Today I screwed around until it was too late to go to the gym, so I decided to get my sweat on here at home. I did the walk/run for just right at 3 miles. More walk then run of course, but 3 miles none the less. Tomorrow I start back with my nutrition class. I'm thinking that this will get me over this little bump I've run up against. We'll see...
That's about all I have to say about that. Well I guess I can say one other thing, "I'd really hate to be on that crew"
Yeah, I know. I'm all boring and stuff. I'll try to pep it up a bit.
Truly one of the best shows on TV...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpGw45FyvaU]
I stumbled across crash data from the C-5 that crashed at Dover a while back. I'm not sure what the official "cause" was, but I'm sure it was pilot error with the mis-handling of the 3 engine landing. There were a couple of mistakes I noticed, but as usual it's not just one thing going wrong, it's many things at once. I think the last straw was the switching of the #2 and #3 throttle. This turned a mis-handled three engine landing into a horribly mis-handled two engine HEAVY landing. Pretty sad to put a perfectly flyable aircraft on the ground like that.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI5xTmmPbsY&feature=related]
Very cool video of a BAE Hawk after taking a bird strike. Notice how calm they are as they gain altitude, attempt a restart, point the acft to a crash location, talk to the tower and eject.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=56c75_4507
Interesting video of a 757 taking a bird strike and then coming around for a emergency landing.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=332_1196865686
Super awesome video of an emergency landing. Skill or crazy luck, you call it.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=447_1185485297
Cool video of a landing on a very short and tight runway. This is at Princess Juliana Int.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b6_1182319292
F-16 "dead stick" landing. I guess that's a pretty big issue in a single engine aircraft.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db5_1179571951
Interesting video of a guy in a car flying an RC Airplane through a very long tunnel.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=86a_1181938978
Video of a guy flying a 4 engine electric RC inside a small gym type building.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3000e91d0b
Video recorded from an RC flight over the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4c3_1189725456
Short runway, big aircraft. Do the math...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d26_1178779173
VERY large 4 eng RC aircraft. It's a nice one as well.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9ee_1189701632&p=1
So if I wear my Def Leppard shirt to the store do I get cool points for that? Now if that same ensemble incorporates fuzzy slippers does that discount those cool points?
P.S. There is a show on Cinemax called Bikini Chain Gang... I think I'll check it out.
I changed the blog sidebar today. I dunno if I like it yet, but the old one just wasn't working any more. Anyway, this way may work.
My A1c is 5.7, my blood glucose 91, total cholesterol 136, triglycerides 135, ldl 72, hdl 37. That's good, right? Right?
P.S. I don't know what my Midi-Chlorian count was, but I'm pretty sure I won't qualify as a Jedi.
Why couldn't I have had more time to plan for this...
Check this out... In OS X Leopard if you do a Command + I or "Get Info" on a windows server, or any microsoft product for that matter, check out what you get. Notice the blue screen of death.
So they finally have the tollway built right to my front door now. Before I had to drive to and from work via normal city streets. It didn't cost me any money but it cost me about 45 to 50 minutes each way. Well now the toll way is finished and it has changed my life.
First of all the time. It now takes me less than 20 minutes to get to work. Not only that but I get there at 75 mph and on cruise control. Lets say that it's this 20 minutes vs. our previous 50 minutes. That's a 30 minute savings, EACH WAY. Multiply that out and that is a savings of 260 hours every year.
Now the money... It now cost me $1.70 each way in tolls. If you multiply that out you end up with $884 each year. That's a lot of money to just drive to work. But is it worth $884 to save nearly 11 days worth of driving. I think so. That's 11 days I can use sleeping, playing, loving, working, learning, or just doing something crazy like being with family. It's worth it...
Happy Birthday to those off in far aways lands... That mean YOU!
So I'm sittin at the Volkswagen dealership getting the 20,000 mile maintenance done on my "ride". I'm pretty much thoroughly frustrated with their internet access. They have it locked down pretty tight. Pretty much just web access and even then they have that pretty tight. No IM, no youtube, no WOW, no email, and something is up with accessing secure sites as well. Well you can pretty much assume that next time I come back here I'll have me a proxy that I can access via port 80 so I can do my thang... Anyway, I guess I'll get back to doing some bills and waiting for my waiting for my wheels...
So I got this new laptop this past week. I got an Apple Macbook Pro 17" 2.4GHz laptop. Let's just say it's just awesome. I pretty much haven't touched my iMac since I got it. Yeah, it's for work, but what does that really mean. Well it means I have The Sims2 and World of Warcraft on it. That's what it means. :) Anyway, here's a quick peek at it....
As someone who once wore the blue and gold wings of the 9th AS video like this always scares me. Thank goodness it was just at take off and that it was a helicopter. Imaging this happened on a fixed wing aircraft and you couldn't just sit back down. You had to go around and attempt a landing while dumping fuel and running checklist.
I know this is like 8 minutes long, but it's a really cool video. You much watch to the end.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM]
Spoiler: It has a happy ending...
A very cool video of Chad Vader, Darth's younger brother, day shift manager at a grocery store.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGR4-SeuJ0]
P.S. Had to take Leo to the vet today. He had an infection, again, and had some pretty good fever and generally just being miserable.
Sometimes a little goes a long ways... but you always need a little of the lolcats.
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