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| Thursday, January 17th, 2008 | | 10:49 am |
So, uh... evidently my aunt is dying, basically of cirrosis of the liver. 3-6 months or something.
Yeah. | | Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 | | 6:46 pm |
| | Sunday, November 11th, 2007 | | 3:32 pm |
Longer version of previous post. SR-71 Story Written by Brian Schul - former sled(SR-71) driver ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 | | 10:03 am |
Not related to anything, but...
This is actually from a forum I'm on. Thought it hilarious though.
In his book, "Sled Driver", SR-71 Blackbird pilot Brian Shul writes: "I'll always remember a certain radio exchange that occurred one day as Walt (my back-seater) and I were screaming across Southern California 13 miles high. We were monitoring various radio transmissions from other aircraft as we entered Los Angeles airspace. Though they didn't really control us, they did monitor our movement across their scope.
I heard a Cessna ask for a readout of its ground speed."90 knots" Center replied. Moments later, a Twin Beech required the same. "120 knots," Center answered. We weren't the only ones proud of our ground speed that day as almost instantly an F-18 smugly transmitted, "Ah, Center, Dusty 52 requests ground speed readout." There was a slight pause, then the response, "525 knots on the ground, Dusty." Another silent pause.
As I was thinking to myself how ripe a situation this was, I heard a familiar click of a radio transmission coming from my back-seater. It was at that precise moment I realized Walt and I had become a real crew, for we were both thinking in unison. "Center, Aspen 20, you got a ground speed readout for us?" There was a longer than normal pause.... "Aspen, I show 1,742 knots" (That's about 2004.658 mph who don't know)
No further inquiries were heard on that frequency.
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In another famous SR-71 story, Los Angeles Center reported receiving a request for clearance to FL 600 (60,000ft). The incredulous controller, with some disdain in his voice, asked, "How do you plan to get up to 60,000 feet?
The pilot (obviously a sled driver), responded, "We don't plan to go up to it; we plan to go down to it." He was cleared.
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The pilot was sitting in his seat and pulled out a .38 revolver. He placed it on top of the instrument panel, and then asked the navigator,
"Do you know what I use this for?"
The navigator replied timidly, "No, what's it for?" The pilot responded, "I use this on navigators who get me lost!"
The navigator proceeded to pull out a .45 and place it on his chart table.
The pilot asked, "What's that for?" "To be honest sir," the navigator replied, "I'll know we're lost before you will." | | Friday, June 8th, 2007 | | 8:29 pm |
Heh, first thing I entered in there. | | Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 | | 10:30 am |
... so it's snowing. Quite hard in fact. Evidently not as hard as Chicago and whatnot, but still.
Springtime in the midwest... | | 1:18 am |
Update.
Duhr. Modem -> switch is unsat; the modem does the whole DHCP thing, but only gives out one (internet accessible) address. Thus the need for routers, which have fucking NAT.
*edit* Actually, it doesn't do DHCP either.
Yeah... this is the first conn we've had that'll hook to anything other than a dedicated PC, and it's been a long-assed time since my networking classes. Go ahead and laugh, it's okay. | | Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 | | 10:24 pm |
Networking help, anyone? Okay, well... tired of Starband, we finally went WildBlue, a different satellite provider. Yay? ( well, no, not really... ) | | Sunday, March 18th, 2007 | | 12:07 am |
So, whee, going down to Georgia tomorrow to help my dad pack up to move back here. Probably won't be back until next weekendish, and won't have an internet connection other than leeching off of his (soon to be former) workplace.
Just in case anyone starts wondering where I am. | | Friday, March 16th, 2007 | | 4:49 pm |
Update.
So, my mom heard from the vet. She (Catyote) had food in her stomach, wasn't stressed and there was no signs she'd been attacked or anything. Enlarged heart; evidently a freak thing approximating a heart attack. He said that it would have been quick, relatively painless, and that there was nothing we could have done.
She was a good cat. | | 12:09 pm |
So one of my cats died today. She was fine last night, and then this morning my mom found her lying in the middle of the room, dead. No idea what happened.
Blegh. | | Thursday, February 15th, 2007 | | 12:16 am |
Obligatory Feb 14th post.
So, I suppose I really should post more often, or something, but nothing too much of note is going on in my life. For those of you who know what this means, I ordered some aluminum U-bends to make into a peripheral port intake manifold; a likewise built 12A will be going into my daily driver RX-7. For those of you who don't, yay, car stuff.
I'm in the job hunting stage of things, and have been submitting resumes to all sorts of motorsports and other engineering companies. None of whom seem to have the common courtesy to let me know one way or the other about anything, grr.
And as for whatever you want to call that one holiday; Valentines Day or Singles Awareness Day or WTF-ever... bugger it. I know, gosh, I should be all depressed or whatnot by being single and having no romantic prospects, and in truth it'd be nice to have people to hang out with. However, I came to the conclusion a while back that I'm probably best off staying single. To stereotype bmyself, it leaves more money and time for car stuff, and in all seriousness the last few attempts at being otherwise turned into unholy messes. So to hell with it; giving up on the whole idea means I don't have to worry about it, which seems to make me rather happier.
Voila, update. | | Sunday, December 3rd, 2006 | | 11:59 pm |
| | Thursday, November 30th, 2006 | | 12:02 am |
| | Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 | | 9:36 am |
Random thought.
In Ye Olden Medieval Castles[tm] spiral staircases were designed to turn in a way such that the central column would interfere with the sword arm of the invaders. Is there any historical basis to decide whether lefties were, in practice, any more effective? | | Thursday, November 9th, 2006 | | 2:34 am |
Little post. Through poking around random roleplaying game stuff, I came across http://www.drivethrustuff.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=15720 which, after mulling it over, I downloaded. Hey, it's 10 bucks... it's by the guy who did The Munchkin's Guide to Power Gaming, and with a cover and description like that? Worth a shot. I have to say... if anything in the description sounds cool, and you're into RPGs, buy it, at least for the setting and shite. I'm about halfway through reading it, and it's at least 40% cooler than advertised. | | Monday, November 6th, 2006 | | 12:17 pm |
Funny anecdote.
So, I was sitting in my Epistemology class, downloading stuff during the midst of the discussion (hey, free wireless connnection, why not?) and so was the guy sitting next to me actually. He's on a macbook of some sort.
"Hey, quit hogging all the bandwidth," he comments... sort of a running joke between us. "When you weren't here it was twice as fast, so you're probably using at least half of it," I reply. "Oh yeah?" And he turns on some setting... something about "enable network robustness". Dunno what it does or anything.
And then suddenly the network connection just dies. Nothing. "What the heck, you killed it!" I comment. He sheepishly turns the option back off, but it's about then that we both smell smoke. Shortly thereafter is followed by both of us looking innocent and putting our laptops away.
Yes, it's fall and the smoke was probably leaves burning and not an overloaded router somewhere, but y'never know... ;) | | Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 | | 8:33 pm |
A brief post. Pictures from Sevenstock are http://www.petridish.net/albumview.asp?a=26272 and whatnot. Note that I'm not a professional photographer, and to a certain extent I was taking pictures of little fiddly technical details that I found interesting. But there it is. | | Thursday, October 26th, 2006 | | 11:02 am |
Oh yeah, so, did I mention I was going to California for Sevenstock? Probably not as I've become more and more terrible over the years at mentioning stuff like that. So... anyway, I'm going to California for Sevenstock (har har har) Much thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) kickyou and her family for putting me up while I'm here. Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha... | | Sunday, July 16th, 2006 | | 12:46 am |
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