Forbes tests Panasonic’s Toughbook by exposing it to darts, tigers, and an elephant.

For those of you who appreciate the Stig, you’ll appreciate this probably unphotoshopped photo.

(a la Jon Abad)

Last night was pretty fun. I got home from work and immediately hit up kung fu where I got a good dosage of sword. At some point as I practiced, the cool factor of “I’m learning how to fight with a sword” kicked in and it felt pretty awesome.

After form work, we had a sparring class which was tough. I got to fight a dude who’s training to be a Navy Seal. Unsurprisingly, Navy Seals really are alarmingly awesome. While there are some who could probably compete with him, I was no challenge.

After Kung Fu, I left and headed to the climbing gym. Upon arriving, I realized that I left all of my equipment at the House of Rock. Instead of calling it quits, I borrowed a harness and figured I’d experiment with shoeless climbing. I started with a 5.8. There were a few moves that hurt the toes, but it wasn’t quite as bad as I had expected. I tried a 5.9+ after that and it was, as expected, more painful than the 8. Though still not unbearable.

Next up was a 5.10 and a 5.11. Interestingly, I fell on the 10 not because of pain but because my feet started sweating and slipped off the holds. I tried to apply some chalk to my feet but still met my match on the 11. I got to the last move which required a serious push off of a thin hold and just found that I could not put the needed force through my foot.

It was a really fun interesting experiment. I’m glad that I gave it a shot, perhaps I’ll do it again.

The core of the sun swallows 600 million tons of hydrogen a second to maintain its 15 million degrees C temperature. This makes it the second hottest place in the solar system. The hottest place? It’s in the English village Culham in the Joint European Torus fusion reactor.

(with pictures and sweet youtube vid of plasma)