Yosemite

Spent 4 days in Yosemite last week.
That place is awesome.
We actually camped in Bass lake which is about an hour away.
We are definitely going to Hike Half dome next time.

Music

If you want some background music while you are working on the computer, Pandora is pretty cool.
Here is an example of a Radio station that you can setup.

Aircraft of the Month

Have you seen the New Honda Jet?
It's Beautiful.
Like the Hondas from the past.











I have a 1986 ATC in the Garage.
Now that has great styling.

They must have fired the design team for the Ridgeline.
That car/truck thing is ugly.

JigSaw Puzzles

Remember Fridge Magnets.

Well now you can have the same fun (and frustration) with Jigsaw puzzles.

PayPal Sucks

OK Heres the Story.
I bought some new tires and wheels for my truck.
I found an ad in the online version of the Recycler.
So I had my old Tires and Rims that were still in decent shape.
I auctioned them off on Ebay. They listed for $40.00 and final bid was $40.00.
The winning bidder paid with Paypal. He emailed me through Ebay and gave me his Cell phone number, so a few days later I met him at the baseball park and gave him the Tires and wheels.
A month goes by and then I get an Email from Paypal saying that the $40.00 deposit was on hold.
They say that they were investigating the transaction.
A week goes by and no word from Paypal, so I Email them, and they say that the use of the funds was fraudulant. They also say that since I didn't ship to a verified address, and didn't have a business account I wasn't eligible for protection. basically the SOB that took my tires probably ripped me off. I don't know for sure maybe he wasn't even at fault? Maybe it was his girlfriend pissed that he was buying tires.
Anyhow it was only $40.00, but thankfully it wasn't a whole lot more.
Can you imagine if I had sold a motorcycle or something?
All of Paypal's propaganda led me to believe that it was a safe and reliable way to do online transactions. As far as I am concerned $40.00 is a cheap lesson learned that Paypal can not be trusted.

Thunderbirds

Aaron is Finally starting to take an interest in Airplanes.
Subject to Change: Air Show Preview

Missing Links

These are links from J-Walks "Blogs I Read" Page
They are'nt formatted as nice.
I don't know why he removed the page?
Perhaps I should ask.
Anyhow, sometimes I like to visit some of these sites too.


• Adventures of Bloggard
• Bifurcated Rivets
• Boing Boing
• The Cartoonist
• City Lights
• Carol's Chaotic Collection of Curiosities
• Collision Detection
• Consumptive.org
• Cup of Chicha
• Daily Dose of Excel
• Defective Yeti
• DigitalSLR.org
• Dublog
• Ed Foster Gripelog
• Electric Venom
• Everlasting Blort
• Everyday Matters
• Exclamation Mark
• Gammatron
• Geisha Asobi
• Gizmodo
• Google Weblog
• Gordon.Coale
• Grow A Brain
• Idle Type
• Incoming Signals
• Information Junk
• Jan's Diary
• Jeroen's Semi Blog

• Love & the Happy Cynic
• Magnetbox
• Metafilter
• The Museum of Hoaxes
• My 2 Second Shelf Life
• New Media Musings
• Obliterated
• Off On A Tangent
• Office Zealot
• Penny Dreadful
• Pop Culture Junk Mail
• The Presurfer
• Reenhead
• Sarcasmo's Corner
• Scrubbles.net
• Sensitive Light
• Steel White Table
• Sugar'n Spicy
• The Sneeze
• Text On Things
• Thirdredeye
• Tom McMahon
• Trademark Blog
• Ukulelia
• Ultimate Insult
• Unofficial MS Office Stuff
• Very Important Things
• Vitamin Q
• Volume 22
• Whole Wheat Radio Blog

Iraq War

Remember back in the First Gulf War.
Iraqi Soldiers invaded Kuwait, and it took a coalition of forces to drive them back.
Mostly U.S., but also British and many others liberated Kuwait.
Well Bush 41 never toppled Saddam Hussein, so one of the legacys was that The Al-Rashid hotel had a mosaic installed on the floor in the hotel Lobby that resembled Bush.
It wasn't a particularly flattering picture, and I guess in Arab culture that is very disrespectful to walk on someones picture.

Sometimes I think that Bush 43 was hopeful of going to war with Iraq just to tear out the floor of the Al-Rashid Hotel.

Somehow, I don't have a problem with that.

Arhh Matey Yo Ho Yo Ho

The Refurbished Pirates Ride is Open at Disneyland.
Austin and I rode it.
The additions are all good.
The most impressive is the Smoke screen Video of Davey Jones.
Here is a video with Johny Depp's impression of the ride.

Airplane Park

One of my favorite parks to go to when I was a kid was Boysen park in Anaheim.
We called it Airplane park because their was a real life jet fighter on the playground. I'm pretty sure that it is an A9-F-8 Cougar
We could actually crawl through the Exhaust pipe into the belly where the Jet motor once was.
They have since plugged up the tailpipe and intake ports.
They also coated the aluminum Skin with gunite, but it's still a great piece of playground equipment.
I wonder if this is where my fascination with airplanes started?

How do Planes fly Upside down?

It's the Angle of Attack that makes all the difference.
This Website Explains much more.

Airplane of the Month

It's an R/C Model

ATV of the Month

The Quadski
Now that makes sense.
Its probably not very good as either one, but the fact that it is an ATV and a PWC is just too cool.

Video Display of the Month

Multi Touch

Alternative Fuel

So My wife's Minivan is a 2001 Grand Caravan.
Well it says right in the owners manual that it is a dual fuel vehicle.
Here is the problem, There is only one Station selling alternative fuel whithin 100 miles of our house.
According to the Locator on a Government website.

Well it just doesn't make sense to drive 85 miles to fill up with E85 now does it.

Next time I am down there I am gonna look up that station just to see how it affects gas mileage.

4067 El Cajon Boulevard

San Diego

CA

92105

Boat of the Month

FLIP
Look no spilled Coffee.

Pigeon Peck Rankings

Of course I am a fan of Google.
I've always wondered how they get the information so quickly.
The answer apparently, is Pigeons.
Who would have thought winged rats actually had a purpose on this planet. ;-)

Guitar Lick of the Month

Nothing like classical music on an Electric Guitar.
This guy is good.

20 Years Later

The worlds worst Nuclear accident happened 20 years ago in Chernobyl.

There's got to be a better way.

Elena has a haunting website dedicated to a motorcycle trip through the affected countryside.

H/T glenncovington

Boat of The Month

The ABN AMRO ONE is leading, well that is if they haven't been abducted by aliens.

Here's a Cool Video.




I'm still rooting for Pirates though.

Robot Mule

This Article in New Scientist shows a new type of robot that is straight out of science fiction.
The Video is too cool.

Rulebook for Dating my Daughter

This site has a great Rulebook that I would have if I had a daughter.

How Bill Gates Works

This article on How Bill Gates works makes me wonder.
What Email address does Bill Gates use?
I mean every yahoo out there has emailed fake emails to Bgates@msn.com.

Kinda sad that he has that nice desktop, but he can't use Firefox.
Can Bill even use Google?
Doubt that he reads Blogger.
I really am in the dark but I think that in the Microsoft halls Google and Mozilla are persona non grata.
I imagine it's kinda like back in Detroit if you showed up to work driving a Japanese import, you may not have a job the next day.

SUV of the Month

Toyotas new FJ Cruiser is too cool.
I mean how can you resist the suicide doors!

Fun with crop circles

Pac man in a Field

Zoom out and you may be surprised where you are.

Who owns the Internet?

Who owns the Internet pipes? by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- Ben Worthen of CIO has an interesting post about who in the context of the Net Neutrality debate. He worked with Lumeta's chief scientist Bill Cheswick to create a map of the North American Internet backbone, including 134,855 routers, colored by telecom company (Verizon, AT&T, Qwest, Level 3, Sprint Nextel, cable companies, smaller players).Worthen concludes that while AT&T and Verizon have [...]

Killer PDF Here

Baseball Season is here!

With Baseball Season started We are very Busy now
I'm Managing the Tee Ball Red Sox.
Aint they cute!

A380 Update

Airbus A380

One thing cool from the flightdeck photo is that it looks like there is a camera mounted high up in the tail showing a view of most of the plane from a unique perspective.
You can also see by the GPS screen that the aircraft in the photo is in France.
Here is a Link of a movie on the assembly of the aircraft.

Guitar Licks Rock

I wish I could play like this.

Ice Shot Glasses

I've always thought. ..
What better way to have a cold drink, than to pour it into a glass made out of Ice.
This guy at elephantstaircase.com has instructions on how to make an Ice Shot glass.
I also like the Warnings and Disclaimers.

Google Video

My "friend" Aaron puts these links to cool Videos on his Blog.
So I thought that I would try it myself.

National Park of the Month

Yosemite National Park
We are planning on vacationing there in August.

Car of the Month

The Ford Fusion
I am not really that much into Sedans, but this looks like it may be able to compete with Imports.
I like the Wheels too.
Even Edmunds.com has something good to say.

Boat of The Month

Research Vessel Kilo Moana

It's a SWATH ship.
Small-Waterplane-Area Twin-Hull.
So is the Stealth ship Seashadow.

Creators

Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers

I think this Article by Bradley Horowitz relates well to Bloggers, and other Forum members.

American Idol

OK I admit it.
I Like to watch American Idol.
I'm betting that a Girl wins again this season.
Maybe Katharine?

Boat of The Month

This Boat is currently running 4th in the Volvo Ocean Race.
Boats often exceed speeds of 30 knots (70km per hour).



Here is a cool Map of the race.

I really like this kind of advertising.
I like Jerry Bruckheimer films too, so I'll definitely see Dead Man's Chest when it is released.
Update: The Black Pearl is in First Place. Here's a Cool 4.5 Meg Video.

AirCraft of the Month

The YF22 Raptor
I was watching Discovery channel and a surprising fact mentioned is that the YF22 is more stealthy than the F117A Nighthawk.
And it's got a cannon.
Here are some Cool pics of the Raptor in flight.

Rotating House

How cool is this?
A house that Rotates 365° ... I mean 360°

Lake of the Month: Salton Sea

Salton Sea
The surface of the lake is only 50 feet higher in elevation than Death Valley.
I spent a lot of time here when I was young: duck hunting, camping, and and motorcycle riding.

Deal Or No Deal

Got to admit I'm hooked on the Game show
Deal Or No Deal
Maybe it's the Models?

Beer For Dogs

While searching for Soft drinks with The One and Only Slogan I found Apple Beer.
Don't know if it ever came in a clear glass bottle, but it is my number one candidate .
More importantly I found this Beer that you can buy for your dog.
What will they think of next?

Bottle

I Found this bottle up on the hill the other day.
It is old, but not real old.
The thing is, I was just trying to figure out what kind of drink that it originally had in it.
It has Raised lettering on it that says.
"The One and Only"
I did a Google search, and didn't find anything.

405 The Movie

Have you seen 405 The Movie?
It's best to download the Mpeg file and then watch it.
Great Movie.