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.