This one uses a helicopter rotor, so it’s really just a tiny carcopter. Funny enough, though, this proof of concept was actually done in 1923. So the technology has been around.

I’m still waiting for the flying cars like in Back to the Future II, where there are no wings or rotors. I want a bad ass DeLorean with wheels that flip around.

PAL-V One

Now, though, Beer is My Poison will be all about beer: breweries, brews, home brewing, good times, events, and anything else beer-related. For now, the events and brewery tours will be local to my home town in the mountains of North Carolina, Asheville. Asheville is a beer lover’s haven, with a high concentration of microbreweries, craftbreweries, and beer fans!

The new site’s probably a bit buggy, but I launched it anyway. Shouldn’t be much longer till I fix it all up.

They’ve released a new feature that suggests additional options based on your search term. For example, search for an image of “jaguar”; did you mean the automobile or the great cat?

Sure, it’s a seemingly simple feature, but I guarantee it’ll save me even more time in my daily life, and as a web guy, one minute can be ages.

Thanks, Google.

That’s cool, but we don’t even have 3G available where I live and work, in Western North Carolina. Thanks, AT&T.

And while I’m at it, Brother’s iPhone got kinda messed up one day, and to replace it, we’d have to buy a newer iPhone, one that was made for 3G service. But in order to activate it, we’d need to upgrade our plan to get 3G coverage… yes, even though we don’t have 3G available here. WTF, AT&T? Thanks again.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with their service and the iPhone, but upgrading to a service that isn’t available, and paying for not even using it, well, that’s just crappy.

I watch football with my brother on Sundays during season, and one of the only reasons I watch it is for John Madden and Al Michaels. They’ve been calling games for so long, that just hearing their voices over the game brings me back to childhood. That’s pretty much the only reason I watch the games.

I honestly couldn’t care less who wins or loses, and I only get into the games when it’s a close 4th quarter.

Without Madden, I don’t know that I’ll ever again give a damn about watching football. Damn.

These wingsuit guys are insane! I’d love to try it, but I don’t think I have the eggs to jump to my eminent death! Maybe I’ll try skydiving first, about a mazillion times, then maybe I’ll have the guts to sail through the air like these fellows.

Then, of course is the flight around my home town, Asheville, NC. Our man Apollo Creed flies around the town, scares the crap out of some hikers on the mountain, but doesn’t look back!

Have a look at our latest Groovy Web Design. Hope you like it!

Web Design with BITE!

If we all adopted this route, then the Google’s warning screen would become standard, more trusted, and would probably do much better than all of us just showing our own error messages, warnings, or flat-out letting IE6 users see some garbled mess.

Google doesn't like IE6

The study claims that students who use facebook regularly get B’s, while students that don’t use facebook get A’s.

My take? Well, students who don’t study aren’t going to study any more, regardless of which distraction they choose. I’m sure these same students have plenty of additional options with which to waste their time. Don’t blame facebook, blame a lack of interest in studying.

Contestants take an ironing board to remote locations and iron clothing! This could be on the trail, skydiving, underwater, wherever!

Extreme ironing takes extreme sports to the next level, by combining the danger and thrills of outdoor activities with the “satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt.”

On the slopes!

In the marsh!

Paddling

Scuba Diving!

In Midair!

Then my genius self had the idea to substitute Coors Light for the Red Bull. How bad could it be? It’ll probably just be a little bland, couldn’t be that bad.

So we went for it. Three of us. We named this new concoction “HardCoors”.

The HardCoors wasn’t too bad. It was bland, boring, and a little tough to get down. We discussed it a bit and determined that a sweeter beer, probably a fruity hefeweizen, would serve much better as a substitute for Red Bull.

In the fridge was one Magic Hat H.I.P.A., an IPA that’s plenty cloudy and plenty bitter. Screw it, let’s try it. How bad could it be? We named this one the Hardcore Hippo.

(You know the taste you get from an aspirin tablet if it doesn’t go down the first swallow? You know, that awful taste? Well imagine taking 10 aspirin tablets, placing them on the back of your tongue, and waiting a while. )

Well, that’s what the Hardcore Hippo tasted like. Awful. Just terrible. The worst thing I’ve ever tasted in my life. Poor Scott went right the sink, about ready to vomit!

The Magic Hat H.I.P.A. bottle cap

Hardcore Hippos ready to go!

Emptied!

My reaction

Brian's reaction; you can see the disgust in the lip curl!

Poor Scott's reaction! He looks like he wants to cry!

This current one is probably not permanent either, but at least it’s better to use than the old one! There are probably a few bugs and quirks hanging around, but I’ll take care of them over the next week or so.

This thing looks pretty damn cool to me, and I’m really looking forward to seeing more on this. It runs on a battery, has two main wheels, and is very similar to a Segway, which uses some gyroscopes to maintain balance.

You look at these things and wonder how the hell they don’t fall over, but people say they’re rather comfortable. Gyroscopes, huh. Pretty damn cool!

Check out this video

(images from segway.com)