Month: March 2006

Shorten This, Pal

Grrrrrr.  I really hate spammers. It’s not bad enough that they send me about 2,000 pieces of junk mail each and every day.  No, they have to usurp my own web site for their nefarious purposes, too.  From my ISP: We have received a rather large number of complaints of spam being sent in promotion of a URL under your account. Upon… Read more →

Fire!

I used to think that “smell” represented the least valuable sense when piloting an aircraft.  On February 8th, however, it turned out to be just the opposite, because the crew of this UPS DC-8 did smell something about 23 minutes prior to their scheduled landing in Philadelphia: smoke.  The crew immediately declared an emergency.  Three minutes before landing, the smoke/fire warning… Read more →

Bob Hoover

A CPA member found a video I saw years ago and haven’t been able to find since.  It’s a great clip from a BBC television program about Robert “Bob” Hoover, one of the world’s all time greatest pilots. Click on the photo at the right to view the video.  It shows Hoover shutting down both engines and then performing an aileron… Read more →

606 Takes

I’ve been car shopping lately.  My ’93 Eclipse is pushing 200,000 miles and though I love the vehicle, people have been suggesting that it may not last forever. My search was hastened by a breakdown last month.  The idle control motor failed during a battery change.  The guy at Sears who replaced the battery swears it was a simple coincidence that the… Read more →

Eight is Enough?

Last Friday, former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham was sentenced to eight years and four months in federal prison for what has been described as the worst case of corruption in the history of Congress. I had a theatre professor in college who once said that when you make a choice on stage, don’t be timid — commit to it.  His parlance was, “sin boldly”.  That’s what I thought… Read more →

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