The Today Show did a great segment on the joy of flying a small plane. Watch it here.
Firefox Usage Climbing
A little article on Slashdot points out that worldwide Firefox usage has reached 13%. Within the USA, 16% of us use Firefox. Germany leads the pack, with 39% of web surfers using Firefox.
Amazing Space Shuttle Video
I’m a space junkie so I was thrilled to read in Slashdot Jivecat writes: “All those extra cameras NASA has added to the Space Shuttle to watch for debris impacts have yielded what may be the coolest Shuttle launch footage ever. The forward-facing view from the right-hand SRB shows, at about the 2:58 mark, booster […]
What is OpenDNS and Why Should You Care?
OpenDNS opened it’s doors on Monday, which was a nice birthday present; thank you very much. Why should you care? DNS, or domain name service, is one of the key underpinnings of the internet to which little attention is paid. It is the service which turns domain names like “cheerfulcurmudgeon.com” and “cnn.com” into addresses of […]
Whooping Crane Chicks Return to the Midwest
The whooping crane has been in serious trouble for a long, long time. The situation is so dire that several groups of people, including the Whooping Crane Eastern Parntership, have taken to hand raising them and teaching them to migrate by leading them with ultralight aircraft. Yes… you read that right. These folks fly ultralight […]
Flying + Camping = Fun
I have loved flying ever since I was a boy. When I got my first paper route in sixth grade, one of the first things I bought with my own money was a subscription to Flying magazine. We bought a Coleman pop-up trailer in the summer of 2001. It has taken me five years of […]
Study – Learn – Live
I was reading “Married to the Craft” in the June 2006 issue of Popular Photography. Hanson Fong, the subject of the article, was quoted as saying, Over the years, a few really talented artists have been gifted with the rare ability to light and pose faces and bodies to make them most attractive. I knew […]
Information About Identity Theft
Are you worried about identity theft? Me, too. My friend, Chris Kramer, has put together a web site Identity Theft, Information to help you understand the scope of this crime and it includes useful information on topics like FACTA, the Fair and Accruate Credit Transaction Act, FACTA and the FTC, and things you can do […]
Geometric Whirlpools
Nature.com reports, in Geometric whirlpools revealed – Recipe for making symmetrical holes in water is easy, that it is surprisingly easy to make “holes” in a bucket of water that have all kinds of interesting shapes. The researchers found that once the plate was spinning so fast that the water span out to the sides, […]
Mothers Day Magic Carpet
Our plane proved itself a magic carpet today, taking us from St. Charles, MO to Kalamazoo, MI to visit Candy’s mother (and family); then on to Valparaiso, IN to visit my mother (and family); and then back home. We could not possibly have spent time on Mother’s Day with everybody using any other vehicle. Total […]
Happy 1st Birthday
The Cheerful Curmudgeon web site is one year old today! Since we all know that birthdays mean presents, join me in celebrating. I like the Hobbit’s tradition that the one having the birthday gives presents to other people. (You have read The Fellowship of the Ring, haven’t you?) So here’s the deal: You, Gentle Reader, […]
U.S. has second worst newborn death rate in modern world
Do you care passionately about the situation in Iraq or Afganistan or Darfur? Are you up in arms about the AIDS epidemic in Africa? Does the Palestinian crisis infuriate you? Did you know that a newborn African-American is nearly twice as likely to die within his first 24 hours than a white baby? According to […]
Jet-Powered VW
When bugs fly / Auto geek hits highway for surreptitious runs in jet-powered VW I can’t even think of anything to add.
Original Star Wars Trilogy Coming to DVD
Finally, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD. Look for two disc sets to be available in September. Each set will contain both the 2004 digitally remastered version and the original theatrical versions of Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of […]
Give Yourself $100
CNN.com reports, “Every American taxpayer would get a $100 rebate check to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday.” You can read the rest of the article in, Senators to push for $100 gas rebate checks. Cool! The government is going […]
Tennis Elbow
I had been having persistent pain in my left elbow for three months now, so I figured it was time to see An Expert. I trundled off to Expert #1 who prescribed anti-inflamatory drugs and alternating cold and heat. Merrily, I trundled back home and did as I was told. The pain persisted. A phone […]
Hanging Around the Church
A local church is expanding its building and seems to have gone to extreme lengths to get congregants to hang around.
Spitfire Fun
Have you ever wondered how to have fun with a documentary commentator, a video camera, and a vintage Spitfire fighter plane? Watch this video to see the best way to do it. I can imagine the scene from the commentator’s perspective. He does his spiel and hears the plane approaching from behind him. He waits […]
IE7 Web Site
I just ran across this cool resource on Internet Explorer v7: www.ie7.com
Open Minds
Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, has an interesting editorial in the Washington Post titled Going Nuclear. He begins, In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust…. Thirty years on, my views have changed, and the rest of the environmental movement needs […]
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