And it was one of THOSE daze for JFK ground…
You have to remember they don’t have numbers painted on the airplanes, it’s all strips of paper and binoculars to figure out who’s who in the zoo…
And this was truly a zoo!!! One HOUR to get from the gate to number 1 for takeoff!!!
Feeling better about flying now??? 🙂
It’s TIME for this snow crap to go away…
You can’t keep your car clean worth a damn…
Or some wag does this…
And there is ALWAYS somebody with way too much time on their hands…
It supposed to be getting into GOLF season already, we got in 18 (well actually 17 on Saturday morning), then woke up to 6 inches of snow Monday morning…
1. Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
~ Grantland Rice
2. Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
~ John Updike
3. It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
~ Robert Lynd
4. If profanity had any influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.
~ Horace G. Hutchinson
5. They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
~ Gardner Dickinson
6. If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork as poorly as they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
~ Sam Snead
7. Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
~ William Wordsworth
8. If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
~ Dean Martin
9. If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don’t have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
~ Tommy Bolt
10. Man blames fate for all other accidents, but feels personally responsible when he makes a hole-in-one.
~ Bishop Sheen
11. I don’t say my golf game is bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.
~ Arnold Palmer
12. My handicap? Woods and irons.
~ Chris Codiroli
13. The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody would put a flag stick on top.
~ Pete Dye
14. I’m hitting the woods just great, but having a terrible time getting out of them!
~ Buddy Hackett
15. The only time my prayers are never answered is playing golf.
~ Billy Graham
16. If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
~ Jack Lemmon
17. It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
~ Mark Twain
18. Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
~ Harry Vardon
19. Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at either of them.
~ Jimmy DeMaret
20. May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.
~ Ben Hogan
21. If I hit it right, it’s a slice. If I hit it left, it’s a hook. If I hit it straight, it’s a miracle.
~ All Us Hackers
22. The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.
~ George Deukmejian
AND FINALLY……………
23. Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. ~ Lee Trevino
Sigh…
We’re looking at trying to plan a get-together for folks at the NRA Annual Meeting on the 26th of April (Saturday).
We’re trying to gauge interest to see what we can do. If you’re interested, please let us know and how many folks…
Looking right now at a pizza/craft beer place in Broad Ripple area of Indy, about 4 miles north of downtown Indy.
(Note- I’m getting help from the locals on scoping out places so we’re not going in blind!)
‘Cause nobody’d believe it…
Stuck it in a broke it off, he did… 🙂
h/t Toejam
1943 Army one, tying back to the Revolution…
And they did, and we won…
Now they’re locking in on the fact that the MA 370 copilot had a ZOMG ELEVENTY SIMULATOR at his house…
Funny thing, that is either an FSX or FS9 simulator package… by Microsoft… readily available and three screens are pretty much the NORM for both flight simulators and car racing simulators… And yokes, throttle quadrants, and rudders are also sold all over the place… Like HERE.
You can also get additional screens to ‘simulate’ the panels in a ‘heavy’ cockpit (FS9 is the leading heavy simulator) including 737-800, Airbug 320 and 747-400…
Sigh… and I’m almost surprised they haven’t blamed George Bush yet…
And why isn’t the USA doing more…
I get SO damn tired of listening to the ‘so called’ experts…
There are THREE and only three ways to present things- Facts (hard, provable, documented, etc.), pseudo-facts (maybe true, depending on ‘interpretation’) and speculations (wild ass guesses)…
The 24 hour news cycle has put us in a position of having to watch endless ‘replays’ of an incident, or situation or (insert item here)… And even more so if they want to keep ‘other’ things off the air.
Malaysia 370 has brought out some of the worst coverage I and others that know a ‘bit’ about aviation and the military have ever seen, if lunch today was any indication. All of us were laughing about how far ‘out’ some of the speculation by some of the so called experts were offering, and how absolutely stupid some of the questions were that were asked by the ‘commentators’…
All designed to ‘fill’ that air time… To put it in perspective, very few real ‘facts’ are known. The acft took off, it made one position report, the IFF was turned off shortly thereafter, and the ACARS data feed was partially disabled some 10-15 minutes later. And it didn’t “drop off Radar”; it reverted to a skin paint return (much harder to track if you’re not watching the radar) vs. the transponder which gives a nice big information laden return. And no you can’t track the plane by the pings from the satellite… Unpossible… They’re saying on some stations that the airplane climbed to FL450 immediately after the transponder was turned off… Unpossible… Gross weight would be too heavy to allow the engines to provide enough power (and that report was supposedly based on a radar skin paint)… Having been a radar operator in a previous life, I will tell you getting a range and bearing to a radar contact is not too hard, but getting an altitude is a SWAG…
IF, big if, you buy the 4-5 hour timeline ‘after’ the transponder went off, that gives a radius of about 2500nm, or something around 19.5 MILLION square mile search area (e.g. bigger than the six USAs). That’s it…
EVERYTHING else is speculation until the acft is found, either on the ground somewhere, or in the water. Once the black boxes can be retrieved, the rest of the story can then be known. But the media is still putting this ‘speculation’ out there as fact. They are all hoping they guess right, and can claim a ‘scoop’… Ratings and all that crap…
The other thing that bothered us, was the amount of information that was being spouted that ‘could’ lead to other exploitation of other flights, all to fill airtime. Not going into detail, if you know what I’m talking about, you know…
It’s NOT the first time, and every network has been guilty. We had a ‘good’ track on Bin Laden until a media outlet outed as a ‘scoop’ the SPECIFIC way we were tracking him in Tora Bora. That particular source was shut off within 4 hours… and led to years of fruitless hunting…
And if they DO find 370, depending on where it is, THAT may become an issue in and of itself… Boeing (US) acft, territorial impact point (or on land) vs. open ocean (international waters). Face saving may impact access, or blame, or recovery of the black boxes. I’m betting NTSB is sitting on go, waiting for the call, along with Boeing and a whole bunch of others.
I hope they DO find the bird soon, if for no other reason than giving those grieving families some closure in knowing what did happen to their loved ones…
Note to self- Dig out plans for TV screen protector. Could make self rich… sigh
Thanks to all those bloggers out there who cross posted my little book.
I truly appreciate your time and efforts to help this starving artist er… new kid on the block get off the ground.
And thank you for the overwhelming response from the readers!!! I literally could not do this without y’alls support.
And thank you for having more dollars than sense… 🙂
Seriously, I cannot tell y’all what this means to me.
Pretty negative, right? Obviously the Navy can’t get it’s act together so there are rapes left and right…
But if you actually READ the story…
The Navy initially had suspended five sailors among the 10,000 personnel it reviewed. That review was expanded to about 20,000 and resulted in the suspension of 151, Lt. Cmdr. Chris Servello, a Navy spokesman, said Wednesday.
The “vast majority” of the 151 didn’t receive the proper training or lacked certifications for duties involving sexual assault prevention and response.
Just a tad bit different isn’t it…
151 out of 20,000… Doing the math… that’s .0076 %…
They whole article is HERE at USAToday…
Nope no media bias, not a ‘smidgen’…
Sigh…
It’s real…
And up in electronic formats for both Kindle and Nook. Edit and apparently also as a real dead tree HERE!!!
I will warn you now, the print version is $14.00 which is high, but as a self publish I couldn’t drive the price any lower without having to pay them…
If you were one of the folks that helped as an alpha or beta read, check your email. For those who expressed an interest in a signed copy, I will be able to get those out the end of April (I still have a real job… dammit). Please send me an email with your mailing address, how you want it personalized and I’ll give you details and approximate dates I expect to be able to fulfill your requests. IF any of you folks are going to NRA, I will try my best to have a few copies there.
Thanks again to all of you for your support. It’s not the next great American novel, but I hope you’ll enjoy it anyway! 🙂
And reviews would be appreciated!!!
Thanks again,
Old NFO