Continued from part 3. I contacted my Plane Rental company and they offered to send over an IFR rated pilot in a powerful plane (Piper Aztec) to pick us up. This left our little Warrior at Knoxville airport to be picked up the following weekend. I had never flown before in IMC in a GA … Continue reading Flying to Buffalo – pt 4
Continued from part 2. The return trip, if anything, was more enlightening. After a thorough weather briefing we ended up lifting off at about 4:30 in the afternoon from Erie. Our home airport was supposed to have high ceilings and be otherwise fine for landing at our proposed arrival time. We elected to stop in … Continue reading Flying to Buffalo – pt 3
Continued from part 1. In my original planning I had figured on just under 3 hours for us to get to our gas stop. After 3 hours at ground speed of around 75 knots we still has a ways to go to our gas stop. Frankly, by now nature was calling rather urgently. So we … Continue reading Flying to Buffalo – pt 2
1807 The plan was simple, we’d fly ourselves from Atlanta, Georgia to Buffalo, New York, rent a car and drive to Toronto during our American Thanksgiving holiday.    Part of our incentive was to avoid the traffic issues that go along with the busiest travel time of the year, another part was to not patronize the airlines … Continue reading Flying to Buffalo – pt 1
I have a Roku soundbridge, with which the communication with my iTunes library was broken after upgrading to iTunes version 7. I was initially holding out to see if Roku was going to come out with an update so that their soundbridges would once again work with iTunes but apparently that faith was misplaced 🙁 … Continue reading Firefly server up and working fine
Don’t forget to go to the “About Marc” link on the right to find my wishlists and buy me lots of great stuff for Christmas! I’ve decided to embrace the retail delight that is Christmas and not let all those sour old religious traditions interfere with the true meaning of the season: Retail Sales There is … Continue reading Christmas is coming
My 2 year old (actually 1 year, 10 months, 22 days, MARC) is really into watching internet videos of monkeys, babies and dogs. Here are a few that I have come across. Amazing? Funny? Crude? You be the judge. I picture a young Marc as the narrator of the baby video…  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7066247223722526488&q=monkey http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8104288782790416992&q=monkey http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=348371717561530893&q=monkey http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6221820289188391331&q=monkey http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7051033343402010034&q=babies … Continue reading a few funny videos
1754 I just posted a review of the iLuv that I picked up from Amazon back in September. In case you’re interested you can find it here. You’ll see the review as from “Marc B”.
The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy by Peter Huber & Mark Miles This took a LONG time for me to read! It was interesting but I *did* have to gird myself to read it each time I picked it up. It … Continue reading The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy
A couple of days ago I contacted Vonage due to an inoperative router. I was 50/50 on whether I’d continue using the service or not, having in the past waded through the mire that is their Indian tech support folks and their written-in-stone scripts I was ready to just cancel my account if there was … Continue reading Vonage Router Fun
