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 […]
Joie du Vol
The Today Show did a great segment on the joy of flying a small plane. Watch it here.
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 […]
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, […]
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.
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
Amazing Juggler
Take a couple of minutes and watch this video of Chris Bliss juggling. You’ll be amazed.
Impressive Vex Robotics Kit
As reborted in BotMag.com, Jamie Hyneman and the Mythbusters are impressed and I want one. Jamie Hyneman: As a holder of some patents and a designer and builder of dozens of prototypes and devices, I must admit I was expecting to turn up my nose at a do-it yourself robotics kit from Radio Shack. But […]
The Great Escape
I just fought my way up a wind tunnel, scrambled through a ventilation duct, clambered across 40 yards of rope netting, rolled under a fence, and burrowed through a mass of grapefruit-sized plastic spheres. Now I’m facing two doors. One leads to freedom. The other to a room with something nasty in it, possibly involving […]
Illegal weed moves into state’s produce top 10 – Feb 17, 2006
CNN.com – Illegal weed moves into state’s produce top 10 SPOKANE, Washington (AP) — Law enforcement officers harvested a dubious record last year — enough marijuana plants to rank the illegal weed as Washington state’s No. 8 agricultural commodity, edging out sweet cherries in value. The more things change, the more they stay the same. […]
A Llama for Your Mama
According to this article at Reuters.com “Chatting over a llama is certainly a novel way to meet people in a relaxed environment, and participants can enjoy a romantic picnic afterwards — carried by the ever obliging llamas in their backpacks,” said owner Mary Walker [of Lakeland Llama Treks].
On Designing Software
Oftimes, it seems like Scott Adams’ Dilbert is created by a documentary filmmaker rather than by a comic strip artist. The January 29, 2006 strip is all too apropos:
250 Pounds of Silly Putty
The Official Google Blog’s entry, I’m feeling silly includes: An email went out to cohorts. Their orders came in. Three weeks later, I had an eighth of a ton of Silly Putty delivered to my desk. Naturally, we were all curious to see what 250 pounds of Silly Putty would look like, so before distributing […]
Deciphering The Mystery Of Bee Flight
ScienceDaily reports in Deciphering The Mystery Of Bee Flight that scientists have finally figured out how bees fly. Their wings beat over a short arc of about 90 degrees, but ridiculously fast, at around 230 beats per second. Fruit flies, in comparison, are 80 times smaller than honeybees, but flap their wings only 200 times […]
2006 Nissan Urge Concept
David pointed me at Serious Wheels’ page on the 2006 Nissan Urge Concept car. Nissan and Microsoft have incorporated an Xbox 360 into a real car. the Nissan URGE concept car allows drivers (while parked) to play “Project Gotham Racing® 3†using the car’s own steering wheel, gas pedal and brake pedal while viewing the […]
Avian Flu on Airliners
There is an easy visual check you can perform to determine whether or not an airplane is contaminated with Avian Flu virus:
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