There's a few crazies trying to build another indoor velodrome in Canada, this time in London, Ontario, something I found out thanks to Gord's blog. The killer part? They're proposing a 142m track with 50-degree banking! The Burnaby 'drome is already one of the tightest, steepest tracks in the world, but it's a comparatively roomy 200m with 47-degree banking. Wow.
You know when the exact moment that Martin Scorsese lost me in The Aviator? As Hughes throttles up for his record speed run, the tachometer goes up to eleven (4500, I think), and then the needle falls off.
You see that sort of thing, and the credibili-meter drops near zero. I know that anyone with a flight or mechanical background would immediately snort derisively at this tired gag, and probably most film buffs, too.
A lot of the time, I find myself looking at new Mac products and going "that's nice, but a bit too much, and I hardly need it." After the introduction of the Mac mini, I have started calculating when I will buy one, and which monitor I will use with it.
