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Moon on May 5, 2012 ... Big full moon - About 15% larger at a 221,000 mile distance (Perigean).
Posted: May 7, 2012, 8:34 AM
Baseball finger sucks ... Need to have this on for 6-8 WEEKS? No ... This was NOT from skydiving...
Posted: May 7, 2012, 9:29 AM
It's home-made (from 1/2" PVC tube + dremel). If you cannot find it (STAX-5 finger splint) - Make it!
Posted: May 7, 2012, 12:57 PM
Odometer reading while stopped at a light in my 2009 Ford Escape ... Just like 2012, It's OK ... Went to 66,666.7 and NOTHING happened.
Posted: May 16, 2012, 4:48 PM
The very start of the Venus transit in front of the sun (Venus is the little speck t0o the upper right). The picture is very blurred (shot through a deck of high clouds) and was the only shot I was able to get before clouds socked everything in. This was June 5, 2012 from near Miami, FL.
Posted: Jun 5, 2012, 4:13 PM
Drive by Korean finger gesture ... That was a NICE 'gesture'!
Posted: Jun 11, 2012, 1:52 PM
Ahhh ... One day of the week that is awesome!
Posted: Jun 15, 2012, 6:16 AM
Operation repo ... Seeing Sonia show up is your worst nightmare - so pay your car payments! She'll show up like a severe thunderstorm fueled by moisture from the deep tropics!
Posted: Jun 15, 2012, 7:56 PM
9-11-2001 ... We will never forget.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Humerous "death ridge" montage in 2000.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Six degrees of freedom (physics).
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
My barber has this trophy in his shop when I was a kid.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Bill Gates gets a pie in his face!
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Sketch on King Air 200 and skydivers.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
President "Bush" bashing montage.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Graphic I made to stop people from taking stuff out of fridge at work.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Eye and eyewall drawing from art class in 1987.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Peeper frog and exerpt from Mythbusters on some frong hunters who got shot because they used a bullet in place of a fuse in their truck - Now that's 'redneck'!
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Mammatus says it all!
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Post Katrina graphic I sent to someone buying a house on the beach...
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Very Italian!
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Graphic I made joking about the eligibility tape load at a former job.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Exerpt and graphics about a "misplaced" movie reel at a Times Square theater showing a violent movie in place of G-Rated "Chicken Little".
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Crammed office sketch.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:07 AM
Drawing I made of a severe storm complex in art class in 1986.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Joking about some big mama in Miami with an attitude.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Movie mnsters collage with restaurant joke.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Sample graphic for a helicopter company ad.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Accident where someone from my office rear-ended me (gently).
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Storm chasing cover art.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Striking notice to remind people to FLUSH when they are done.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Exerpt from SmellyPoop.com site.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Exerpt from SmellyPoop.com site.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
UPS delivery man.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Exerpt from a public service ad saying that some people do bizarre things with food while driving (even having hot soUp too)!
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Rapid intensification of hurricanes / typhoons at night.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Stadium effect ... If you chase hurricanes / typhoons, you'll know what this is.
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
UPS vs FedEx accident. Time for the truck!
Posted: Jun 16, 2012, 7:08 AM
Simply going to 'dinner and a movie' became far more dangerous in Colorado this week than skydiving in the eye of a hurricane (statistically that is). Please, Mr Michael Malinconico - Keep your MOUTH SHUT on this one (I'm sure you had your pleasure watching CNN the past few days). This is a pure MONSTER who did this, evil as much as a terrorist. This composite image shows the flags at my skydiving facility at half mast, overlaid to INNOCENT folks at a movie - I HOPE this gets some sort of message across. God bless us all.
Posted: Jul 21, 2012, 1:28 PM
Cirque Du Soleil ... These people are so awesome!
Posted: Jul 27, 2012, 5:04 PM
High altitude (12,000 feet) view after skydiving and opening canopy (parachute) at 13,500'. Surrounded by thunderstorm convection over Clewiston, FL on July 28, 2012.
Posted: Jul 29, 2012, 8:51 AM
Hurricane Ernesto on the Belize Radar as seen approaching the Mexican coastline to the north (arrow). This is roughly 8-10 hour before landfall in Mexico's Yucatan Coast well south of Cancun during the night of Aug 7 to Aug 8, 2012.
Posted: Aug 7, 2012, 1:25 PM
For all you older Techies out there ... Anyone remember what this listing of HEX code's from?
Posted: Aug 10, 2012, 10:09 AM
Posted: Aug 13, 2012, 10:05 AM
Someone took the sign saying "Cash Customers Please Pay First" and re-arranged it, even taking the "m" in "Customers" and making an "n" out of it to say "stoners Please Pay First"!
Posted: Aug 19, 2012, 5:24 PM
TS Isaac (Aug 22) Cone of Uncertainty (NHC) forecast. If this verifies, S Florida is the place to be!
Posted: Aug 22, 2012, 6:04 AM
9/11/01 ... A day to not be forgotten!
Posted: Sep 11, 2012, 5:19 PM
With the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific tropical seasons struggling to generate a strong hurricane, a different scenario of violence unfolds a half-a-world away in the Western Pacific with Typhoon "Samba". Formerly a category 5 storm, with 170+ MPH sustained winds (gusts over 205 MPH), the storm slammed ashore during the morning of September 15, 2012 on the small island of Okinawa. Although far away, I know some storm chasers in that area who were there, mainly James Reynolds who lives in Hong Kong. As of the morning (local time), the eastern portion of Okinawa can be seen looking down through the vertical structure of the clear eye, and I can only wonder what anyone there is seeing (a "stadium effect"? Fog? No wind?) ... The storm came in at 120 MPH sustained winds - Very impressive indeed.
Posted: Sep 15, 2012, 4:10 PM
Ocean front off Grand Isle, Louisiana caused by the silt laden fresh water of the Mississippi River meeting the saltier waters (blue) of the Gulf of Mexico. The two don't mix well because of differences in density. The structures in the water are oil platforms (view if from an airliner at about 36,000 feet).
Posted: Sep 16, 2012, 10:19 AM
Who's this funny looking guy? - That was Dr Neil Frank (Hurricane Center Director in 1985) ... Any avid hurricane chaser will remember him!
Posted: Sep 30, 2012, 8:13 AM
Experimenting with a solar filter on zoomed HD camera shot of the sun over S Florida - October 28, 2012. I see the sunspots!
Posted: Oct 31, 2012, 7:07 PM
Crumpled up helpdesk ticket ... Play catch anyone?
Posted: Nov 2, 2012, 11:56 AM
A sunset captured by a NWS Radar Site looks like this ... A ray extending outward in the direction of the sun. This is caused by the sun's radio waves (along with visible light and other forms of radiation) entering the radar antenna and "fooling" it into thinking it's precipitation.
Posted: Nov 11, 2012, 8:29 AM
Tools fall off truck (back of truck slid open) and some cars crashed into the tools ;-(
Posted: Nov 15, 2012, 5:46 PM
Black Friday often means "bargains and discounts"? Not necessarily, unless some violent folks get a discount on their hospital / emergency bills.
Posted: Nov 23, 2012, 12:41 PM
Knives, a stabbing, and a dead man in a fountain ... Tis' the season to by jolly ... A few years back on Black Friday I remember a road rage incident where someone wound up ripping their windshield wipers off. All over a parking spot.
Posted: Nov 23, 2012, 12:41 PM
Looks like the SE Philippines is the tropical cyclone "hot spot" of the world right now! I wonder if @[61012113:2048:James Reynolds] was able to make it there? Awesome storm!
Posted: Dec 3, 2012, 4:07 PM
The names of the Victims are here ... God bless them all. May the perpertrator (who did this to innocent people) - Well, no name here (it's Adam Lanza for what that's worth) - Burn in Hell.
Posted: Dec 18, 2012, 5:57 PM
Category 5 "Hurricane" High Gravity Lager.
Posted: Jan 31, 2013, 4:38 PM
Any way of getting "yousendit" to work - Arrgh! Trying to get my video file in to @[1017654248:2048:Tim Samaras] for ChaserCon!
Posted: Feb 12, 2013, 9:28 AM
Tim Samaras at ChaserCon had his one million frame-per-second (at 11 mega pixels) for lightning / explosion research on display here in Denver ... Impressive!
Posted: Feb 16, 2013, 9:17 AM
Storm Chaser Convention (ChaserCon) on February 15-17, 2013 in Denver, Colorado.
Posted: Feb 16, 2013, 11:28 PM
LCD display for price in gas pump ... It's got a 'bug' in it! This bug was INSIDE, behind the glass!
Posted: Apr 4, 2013, 5:58 PM
NO ... Not real ... I was just playing with some Photoshop stuff. Skydive next to a beautiful supercell storm from above the anvil (FL 650+) high over the American Great Plains!
Posted: May 15, 2013, 6:21 AM
July 4th fireworks - Sunrise, Florida - July 4, 2013.
Posted: Jul 6, 2013, 8:36 AM
One day I was crying in the 4th grade at Cherokee Elementary school - My favorite lunch box was GONE. I asked a few people for it - No one knew ... Then the school bully came up to me - Ha ha ha!! Someone BURIED it ... I cried more - Then thought about THIS (the picture / diagram) - Earth science rock layers - And my lunch box embedded in the ground and part of the earth - Forever (sigh)! Bad kids!!
Posted: Jul 27, 2013, 8:39 AM
Not the best quality picture, but it clearly shows the "noctilucent" (Latin for "glowing at night") cloud looming high over the East-Central Florida coast during the evening of August 7, 2013. This is not a natural cloud, but part of a vapor (or "chem") trail plume left by a Delta rocket launch. The picture here was taken from west of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, quite far from the launch site (Cape Canaveral). Being at an altitude of about 50 miles up (at least 250,000 feet), the cloud is still in bright sunlight (above the dusk terminator), making it shine in the "night" sky (reflected sunlight). It also appears high in the sky despite being at least 150 miles away!
Posted: Aug 8, 2013, 7:43 AM
Why do we all have to put up with this crap?1). People losing their jobs for every little thing done wrong?2). People who simply do not want to work and / or not do their job (and get canned)?I can safely assume #2 in this case :-(
Posted: Aug 9, 2013, 5:21 AM
Hey Obama (you IDIOT) ... What Floor? Going UP?
Posted: Aug 11, 2013, 6:05 PM
What's WRONG with this image from NHC?1). Date says Aug 21 (should be Jun or Nov)?2). Year is '2013', should be something line '1986'?3). Mr SAL Uchenna Obinabo has left the building?4). ALL of the above...
Posted: Aug 21, 2013, 6:15 AM
Booooo! Yes ... This is September 23, 2013 - SEPTEMBER - So much for the busy season forecast back in April?
Posted: Sep 23, 2013, 7:10 AM
What does a computer "Bug" actually look like? ... Here is an example: The 'Close Databases' statement was not supposed to be there...... Ofcourse, there he is, BMK in the comments @[1438695261:2048:Mona Lowenthal Krimsky] probably knows all too well.Ofcourse FINDING the bug took hours of my time - I thought I was a hero, then got a 1 hour lecture and scolding on why I interrupted my boss to show a mistake in his code.No good deed goes un punished - I just walked out and went home (my stomach hurt). Tough luck BMK...
Posted: Sep 25, 2013, 12:50 PM
Vertical Stackiness is LITERALLY a "world away"...
Posted: Oct 2, 2013, 9:35 AM
Anyone know that these two distant "stars" are in this image? This is the view of the Earth and the Moon from near Saturn's rings (the rings making the sky appear dark blue) a billion miles away from the Cassini space probe in July 2013. Yes ... All our children, plants, life, celebrations, wars, achievements are on the little 'bluish white' dot to the left.We are very small indeed (sigh).
Posted: Oct 9, 2013, 1:00 PM
The tropics has appeared to finally shut down for good for 2013 - After the most disappointing season I've seen since the 80's (if that). So that famous 'fat lady singing' thread appears again (sigh)... LOL ... She's not singing a happy song as 2013 didn't have much in this (western) hemisphere - It must be the Blues ;-) I think she was singing since June 1 and we did not want to hear it!
Posted: Oct 23, 2013, 5:17 PM
Wish these folks from iCyclone ( @[1274967078:2048:Josh Morgerman] and James Reynolds) good luck...
Posted: Nov 7, 2013, 7:18 AM
Location of a few storm chasers (some from the states) in Palo / Tacloban City in the East-Central Philippines (SW of Samar) with SuperTyphoon Haiyan approaching. I see the airport would'nt stand much of a chance being on a peninsula - I worry for these folks safety (I'd be scared too if I was there) - But at the same time I'm envy cuz I'm NOT there.
Posted: Nov 7, 2013, 10:02 AM
Just find a satellite with a 1m resolution ... LOL, I can almost see @[1274967078:2048:Josh Morgerman] and Jim Edds heads now...
Posted: Nov 7, 2013, 3:27 PM
I guess I'll shut-up now and not complain about my job anymore after seeing this man unclogging sewer overflow, Chennai, India.
Posted: Nov 8, 2013, 1:51 PM
Back here in Florida Palm Beach County got $100 out of me for not having a sticker on the right side of the PWC (SeaDoo) in addition to the left - never heard of numbers having to be on both sides. Never got a ticket (for a boat) on LAND.
Posted: Nov 9, 2013, 1:53 PM
Got a chuckle passing this gas station and right away I see people would be like "Oh wow - 3.39 - cheap!" and COMMITT to pulling in, and begin to fill up - Then they see RED because it says 3.59 on their pump ... Look closely at the sign! Who would get a car-wash anyway when it's 15 degrees out? I am sure @[1267634230:2048:Jason Foster] can also see what I am talking about :)
Posted: Jan 15, 2014, 4:49 PM
Feeling a bit stressed? blue? I am - Some thugs broke into my apartment today (2/18) and trashed the place (while I was away on business). Prozac? Drugs? Naaah - Don't want "fatality" or diabetes as a side effect! My good ol'e Italian red wine. One or two glasses - And the problems go AWAY ;-)
Posted: Feb 18, 2014, 5:15 PM
Yup ... Violations. My three dislikes in life: Stealing is #1, rejections #2, and Losing things #3. DONT steal things!
Posted: Feb 18, 2014, 5:29 PM
View off Benton Harbor, Michigan of Lake Michigan frozen in early March 2014. Looks more like northern Canada than the northern USA!
Posted: Mar 9, 2014, 2:37 PM
Saw this little message on a dirty (salt and sand) car in Chicago parked (March 2014). Gave me a chuckle.
Posted: Mar 30, 2014, 12:25 PM
Let the car towing scum baggage begin ... $298 bucks to eat dinner plus $10 cab ride ... expired meter ... LOL my storm chasing trip total expenses last weekend was $40 CHEAPER!
Posted: Apr 29, 2014, 8:13 PM
Brief view of the edge of Bertha hundreds of miles to the east of Florida through breaks in convection (trough is in foreground) from an airliner 40,000 feet over the FL east coast. At least I saw her...
Posted: Aug 4, 2014, 6:17 AM
Here is the view coming into Chicago at about 10,000 feet (Aug 4, 2014). I guess the fires in Canada are still burning!
Posted: Aug 4, 2014, 8:18 AM
Interesting radar (reflectivity) out of the big Island of Hawaii early on 8/8 as Iselle makes landfall as a strong tropical storm. Note the heavy rains but the high terrain causes no radar coverage west and NW of the radar site. I wonder how the 14,000 foot volcanic summits are affected by this?
Posted: Aug 8, 2014, 6:44 AM
Interesting radar (reflectivity) out of the big Island of Hawaii early on 8/8 as Iselle makes landfall as a strong tropical storm. Note the heavy rains but the high terrain causes no radar coverage west and NW of the radar site. I wonder how the 14,000 foot volcanic summits are affected by this?
Posted: Aug 8, 2014, 6:44 AM
Workplace safety quiz ... Look carefully.
Posted: Aug 11, 2014, 2:42 PM
This was all we got from the forecasted Sept 12 / 13 Aurora from SW Wisconsin. Just a bit of sky "glow" to the north.
Posted: Sep 12, 2014, 10:45 PM
September 12 at around 9:30 PM over extreme SW Wisconsin ... Milky way over SSW sky.
Posted: Sep 12, 2014, 10:45 PM
September 12 at around 9:30 PM over extreme SW Wisconsin ... Milky way peeking through clouds overhead.
Posted: Sep 12, 2014, 10:45 PM
Jim Leonard - Storm Chaser ... February 17, 1950 to November 3, 2014. God bless and chase hard in paradise...
Posted: Nov 3, 2014, 7:03 PM
Take out the papers and the trash...Or you don't get no spendin' cash...If you don't scrub that kitchen floor...You ain't gonna rock and roll no more...Yakety yak! (Don't talk back)!
Posted: Mar 31, 2015, 7:20 AM
While some lucky storm chasers were intercepting tornadoes in the NE Mississippi area (into W Tennessee), the unmistakeable over-shooting top can be seen looming far to my west while flying from Chicago to Florida at about 39,000 feet!
Posted: Dec 23, 2015, 4:16 PM
Another zoom in of (most likely) the violent tornadic supercell during the afternoon (4 to 5 PM time frame) looking west from an airliner en-route to Florida from Chicago.
Posted: Dec 23, 2015, 4:16 PM
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