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Moving Tweety to the LSC hangar for the winter

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Harry Potter: The Workout

http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/workout/arms/express/harry-potter-the-workout/

Tweety

This looks like the form to transfer ownership.

http://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/form/ac8050-2.pdf

A good fit

Last night I was awake most of the night.  Not from caffeine, either.

Today we went to the airport, and I sat in "Tweety" for the first time.  I knew that Lee was asking more than he thought he could get (although I don't know how much more), but its history makes sense, and we have seen how he takes care of it, and Frank has assembled and disassembled it with him, and we would be buying into an already-established setup with the airport and the club. On paper, the SGS 1-34 is what I would like to be flying, with no other sailplanes in the running. Still, I was prepared to back away if the sitting-in-the-cockpit experience was anything but good.

Well, it was good.   I am comfortable there, and I can see fine, and I like it.

So, we put down a deposit, and I will be looking into the paperwork to actually make the sale.

:)

Time Machine and Parallels--Why I excluded Parallels from Time Machine

Unfortunately, I didn't do it soon enough.   The iMac tech support person had me delete all old backups, start again with just a couple, but Parallels filled up the Time Machine disk again.    So now, I guess it will keep the old big ones, but  maybe it will work.

What I worry about is old stuff that might have gotten corrupted but I don't notice, and the earlier versions are no longer there.

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?17850-Time-Machine-and-Parallels

November Birthdays

Colored birthday lights

Birthday cake 2013

To Nat from Beth

Beth's new necklace

Video provided for the audio content.  Obviously.

Also present:  Frank, Grandmom, Alex, Ben, Clare, Dave.   Sauerkraut, pork and mac & cheese & green beans. Yeah!

Eat Well | Do-ahead mashed potatoes save time & sanity | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com

http://www.courier-journal.com/viewart/20131114/FEATURES03/311140040/healthy-recipe-mashed-potatoes


Well, the test version we fixed on the Big November Birthday day was great, but the Thanksgiving version was not.   So, next year, it's on the stove you go.

BUT we did figure out there is no reason to ever not fix tater skins.

Have you seen this video? "Cockaboody"

How To: TV Auto Program / Channel Scan - TOSHIBA FORUMS

http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Televisions-Knowledge-Base/How-To-TV-Auto-Program-Channel-Scan/ta-p/345660

African lullaby - YouTube

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T3HYJW0FDXM&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DT3HYJW0FDXM

HRT15016.pdf

http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/hart/HRT15016.pdf

Smithsonian Folkways - The Arthur S. Alberts Collection: More Tribal, Folk, and Café Music of West Africa - Various Artists

http://www.folkways.si.edu/the-arthur-s-alberts-collection-more-tribal-folk-and-cafe-music-of-west-africa/world/music/album/smithsonian

Cats and more Cats!!

  Cats and more Cats by PJHundley

why does this happen?

Netsuke iPhone 5 Lanyard Attachment - MacRumors Forums

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1574866

PilotWorkshops :: Estimating Cloud Bases

http://www.pilotworkshop.com/tips/estimating-cloud-bases

Kroger Oat Bran muffin recipe

Kroger Oat Bran makes really good muffins

BUT

the recipe on the back  calls for 1-1/2 tablespoons of both baking powder and baking soda.  

I think it's a misprint.    Use 1-1/2 teaspoons of baking powder and baking soda.

1-1/2 cups oat bran
1-1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
1-1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1-1/4 cups applesauce (chilled)
2 eggs (or 4 egg whites)
4 tbsp vegetable oil.

400º for 12-15 min.

Climate change map

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Making your own lanyard for iPhone

You can make your own lanyard.

My mom has some strong-glue velcro tape (the fuzzy side is adhesive) that sticks on a surface and will NOT come off until you want it to. I always make my own lanyard by looping a piece of braid, tying a knot or two, and putting that adhesive tape it.  I used to just tape it to my iPhone, which was a great solution.  However, once, I dropped the iPhone exactly flush to an asphalt surface and the glass cracked.  So now I attach the piece of braid to the back of a case.

If Apple would include a slight rim around the front edge of the iPhone (so the glass can't fall flat and crack) and a dimple to attach a lanyard, we could use the devices in their slimness and beauty. The glass resists scratching just fine.  It's DROPPING the phone that is the issue.  I think it's crazy to make such beautiful designs knowing that customers will have to totally cover them up.

Back to the adhesive-backed velcro.  (I don't know where you would buy it. Ours came from the ambulance service when my sister worked there.) I can also attach the other piece to my dashboard of the car and make a place for the iPhone to hang.

Glider stuffing.

 

Step 1.   Notice the wing of the __ is back in the closet.

Step 2. The Duster.

Step 3. Two or three gliders were placed in the RH back corner of the hangar in a similar fashion.

Then there was plenty of room for the 2-33 and the towplane.  Bob Uhl was the master stacker.

1961_Dec_06.pdf

http://soaring.guenther-eichhorn.com/Soaring_Index/1961/PDF/1961_Dec_06.pdf

EAA Video Player - Your Source for Aviation Videos

file://localhost/Users/mhettinger/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads/EAA Video Player - Your Source for Aviation Videos.htm

Your aviation history lesson for the day!

From Neita Montague

WSPA

 

 Your US history lesson for the day!  I have never heard of this before -- interesting.  Remember, follow the Yellow Brick Road...................makes me want to go find one !

 

 This really exists: Giant concrete arrows that point your way across America. 

 

Every so often, usually in the vast deserts of the American Southwest, a hiker or a backpacker will run across something puzzling: a large concrete arrow, as much as seventy feet in length, sitting in the middle of scrub-covered nowhere.

What are these giant arrows? Some kind of surveying mark?

Landing beacons for flying saucers? Earth's turn signals?

No, it's

The Transcontinental Air Mail Route.

 

On August 20, 1920, the United States opened its first coast-to-coast airmail delivery route, just 60 years after the Pony Express closed up shop. There were no good aviation charts in those days, so pilots had to eyeball their way across the country using landmarks. This meant that flying in bad weather was difficult, and night flying was just about impossible.

The Postal Service solved the problem with the world's first ground-based civilian navigation system: a series of lit beacons that would extend from New York to San Francisco. Every ten miles, pilots would pass a bright yellow concrete arrow. Each arrow would be surmounted by a 51-foot steel tower and lit by a million-candlepower rotating beacon. (A generator shed at the tail of each arrow powered the beacon.)

Now mail could get from the Atlantic to the Pacific not in a matter of weeks, but in just 30 hours or so. Even the dumbest of air mail pilots, it seems, could follow a series of bright yellow arrows straight out of a Tex Avery cartoon. By 1924, just a year after Congress funded it, the line of giant concrete markers stretched from Rock Springs, Wyoming to Cleveland, Ohio. The next summer, it reached all the way to New York, and by 1929 it spanned the continent uninterrupted, the envy of postal systems worldwide.

Radio and radar are, of course, infinitely less cool than a concrete Yellow Brick Road from sea to shining sea, but I think we all know how this story ends. New advances in communication and navigation technology made the big arrows obsolete, and the Commerce Department decommissioned the beacons in the 1940s. The steel towers were torn down and went to the war effort. But the hundreds of arrows remain. Their yellow paint is gone, their concrete cracks a little more with every winter frost, and no one crosses their path much, except for coyotes and tumbleweeds.

But they're still out there.

 

 

 

 

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Nick Keck

 

 

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Enter the Journey easy piano

Commercial Pilot: Glider

 

Thanks, Mike and Steve and John and Louisville Soaring Club!

Simple Hummus Recipe – Better than Storebought Hummus

http://www.inspiredtaste.net/15938/easy-and-smooth-hummus-recipe/

El Paso local precip-->flash flood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ1vNxYvF7A

Article: Road Trip Snacks You Won’t Feel Guilty About

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Well, old anyway.

Ancient Japanese sculpture of an elephant--apparently made from a verbal description, as there were no elephants in Japan.

Fwd: [WSPA 2013 Seminar] Local Newspaper Article on Our Seminar

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Thought you all would like to see the front page article.  :-)

-Mark

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Fwd: Science Magazine article: group size and effectiveness

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Date: July 5, 2013, 7:25:35 PM CDT
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http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6141/11.1.short

Wedding dress

Fwd: How to make productive mistakes, embracing our inner contradictions, Bruce Lee's philosophy of life, creativity as dot-connecting, and more

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Date: June 2, 2013, 7:58:02 AM EDT
To: mhettinger@mac.com
Subject: How to make productive mistakes, embracing our inner contradictions, Bruce Lee's philosophy of life, creativity as dot-connecting, and more
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[Our culture] is not long on contradiction or ambiguity. … It likes things to be simple, it likes things to be pigeonholed—good or bad, black or white, blue or red. And we're not that. We're more interesting than that. And the way that we go into the world understanding is to have these contradictions in ourselves and see them in other people and not judge them for it. To know that, in a world where debate has kind of fallen away and given way to shouting and bullying, that the best thing is not just the idea of honest debate, the best thing is losing the debate, because it means that you learn something and you changed your position. The only way really to understand your position and its worth is to understand the opposite.

That doesn't mean the crazy guy on the radio who is spewing hate, it means the decent human truths of all the people who feel the need to listen to that guy. You are connected to those people. They're connected to him. You can't get away from it. This connection is part of contradiction. It is the tension I was talking about. This tension isn't about two opposite points, it's about the line in between them, and it's being stretched by them. We need to acknowledge and honor that tension, and the connection that that tension is a part of. Our connection not just to the people we love, but to everybody, including people we can't stand and wish weren't around. The connection we have is part of what defines us on such a basic level.

I Will Be Here Vocal and guitar

I will be here Keyboard part

I will be here arrangement

Amy and Dan

Apple Dodges Enough Taxes to Cover Much of the Sequester

Apple Dodges Enough Taxes to Cover Much of the Sequester

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Fwd: Wonderful day in Kentucky

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Date: April 5, 2013, 4:00:33 PM EDT
To: "mhettinger@mac.com" <mhettinger@mac.com>
Subject: Wonderful day in Kentucky

Hey Mama Laura and Daddy Laura ;)
We arrived Save in Berlin ,just Two days ago....Trinity and Lloyd are still in the States at Lloyds dads Place.
After our wonderful Stay at your House we had a Snow Storm in Pittsburgh,it was coooold ...then New York,Time to Settle a bit down,Having 6 days in a nice appartment in williamsburgh.
Thank you soooo mich for Having us all, i m lookin forward to See Laura ( hopefully monday ,i will be djing at the country swindle), thank you for the Pasta and the nice breakfast,the warm welcoming home ( your House is just so Full of love ;)  and Thanks for the nice cigarettes Times outside .... I will send you Now some pictures i only can send One at once.
I really Hope we will all See us in Berlin ,then we Cook for you !!
Best Wishes from Berlin
Nico

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