Kottke liveblogs Mythbusters testing the airplane on a conveyor belt question. (Spoilers.)

The result that Adam and Jamie come up with isn't that surprising. The response in the comment thread ("they didn't do it right", etc.) is a bit so.

Trees Reviewed:

Trees. It seems like you see them everywhere these days. But are trees viable in the long-term, or just another flash-in-the-pan fad for the under-30 crowd?

Sweet, Tony, I just sent off my application for an elective in Halifax. Everything is going according to plan...

And, good to hear, Dana, that there weren't any serious injuries and that that emergency plan was up to snuff.

Yeah, my mom called me about that explosion last night. Apparently it was a steam injection unit or a vac truck (not sure which one). My brother-in-law was in town when it happened. Noone was seriously hurt, luckily, but I think it tested the towns emergency response system!

Well, I've finally sent off my application to University of King's College in Halifax. Fingers crossed!

Though I won't be hearing anything either way until the end of March, so now I get to play the waiting game...

What the crap? Blasts shake east-central Alberta town:

Three explosions at a machine shop rocked the town of Castor, Alta., on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of some businesses, a school and a daycare.

RCMP said the blasts happened at a Terraco A & E Oilfield Services just before 10 a.m. MT on Tuesday. Const. Brett Torpe said an initial explosion was followed by other blasts as the fuel tanks of several trucks parked inside caught fire.

Three men working inside the shop were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

What gives?! Yesterday in my office it was psychotically cold! (Big drafty windows equals me wearing my down filled jacket in the office.) Now today it is psychotically hot! (I could wear my board shorts!)

Finally, an inspiring choice in the upcoming provincial election! Rhinos horn in on election:

Some Alberta Rhinos' pledges:

- Annex Saskatchewan to create more room for affordable housing;
- Push British Columbia into the sea, so Albertans can enjoy oceanfront property;
- Abolish the environment because it's too hard to clean;
- Legalize pot. "And pans. And spatulas."
- Rename the province "The People's Republic of North Montana" and make Medicine Hat its capital, since the party couldn't concoct a funnier name;
- Get drunk and throw money at more problems, not just the homelessness;
- Merge with the Tories to stop splitting the "silly vote;" and
- Above all, it promises to not keep any promises.

Well, generally I just put the spinach in my sandwiches and it seems to have a laxative effect that usually hits me in the evening if I eat them in the afternoon. Sometimes the leaves are in pretty whole and recognizable condition which seems pretty surprising. But the other day I ate a bowl full of spinach (and I threw some carrots sticks in it and put some dressing on and called it a "salad") for lunch and I had really bad stomach ache that night and it made me super gassy and I had to shit pretty bad, hahaha.

If I don't eat spinach, I don't have any problems, but I really like spinach (I much prefer it to lettuce) so I can't help eating it even when I know I'll probably get a stomach ache if I eat too much of it.

Somebody was telling me just the other day that the packaged spinach (which is what I buy) had an e.coli outbreak earlier this year that had something to do with sewage water getting mixed in with the irrigation water. I hadn't heard about this previously, and I really highly doubt that's the case anymore even if it's true, but it really does upset my stomach.

Funny you should mention that Paras. I ran about 3 or 4 blocks to get to the metro theatre in the cold tonight. But all the running started making me breathe very heavily, and by the time I got to the theatre I had an incredibly sharp pain in my chest! The air is too fucking cold to breathe!

Also, coming back from Calgary on highway 2 was fucking insane. I've got some videos that I'll post on facebook later where entire semi-trucks disappear completely in fog when they're only 20 metres in front of you. That was the most fucked up driving experience of my life! There are parts in the video where the whole screen goes white and you can't even see the road. I actually feared for my life, haha.