Here is a little bit of just “plane” fun to brighten your Monday. Watch Boeing build a new 777 in just four minutes.
A Rib for a Pickle
Sometimes you just gotta do it. You’ve got this thing going on and life is good and the moment comes and you make a commitment. That’s what I did; I made a commitment. I said it out loud, in front of witnesses, to my wife. Six of us were celebrating Cindy’s birthday. Even Cindy acknowledged […]
Dream Computer
Candy and I have been watching the first season of Star Trek from Netflix. It’s great fun to see it large on the projector, and in color. Whoo hoo! David thought that Candy and I had completely lost it when we started humming along to the theme music during the opening credits: do do do […]
Man’s Best Friend
A dog is truly man’s best friend. Don’t believe me? Try this experiment: Put your dog and your wife in the trunk of your car. Shut the lid. After an hour, open the trunk. Observe who is happy to see you. If you try this, let me know the results.
The World’s Shortest Personality Test
Your Personality Profile You are happy, driven, and status conscious. You want everyone to know how successful you are. Very logical, you see life as a game of strategy.A bit of a loner, you prefer to depend on yourself. You always keep your cool and your composure. You are a born leader and business person. […]
Electronic Computers: What I Do for a Living
I have trouble explaining what my job is when I am talking to people who do not “surf the web.” Fortunately, Charlie, over at ModernMechanix.com has posted an article from the June 1958 issue of Modern Mechanix, which explains all: ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS – what they are and what they do AUTOMATION has given new importance […]
Podcast’s Comin’, Hide Your Heart, Girl!
I have not posted much lately because podcasting has piqued my interest. Instead of writing, I have been reading about, and listening to, podcasts (and some broadcast radio shows). My brain is full of stuff about interviewing, podcast programming, audio processing, microphones, mixers, etc. Mike Wilkerson over at 2GuysTalking deserves much of the credit for […]
The Best Programmers’ Editor
I learned vi back in the bad ol’ days of 1980 when I was fresh out of college and working on a PDP 11/70 running UNIX version 6 with DEC VT100 terminals on a dozen users’ desks. Life was good. I even wrote a short book, How to Use Vi in 10 Easy Lessons, which […]
“Having Sex…” on Thanksgiving
That title got your attention, didn’t it? It got mine, too. Jump back to Thanksgiving morning in the Zemon living room. I am quietly sitting in my easy chair, sipping coffee and enjoying the peace of the day before we rush into the hustle bustle of hosting the annual turkey day feast. All is right […]
Plummeting Pumpkins Pound Perimeter
The Silvercreek Glider Club returned to the battlefield on the Saturday after Halloween to make another attack on a target in the middle of a farm field. The weapon of choice: pumpkins! You have to hear it to believe the noise a pumpkin makes when it hits the ground after falling 1,000 feet. Twenty-two intrepid […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Matrix Goggles
English Russia brings us The Matrix Goggles (follow the link so you can watch the video). Russian artists from Moscow presented in London the totally useless but somehow cool device – goggles that you can put on and feel yourself like a robot from a Terminator movie or like somebody else from “the cyberspaceâ€. Better […]
Don’t Trust Technology!
Oh my God! You can’t trust technology, at least not in St. Hilary in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales. According to Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s first official road signs to warn drivers about the dangers of trusting their satellite navigation devices (satnavs) were introduced on Tuesday in a Welsh village. For more chuckles, […]
Second Solo
Whoo hoo, I soloed a glider yesterday! Gene, trusting soul and incredible instructor that he is, entrusted SWS2-33A N5751S to me for solo flight at the Silver Creek Glider Club. I got a tow up to 3,000′ AGL and actually caught a bit of a thermal. That got me up to 3,500′ where I decided […]
Those Born 1930-1979
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep […]
How To: Romance
Romance baffles me. Hey, I’m a guy; what do you expect (not that gals do much better, from my scientific conclusions gleaned from watching Sex and the City). Fortunately, the universe is conspiring to point me in the right direction with both visual and audio clues. First, the visual from xkcd.com: Second, and probably most […]
Woo Hoo! Soaring!!
I went for my first soaring flights today and the only reason my head is not in the clouds is because there were not any clouds. Gene, one of the instructors as the Silver Creek Glider Club, took me up in this Schweizer 2-33. Gene handled the take-off and then let me [try to] follow […]
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