I slept on my roof during a heatwave about four years ago.

Most people here don't have air conditioning because the temperature rarely gets about 90 or so at the peak of summer.

That year was an exception. I think it got up to about 110 in the day time and I lived upstairs from a pizza place. That place was bloody -effing hot.

So I slept on the roof.

Funny.

I thought it would go best with a blend of Carlo Rossi and hobo urine.

Also, I remember back in the 80s when people started doing this sort of thing.

I grew up in redneck country so we saw a lot of the sort of,

"Hey guys! Watch this!"

sort of shenanigans.

My dad used to say that with enough horsepower you can make anything fly. To demonstrate he strapped a model airplane engine to a shingle (the kind you see on the roofs of houses), and it flies, at least until it hits something.

The power to weight ratio on a modern snowmobile is amazing. Once you hit that 1x1 hp to pound point you can do almost anything.

As inspiring as this story is, all it does is remind me how screwed up this country is.

He shouldn't have been left homeless in the first place.

The US of A at large seems perfectly content to just throw good kids like this to the dogs instead of trying to help feed, cloth and educate them.

On the other hand if they come in ugly garish printed fabric they would totally be a hit with the hipster crowd.

Kind of makes taking a number 1 a little hard doesn't it?

Kazahkstan has a lot of fascinating history. Especially if you're into the Cold War, the Space Race, or the development of Russian atomic weapons.

It also has pretty much the largest most developed space port in the world. The ISS couldn't exist without Baikonur Cosmodrome.

During the Soviet years it was like the USSR's Texas. Those oil fields fueled the Soviet military complex.

I guess, like Texas they are open to parody due to their perceived backwards agrarian culture.

Why hasn't OK GO gone away yet?

Novelty is no substitute for talent people.

I am surprised the guys from Jackass didn't think of this first.

Am I the only one that wishes that OK Go would just go away?

I'm getting really tired of Hipster D-Bags raping my childhood.

I worked construction when I was in high school. more than likely there is something underneath that they don't want to damage.

I've worked sites exactly like this before. You excavate by hand and use the trackhoe like a giant overpowered wheel barrow.