizations that are fighting for control of Ciudad Juarez: The loss of two reporters from this publishing house in less than two years represents an irreparable sorrow for all of us who work here, and, in particular, for their families," the editorial said.

"We ask you to explain what you want from us, what we should try to publish or not publish, so we know what to expect," it added.

It was the newspaper's second front-page editorial since gunmen attacked two El Diario photographers Thursday — one a new employee and the other an intern.

The new employee, Luis Carlos Santiago, 21, died and the intern was seriously wounded as they left their office to have lunch.

In 2008, a crime reporter for El Diario was slain outside his home as he was taking his daughters to school.

Dead, missing or fled
At least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed over the past four years, at least eight of them targeted because of their reports on crime and corruption, says the Committee to Protect Journalists, a U.S.-based media watchdog group that plans to present its report to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday.

In Mexico, a land where criminals have the advantage of firearms, the free press withers and accepts its new role as hostage.

The situation is far more complex than the absence/presence of firearms -- there's drug policy, law enforcement, federal willpower, and public sentiment to also consider -- but I always found it curious that not all Amendments of the Bill of Rights get equal billing (or column inches) in the eyes of journalists, especially where the Second would go a long way to protecting the First.

Rowing FAIL

Breakfast Granola for 9/20/10

Japan: where kunoichi manufacture contraceptive foam directly from their own nethers.



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