#558 Red Bull Chariot Race: The Sofa

The mode of competition at the Red Bull Chariot Race is that several teams from universities in the are compete by racing their vehicles around a short course. Each team is made up of two people pushing and one riding. The course is not fair so one team has an advantage (psst, don't tell anyone, the marketing MAs who run came up with this thing probably haven't noticed that problem).

This picture is some unknown team who raced an armchair in the Ithaca Red Bull Chariot Race. More to follow.

#558 Red Bull Car

Naturally, Red Bull brought one of the BMW Minis along. Believe it or not, that Red Bull can serves as an extension to the gas tank. This car could go around the world 20 times without refueling.

#557 Red Bull Chariot Race

Read all about this weird event here.

#548 Cardsender

Let's stop this blog for a quick advertisement break. Check out the awesome iPhone app Cardsender or the equivalent webOS app Cardsender. You can send real postcards with it,  cool eh? Your favorite daily photo bloggers are (two of) the brains behind it.

#547 street light

On N Cayuga St.

#546 where is it?

Where is it? This should be a very easy one. 

#545 Clinton House

Google just ate that picture. I will repost it later.

#544 Light Mix

I like the mixture of late evening light and light bulb light. Tell me where it is and I'll send you a postcard from  Palin-land in May.

#543 Pink

#542 Spring blossoms

It's spring in Ithaca and it is beautiful!

#541 Oolala, so many awards!

Some winery (forgot which) showing off all their fancy awards.

#540 C.C.C. CO 1265

For your info:

Between 1833 & 1841 men from civilian conservations corps company 1265 built many of the facilities at Buttermilk Falls & Robert H. Treman State Park.

#539 We pay nil.

All these signs around the swimming pond at Buttermilk Falls don't say what they mean. What they are trying to say is "We don't pay a dime if you break your neck." That's just find, why would they have to. Still, they are too cheap to just write that. Instead they post warning signs about shallow water and ice (ice when it's 60F outside???).

#538 What is it?

Just found this picture on my cell phone. What is it???

#537 New York Driver not living here

Dear Geico,

You keep sending letters to some "New York Driver" living here. There are only two German drivers living here, no New York drivers (I assume you are referring to the issuer of the drivers license). So I was hoping to get the letter sent back to you but since you are too cheap to send that letter by First Class Mail, USPS won't return it. I hope you read this and manage to figure out where the New York driver has moved to.

The German Driver at 421 N Cayuga St

#536 Penguin Family

Penguins like wine, too.
(Photo taken at Penguin Bay Winery on Lake Seneca)

#535 Funny Faces of Cornell

This is a photo of the southern facade/windows of Sibley Hall (which used to be the home of the Cornell Engineering Department and after being abandoned in 500 B.C. became the home of the Department of Architecture who are still dwellimg in there as of 2010 A.D.).

#533 Ground Heater

You probably didn't miss, that Ithaca is a pretty cold place. To make sure that the water supply pipes don't freeze, every winter hundreds of ground heaters are placed at strategic points around town to keep the ground warm.