@willyolio: @jark: Thanks. Like I said, I wish I could take more credit for it, but at the time, all I was thinking was "Ah, crap, hurry, shutter priority," and "Mmm. More pie." Read more

@lilwillie: The bridge at turn 6, on the turn 5 side. I was right below the flag stand. Read more

@chsmadden: Clicking on it will blow it to 1600 px wide. You want larger than that, email me. Read more

@UncleBenny: @chsmadden: @UncleBenny: The "Audi TDI Power" — remember, this is the R10, the first diesel race car of the modern era, and the first diesel LMP/Le Mans car — is in perfect focus, while the rest of the pan is blurred. Plus, there's the whole checkered-flag motif off the flag stand, which I kind of like. Read more

@komododave: It was a typo; I accidentally removed a key part of the sentence. It should have said "one-quarter of the federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico." That said, it was a clunky sentence, so I killed it. The fact came from here: Read more

@snorkelingsarcosuchus001: @P161911 probably shoudn't have: @nutbastard: Guys. It's a throwaway line in a photo caption for a picture of a guy I thought was cool. It was not meant to cast aspersions on anyone's grandfather, heroic or otherwise. Read more

@Psiu! Puxa!: Your 244 is the coolest car I have ever seen!: I'm from Kentucky. Sometimes things slip. Back home, he would've "done leant thar," so I think it twern't 'tall bad, mmkay? Read more

@Crash Bandihoon: I've heard that as well. Still The Man. Still read that book, as well as Wolfe's, every few years. Read more

@Crash Bandihoon: Ditto on the 'Yeager' prop (no pun intended). Rich's book is on the list of stuff I need to pick up. Read more

@Live_axle: Yeah, read about the master of Skunk-Work disaster. Fascinating dude. Hell, postwar aerospace development in GENERAL is fascinating. Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff amazes me not for the depiction of the space program, but for the look into the lives of test-pilots, which takes up most of the book. Read more

@Murph: Apologies; what I meant to infer was that the plane doesn't so much willingly land as get wrestled out of the sky. A J-3 gliding down onto the tarmac is a graceful, beautiful thing. A U-2 being dumped there in spite of its wishes is, you know, not. :) Read more

@Timothy Michael Lezama: Tell. Us. More. Read more

@P161911 probably shoudn't have: Not sure — there's no hard and fast rule for this stuff, and as far as I can tell, anything fast enough to keep up with a landing U-2 will do. Read more

@BrtStlnd: Whoops. Fixed. Thanks. Read more

@TAInvestor: It's a NASA ER-2, an earlier version of the U-2 used for surveillance. Check this: Read more

@Electro Gyrocator: No, that was our mistake. Fixed. Thanks! Read more

OK, Matt, I'll say it: I'm jealous. And Pete is awesome. Read more

@Pessimippopotamus: Actually, no: Read more

@Wunno Sev: Manages them. He also manages the band OK Go. Read more

@OA 5599: Among the ordinary public? Hell yes. Most peoples' mothers know who Carroll Shelby is. The dude in the suit, not so much. Read more