(Catching up; I have a guest in camp and that's cutting deeply into my available time for reflection ( Read more... )

This evening, I saw a special screening of One Six Right by Brian Terwilliger. On the surface, it's a movie about an airport in southern California, but it's really about general aviation, and why we who love it, love it so ( Read more... )

No rain! A quiet night wednesday night, but still damp -- the field was foggy and condensing when I got up ( Read more... )

Woke up early, and got McBreakfast. (cheaper, if not better ( Read more... )

Rained overnight. I got a little water in the tent -- took a chance on not seam-sealing the fly (I was flat out of time), and lost. It's only when the rain is heavy, so it's just an inconvenience ( Read more... )

Travel day, mostly. I got a direct flight on Midwest Airlines from Orlando to Milwaukee, whic turned out to be quite convneient and uneventful. The MD-80 was clean and in good shape, there was no annoying video (they rent dvd-players instead), and we got in early ( Read more... )

Off to Oshkosh today. I had thought about going to Berserker, but I'm now the Youth Activities Coordinator for the local EAA Chapter -- I need ideas and resources for Kid Stuff, and AirVenture is the place to get it.

I like the part where I get to design things like this card glider; hopefully there'll be more of that...

EDIT: Fixed the link.

you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." (Leo. DaVinci, probably apocryphal)

We had a reporter at EAA Chapter 635's Young Eagles event yesterday. Here's her story. I also tried out the cardstock glider I designed with the kids -- a number of them flew well.

Pancho is freaking out about an anole on the porch. To be fair, the lizard is on top her porch cage, head-bobbing and flapping his dewlap, but still. He's prey, silly bird!

(edit) (BTW, she's inside, on the other side of the sliding glass door. The anole can't get her.)

Props to Bruce Schneier's weblog.

Beware those freebies that plug into your USB port -- you expect them to be blank, but how do you know?

This story demonstrates how old-school virus techniques are still effective. You don't even have to run Pr0n.exe, the OS will do it for you!

Of course, this vector only works on machines that autorun disks ( Read more... )