Monthly Archives: May 2013

The challenge of the two Spocks

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Apparently, the new five-year mission of Star Trek is to sell Audi. That mission, though, is limited to two crew members—Well, one crew member. The older Spock against the newer Spock.

This mission taken on by Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy will probably much less than even the television series from the sixties. And, of course, the success of this mission depends on how many Trekkie stickers you see on new Audis. Wonder if the two Spock bobble-head dolls come with that?

The one thing that is apparent, however, is that experience has taught the old Spock something over the new Spock. How to cheat.

Tow Mater visits Williams

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WILLIAMS—Tow Mater took time to stop in downtown Williams Friday as he traveled route 66 with a host of classic cars. The cars were part of a rally on their way to a car show in Bull Head City.

While route 66 was mentioned in the film Cars—of which Mr. Mater was a star—Williams has another connection to the film. An artist for the production traveled route 66 making sketches of old cars for the film. One of the sketches was drawn from a Model-T owned by Eddie—formerly of Eddie’s Tires. The sketch was used to create the “Lizzie” character in the movie. The Model-T was purportedly owned by Pancho Villa at one time.

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Rain possible for the week

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WILLIAMS—The long-range forecast predicts a 10% chance of showers throughout the day raising to 40% tonight. The chance raises to 50% Monday and the forecast shows a chance of thunderstorms Tuesday and Tuesday night. The chance of showers drops considerably Wednesday through Thursday.

Solar Impulse lands in Arizona

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The Solar Impulse, the first solar powered aircraft, took off from Moffett Field in Mountain View, California yesterday around 9 am and landed in Phoenix at midnight this morning. Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard flew the first leg of a proposed four-leg flight to eventually end up in New York. He is joined on the adventure by pilot André Borschberg.

Solar Impulse over San Francisco

Solar Impulse over San Francisco


Solar impulse has already been test flown in Europe. In May 2012, the Solar Impulse achieved the first solar-powered intercontinental flight by flying from Spain to Morocco in just over 19 hours.

The aircraft contains 12,000 silicon solar cells and the plane is designed to fly to levels of commercial airliners to charge the batteries to keep it in flight for hours after the sun goes down. The 880 pounds of batteries account for more than 25% of the weight of the plane.

The month-long journey will be flown at the planes top speed of forty-miles per hour.

The plane was built at a cost of about $140-million funded through the contributions of various companies.

You can find videos and pictures and follow the journey with live streaming at the Solar Impulse website.

Bearizona needs your dandelions

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bearizona-dandelionsWILLIAMS—Are you out doing your spring yard work preparing to plant your garden? Do you have to dig out all of those pesky dandelions? Bearizona will take them off your hands.

They are requesting the weeds on their Facebook page.

Got Dandelion weeds? Our bears love dandelions!
Instead of throwing the weeds out, feel free to drop
off your freshly pulled dandelion weeds at the front
gate when you come.

The bears will thank you!

We have invited them to bring one or two of the bears for lunch in our yard sometime. No response yet.