Kingda Ka, a new rollercoaster at Six Flags Great Adventure, is coming. It stands 456-foot-tall and launches you from 0 to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds. That’s 36 feet taller and 8 mph faster than Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point making Kingda Ka the tallest and fastest coaster on earth! However, Kingda Ka offers riders more. A second hill, 129 feet tall, will excite riders as they enjoy extra airtime. Kingda Ka also has two loading stations and four trains to help put more riders through faster! Learn More at the Kingda Ka site.

The band U2 has come out with the first single Vertigo from the bands new album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, set to be released November 23rd.

From iTunes:
Opening with one of The Edge’s fastest, most aggressive guitar riffs ever, ‘Vertigo’ is the title of U2’s new single — and it’s available today, exclusively on iTunes. ‘Vertigo’ offers a tantalizing hint of the band’s first studio album in four years, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, which is due to drop November 23. Be among the first to download this powerful song.

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If you see this logo on the side of a white van keep an eye on it, especially in the western suburbs of the twin cities. I encountered two of these vans this morning and their driving skills were horrible. One van was going about 20 in a 30 zone and decided to slowly merge in front of me. No blinker, no warning, just casually left his own lane and entered mine. I was afraid to be behind them getting on the freeway but I had nothing to worry about as the van, now going slower, ran the red light, turned left and entered the freeway ramp. Good thing the cars with the green light were watching so they could hit their brakes an horns. The second van, and yes it was a different one, passed me on my way to work. This one was going much faster. He took the same exit as me and ended up right in front of me. We both had our blinkers on to turn right when he decided he didn’t want to be in that lane anymore. So he switched his blinker to left and moved over like there was no one else on the road. In the mean time the car in the left lane almost got her front end taken out by the van. I don’t know if he doesn’t use mirrors or just didn’t care. It was way to close for me and I wasn’t even in harms way. Two vans, both with the same logo, in the same area, with no care for other cars on the road. If you see a white LaidLaw van on the road, be careful as you never know what they will do next.

It’s fun to get into Google and get my sites showing up towards the top, however I’m not having as much fun this month. So far in September Google has eaten up over four gigs of bandwidth. I’m not sure where they are taking it all from but I’ve started throwing robots.txt files everywhere disallowing access to any bots. The main pages are fine but I think Google is getting stuck in the calendars or something. However, my bandwidth keeps going up and fast. I’ve had to purchase extra bandwidth at a price that I believe is much to high and all I’m trying to do is make it through September! There is also another bot, Pompos, that has eaten up 2.5 gigs of bandwidth also. So between just those two bots I’ve gone over my free 5 gigs of transfer. On average I usually use about three so I’m not to thrilled. Maybe it’ll be good for the site in the long run but so far I see nothing good coming.

I lost my wedding ring this weekend, but thankfully it was found again!! We were out chasing cats in the barn and I climbed over a gate and got my pants all dirty. So I wiped them off and my ring must have gone off with the dust. It wasn’t for a while later that I realized it was missing. My whole family went out and my mom found it!! I think I need to get it taken in to get sized down a little. As it gets colder out my ring slips off easier and easier.

We’re off to enjoy Wykoff Minnesota’s Fall Fest! It’s fun to get out of the city and back to good ol’ rural Minnesota. We are also taking the wedding pictures to show our families.

We have gotten our wedding pictures back and they look wonderful! Now we have lots of pictures to go though and see which ones we like and which ones we want blown up for our 8×10s. It’s going to be hard since there are so many good pictures.

A recent CNet article talks about how Microsoft won’t be adding any Internet Explorer security features to anything except Windows XP. That means if you have Windows versions 2000, ME, 98 and 95 they no longer care about your security on the internet. They claim that if you want security on the internet you better shell out the $199 for XP. If I were you, I’d just go to Mozilla.org and get FireFox and forget about all the security issues that IE has. If Microsoft doesn’t care about you, why should you use their stuff?

We started watching Lost last night on ABC. It’s that show about people that were in a plain crash and now are lost somewhere. But wait, there is something on the island. It sounds like dinosaurs, and it’s big, but they never showed us what it actually was. If it’s dinosaurs I’m going to be very disappointed.

Six Flags Great Adventure is gearing up for the September 29th announcement of their new rollercoaster that ‘eats all records’! This means this new Rocket Coaster has to be over 410 feet tall and go faster than 120 mph to be the worlds fastest and tallest coaster. It’ll be amazing to see what they come up with, however, if they build one that 411 feet tall and goes 121 mph they’ll piss a lot of people off because that’s cheating.

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