Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Weltanschauung friend Bonnie is in the Chicago media for her work helping raise funds to build a Fisher House there (one near the Hines VA Hospital and later another in northern Chicago)! Congratulations, and thank you very much for supporting Fisher Houses. For those of you who aren’t familiar, a Fisher House is a place where the [...]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
This may be the only thing I’ve ever read or heard from Michael Kinsley that was worth repeating. This was hilarious!
What’s fun is that I now get to find the Times’ most egregious errors, publish only their failures, claim that based on their ineptitude that their product is worthless, and call for [...]
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
If it’s not one problem for American consumers who purchase Chinese products, it’s another.
Anyone who likes these new digital photo frames as much as I do, take heed!
Are any of the companies that make these digital frames publicly traded? I haven’t been able to find out.
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
There were a couple of fairly big stories in the DoD in the past week. I’ll consolidate them briefly here.
We lost an Eagle bro this week; one pilot survived, two F-15C aircraft destroyed in an apparent mid-air collision.
Navy successfully shoots down an errant satellite after notifying everyone in the [...]
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The Air Force Association put out an interesting article relating the age of various USAF airframes to popular culture historical events. It’s kind of a twist on that e-mail that one university puts out each year to the professors that describe the shared cultural life-experiences of the incoming freshman class.
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
I’m now "Downrange" again. I’ll make a preliminary effort to post whatever I can, but I can’t promise anything.
All I can say for now is that where I am, it’s hot.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Let’s say there’s a street out there in Hypothetica. On that street is a relatively nice big house with a couple spare rooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and a five-car garage. It’s a beachfront house with a yard that stretches from sea to shining sea. A nice family lives there, a husband, a wife, 2.05 children, [...]
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
I’m blogging from Waikiki beach again. I’m here for a short TDY to Hickam AFB to see the folks at PACAF. You know, the sky in Hawaii just seems to be a slightly different shade of blue than anywhere else I’ve been. It’s always green here, too. I’m not sure I’d want to live [...]
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Today was a superb day! Scrappy, Pitch, Scooter, and I were going to double-turn ACM sorties. The original plan was to try to play "ACM Baseball," with Scrappy and Pitch "batting" first sortie and Scooter and I "batting" second. We set up four waypoints in the sky in the shape of a diamond. The [...]
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Today Drago, Motor, Sox, and I flew a pit-and-go pair of ACM sorties. Drago and Boat flew Blue first sortie, Sox and I flew Blue on the second. We had a great time on both sides (so to say).
It went like most ACM sorties. The one interesting moment happened when Motor intelligently [...]
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