The most recent issue of Yes! magazine has a series of articles on universal health care, a subject that has been hotly debated for quite awhile here in the US. One article, Has Canada Got the Cure?, neatly summarizes what we are losing by sticking with our privately funded health care system. From the introduction: […]
The Good Wife’s Guide
Here is a little bit of nostalgic Friday fun, from Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May 1955. For some odd reason, I am having trouble holding a reasonable conversation with Candy when I have this piece of paper in my hand and I start with, “Why don’t you….”
Using LibraryThing
LibraryThing seemed so obviously good that I simply dived in head first and started cataloging all of the books in the house, even though I did not know what I would do with it beyond that initial step. I am even more convinced of LT’s utility because the first opportunity to actually use my on-line […]
LibraryThing
I’m addicted to LibraryThing. It only took a few hours and I only have a start on cataloging my library. This is great stuff! Must sleep… must sleep… must ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz
Is It Time to “Upgrade” The “Stereo?”
In many technological avenues, I am an “early adopter,” racing off to get the latest gadget because I can see all of the interesting possibilities, even though it may not really work very well (yet). But when it comes to my “home theater,” I am still living in the caveman days. Though we upgraded the […]
How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World?
What if you could save money and do good by just changing a lightbulb? You can. Compact fluorescents emit the same light as classic incandescents but use 75% or 80% less electricity. What that means is that if every one of 110 million American households bought just one ice-cream-cone bulb, took it home, and screwed […]
My Working Day
I was whining to Scott Gurley about the inordinate amount of time it had taken me to fix a display bug in Internet Explorer. He sent me a copy of a pie chart which pretty accurately depicts how I spend many of my days. Enjoy:
Sometimes a Man Stands Up During Supper
Sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, dies there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so […]
Keep B-29 Fifi Flying
Did you know that, of 3,900 B-29 Superfortress bombers built during WW-II, only one is still in flying condition? The B-29 has been called the weapon which won the war in the Pacific. It was the only bomber we had which could fly 3,700 to 4,500 miles carrying up to 20,000 pounds of bombs. Believe […]
Checking Your Laptop as Luggage
Do you travel on commercial airlines and carry your laptop computer? If you are like me, you worry about your computer when you do. eWeek has a nice little article about how to protect your computer when you check it: Checking Your Laptop as Luggage There are cases out there that purport to be both […]
Aerobatics Joy Ride
Boy oh boy, this makes me want to try aerobatics 🙂 What impresses me most is how the pilot keeps narrating in a normal tone of voice throughout the movie.
What happens when lightning strikes an airplane?
What happens when lightening strikes an airplane? According to Edward J Rupke, senior engineer at Lighting Technologies, Inc., not much. (Image courtesy of Edward J. Rupke and borrowed from Scientific American.com.) Although passengers and crew may see a flash and hear a loud noise if lightning strikes their plane, nothing serious should happen because of […]
eMusic: Music Without DRM
Are you sick and tired of being told that you cannot make legitimate copies of your own music? Did you buy a song for your iPod only to later discover that you could not play it on something else that you own? A “little” company, eMusic.com, has the answer: they sell good music for a […]
Mideast Conflict: The Bottom Line
[Ed: I did not write this but I wish I had. I do not know the original author.] Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel’s part, the following two sentences really say it all: If the Arabs […]
Petach — The Opening
The cease-fire in Lebanon begins as this entry is published. Poems for Peace Petach — The Opening I am sitting at the opening of Abraham’s tent wondering what the tent opens onto — inside are the children of Abraham his various wives soon they will leave each other some day their descendants will be hurling […]
Timeless Voices in Aviation
The EAA has collected video recordings of about 100 aviation pioneers at TimelessVoices.org. Two of my favorites are Daniel Rundstrom who talks about flying a DC-3 in Yemen and how he dealt with a load of passengers who decided to start an open fire to boil water for tea while in flight, and John Miller […]
Serenading Horses
Too funny! Visit the Serenading Horses. (Click on the horses to make them sing.) Thank you, Alyce, for finding them. [Added August 10] And thank you Högaffla Hage in Sweden for creating these beasts. (Hint: after you enjoy the horses, click that link and then click on “STARTA”.)
AirVenture 2006 by the Numbers
The EAA says that AirVenture 2006 was about 10% smaller than AirVenture 2005 but it was plenty big enough for me. I walked my legs off and came home with a smile permanently embedded in my face. Along with my plane, about 10,000 aircraft flew into Oshkosh Wittman Regional Airport and the other airports in […]
Experience with OpenDNS
It has been almost three weeks since we began using OpenDNS and I am ready to Pronounce Judgement: Use OpenDNS. It works. We had only one small problem. My wife uses a virtual private network (VPN) to access her company’s intranet. The default OpenDNS settings are incompatible with the VPN’S need to provide DNS resolution […]
Oshkosh AirVenture 2006
Jack Hodgson and his friend Phil wrote, Oshkosh is like sex. I can never get all I want but sometimes I get all I can take… and you should shower afterwards. Oh, how true! I have wanted to attend the Oshkosh AirVenture air show all of my life and I finally made it last week. […]
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