Full Metal Jacket as performed by Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, and Mickey.

This is hilarious and absolutely not safe for work, children, pets, and possibly you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3woEDTUbDYg&feature=youtu.be

Tonight I talked with a WWII vet who also happens to be my client's dad. He served right at the end and participated in the tail end of the Battle of the Bulge as a tank driver. I love finding gems like this and listening to them tell stories... I encouraged him to tell me things, asked a question here or there and just let him talk until he looked ( Read more... )

I'm currently in Florida after having flown all day from Los Angeles.  Quite the trip for a lot of reasons, not least of which was the 45+ knot tailwind which allowed us to make this in one long day rather than two ( Read more... )

So that's good.  I'm back from Hawaii and enjoying the Seattle weather.  I'm planning a full write up with videos and pictures but for now I'll just update with my first photo as I was on the wing towards Honolulu.  This was taken at about 4:30 in the morning and I had been aloft for about 30 to 45 minutes.  It took me that long to climb to 6,000 ( Read more... )

This is a copy of a post I just put on one of my piloty forums.  They rather liked it and I thought you all might too.  I put a claimer on it just so that the fuddie duddies who lurk in the back waiting with Shock! and Awe! would get shot down for bitching if it's too racy.  No, I don't this is racy... but we're dealing with stuck up religious ( Read more... )

So I have this problem.  I have flown a Cirrus in every state in the union except for one: Hawaii.  This has been bugging me for years.  I've got all of Canada, a fair bit of Mexico, most of the Bahamian islands... but only 49 states.

>>When I say "flown in" I mean landed, to clarify and noting a question asked of me earlier.<<

As most of you are ( Read more... )

Time for more amusement ( Read more... )

I have 3 office chairs that are of the basic black variety, two with arms and one without.  Fully functional and otherwise good, just not frilly.

I think we bought them for 65 bucks to give you an idea of the quality, but I'm giving them away.  If you want one, please let me know.

"Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try to do some good."
-Sir Nicholas Winton

How is it that I hadn't heard of this man until now?  I just saw a brief video about him and went on to learn that he was responsible for secretly shuttling 669 children (mostly Jewish) out of German-occupied Czechoslovakia.  Many ( Read more... )

In hopes of speeding the arrival of armageddon, a church in Florida has decided to make 9/11 into their own little book burning holiday.  Burn A Quran Day is something they're reconsidering now that there have been protests in other countries (but they only partially count because their skin is a different color and they pray to obviously false ( Read more... )