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2012 Lake Orion Pumpkin Launch was a blast!

Mark this down under "things to be sure to do next October" -

The 5th annual, 2012 Lake Orion Pumpkin Launch was a blast. It was held at Orion Oaks park, about 90 minutes from Ann Arbor. Five teams competed to launch pumpkins with trebuchets out into a field. The winning team, the Masters of Mayhem, lobbed a pumpkin over 1300 feet (a quarter of a mile).

Pictures when I have them...for now you can see the winner's Facebook page, the Masters of Mayhem, for some videos.

Listening to five channels of CBC Radio 2

CBC's Radio 2 has 5 channels of online music going at any time, reflecting the need to provide programming from the Atlantic Time Zone to the Pacific Time Zone. Newfoundland, a half hour east of the Atlantic Time Zone, gets a shout out from time to time but not its own time slot.

It's nice to have a choice of five channels, because sometimes you want to have mid-day classical music, and some days you want to have afternoon popular music, and in this way you can just time-shift your listening all from the same page.