Monday, December 14, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
From the closet
Garfield and Stripes are lying in the sun.
They both look half asleep--now I am done.
(probably a poetry assignment)
They both look half asleep--now I am done.
(probably a poetry assignment)
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
http://www.goodnaturepublishing.com/poem.htm
Carmel brought this to Thanksgiving. Recommended reading.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Love in a Paper Cup
Amy made a quick recording of this song, which I like. She's also got new songs on her myspace.com/amylousings.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Monday, November 02, 2009
A little order
Short or Soft-field Takeoff (alternating)
Vx
Vy
Cruise Checklist
Turns around a point
8s on Pylons
S-Turns
Chandelle
Lazy Eights
Descent Checklist
Emergency Procedure
Pre-landing checklist
Power-off landing or No-flap landing
After-Landing checklist
Also steep turns 50º
Vx
Vy
Cruise Checklist
Turns around a point
8s on Pylons
S-Turns
Chandelle
Lazy Eights
Descent Checklist
Emergency Procedure
Pre-landing checklist
Power-off landing or No-flap landing
After-Landing checklist
Also steep turns 50º
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Still porch weather
everywhere!
Description of homemade preheater
Jeff Pardo says,
Jeff Pardo is an aviation writer in Maryland with a commercial private pilot certificate for airplanes, and instrument, helicopter, and glider ratings. He has logged about 1,100 hours in 12 years of flying. An AirLifeLine mission pilot, Pardo has also flown for the Civil Air Patrol. Click link for full article.
Perhaps born of Yankee ingenuity is a preheating option available in the flying club to which I belong. Years ago, some inventive soul removed the blades from a secondhand lawnmower, installed a sheet-metal cover under it, and attached a flexible hose to its discharge chute so that its main product became hot air. Even though it is the old pull-cord type, since there is no blade there is little inertia to overcome, and it's very easy to start. We simply direct the flexible hose upwards toward the engine by the nosewheel well, using any number of convenient points for attaching it via a hook installed at its business end. We are careful not to direct heated air directly onto fuel, oil, or hydraulic lines! Twenty minutes later: a warm engine. Lacking such inspiration, however, the accumulated expense of paying your FBO to send a lineman out with a preheater is still likely less than that of an engine overhaul.
Jeff Pardo is an aviation writer in Maryland with a commercial private pilot certificate for airplanes, and instrument, helicopter, and glider ratings. He has logged about 1,100 hours in 12 years of flying. An AirLifeLine mission pilot, Pardo has also flown for the Civil Air Patrol. Click link for full article.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Mnemonic-Pre-maneuver checklist
Always clear the area, don't be a Fool.
(fool-->)Fuel, Cool*, Mixture, Prop,
Lights, Lights, Buckle up and Go.
*cowl flaps open.
(fool-->)Fuel, Cool*, Mixture, Prop,
Lights, Lights, Buckle up and Go.
*cowl flaps open.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Health-care anecdote
Not written by me.
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 22:49 — Doctors are ok with public service
My dad was a doctor in Canada BEFORE "socialized" medicine. He trained as an intern making $125.00 (yes $125.00) a month and working an average 90-hour week. When socialized medicine came in, he and his friends grumbled. A few (very few) moved to USA. Most of them continued to treat the sick for 20, 30, 40 years. They never asked any committee if it was ok to treat someone - they still don't. Canadian doctors easily make $250K a year and specialists more. It is OK.
We the patients like our doctors to do OK. We also like it that we can go and get CARE any time of the day or night - for free!! We like it that we can call an ambulance and not have to write a check. We like it that we can have an operation and not sell the house- or anything for that matter- to pay for it. We like it that the Government is the "insurer", because it is the mandate of the government to provide essential services. Yes critical heart surgery (for example) IS an essential service. Just like clean water out of your tap. Who would argue with that? Only deranged lunatic profiteers intent on commercializing every aspect of life.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Principles of Learning as per Aviation
Principles of learning Remember to REE-hash the PRI-nciples
REE-PRI
Readiness, Effect, Exercise (Thorndyke)
Primacy, Recency, Intensity
Readiness: Any learning is based on some type of previous experience that provides the foundation (no, that's not it). "Individuals learn best when they are emotionally, mentally, and physically ready to learn, and they do not learn well when they see no reason for doing it. " Instructors can be in a position to provide motivation.
Exercise: Any skill, whether manual or cognitive, must be repeated and/or applied regularly or it will be lost. Better: "Those things most often repeated are best remembered. This is the basis of drill-and-practice." I need to repeat this a lot. This says a lot for the CAP-style practice of maneuvers in a consistent sequence.
Effect: (beats me. I couldn't remember this one in college, either). "Learning is strengthened when accompanied by a pleasant emotion." Oh, yeah. I can picture one of my professors who used the word a lot, but I can't remember her name. She was an exceptionally good school principle who eventually got swallowed up by the computers at Spalding U. That was in the years when all the very best people in all the schools got suckered into setting up and maintaining the obsolete IBM computers that the schools insisted on buying, and 10 or 15 years drained into a bottomless pit. A lot of unpleasant emotion floating around during those years. Negative EFFECT had quite an effect.
Primacy: The first learning of a skill or concept is the strongest, therefore it is essential that things be taught well the first time. "Things learned first create a strong impression in the mind that is difficult to erase." Well said. Somehow good lesson plans fall into this category. ??!
Recency: "Information acquired last is usually remembered best." The instructor can repeat, restate & reemphasize at the end of the lesson to take advantage of this.
Intensity: The highly emotional or otherwise multi-layer experience will be more strongly learned than a simple experience. "A sharp, vivid, exciting, emotional experience teaches more than a routine or boring experience." Ahh. Enter scenario-based flight training.
REE-PRI
When you're READY for EFFECT in the EXERCISE of flight,
PRIME the engine, and lock the knob in tight.
Not RECENT, but clear, is the crucial lesson learned--
INTENSITY unwanted for lack of metal turned.
gah.
REE-PRI
Readiness, Effect, Exercise (Thorndyke)
Primacy, Recency, Intensity
Readiness: Any learning is based on some type of previous experience that provides the foundation (no, that's not it). "Individuals learn best when they are emotionally, mentally, and physically ready to learn, and they do not learn well when they see no reason for doing it. " Instructors can be in a position to provide motivation.
Exercise: Any skill, whether manual or cognitive, must be repeated and/or applied regularly or it will be lost. Better: "Those things most often repeated are best remembered. This is the basis of drill-and-practice." I need to repeat this a lot. This says a lot for the CAP-style practice of maneuvers in a consistent sequence.
Effect: (beats me. I couldn't remember this one in college, either). "Learning is strengthened when accompanied by a pleasant emotion." Oh, yeah. I can picture one of my professors who used the word a lot, but I can't remember her name. She was an exceptionally good school principle who eventually got swallowed up by the computers at Spalding U. That was in the years when all the very best people in all the schools got suckered into setting up and maintaining the obsolete IBM computers that the schools insisted on buying, and 10 or 15 years drained into a bottomless pit. A lot of unpleasant emotion floating around during those years. Negative EFFECT had quite an effect.
Primacy: The first learning of a skill or concept is the strongest, therefore it is essential that things be taught well the first time. "Things learned first create a strong impression in the mind that is difficult to erase." Well said. Somehow good lesson plans fall into this category. ??!
Recency: "Information acquired last is usually remembered best." The instructor can repeat, restate & reemphasize at the end of the lesson to take advantage of this.
Intensity: The highly emotional or otherwise multi-layer experience will be more strongly learned than a simple experience. "A sharp, vivid, exciting, emotional experience teaches more than a routine or boring experience." Ahh. Enter scenario-based flight training.
REE-PRI
When you're READY for EFFECT in the EXERCISE of flight,
PRIME the engine, and lock the knob in tight.
Not RECENT, but clear, is the crucial lesson learned--
INTENSITY unwanted for lack of metal turned.
gah.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
America's Heart & Soul: George Woodard, Charles Jimmie Sr., The Vasquez Brothers, Frank Pino, David Pino, John 'Yac' Yacobellis, Patty Wag
Amazon.com: America's Heart & Soul: George Woodard, Charles Jimmie Sr., The Vasquez Brothers, Frank Pino, David Pino, John 'Yac' Yacobellis, Patty Wagstaff, Paul Stone, Ed Holt, Weirton Steelworkers, Rev. Cecil Williams, Janice Miriktani, Louis Schwartzberg, Brian Funck, Brian E. Frankish, Grady Candler, Jake Eberts, Vincent Ueber: Movies & TV
We just watched the most engaging, engrossing film. Came in the middle of it, and didn't know what we were watching, but I was totally hooked. Then I went to the link above to buy it.
We just watched the most engaging, engrossing film. Came in the middle of it, and didn't know what we were watching, but I was totally hooked. Then I went to the link above to buy it.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Chicken n dumplings
Today we wandered around the "World's Most Amazing Flea Market" for a few hours, and then came home to chicken in the pot.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
To Brett Guthrie (R)
I was sorry to receive your email that did not support the White House's call to pass health-care reform. I have good insurance, and I am constantly aware of the work that is done in our family's behalf to keep the employer/union benefit plan solvent. My oldest daughter was caught by a "glitch" in her insurance. The health-care provider and the insurance company, between them, left us with a $85,000 bill that we had to pay cash for, for necessary services that should have been covered. This is a difficult debt to be paying down. Our youngest daughter is 25, with no benefit plan from her employers, and is struggling to figure out what she will do in two months when she comes off our family insurance.
And we are the lucky ones.
I know you represent a "conservative" area, but why are the good "conservative" folks so easily stampeded? A few years ago they were whipped up by "issues" of gay marriage and faux-patriotism. They were told to elect GBush to end abortion, so they elected him. The ones who wanted to nuke the middle east to glass were happy to tag along, and Bullitt County rolled right with it. Now it's all going again.
What about you? I'm really tired of the rabble-rousing. Health care and life issues are taking us all down the tubes, and I expect you and your staff to be working to give the small business workers and the self-employed and unemployed and the currently-uninsurable the same types of opportunities as you and I have, including the opportunity to understand and participate in meaningful dialogue on end-of-life issues.
In advance, thank you for your civility, good sense, and hard work.
And we are the lucky ones.
I know you represent a "conservative" area, but why are the good "conservative" folks so easily stampeded? A few years ago they were whipped up by "issues" of gay marriage and faux-patriotism. They were told to elect GBush to end abortion, so they elected him. The ones who wanted to nuke the middle east to glass were happy to tag along, and Bullitt County rolled right with it. Now it's all going again.
What about you? I'm really tired of the rabble-rousing. Health care and life issues are taking us all down the tubes, and I expect you and your staff to be working to give the small business workers and the self-employed and unemployed and the currently-uninsurable the same types of opportunities as you and I have, including the opportunity to understand and participate in meaningful dialogue on end-of-life issues.
In advance, thank you for your civility, good sense, and hard work.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Friday, August 07, 2009
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Monday, August 03, 2009
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Baby Birds
Juanita, Viviana and Joanna go out with Alex and Ben to check on the baby birds.
Happy Birthday, Amy
Happy Birthday, Amy
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Outdoor and nature-y songs
Whipporwill
You and Me we're gonna be partners
Swinging along the Open Road
Oh, how lovely is the evening
The rattlin' bog
Tell me why the stars to shine
I see the moon and the moon sees me.
(So run along home...)
Green trees around us, blue skies above
Day is Done, Gone the Sun
Sailin' Away
Oh it ain't gonna rain no more no more (Mosquito he fly high)
You take a stick of bamboo
Peace I ask of thee, o river
Shenandoah
For so long as we receive the light of day, we may greet one another as kindred.
Skeeters am a hummin' on the honeysuckle vine (Kentucky Babe)
The Road goes on (Tolkien)
Happiness Runs
The Bear Went over the Mountain
Down on the banks of the Hanky Panky, where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank-ee with an eep, ipe, ope, op, knee-slap-a -dilly and a schlllp-PLOP!
Green grow the rushes-o
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea
Where have all the flowers gone?
Catch the Wind
Land of the Silver Birch
My Paddle's Keen and Bright
One Elephant went out to play upon a spider's web one day.
Paradise
Edelweiss
Crawdad Hole
Bye'n'bye, bye'n'bye, stars shinin' , number number one, number two, number three O Lord, bye'n bye, bye'n bye, O Lord, bye'n'bye.
White Coral Bells
Wimuway
Spider's Web
On the Loose
Earth my Body, Water, my blood, Air my breath and fire my spirit.
Gat goon went the little green frog one day
How Great Thou Art
You and Me we're gonna be partners
Swinging along the Open Road
Oh, how lovely is the evening
The rattlin' bog
Tell me why the stars to shine
I see the moon and the moon sees me.
(So run along home...)
Green trees around us, blue skies above
Day is Done, Gone the Sun
Sailin' Away
Oh it ain't gonna rain no more no more (Mosquito he fly high)
You take a stick of bamboo
Peace I ask of thee, o river
Shenandoah
For so long as we receive the light of day, we may greet one another as kindred.
Skeeters am a hummin' on the honeysuckle vine (Kentucky Babe)
The Road goes on (Tolkien)
Happiness Runs
The Bear Went over the Mountain
Down on the banks of the Hanky Panky, where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank-ee with an eep, ipe, ope, op, knee-slap-a -dilly and a schlllp-PLOP!
Green grow the rushes-o
There's a hole in the bottom of the sea
Where have all the flowers gone?
Catch the Wind
Land of the Silver Birch
My Paddle's Keen and Bright
One Elephant went out to play upon a spider's web one day.
Paradise
Edelweiss
Crawdad Hole
Bye'n'bye, bye'n'bye, stars shinin' , number number one, number two, number three O Lord, bye'n bye, bye'n bye, O Lord, bye'n'bye.
White Coral Bells
Wimuway
Spider's Web
On the Loose
Earth my Body, Water, my blood, Air my breath and fire my spirit.
Gat goon went the little green frog one day
How Great Thou Art
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Thursday, July 02, 2009
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