CNN.com – Study: Ads boost drinking among young – Jan 2, 2006 A survey of young people aged 15 to 26 found that for each additional alcohol advertisement viewed per month, there followed a 1 percent rise in the average number of drinks consumed, said study author Leslie Snyder of the University of Connecticut in […]
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail
Create an e-annoyance, go to jail Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime. It’s no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. It’s a good thing that I disclose my full name on this […]
Children are no safer in SUVs than cars
I have always been bothered by the notion that driving an SUV makes sense because it is safer. That sounds like an obfuscated way of saying, “My kid’s safety is more important than your kid’s safety so I’ll get a bigger car than you have.” The old arms race with the USSR worked so well […]
Apology: Software Upgrade
Yesterday, I upgraded the software which runs the Cheerful Curmudgeon site to the latest version, WordPress 2.0. Unfortunately, this seems to have made some articles reappear as new for some of you. My apologies if you are seeing the same articles again. Other than that hitch, the upgrade to WordPress 2.0 seems to have gone […]
Why I Own My Own Aircraft
Do you wonder why I bought an airplane? There are lots of reasons but Why I Own My Own Aircraft at the Beech Aero Club’s web site offers a particularly poignant reason: he keys the mike and says “REBEL BASE, THIS IS RED 5. WE ARE STARTING OUR ATTACK RUN ON THE DEATH STARâ€. Good […]
‘Ear bud’ headphones can cause hearing loss, experts warn
My name is Art and I’m a worried father. The Associated Press is reporting on studies which indicate that iPods and other portable music players are often used in ways which damage hearing. I am particularly disturbed to learn that the ear bud headphones are significantly worse than other kinds of headphones. Naturally, my son […]
Recharging My Batteries
I took most of the time between Christmas and New Years off, hoping to relax and spend a lot of time with my family. As seems to happen these days, moreso now that Kevin and David are both in high school, my time was largely driven by the demands of David’s swim practices and the […]
Greeting Card
The AdventurePilot.com Greeting Card is definitely worth a visit. Be prepared to do a little preparatory reading beforehand, though, including: Welcome to the politically-correct greetings page from Adventure Pilot. We’d like to give you a warm fuzzy, but we realize in these politically charged times that isn’t an easy thing to do. In fact, you […]
NORAD Tracks Santa 2005
This is the 50th year that NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. Learn more, and participate in the tracking (via radar, satelite, Santa cam, and fighter jet) at the official NORAD Santa Tracking web site.
Traveling by Arrow
A Week in Syracuse, via Trenton and Kalamazoo Candy and I took our first long cross country in the Arrow last week. Click the thumbnail to the right to see a larger map of where we flew. The trip went great, although the flying weather was pretty cloudy most of the time. I logged 3.1 […]
Intelligent Design that I Can Understand
Finally, as published in The New Yorker: Shouts and Murmurs, is a depiction of how intelligent design really happened: And the Lord God said, “Let there be light,†and lo, there was light. But then the Lord God said, “Wait, what if I make it a sort of rosy, sunset-at-the-beach, filtered half-light, so that everything […]
Priorities
SI.com reports in Gretzky steps aside to tend to ailing mother After agonizing for months about whether the job [as coach of the Phoenix Coyotes] would allow him time to focus on his family, including his mother, two sons in youth baseball and his daughter Paulina’s budding career as an entertainer, Gretzky finally accepted the […]
Government Site Serves Up Entertaining Irony
As reported by Netcraft in US Government Security Site Vulnerable to Common Attack, The U.S. government site that tracks cyber security risks was recently found vulnerable to cross-site scripting, a technique commonly used in hacker attacks and web site spoofing. Several security sites have published a demonstration of the security hole in the web site […]
Travelling with VOIP
I am on the road this week, working in Syracuse, NY. I recently replaced my desktop computer with a laptop to facilitate this sort of trip. My phone system is VOIP (voice over internet protocol) based so, in theory, it should have been easy to take it with me. This ended up being significantly more […]
Enneagrams
My friend Alyce (I hope she doesn’t mind if I call her that, since we have never met, but we have talked on the phone so much and exchanged so much email, that I think of her as as friend almost as much as I think of her as a client) wrote something interesting on […]
Human rights inquiry into airline policy
The report that men are not allowed to sit next to unaccompanied children on two airlines (Air New Zealand and Qantas) is so ridiculous (and infuriating) that I thought it was a joke when I first heard about it. Unfortunately, as reported by Stuff, it is not. In Human rights inquiry into airline policy, Stuff […]
Sony BMG’s Costly Silence
BusinessWeek online reports in Sony BMG’s Costly Silence SLOW TO ACT? Sony BMG is in a catfight with a well-known computer-security outfit that became aware of the software problem on Sept. 30 and notified the music company on Oct. 4 — nearly a month before the issue blew up. F-Secure, a Finland-based antivirus company that […]
Carson Williams’ Amazing Christmas Lights
Ever seen 25,000 Christmas lights in action? I just stumbled across videos of the most amazing Christmas light displays that I have ever seen. One is set to Wizard of Winter by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and the other sounds like a Barbra Streisand piece. (Both are WMV files so you may need the Windows Media […]
General Aviation Economics 101
If I offered to sell spare time to you for $10 per hour, would you buy? I have a confession to make. Like most people, I used to view flying small planes as an expensive hobby and general aviation as an overpriced form of transportation. As a pilot, that’s quite a mouthful. Two things have […]
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beerholder
It may be old news but it is new news to me. The "beer goggle effect" has been quantified by academics in Scotland, as reported by BBC News back in August 2002: They found that men and women who have drunk a moderate amount of alcohol find the faces of the opposite sex 25% more […]
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