Archive for April, 2005

Here’s a great mp3 of President Bush singing “Imagine” and “A Walk on the Wild Side” created by taking clips from speeches and editing them together. This is probably the only way you’ll ever hear him say “Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try”
Turns out this is part of an entire [...]

Applecare Update

Posted by Mike on April 22nd, 2005

So I got my replacement laptop this morning and it’s running great, it has the 2 gigs of ram I requested, and I’m in the process of installing my apps and copying my data back to it. Go Applecare!
I still need to settle a couple more things with apple concerning what to do with my [...]

4th lesson: Big pieces of the puzzle fall into place

Posted by Mike on April 18th, 2005

I had a really great flight yesterday. I think some really big pieces of the puzzle fell into place and for the first time I felt at ease and in control through the whole flight. No periods of being overwhelmed, and no death grips on the controls.
New Stuff: Radio Communication, Stalls (clean and [...]

Switched to wordpress

Posted by Mike on April 14th, 2005

Like John Carmack recently wrote on his blog, sometimes a paradigm shift is a good thing. With that in mind I’ve blindly moved from Movable Type to WordPress.
So far, so good. But expect some wierdness as I fine tune things.

I Love Applecare

Posted by Mike on April 12th, 2005

A few weeks ago the hard drive failed in my Powerbook and I had to send it back to Apple for repairs. I guess Apple didn’t have the right hard drive in stock, so they put my repair on hold until they got the right part in.
Fast forward to last week and they’ve had my [...]

3rd flight, or “Ow my arm hurts”

Posted by Mike on April 11th, 2005

After 3 weekends of poor weather I finally got in the air yesterday for my third lesson. I was feeling a little nervous before the flight since it had been so long since I’d flown but things went really well and I left the airport with a smile on my face.
A few weeks ago, one [...]

Stupid Wind

Posted by Mike on April 4th, 2005

No flying this weekend, I was scheduled for a lesson on Sunday afternoon but there was alot of turbulence above 1000 feet and we would have been knocked around alot, especially since we were planning to work on slow flight. One experienced pilot had to turn around and land after 10 minutes because of it [...]