Local News:  Tallahassee, Explosives, etc

This morning, Tallahassee has had a couple bomb scares.  One was at the Tallahassee Regional Airport, where a set of hair clippers and a bottle of cologne was mistaken for a grenade.  Okie dokie.  At least they’re being proactive, but you can’t help but wonder:  if these checkers can’t tell what isn’t a bomb, can we trust them to tell what is a bomb?  Also this morning, the FBI has been investigating a home out near the Golden Eagle area of northeast Tallahassee.  Nobody is currently saying what the investigation is about, but we do know the Big Bend Bomb Squad was involved.  Sounds sketchy.

Sports

Yesterday, SwaggerTooth distinguished member SB requested that we give her some Tom Brady news.  I’m skeptical as to exactly why, given Tom Brady’s celebrity status, but we’ll play.  So here you go SB. The New England Patriots have a big game against division rival New York Jets this Sunday.  Jets rookie head coach Rex Ryan came out after their week 1 victory over the Houston Texans and said that the Jets will be treating this week’s match-up against the Patriots as if it was the Super Bowl.  There has been a lot of trash talking coming from the Jets, and the Patriots are not biting.  They have basically taken the (correct) stance of  “Calm down, it’s only week 2, guys.”

In college football, we have a nice matchup tonight:  #14 Georgia Tech @ #20 Miami.  This is a big game for both schools, as they both are trying to validate their statuses on the national scene.  Last year, GT put down a pretty nice 41-23 beatdown on Miami that really wasn’t even as close as the final score indicated.  The 472 rushing yards Miami gave up was the most allowed by any Miami defense in the past 30 years and GT only attempted to pass the ball 6 times the entire game.  Miami has had the entire offseason to think about that game, so we’ll see if they are more prepared for Tech’s tricky triple option offense this year.

If Dem David Dem was an Alabama fan, this is what he would look like, and this is what he would say:

Technology

I read about this pretty cool and nerdy experiment today.  A couple of MIT students with a very low budget figured out how to take “near-outer-space” pictures by launching a cheap point-and-shoot camera into the atmosphere via weather balloon.  All for the low price of $148.  That’s tight.  They hacked the camera in a way that it would snap a picture every 5 seconds starting at the time of launch.  Here is a time lapse of the images they got in return:

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