Says me! You JUST passed your 10 year anniversary here at Einstein and have a decent RAC to boot! I am nearing my 11 year anniversary and have a decent RAC too, life could be better we could all win the lottery but we woke up alive and are pushing on thru to tomorrow to hopefully do the same thing again!! Life IS good and it IS a good morning. Waking up dead would make it a BAD morning!!
There are degrees of badness. Yesterday must have been somewhere on the spectrum.
I didn't even notice my anniversary. I was busy that day, being an unneeded trainman on the Happy Holiday Railway.
Congrats, Phil! Don't worry, the traffic will come back (unless the Ackholes manage to take over).
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
With all the hoopla about that movie that premiered in Hollywood last night and opens everywhere Friday, it may have escaped notice that a competing franchise just released the first trailer for its new flick, due out next summer.
With all the hoopla about that movie that premiered in Hollywood last night and opens everywhere Friday, it may have escaped notice that a competing franchise just released the first trailer for its new flick, due out next summer.
With all the hoopla about that movie that premiered in Hollywood last night and opens everywhere Friday, it may have escaped notice that a competing franchise just released the first trailer for its new flick, due out next summer.
In the category of "ain't that how it always happens?"...
I decided last week that this year's Christmas present to myself would be a drone, so I can get nice dramatic videos of trains, especially at the museum. I decided on a model, found one on eBay for $40 less than most people were asking, and ordered it. (With shipping, it was only about $10 less.) It came on Saturday. Also arriving Saturday was an email with an offer for $100 off the prevailing price and a free carrying case, plus I could pick it up locally. Oh well. (Have I posted about this already? It feels like I have, although maybe I didn't say what the item was.)
In the category of "important lessons learned"...
I took it out for a test flight Tuesday (after getting my neck needled). Lesson 1: the GPS fix for "return to home" is not very precise, only getting it within a few meters of where it started. Lesson 2: don't fly it into a cloud and lose visual track of where it is. When its low battery alert started, I touched "return to home" but I couldn't see it anywhere and had lost faith in that function. I even canceled it and tried to fly it home manually, but I couldn't recognize the image I was receiving. I hit return again and soon heard the buzz of its rotors coming from an unexpected direction. Fortunately, it flies level to what it thinks is the right map coordinate and then descends, so it didn't hit any trees on its way in. I still had to override the landing to get it to the bare spot on the ground where the grass wouldn't interfere with the camera.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Ah, brings me back to the Saturday morning TV feast of my youth : [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Samurai_(TV_series)]The Samurai[/url]. Which perhaps you could rename as Crouching Tiger & Lot's of Sharp Stuff With Nifty Moves Plus Complete Crappy Lip Sync Dubs eg. Episode One
Cheers, Mike
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Ah, brings me back to the Saturday morning TV feast of my youth : [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Samurai_(TV_series)]The Samurai[/url]. Which perhaps you could rename as Crouching Tiger & Lot's of Sharp Stuff With Nifty Moves Plus Complete Crappy Lip Sync Dubs eg. Episode One
In the category of "ain't that how it always happens?"...
I decided last week that this year's Christmas present to myself would be a drone, so I can get nice dramatic videos of trains, especially at the museum. I decided on a model, found one on eBay for $40 less than most people were asking, and ordered it. (With shipping, it was only about $10 less.) It came on Saturday. Also arriving Saturday was an email with an offer for $100 off the prevailing price and a free carrying case, plus I could pick it up locally. Oh well. (Have I posted about this already? It feels like I have, although maybe I didn't say what the item was.)
In the category of "important lessons learned"...
I took it out for a test flight Tuesday (after getting my neck needled). Lesson 1: the GPS fix for "return to home" is not very precise, only getting it within a few meters of where it started. Lesson 2: don't fly it into a cloud and lose visual track of where it is. When its low battery alert started, I touched "return to home" but I couldn't see it anywhere and had lost faith in that function. I even canceled it and tried to fly it home manually, but I couldn't recognize the image I was receiving. I hit return again and soon heard the buzz of its rotors coming from an unexpected direction. Fortunately, it flies level to what it thinks is the right map coordinate and then descends, so it didn't hit any trees on its way in. I still had to override the landing to get it to the bare spot on the ground where the grass wouldn't interfere with the camera.
Now just don't forget to register it with the FAA by December 21st or they could confiscate it. I guessing it's alot like the old CB radio registration, they gather a bunch of numbers and info on you and then file it away some place, just 'in case' your drone ever flies over something it shouldn't and they then want to find you. In Wash DC there have been several flying over fences and into Government airspace creating some security scares, so far each was determined to be an 'accident' in that the person did not intend any harm, they were just curious. The drone folks told the security guys 'it was never out of my sight and I can see the same things standing right here' when they were caught. They gyro-copter guy was different and his case isn't over yet.
In the category of "ain't that how it always happens?"...
I decided last week that this year's Christmas present to myself would be a drone, so I can get nice dramatic videos of trains, especially at the museum. I decided on a model, found one on eBay for $40 less than most people were asking, and ordered it. (With shipping, it was only about $10 less.) It came on Saturday. Also arriving Saturday was an email with an offer for $100 off the prevailing price and a free carrying case, plus I could pick it up locally. Oh well. (Have I posted about this already? It feels like I have, although maybe I didn't say what the item was.)
In the category of "important lessons learned"...
I took it out for a test flight Tuesday (after getting my neck needled). Lesson 1: the GPS fix for "return to home" is not very precise, only getting it within a few meters of where it started. Lesson 2: don't fly it into a cloud and lose visual track of where it is. When its low battery alert started, I touched "return to home" but I couldn't see it anywhere and had lost faith in that function. I even canceled it and tried to fly it home manually, but I couldn't recognize the image I was receiving. I hit return again and soon heard the buzz of its rotors coming from an unexpected direction. Fortunately, it flies level to what it thinks is the right map coordinate and then descends, so it didn't hit any trees on its way in. I still had to override the landing to get it to the bare spot on the ground where the grass wouldn't interfere with the camera.
Now just don't forget to register it with the FAA by December 21st or they could confiscate it. I guessing it's alot like the old CB radio registration, they gather a bunch of numbers and info on you and then file it away some place, just 'in case' your drone ever flies over something it shouldn't and they then want to find you. In Wash DC there have been several flying over fences and into Government airspace creating some security scares, so far each was determined to be an 'accident' in that the person did not intend any harm, they were just curious. The drone folks told the security guys 'it was never out of my sight and I can see the same things standing right here' when they were caught. They gyro-copter guy was different and his case isn't over yet.
Many years ago I was taking flying lessons in a Bell47 (MASH era helicopter) at a small airport. Adjacent to this field were some homes. I was with an instructor as I practiced touch a goes in the pattern. Suddenly we had company. An RC aircraft was "flying with us". My instructor took the controls, positioned our helicopter well above this intruder and the rotor downwash drove it into the ground. We were shortly joined by the RC owner who was not very pleasant. My instructor then flashed his FAA license and informed the guy he could leave with his crumpled RC model or leave in the back of a cruiser. He left with his RC. Unfortunately people do know the difference but pretend they don't.
RE: RE: RE: Good
There are degrees of badness. Yesterday must have been somewhere on the spectrum.
I didn't even notice my anniversary. I was busy that day, being an unneeded trainman on the Happy Holiday Railway.
Congrats, Phil! Don't worry, the traffic will come back (unless the Ackholes manage to take over).
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
With all the hoopla about
With all the hoopla about that movie that premiered in Hollywood last night and opens everywhere Friday, it may have escaped notice that a competing franchise just released the first trailer for its new flick, due out next summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRVD32rnzOw
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: With all the hoopla
CAN'T WAIT!!!!! :-)
Good morning everyone.
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: RE: With all the
Good morning!!!
I can't wait for the new Star Trek to come around either.
this one may also have
this one may also have slipped through the cracks: Crouching Tiger, Hiden Dragon
In the category of "ain't
In the category of "ain't that how it always happens?"...
I decided last week that this year's Christmas present to myself would be a drone, so I can get nice dramatic videos of trains, especially at the museum. I decided on a model, found one on eBay for $40 less than most people were asking, and ordered it. (With shipping, it was only about $10 less.) It came on Saturday. Also arriving Saturday was an email with an offer for $100 off the prevailing price and a free carrying case, plus I could pick it up locally. Oh well. (Have I posted about this already? It feels like I have, although maybe I didn't say what the item was.)
In the category of "important lessons learned"...
I took it out for a test flight Tuesday (after getting my neck needled). Lesson 1: the GPS fix for "return to home" is not very precise, only getting it within a few meters of where it started. Lesson 2: don't fly it into a cloud and lose visual track of where it is. When its low battery alert started, I touched "return to home" but I couldn't see it anywhere and had lost faith in that function. I even canceled it and tried to fly it home manually, but I couldn't recognize the image I was receiving. I hit return again and soon heard the buzz of its rotors coming from an unexpected direction. Fortunately, it flies level to what it thinks is the right map coordinate and then descends, so it didn't hit any trees on its way in. I still had to override the landing to get it to the bare spot on the ground where the grass wouldn't interfere with the camera.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: this one may also have
Ah, brings me back to the Saturday morning TV feast of my youth : [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Samurai_(TV_series)]The Samurai[/url]. Which perhaps you could rename as Crouching Tiger & Lot's of Sharp Stuff With Nifty Moves Plus Complete Crappy Lip Sync Dubs eg. Episode One
Cheers, Mike
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: this one may also
or this fight scenet from the original. Nifty moves galore and sharp stuff AND you had to be in pretty good shape to pull it off.
RE: In the category of
Now just don't forget to register it with the FAA by December 21st or they could confiscate it. I guessing it's alot like the old CB radio registration, they gather a bunch of numbers and info on you and then file it away some place, just 'in case' your drone ever flies over something it shouldn't and they then want to find you. In Wash DC there have been several flying over fences and into Government airspace creating some security scares, so far each was determined to be an 'accident' in that the person did not intend any harm, they were just curious. The drone folks told the security guys 'it was never out of my sight and I can see the same things standing right here' when they were caught. They gyro-copter guy was different and his case isn't over yet.
RE: RE: In the category
Many years ago I was taking flying lessons in a Bell47 (MASH era helicopter) at a small airport. Adjacent to this field were some homes. I was with an instructor as I practiced touch a goes in the pattern. Suddenly we had company. An RC aircraft was "flying with us". My instructor took the controls, positioned our helicopter well above this intruder and the rotor downwash drove it into the ground. We were shortly joined by the RC owner who was not very pleasant. My instructor then flashed his FAA license and informed the guy he could leave with his crumpled RC model or leave in the back of a cruiser. He left with his RC. Unfortunately people do know the difference but pretend they don't.