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For a ex-wrestler and gov, Jesse can still impress at times… http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/13/jesse-ventura-i-coul.html

I found the following application from Microsoft to be quite useful for syncing files between hard drives and network drives. Check it out! http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/downloads/synctoy.aspx

This video was taken by Mr. Brown while we were at the Cherry Creek RC airfield (http://www.denverrceagles.org/) last week. If you watch the video you’ll see the starboard aileron at full deflection. The guy who flew the plane had a hard landing earlier that day and didn’t forgot to do another pre-flight control check before this flight. I do a lot of pre-flights now mainly because I’ve crashed my share of planes making stupid mistakes. My first famous blunder with a RC plane was from a elevator that was responding backwards, so when I pulled up, the plane actually wanted to go down. Simple fix - you click on a reverse switch on the transmitter and you’re good to go. Since I didn’t care to do a pre-flight check, I only realized the issue after I managed to get the plane in the air. When I realized what I did I figured, up is down and down is up… Got it. Seconds later, the plane started to climb, and I instinctualy went down on the controls. Well, down was up… so the plane continued to climb and basically looped - right after take off. Now it was pointed right at us! Death from above I thought; Clear the deck!!! I managed to miss everyone involved, and the plane crashed. From that point on I vowed to always make sure I check the plane before flight to help insure the control surfaces are working like they should.

So Oracle is in the final stages of buying Sun Microsystems Inc, a company I adored for years. It’s too bad to see Sun go, and with all other Oracle buyouts I’m sure not much will be left of the original idea of Sun. It’s sad to see, but after seeing Sun as the premier UNIX envorinment in the late 90’s go through it’s demise in early 2000’s the writing was on the wall. I remember distinctly being at a good friends house discussing a plan we had to get in the car, drive to Merlo Park CA, and tell the then CEO exactly how to get back on track: ...

Here’s my new A-10 warthog just completed and the F4-U Corsair I’m building. The A-10 is my first ducted fan plane so I’m excited to see how it does. I expect to “mod” it for Colorado’s altitude. I got the A-10 kit from NitroPlanes and while the parts are a bit cheezy, the foam construction is very good. I’m also very excited about my F4-U Corsair. Debi got this plane for me years ago, and I’ve been frustrated about not getting it built - I plan to have it flying by next month! It calls for a .40 size engine so of coarse I’m installing a .60 MDS or a .70 Supertigre so it should scoot around just fine. More to come.

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This is hilarious…