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Flight training journal for September 25
The pace of training is increasing to about two flights per week, faster than my ability to blog each flight. Tonight I conducted five touch-and-gos at Austin Bergstrom. Remaining in the pattern at Austin is slightly more perplexing than the usual flights we take to smaller, more rural fields like Lockhart. Winds this afternoon were…
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Video: The grace and splendor of the Lockheed U-2
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Details of Amazon’s Kindle Tablet
Just before the Labor Day weekend, TechCrunch’s MG Siegler went hands-on with a prototype of the upcoming Amazon Kindle tablet. Siegler writes that the color tablet will feature a deeply branded reboot of the Android OS. Amazon is eyeing a November release, according to the report. Again, the device is a 7-inch tablet with a…
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Woman scammed by wooden iPad salesmen
Via The Smoking Gun: Ashley McDowell, 22, told deputies that she was approached by two black males who claimed to have purchased iPads in bulk and were selling them for $300 apiece. After McDowell explained that she only had $180, the duo agreed to sell her the device at a cut rate. But when McDowell…
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Call Tim, to see how his day is going
Screenshot of Steve Jobs’ calendar. Heartwarming.
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Celebrating 102
I’m a huge fan of my wife’s grandmother, who earlier this year turned 102. Fanny May Bruce was born in 1909, and she has lived a terrific life. She’s truly a witness to history. I was excited to setup a website in her honor that features clips and videos representing just a tiny part of…
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Siracusa’s excellent Lion review
Nailed it. In the same way that Mac OS X so clearly showed the rest of the industry what user interfaces would look like in the years to come, Apple’s own iOS has now done the same for its decade-old desktop operating system. iOS was less shocking to users because it appeared to come from…
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Flight Training Journal for June 11: Landings
Today’s flight begins just after 8 am. CFI Dakota Zigrang is in the right seat covering for George, who has a scheduling conflict. I preflight our plane, N733CP, and get a quick lesson from Dakota in visually checking fuel levels in each wing tank; this requires a remarkably ungraceful and awkward climb up on top…
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