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At 10:06 MST, Barack Obama became our new president. I don’t usually check the clock when important things happen, but I did this morning. My overwhelming impression, watching the crowds in DC? America’s finally coming to after an eight-year stupor. Have you ever seen such an outpouring of optimism and goodwill? Now we wait to […]
A friend in Melbourne sent me this absolutely chilling video of a Russian IL-76 taking off from an RAAF base in Australia. Granted, I flew the F-15, a fighter with so much power we never had to compute takeoff data, but in training I flew T-37s and T-38s, where running the numbers (gross weight, pressure […]
Wow. Just wow. Who doesn’t need a bit of good news once in a while, especially lately? The incredible and ongoing story of US Airways Flight 1549 delivers the feel-good in spades. Of course I’m heavily prejudiced in favor of fighter pilots, and the actions of the former fighter pilot in question, the captain of […]
So how’s Barrett-Jackson? About like it is on TV, only keener. I was there all day Tuesday. That night in Phoenix I bored my daughter Polly to tears watching B-J live on Speed, saying “I saw that car,” and “Oh, that one too!” Wednesday night, back in Tucson, I did the same thing to Donna. […]
Speaking of cars (see previous entry), I’m riding my motorcycle up to Scottsdale tomorrow to see the Barrett-Jackson Auction. Judging by the prices people pay for cars at B-J, I figured it probably cost a couple of hundred just to get in the gate. This year I took the trouble to Google ticket prices, and […]
I knew my car was the inspiration for Star Wars’ imperial storm trooper helmets and 2001: A Space Odyssey’s EVA pods. What I didn’t know until today was that it also carries a SAG card and has acted in 43 movies. Amazing things flow through the Series of Tubes. Thanks to Biomes Blog for the […]
Sometimes you just have to give in and watch a blockbuster Hollywood fluff flick . . . or two. Hancock and The Dark Knight sat in our queue for weeks, each bearing Netflix’s dreaded “very long wait” warning. Our wait ended last week, and we watched them back to back. Hancock (2008). A movie […]
Last one of the Christmas/New Year’s season, I think. Good thing, too, because as much fun as we’ve had, as much as we love our friends, we’re partied out and are ready to crawl back into our shells, like those DSL tortoises from the TV commercials (so much more interesting than Chad’s nerdy cell phone […]