This week begins semester 8 of 12 in my doctoral program. Seven down, five to go! Can’t wait for my dissertation defense and everything else to be over and done! 63 weeks 17 hours 23 minutes and 35 seconds ’til I am Dr. Moon.
I haven’t been soaring for awhile now, as my glider awaits an annual and some minor maintenance. This past Saturday I took a friend flying in a Grob Twin Astir. I captured many photos and several videos in flight using my Google Glass. This one starts as I enter the pattern in preparation for landing and continues all the way to exiting the glider.
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Remember the awesome Wing Commander space combat games series from the 90s? It brought space games to a whole new level and paved the way for later greatness like X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter. Just rembering it makes me nostalgic for my old Amiga 3000T.
Now… Remember the god-awful movie loosely based on the same? I actually feel compelled to watch it again to determine whether it or Ender’s Game is the worst sci-fi movie adaptation ever…. yes, it might even be worse than the abhorrent adaptations of beloved Heinlein novels.
I loved the Ender’s Game novel (despite the fact that I think the author is a homophobic ass). Tonight I watched the movie adaptation on pay-per-view. It was Bad. Seriously BAD. Not bad like your arm is asleep and this is uncomfortable type bad… not bad like you wake up on a drool covered pillow with a soggy cold cheek type of bad. Not bad like performing your own appendectomy with a plastic picnic spoon and a shot of Jack Daniels. Bad like a volcanic eruption of doom that burns orphanages and nursery schools in a hot ash cloud of lava filling the air with youthful screams of pain-filled horror before ultimately rupturing the Earth’s crust and exposing the inner mantle resulting in a core implosion destroying the entire planet type of BAD. I plead cold med brain fuddle for even watching it.
Arrr, ye scruvy dogs! It be International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Today only me ol’ blog will be readin’ most piratey! Today be the day of when honest folk adoptin’ the language of the high seas privateers! Arrr! Yo ho ho and a bottle of diet soda!
"Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
– Benjamin Franklin
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is responsive design? Wikipedia has a good description:
a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices
It has been years since updated this site template (the original was written in 2003). It was too windy to fly Sunday, so I reworked the site template as a responsive design.