…is better than the best day at work.
Today wasn’t the worst day I’ve had flying, but it sure wasn’t the best. I didn’t have a plan or a destination, I was just going for the sake of going - it was a sunny warm day (if a bit breezy) and I was relishing the thought of flying without having to shovel snow, pre-heat the engine, and all that stuff. I took along my film camera with the thought of taking some scenic pictures.
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I’ve been having some fun making composite pictures. I saw a composite picture at a friend’s house, and I was struck by how good it looked, not because it was seamless, but because it wasn’t seamless. The seams gave the picture character and interest. I decided I wanted to try to do the same thing. I may be no Claude Samton, but I can at least steal his ideas.
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Every winter, it seems, I get this cold that never goes away. This one is mostly low level sniffles and a bit of a cough. I can control it mostly with cold medicine and cough syrup now, but so far it’s mostly ruined the last three weekends, and it’s looking like it’s going to ruin this one.
The worst thing is that I really want to finish my checkout in the club Lance. I don’t want to be in a plane if I’m stuffed up - the pressure changes can cause extreme sinus pain if the congestion prevents the pressure from equalizing. And even if I don’t have sinus blockage, I’ve found that flying with a cold can leave me “thinking behind the plane” - not anticipating what needs to happen next, not being ready when something unexpected happens.
As part (or maybe all) of my checkout, I need 6 approaches and holding in order to regain my instrument proficiency. Oh, and my club checkout is due in a few weeks, so maybe I can combine it all into one big thing. I hope I can do it this weekend.
One of my favourite ski races was the Kawartha Ski Tour. It wasn’t an official part of the race calendar, but it was the longest race available that weekend, the weekend before the Canadian Ski Marathon, so it looked to me to be a perfect tune-up for the CSM.
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The comment spammers have been having a field day with Maddy’s blog and her memorial. Dammit, I know spammers are the lowest form of life, but spamming the dead is beyond the pale.
Anyway, I just finished installing MT-Blacklist, a plugin that should stop a lot of the more egregious comment spam. I installed it and ran the “scan the list 25 comments” mode, and it found two comment spams. Then I tried posting a spam with a url containing a couple of spammish words in it, and it refused to allow it. So I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Quote from:
EE Times - The trouble with Rover is revealed
“The irony of it was that the operating system was doing exactly what we’d told it to do,” Klemm lamented.
Gee, do much debugging there, Klemm? That’s a daily “irony” when developing software.
Not much blogging lately - I’m sick, and it sucks. This is the third weekend in a row when I’ve been under the influence of this stupid thing. I don’t know why, but I never get quick colds any more - they always last for weeks and weeks, and the cough always turns nastier and nastier.
Anyway, I was discussing backing up computers with some friends, and I decided to try something new. I’ve always been more than a little paranoid, mostly because I’ve had a string of really bad luck with hard drives.
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I just had a check returned as “undeliverable”. It was addressed to the EAA (Experiment Aircraft Association) at a post office box in Oshkosh Wisconson. You’d think that in a town with a population of 62,916 (I looked it up), SOMEBODY in the post office would have heard of the organization that operates the fly-in that attacts 700,000 visitors to the city every year and know how to get mail to them. Sheesh.
My friend Rohan noticed some time ago that I had over 7000 units on SETI@Home, and he appeared to take it as some sort of challenge.
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Which America Hating Minority Are You?
My poor beleagered mistreated Powerbook G4 (aka “TiBook” because it’s made out of titanium) is sick. I came home from work yesterday to find the battery at 6% charge, and no way of charging it up. With either my charger, Vicki’s iBook charger or the car charger, it runs fine but the charged percentage never goes up or down. If I run it off the battery, it dies immediately.
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Or rather, I had two dreams. Last night. Which isn’t all that unusual - what is unusual is that I remember them this morning. Usually when I wake up in the morning, I try and remember my dreams but I can feel them slip out of my grasp like trying to catch a fish with your bare hands. And as they’re slipping away completely, what spells the final doom is that Vicki tries to tell me what she dreamt about that night. I’m so incoherent in the morning that it’s a wonder I can find my way to the toilet some times.
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At the entrance to the parking lot, where I walk past it every day on the way into work, there is one of those stupid safety banners. This one shows various body appendages going to various industrial smashy things, like gears etc. The tag line is “Never bypass a guard.”
My first inclination every day is to put another banner underneath it that says “Especially not Alice, she’s a bitch.” Alice is the security guard who sits by the door and glowers at you as you swipe your id card in the turnstyle. She’s probably not really a bitch, but she does have the most redundant job in the world.
I’ve got a trial download of Photoshop Elements 2.0. And I’ve been out taking pictures of the flying club’s new paint job. So of course, the inevitable:
becomes
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