I saw this video on cnn.com today:


The plane in the video looked sadly familiar…  Turns out it was this plane:


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We got back this year’s New Tampa Sharks football and cheerleader photos for the kids.  Here are a bunch of them:


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Beth’s old car stereo hadn’t worked right in a long time, so I bought her a new one.  The old one was a JVC head unit so I got a new JVC unit thinking that the installation would be pretty simple, hopefully just a plug and play.  Of course it didn’t work out so well.  Turns out JVC changed their standard connector on the back of the stereo so the ( Read more... )

It's gotten cold here the last few days.  FREEZING cold, like in the 60's!  I just can't handle even marginally chilly weather any more; I guess I've been in Florida too long now.  But it has been nice to open up the windows and air out the house.

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Owen forgot his pads tonight for football practice, so his “punishment” was to run circles around one or more of the coaches for the entire two-hour practice.  It wasn’t my idea (it was our head coach’s), but I thought it was great.  Beth thinks it was mean (and assumed I had thought of it), but I bet he won’t forget his pads again…

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I don’t get the thing with Mel Gibson.  I mean, I get the outrage (racism = bad), but I don’t understand why he would bring race into the argument with his girlfriend.  He’s trying to rip into her for whatever, so why muddle it up with the racism?  Isn’t that just getting off topic?  What’s the girlfriend supposed to get from that?”  I’m a lying ( Read more... )

So I hear they’re now asking James Cameron the movie director to help fix the oil spill problem.  I think they’re now officially clueless about how to fix this.  Seriously, a movie director?  There’s no blue screen here.  Special effects and sh-tty story telling isn’t going to fix this!  And then I heard tonight that Kevin Costner is getting into ( Read more... )

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I’ve always been blessed/cursed with a moderate amount of nerdulence.  I like computers and gadgets and Star Trek, for example.  And it turns out, that I like (some) math, too.  Those who know me well may laugh at that as I am notoriously bad at math.  It’s hard!  But that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate what others are able to do.  Specifically, I ( Read more... )

I spent last weekend working at McDill Air Force Base at their annual AirFest airshow.  I was there with the Civil Air Patrol and we had perhaps 160 cadets or so and about 25 senior members (adults) as well.  It was very tiring, but fun!  Most of my duty was on transportation, driving a van and ferrying cadets and gear between our camp site on base ( Read more... )