On Tuesday evening (July 3) I rented a Piper Warrior and regained my night proficiency. I practiced soft field and short field landings and takeoffs both with and without obstacles as well as just general takeoffs and landings. I really do need to get out during the day and hone my other skills (steep turns, … Continue reading July 4 Fireworks from the air
House Corrino The final installment of the “Dune: House Trilogy”, this offering rounds it out acceptably and *does* tie up many loose ends that had been created by the previous two books. However I found the final third of the book to be a rush of bring-up-issue, resolve, repeat. Also disappointing is that the richness … Continue reading House Corrino (Dune: House Trilogy, Book 3)
A while after installing Window’s “One Care Live” on my personal laptop I tried using Synergy to control it from my desktop. I started encountering the following errors in the dos window that pops up when Synergy encounters problems: “requested address is a broadcast address, but the appropriate flag was not set”. I already had … Continue reading Synergy – “Appropriate Flag was not set” error
Have you ever wondered what you cat did all day? Where he went? Maybe he’s got some friends you don’t know about? Both our cats are now indoor only, but our last cat Vern, a rescued stray, could not be made to stay indoors under any circumstances. We caught the occasional hint of what he … Continue reading Mr. Lee’s Cat Cam
I can’t remember now where I found out about this great tool but I use the 3GP_Converter to convert just about any file format that I can play on my PC on my iPOD. All I need to do is drag and drop the videos onto the converter and, when it’s done, they are waiting … Continue reading Great iPOD video converter
This is another great web comic that I’ve enjoyed for over a year now. It touts itself as “A comic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language” and it is all that. I definitely don’t “get” all of the comics – although I suppose that’s true of any artform – but I do like and appreciate … Continue reading XKCD
One of the greatest things to come along in my lifetime is the ability to time-shift many things to when it’s better for *me* to do them. TIVO is great for this. While I’ve time-shifted my TV programs for years using a VCR and about 20 VHS tapes, the ability to easily pick and choose … Continue reading iPod in the Shower
Suddenly Silver : Celebrating 25 Years of For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston I always enjoy “For Better or For Worse”. You don’t get this book to see new material, much of it I’ve already seen in Lynn’s other works. Instead you get it because of the commentary and perspective that it puts … Continue reading Suddenly Silver : Celebrating 25 Years of For Better or For Worse
I stumbled on this web comic a few months ago and have been slowly working my way through the archives. There is a little philosophy, a little insight, some playfulness and a whole lack of detail in these comics that make them very appealing to me. The main character is a quasi-cynical quasi-loser – to … Continue reading Minimalist Stick Figure Theater
Arrrgh! I can’t *believe* that I forgot to take a “before” picture of the guest bathroom before we started work on it today!!! We are not going to be nearly so bold with this aspect of our renovations as with the other bathroom. But we are removing the false ceiling, replacing the flourescent lights with … Continue reading Renovation update 06/04/2007
