This seems to be the year for in-my-face opportunities for thankfulness. My family is having its problems; life isn’t perfect. But it ain’t nothin’ compared to lots of other people that I know. At least three of the women in my life are battling breast cancer and one man has another kind of cancer. One […]
Archives for November 2006
Owner Assisted Annual Inspection
October brought the deadline for my airplane’s annual inspection and, having no in-depth knowledge of the process and liking to get my hands greasy, I decided to get involved as much as possible. That meant finding a shop that was willing to work with me. In the end, Jeremy at St. Charles Flying Service came […]
Machine Gun Sentry Robot
NewLaunches.com brings news that Samsung develops machine gun sentry robot. Samsung has partnered with Korea university and developed the machine-gun equipped robotic sentry. Do you remember the scientists who worked on the atomic bombs and later regreted their decisions to do so? I am afraid that we are about to see history repeat itself. One […]
Live Transparently
Joseph poses a good idea in his posting on Changes in Lobbying Practices Lobbyists would be required to hire a Congressional stenographer to record the entire interaction, every single time they interact with someone in Congress. The transcript would then go on the Internet. Better yet, the whole thing also would be videotaped, and the […]
