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New Plane!
My new plane is awesome. I and two other partners went in on a 2011 Cirrus SR20 G3. She arrived on Thursday and I spent Friday making instructional flights in her so I can become familiar with her on a flight up to Minneapolis (to return the ferry pilot home) and then in the back seat on Saturday while another pilot got his own instructional lesson ( Read more... ) -
Flight planning
The thing I hate about flights to Lake in the Hills is that the true course from here to there is something like 002º. That is east of north which mandates an odd-thousands+500 altitude, but any kind of zig-zag between waypoints often creates course legs slightly WEST of north, which mandate an EVEN-thousands+500 altitude. It really complicates the ( Read more... ) -
Music boxes
I can't get this stupid little song out of my head. How embarrassing.
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Limited arithmetic skills
This being a college campus, I'd sort of assume that basic math skills would be relatively prevalent.
I just bought a coffee and a sandwich at a local shop, and there was a sign on the cash register saying "NEED $1 SINGLES PLEASE!" My total was $6.26. I looked through my cash, and I had a couple of twenties and a few singles, so I gave the girl a ( Read more... ) -
I finally like pork
After too many dry and tough ones, we finally hit on the right way to cook pork rib chops.
I was always a little leery of pan-cooking these things, since it's so hard to get thick meat to cook properly all the way through. But we found a promising recipe and it worked very, very well. It involved searing the chops for about three minutes on each ( Read more... ) -
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I'm not sure what was going on in downtown Champaign last night. I thought we might have lost the basketball game, which had people in bad moods, but we actually beat Wisconsin, so the mood should have been more upbeat.
sudbla and I were driving to meet a friend for dinner. In the busy downtown area, I made a right turn and had to immediately stop ( Read more... ) -
Five years on Mars
Five years ago, Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars. While they're getting pretty broken down and rickety, they're still functioning despite their expected lifetime of a few months. This is an amazing testament to these vehicles roaming around another planet and to the people here on earth controlling and maintaining them.
I watched a TV special ( Read more... ) -
It's practically a new phone
Despite my WM6 smartphone seeming less and less shiny since I got an iPod Touch and am using it for almost everything except actually making phone calls, I was poking around on the net for news about it last night, and was horrified to discover that there have been major software and feature upgrades available for over six months now.
I was pissed ( Read more... ) -
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sudbla, armed with her new stick blender, makes a pretty good smoothie with yoghurt, milk, fresh berries, and whey protein. Almost no cleanup, too.
