So I broke in our new charcoal grill last night night-before-last with pretty decent success. I forgot how much more challenging charcoal is versus gas (sadly they don’t allow gas on our balcony). Did a thin beef cut with corn (and warmed up some sausages on the side). Its going to take a bit of [...]
Categories: personal
Personally, I think the entire cast of Firefly/Serenity is under appreciated. Nathan has the biggest potential, but as this comment displays, Alan is probably the most versatile, and I completely agree with the sentiment. I haven’t seen 3:10 to Yuma yet, but it has received some great press and reviews. He is the unsung hero [...]
Categories: entertainment
(Note: I’m cleaning out some topics I wanted to get to… so these aren’t necessarily timely thoughts I’m exposing here. This trend will probably continue until I actually get caught up.) It literally is amazing how far Microsoft has sunk under its own weight. I know there have been a lot of examples of late [...]
Categories: software
Last week the Air Force transitioned to the new AEP ground station software that I had been working on at Lockheed for the last 4 years. The transition went smoothly which is really a testimate to everyone that slaved away to make sure everything worked. And this really was hard… the tried and true analogy [...]
Categories: engineering
…this is incredibly impressive.
Categories: engineering
This weekend was quite literally a gut check. Summarized in spectacular powerpoint fashion… Microsoft Vista is quite possibly the worst f*cking software ever written. Ever. Period. End of Story. Weekend-long pounding stress headaches suck. SUCK SUCK SUCK. Building a computer from scratch got a lot more complicated in 8 years. Building a computer with a [...]
Categories: computers
Maybe its the way I’m wired… I don’t know if others feel this way. Images this beautiful make me choke up… just imaging being in an expanse of space where I could look and see something like this larger than life… and why I’m so disappointed that unless some really weird quirk is discovered in [...]
Categories: space