Happy 50th birthday!
Sept. 24, 1960: First Nuclear Carrier, USS Enterprise, Launched
1960: USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched in Newport News, Virginia. CVN-65, nicknamed Big E, was the first carrier of its kind, powered solely by its eight nuclear reactors.
Oddly, the picture in the article is of the WWII carrier
Enterprise
(CV6), not the nuclear-powered one.
The Enterprise is the eighth ship to bear the name Enterprise — not counting the ones in the fictional Star Trek universe. (Sorry, fanboys. Those are fictional.) The real Enterprise became the oldest active ship in the U.S Navy when USS Kitty Hawk was decommissioned May 12, 2009.
The Enterprise is currently slated to be decommissioned in 2013, according to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2010. This comes on the heels of a $662 million refurbishing in April 2010 — 46 percent over budget. Only two more 6-month deployments are planned for the Enterprise.
So sorry for your loss, sarameg
I'm still on the verge of tears (night time, why must you do me so?), but it's not like I have a choice of going in or not.
Many sympathies, sarameg and family.
Robbers clean up with vacuum
A GANG of thieves armed with a powerful vacuum cleaner that sucks cash from supermarket safes has struck for the FIFTEENTH time in France.
The burglars broke into their latest store near Paris and drilled a hole in the "pneumatic tube" that siphons money from the checkout to the strong-room.
They then sucked rolls of cash totalling £60,000 from the safe without even having to break its lock.
Police said the gang — dubbed the Vacuum Burglars — always raid Monoprix supermarkets and have hit 15 of the stores branches around Paris in the past four years.
A spokesman added: "They spotted a weakness in the company's security system and have been exploiting it ever since.
Some very pretty close-up photos of carnivorous plants: [link]
Many pictures of trapped insects, and one of a mouse trapped in a pitcher plant.
F2F London, anyone?
World's largest women's shoe department opens in Selfridges.
The Shoe Galleries opened at London department store Selfridges Thursday, setting a new record for the biggest surface dedicated to footwear, and for the largest number of shoes found in one place, according to the store.
More than 5,000 different pairs of shoes are displayed across 35,000 square meters, while more than 100,000 others are kept in stock.
I can haz new stove!! Just goes to show how Sears home appliance departments vary by location - not only did the guys show up on time with the right things, they carried it up 4 flights of stairs and took the old stove away with no complaints. AND they pointed out the huge dent in the back of the fridge they were supposed to deliver and helped DH get on the phone to exchange it for a non-damaged one.
Fingers crossed that the installers (due tomorrow) are as on the ball as the delivery team so I can get this thing hooked up. (And yes, I will probably say "Now we're cooking with gas!" as soon as it's connected. Don't judge me.)
I liked Jason Segal in Forgetting Sarah Marshall(he would be a hover-y boyfriend, which I wouldn't really like,) but I felt sorry for him when he got dumped and stuff.
And I think Sarah and the rock star were supposed to suck, but Kristin Bell did it a little too well because I don't really want to watch her being adorable now, either.
