Well, if it hasn’t been made apparent yet, I am a Star Trek fan. Haven’t worn the uniform since I was about 8 years old (Halloween) or anything, but I am a fan. I come right out and say that while I thought the last movie was “fun” and I didn’t feel like I wasted […]
FTG has many contests and competitions and this year I got my courage up and decided to enter one. The “Toblerone Challenge” was created by member Martino Sulmoni and involved taking a Douglas DC10-30 on a virtual flight around the world. As Martino is an avid fan of all things vintage and DC10s and Classic Star […]
With an arrival time of 10:49pm EST, I present my 1st Grandson, Drew.
While Japan produces the first TRULY synthetic pop star, I noodle on my PC and create this assault for the ears… A first attempt, the result of mucking about with Sony’s Acid Express (free version of ACID Pro) If your browser supports html5 mp3 audio, a player will appear below, if not a download link will […]
It’s about damn time. Imagine what energy demands would be in the US if such a ban were put into effect! Via EU bans old-fashioned light bulbs. I actually have at least ONE selfish reservation… Incandescent bulbs are damn handy for finding shorts and other faults in electronic gear. Guess I’ll have to engineer a […]
That title was a common refrain for me and my best friends in my high school days. Our way of poking fun at the elder establishment and their ultimately futile attempts to curb our boisterous merriment. Enough of the big words. The reason it came to mind was the following story, and the thought that […]
A couple of posts ago I tried to help out a friend by doing a little advertising of a short sale she was running on character sketches – so now that I have mine I thought I’d share what I got. If you were on the fence before, this ought to get your splinter loaded […]
For those of you who don’t know it, I make my living fixing old keyboard instruments. Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Hammond B3, that sort of thing. I basically rip them apart and reconstruct them from the bits and pieces – it’s a bit like those “Hot Rod” shows you might have seen, where they take an old […]
A fun diversion, especially for those who don’t have things like HNK on the air in their neighborhood. A nifty little app that’s new to me, called KeyHole TV.
Shots from my ride aboard an N2S-1 Steerman at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum.
Each year the Mid Atlantic Air Museum holds an event dubbed the “WWII Weekend”. Actual WWII aircraft and re-enactors are in attendance as their corner of the airport is transported back to the mid 20th century in a rather amazing and highly immersive experience that I decided the attend this year. These are some photo’s […]
SP3 screws up the GPS font in FS9 – here’s the fix!
This is a short 30 Second video that I made for FTG (Flying Tigers Group) a Flight Simulator hobby club, or Virtual Airline that I was a member of. I saw several other tribute videos made by members, and while they were good, they lacked a crucial feature: concise delivery of a message. So I took it […]
I was “tagged” for this by a friend over on Facebook, but I decided to post it here since all my posts here go over to Facebook. Killing 2 birds and all that… Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. […]