There is a tempest brewing in the Washington tea cup. Congress has to pass a bill that provides funding for the FAA by the end of September or the FAA ceases to exist. Background The airlines and the FAA are pushing hard to reduce the costs imposed on airlines while increasing the costs for pretty […]
Building Machines Which Learn Like A Human
Ever since I was an undergrad at the University of Michigan in the late 1970s, I have wondered how we think. Modern digital computers are marvelous machines but they don’t hold a candle to what a very young child can do. For instance, it is absolutely trivial for you to recognize a bicycle when you […]
Turbine Toucan: One HOT Airplane
The Turbine Toucan looks to be the ultimate propeller driven toy-in-the-sky. Target air show weight will be under 2000lbs with thrust targeted at 3300lbs. This will be close to a 1.65:1 ratio, unheard of in any GA aircraft. To put it in perspective, the F/A-18 Hornet (at fighter mission weight) is 36,700lbs@32,000lbs of thrust. This […]
Garmin 396/496 Legal for IFR
Note: This was an April Fools joke and the web site is gone. (Unless you are a pilot, you probably do not care about this.) Finally! Honestly, I believed Garmin when I bought my GPSMAP 396 and it said “VFR Use Only.” We get a present today: the ability to use our Garmin 396 and […]
Single Sign On – Finally
Don MacAskill over at SmugMug (my favorite photo sharing site) brought my attention to OpenID, a budding solution to an old computer problem: If you use a computer, you have way too many passwords to conveniently remember. You might use one or two passwords, perhaps a simple one for web sites that you do not […]
Not Very Normal
I have not had much time to write lately so I hope that this little tidbit will garner some favor in your eyes. I seem to be only 55% normal and, given how weird I am, seems pretty darned good to me. Enjoy! 🙂 You Are 55% Normal While some of your behavior is quite […]
March of the Librarians
Many of you know that my wife is a librarian and that she attends American Library Association (ALA) conferences twice a year. I always wondered what she does there. Now I know. And you can, too. (Did you spot her in there? She’s a starlet.)
FAA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
Thanks to the dedicated government researchers at the Cherokee Pilot’s Association for finding this critical information. Subject: FAA NPRM NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING (NPRM) Part 0, Section 000 (a) 1(c) Preface – As for the first part of the last part, see Section V, the Administrator may be a him or a her, but shall […]
Good Advice
This seems to be good-advice day. I am reading Exceeding Customer Expectations, about Enterprise Rent-a-Car’s highly successful business practices. As expected, it is full of good advice. Key seems to be: assure that your customers are completely satisfied. And then, reading a completely unrelated magazine article, I ran across this adage: Learn from the mistakes […]
I am Spiderman and Chewbacca
I never thought of myself as Spiderman but an internet quiz can’t lie. Your results:You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 85% Green Lantern 70% Robin 60% Catwoman 60% Supergirl 55% Superman 50% Iron Man 45% The Flash 40% Wonder Woman 35% Hulk 35% Batman 35% You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and […]
Presidential Bumper Sticker
A friend saw this bumper sticker on the back of President Bush’s limo. Unfortunately, my friend didn’t have a camera so I don’t have a photograph. IRAQIS: DEMOCRATIC OR DEAD One thing I’ll say for Bush, his agenda is right out there in plain site. No hidden agendas for him, no sir!
Intervention
Once again, Ærchie has guided me to excellent comedy. 🙂 🙂 🙂 Check it out! You’ll love it! and smile 🙂 all day!!!
Seduction Style
Ærchie found the Seduction Style quiz. Great fun for a holiday evening (or any evening, for that matter). I’ll ‘fess up first; I’m a Libertine. So what is your style? Post a comment here and let me know.
Flying the T38
These guys must love their jobs! Merry Christmas!
Chanukah — Day 1 — Freedom of Worship
Chanukah starts tonight, our annual “festival of lights.” It gets tangled up with Christmas because, well, because kids (big and little) like to get presents. Who can complain? Our holiday is completely different than Christmas, though. Several themes comprise Chanukah and, over the next eight days, I will be writing about the ones that seem […]
Farewell, Bill Metzger
I just learned that my friend, Bill Metzger, will be leaving us soon. The best way that I can think of to honor him is to share a few of his words with you and a bit of his singing. First, the words; these are from a letter that he dictated recently. I’ve been discovering […]
The Best Things
I got a great fortune cookie for lunch: I cannot understand why, after I complimented the restaurant owner on having the best lunch in town, she declined to give it to me for free.
Missing My Hi-Fi Music
Thanks to FunkeyMonk at Slashdot, I am now conscious of a trend in which I have been unwittingly participating. I have spent quite a bit of time building a library of music that I like and quite a bit of money building a “hi-fi” to play the music, yet most of the time, I listen […]
Saying “Christmas”
I thought it was OK to say “Christmas” this year. I thought we had gotten through all of the silliness about whether you can or should or might say, “Merry Christmas” to another person without first receiving written permission to extend that wish. I just visited Kohls.com and was shocked, dismayed and apalled to see […]
Gratitude
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 […]
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