Woo hoo! Just six years after Candy and I upgraded our stereo system to a 5.1 home theater system, we replaced the 27″ television with an Optoma HD72 projector. The picture we now see has diagonal measure of approximately 90″. The improvement is so dramatic that I could easily become a couch potato. Everything seems […]
Archives for October 2007
Stunningly Poor Judgement
Unless you live under a rock, you are already aware that John P. “Pat” Philbin, FEMA’s director of external affairs, faked a press conference on Tuesday. All of the questions asked were posed by FEMA employees; there were no independent reporters present. This required such incredibly poor judgment at so many levels that I can […]
Software Release Guide
This is not funny. Not one bit! 😉 Once you start playing with software you quickly become aware that each software package has a revision code attached to it. It is obvious that this revision code gives the sequence of changes to the product, but in reality there’s substantially more information available through the rev-code […]
Dictate or Facilitate?
Few will argue with me when I suggest that the best way to lead a meeting or resolve a dispute is to help all of the participants both express their views and hear the thoughts and feelings of the others. It has been many, many years since anyone thought that anything from families to committees […]
Mom Says
Do you remember all those pearls of wisdom that your mom uttered when you where a child? Of course not; you weren’t listening. (I’ll admit it: neither was I.) Some of what mom said was good, solid advice, though. Here is your chance to reclaim those lost gems without having to relive your childhood. Just […]
Flying Home from Jackson Hole
That last chapter in our vacation saga is, unsurprisingly, the trip home. I had spent much of this vacation looking for ways to extend it indefinitely and, as had happened during all such prior investigations, I failed to discover the necessary magic incantation. As a brief aside: I am available to be adopted by the […]
Video Inside a 4-Stroke IC Engine
Here is some amazing video, shot at 1,000 fps, of the inside of a cylinder of a four-stroke internal combustion engine:
Amazing F-22 Raptor Video
Check out Keith Breazeal’s video of an F-22 Raptor flying in Sacramento, CA. Along with beautiful photography, he includes an interview with the pilot. Major Paul “Max” Moga explains what he and the plane are doing moment by moment through the entire airshow routine. Awesome!
In Bad Company: St. Peters, O’Fallon, and St. Charles
It is almost never good when your locality is mentioned in the same sentence with Detroit. USA Today’s article, City Council pays for lessons in civility, takes an in-depth look at acrimonious squabbling on the Ashland, OR city council and includes, More recently, public fireworks have been reported on city and county panels in Detroit; […]
Ten Commandments of Aviation
I am the plane that brought you out of the clouds and storms. You shall have no other plane but me. Thou shalt not idolize any plane with the “wings on top.” Remember the EAA breakfast and keep it holy. Honor thy flight instructor. Thou shalt not take the FAA in vain. Thou shalt not […]
NC-17
I don’t know if I should be proud or ashamed. Well, actually I do know. And I’m not ashamed. 😉 Your Mind is NC-17 Rated You’re mind is so filthy… you should should be washing every part of you out with soap. If your thoughts can go dirty, they do. Almost everything is NC-17 to […]
Wildlife
Yellowstone is full of wildlife, blissfully unafraid of human beings and wildly attracted to picnic baskets. The terrible thing, indicative of the most horrible decline of American culture, is that none of the neighbor’s children, ranging from kindergarten through seventh grade, had heard of either Yogi Bear or Jellystone. (Click on the thumbnail images to […]
Yellowstone
Since I am known to be slightly crazed when behind the wheel of a car, it should be no surprise that Candy and I took off to see Grand Teton National Park and ended up driving all the way through it and up into Yellowstone. So much for a short, relaxing afternoon in the Tetons. […]
