Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
Since I got back from the cruise, my PowerBook has been occassionally showing the “no battery” icon. The first time it happened, I had to reboot in order to fix it. But when it happened the this time, I tried taking out the battery and putting it back. And it worked. Hooray. But unfortunately while I was opening the Powerbook again, the left hinge broke. Waaah.
Pictures:
Man, I sure hope it holds out until the next qpromo.
Subtitle: “Why the American Legal System turns grievers into money grubbing scum”
Some idiot pilot flew his plane into a thunderstorm, and inevitable two things happened:
1. The plane is torn into little pieces and tossed on the ground.
2. The family files a wrongful death lawsuit against anybody who had anything to do with making this flight possible. Except of course the guy’s brother, who was the one and only cause of his own demise.
Sorry, grieving family, but when your flight instructor warns you two weeks beforehand that you have “deficient decision making” when it comes to flying near “adverse weather systems”, and the before-flight weather briefing shows massive area thunderstorms (not isolated cells) on your route of flight, IT’S NOT PIPER AIRCRAFT’S FAULT THAT IT DIDN’T PREVENT YOU FROM MAKING THE FLIGHT.
So grieve all you want, but realize that your brother killed himself. Piper didn’t. Pratt and Whitney didn’t. Naples Air Center didn’t. He did. As surely as he’d taken a loaded gun and stuck it in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
I have a credit card that’s issued by MBNA through the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). When I first came to this country, I kept getting turned down for supposedly “pre-approved” credit cards because none of them would check my Canadian credit card records and would say “no credit record”. AOPA/MBNA were the first to issue me a US dollar credit card, and at first it had a hideously low credit limit ($300), which meant I’d almost have to use it as a pre-paid card when I wanted to make a major purchase – preloading a large credit balance before hand.
Continue reading “What is the matter with this credit card?”
According to AvWeb’s NewsWire, the FAA is FINALLY getting the idea that it’s better to have pilots who are on anti-depressants than it is to have depressed pilots who are afraid to seek treatment for fear of losing their medicals.
Let’s hope this doesn’t take as long as most FAA studies.
Every day I have to check Maddy’s blog and her memorial to see if any comment spam got though MT-Blacklist. And nearly every day, one or the other does get through. And nearly every day, the one that does get through advertises a URL in Germany. So fuck you, Germany, I’ve added a MT-Blacklist rule to block every .de domain.