A rip-off of this YouTube video (Japanese, I think) with some captions added in, a Pink Floyd soundtrack dubbed over and the size of the asteroid stated as being 5 times larger, it is still *very* cool and very humbling to watch. Given that they’ve taken such liberties with the original I can’t say that … Continue reading It’s the End of the World as we Know it
I picked up the Kill A Watt EZ P4460 in order to see how much energy various appliances are using in our house. This little unit is great because it doesn’t lose its settings when unplugged (or the power goes out). It will keep track of the elapsed time and give you hourly, daily, weekly … Continue reading Kill A Watt EZ P4460 – Power Consumption Checker
I’ve been shifting around my priorities lately and finally took the time to do my biennial flight review. For this review I elected to use a Diamond DA-20 as I’m intending to use this type of plane much more often on future flights. Also, it’s a stepping stone to the DA-40 and my local flight … Continue reading Completed my Biennial Review – Why don’t we do this for automobiles?
I’ve pieced things together and have tried using as much “off the shelf” stuff as I can. It seems it all needs a little tweaking to do exactly what *I* want it to, but overall I’m pretty pleased with the results. If you see anything odd, please let me know. I use Firefox as my … Continue reading OK Things should be pretty much back to normal
If you don’t have an interest in the guts of WordPress or your WordPress blog isn’t broken, you can probably just skip this posting. I had my own, fairly heavily customized theme based on the original “Kubric” theme from WordPress’ earlier days. I also have a mish-mash of plugins that support insertion of “Gallery2” plus … Continue reading Fixing my broken WordPress Blog
I finally had a chance to watch “Cloverfield” after having recorded it on my Tivo ages ago. All I can say is… “Wow”. The hardest thing about watching that movie was the constant movement of the camera used to simulate someone using a hand-held video camera for THE ENTIRE MOVIE. Fortunately, after watching two years … Continue reading Cloverfield – Wow
The UK does not have nearly the issue with religion as we have here. There, folks who are of such a bent tend to proclaim it in rather less strident terms than do folks here in these United States as, for some reason, their culture does not appear to be as enamored of the simple, … Continue reading Homeopathy: A kind of Magic
Absolutely! While I absolutely *love* the original, I do enjoy clever parodies too… **Note, I had to replace the collegehumor version with a Youtube version. Collegehumor seems to be having problems supplying the content 🙁
I’m a wee bit behind on posting some of my pictures, I’m working towards creating more satisfying pictures in addition to my normal “party snaps”. There’s a LOT to know and I’m learning as fast as I can!! In the meantime, here are some snaps from our Canada Day party. We hosted our local Canuck … Continue reading Canada Day Party – 2008
TAM6 is “The Amazing Meeting” ‘s 6th incarnation. Since I’ve been listening to and reading about many of these folks for years I thought it would be a lot of fun to attend this year to see these folks live and interact with some like minded folks. TAM spans Thursday through Sunday but my chief … Continue reading In Las Vegas for TAM6
