February 2009
16 posts
Update from the Toledo Squash Classic.
WatchHow dynamic are things growing and how exponential are things becoming? Look at it this way, just over 100 years ago man could only fly in hot-air-baloons until the Wright Brothers showed us powered flight was possible. In the 1960’s, just under 60 years later, we were putting humans into space orbit. There is more computing power in your smart-phone that all of the combined computer power that...
Follow-up comments to my American Idol feedback...
You Can Now Leave Comments on JU5T1N.com!
You can now leave comments on http://ju5t1n.com, the blog for Justin Winkelman. I’ve just “hacked” the tumblr html code by using applet coding available on the disqus.com site. I’m VERY excited about this as the blog was too one-dimensional and I’d like your feedback and interaction! Blog on!
American Idol Thoughts for 2/25/9 show. I got cut...
Detroit Mayoral Primary
Ken Cockrel is going to be one of the top two candidates for the Mayoral run-off, which I am extremely pleased about. He is an honest, ethical and humble individual that will serve the City of Detroit extremely well after all of the embarrassment we’ve endured over the last year. He finished second, we need to get him number one in the election and let him keep doing the job he’s been...
Justin Winkelman’s thoughts about the...
WatchAmazing footage of Space Shuttle Atlantis coming in to land.To accentuate how fast this spacecraft falls, notice this video has them starting at 84,000 feet (15.9 miles up) and the touchdown occurs just six minutes later. That’s a rate of 14,000 feet a minute (233.3 a second) [note: the elevation of the runway at Edwards is 2,312 feet ASL but the Shuttle altimeter is calibrated for that]....
