BFR time

43977/977_1Today I did my Biennial flight review. Our club actually requires a “club ride”, which is like a mini-BFR, every year, but every other year you have to do the full boat. Not much difference between the two, except the club doesn’t require any ground review for the “club ride”. I also needed to knock the rust off, since I hadn’t flown since December.

The club also requires that you do the club ride in the “highest level” aircraft that you’re intending to fly that year. So if, like me, you want to fly the club’s Lance, then you have to do the club ride in the Lance.
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What the fuck was that?

I’ve got top running in a very large window, and I happened to glance over at it and suddenly every process on the screen was httpd. Then I looked up at my httpd/access log, and I see that this one IP hit this blog 50 times simultaneously, with two different referrer strings, but quite different browser ident strings. Ok, somebody is doing something stupid or something quite malicious.


iptables -I INPUT -s 193.159.244.70 -j DROP

Bye bye, asshole.

I want to scratch that part of my brain out

I had the iPod on random play, as usual, and I had a loaded it up with random songs from my huge collection, as usual. And I got treated to something that’s actually worse than William Shatner singing “Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds”. Rolf Harris doing “Bohemian Rhapsody”. With digeredoo. ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!!!!

I don’t even like Bohemian Rhapsody when Queen does it. Whatever possessed me to put that in my iPod?

Work in progress: Statement of Principles

I’ve been working on this Rants and Revelations » Statement of Principles page for a couple of days now. It’s sort of an enumeration of the things I believe, even the contradictory ones. I’m still working on it, so check back for updates. But check it out, I think it’s getting into a decent form.

There will be a permanent link to it under the “Pages” heading on the side bar of this blog.