Flour Power

The image above is part of the satellite imagery that Google recently released of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) – commonly known as The Boneyard. It’s a collection of over 4,000 retired aircraft including nearly every plane the US armed forces have flown since World War II.

Get more info at BBC News, or just explore the whole thing in Google Maps.

(via Gizmodo)

It’s now more than a month late, but I need to get this one out of the way: on the 15th of January, my Guinness counter hit number 500. It has come a long way since number one, when I first arrived to Ireland.

And since this was more than just another pint, I made sure I drank it in the same pub I had the first one in. And more: I was sitting at the same table. And this took place exactly (give or take a couple of hours) one year after Guinness Pint Number One. Historic, eh?!

“And now what?”, you might ask. Well, now I stop counting. It was fun as a topic of conversation, but the fun was gone when people insisted on telling me how much money I had spent on Guinness.

Now that I’m done with the counting, I also got rid of the counter in the sidebar. I just felt the need to point this out, otherwise people might think I stopped drinking Guinness altogether, which is not the case at all. Rest assured, Guinness people, I’ll keep sending money your way…

Thanks to @grealish.

The sixth, and final, season of ABC’s Lost starts today, and I’m pretty excited about it. Both because I’m curious to see what the creators of the show have in store for this season and because I’m sick of new mysteries and questions being introduced and hardly any of them ever being answered. At least this time it has to come to an end. Somehow…

I don’t know exactly when it started but at some point during the last 5 years the show has been running I kind of started hating it. Every single episode added new complexity to the already intricate plot. The amount of unanswered questions, of unsolved mysteries, of downright weird stuff is now so big that I’m sure it’s impossible to sort it all out in just one season. The fact that they introduced time-travel in season 5 doesn’t make it any easier.

On the other hand, I just love the weirdness and complexity of the whole thing. I love to read the theories of people (with way too much free time) about the events of the latest episode, theories sometimes derived from the analysis of screenshots from a bunch of different episodes. I enjoy wondering about what will happen next, and then be surprised with something completely unpredictable. I even like the fact that some of the things are not explained right away and remain a mystery episode after episode after episode…

Weird, uh?

This “love-hate relationship” lasted for more than 5 years. And it’s finally coming to an end! I just hope I won’t be too disappointed.

If you think you need a very quick summary of what happened in the last 5 seasons, check out this video (it doesn’t even scratch the surface…):

And here’s the trailer for the final season:

Ominous…