Posted By RichC on May 15, 2011
Although my next smartphone may be an Android, I still like what I’m seeing from the slow to market HP Palm 3 … the camera improvement and speedy processor are just too of the great features for a “pockatable” cloud-synced smartphone.
Apart from the bigger screen and wicked fast processor, one of the things we’re most looking forward to about the HP Pre 3 is finally having a webOS camera with autofocus. With a 5MP unit, the Pre 3 won’t take the biggest pictures out there, but after being saddled with “Enhanced Depth of Field” cameras since the Pre, we’re really looking forward to having photos that haven’t been tinkered with by overly aggressive software.
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Posted By RichC on May 14, 2011
Thankfully I’m feeling much better and was able to spend the day working on the boat. The sun has been hot so attempted to set up a Shadetree branded awning with many broken parts. I was at least successful enough to have weathered the first wave of wind and rain squalls Saturday night.
Besides taking Katelyn and a couple of her graduating girlfriends (Ashley and Laura) out sailing before they returned to Ohio, Brenda and I also stopped in Delray Beach to begin packing her parents for their return to New York.
A few photos to come, bu I am posting tonight from my Palm Pre via Posterous … and without my reading glasses (it is becoming more and more an issue!)
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Posted By RichC on May 14, 2011
As with everybody I know, there are times we all put a little to much on our plates and have too little time in order to get everything done. I believe … no, I know … that I’ve been pinching my schedule a little too tight and didn’t allow for any disruptions in schedule. Of course that’s when an annoying illness raises it evil head. Treading water as I write, but probably will miss a few posts over the next week. Maybe I’ll do some catch-up when it is all over. Later.
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Posted By RichC on May 12, 2011
Been
sick
the
last
couple
of
days.
(old TootsieTootsie photo)
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Posted By RichC on May 9, 2011
With the amount of rain we have been having this spring, we’ve had constant grass growth without hardly a day of dry weather in order to mow. I finally had to cut the soggy backyard for fear of never being able to cut it without a brush hog. After making the decision to cut it, I’m now wondering if it was a mistake?
Mississippi River before and after as observed from space
Engineers blow a Mississippi levee on May 2nd flooding farms in Missouri
Thankfully though here in southwest Ohio we’ve been spared the devastating tornadoes that hit states to the south this April, and despite the rains we haven’t had the flooding those receiving our water downstream are experiencing. My heart and prayers go out to all who have experience loss of life and property this spring.
Tuscaloosa Alabama hit hard by tornados
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Posted By RichC on May 8, 2011
It was nice to have my son home and finished with finals … and to have him think about me on my birthday. Thanks for the Miami Alum license plate surround, Taylor.
My aging first generation Palm Pre is still taking some pretty decent photos (above)
Of course he wasn’t the only one to wish me a Happy Birthday on Saturday, but the two of us spent the day together working on his car and reviewing his summer schedule – summer classes, hopefully a few hours a week of work, and moving into an house in Oxford with two of his college friends. It seems like just the other day that I was moving from dorm to apartment in Ada, Ohio with 3 of my college buddies, Jerry, Don and Bill. Although I don’t stay in touch with them all that much, I did get a Facebook birthday greeting from Bill’s wife Julie (so sweet offering a home cooked meal if my daughter needs one when in Columbus). It is always nice to hear from friends from college. Although I’m somewhat caught up on Jerry and Bill (and see Jeff every week), I did miss receiving the Blinn annual Christmas newspaper – it is usually long and entertaining? I hope Don and his family are ok?
Speaking of Facebook, this was the first year that I’ve paid much attention to the greetings passed along by my nieces and nephews … thanks guys, although I’m at the age where I really don’t want to be counting them each year.
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Posted By RichC on May 7, 2011
On Friday I was streaming the Atlas 5 rocket countdown on my computer while waiting for Yves Rossy to fly his jet wing across the Grand Canyon (see previous posts). NASA’s red anvil rule scrubbed the launch of the Atlas 5 (clouds) and according to an EAA article, Rossy felt he needed a bit more preparation time. Maybe next time?
May 6, 2011 — Yves Rossy, known the world over as “Jetman,” was set to make his first flight in the United States on Friday morning over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, but he scrubbed it at the last minute because he wanted more time to train. The FAA had given its approval for the flight, classifying Rossy and his jet wing as an aircraft and assigning the registration number N15YR. But even though the Las Vegas FSDO went the extra mile to shrink a weeks-long certification process down to two days, Rossy wanted to err on the side of safety.
“As with any professional pilot, before an air show I need training,” Rossy told KTTV-Los Angeles. “The Blue Angels train until [they achieve] excellence, then afterwards they go for a demo.”
The actual FAA certification paperwork arrived at the Grand Canyon just an hour before Rossy was scheduled to fly. He said he will try again but did not give a timeframe or reveal under what conditions his jet wing was given certification.
The plan was for Rossy to strap into his jet wing, ride a helicopter to about 7,000 feet AGL, fire up the four small model aircraft jet engines, then jump out. The flight would have been over Grand Canyon West near Guano Point on the Hualapai Indian Reservation – located about 2-1/2 hours southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The flight is sponsored by Breitling.
Jetman graced the cover of the March 2011 EAA Sport Aviation magazine (read story). He’s also flown across the English Channel (2008) and last year made a spectacular hot-air balloon-borne flight over Denezy, Switzerland, achieving the first loops with the wing.
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Posted By RichC on May 6, 2011
Who doesn’t struggle with the bloated Adobe PDF Reader or the pricey full-featured Adobe Acrobat Pro PDF products?
I’ve used both products over the years and have been frustrated by the cumbersome Adobe software. Although I still use an older full version of Acrobat upon occasion, I have fund Foxit Reader and more recent lightweight SumatraPDF far better choices for everyday reading or inline browser PDF readers.
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Posted By RichC on May 5, 2011
With the fascination of Seal Team Six’s operation in taking down Osama bin Laden, the timing of former Seal Team Six member’s Howard Wasdin’s new book couldn’t be better. He was interviewed by WSJ’s Lee Hawkins after the successful mission in Pakistan on Sunday and offers a little bit of detail one what it takes to be someone in America’s elite special operations force. He’s well spoken and offers the “human side” of what it takes to overcome diversity to become a Navy Seal. SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper is due to hit bookshelves on May 24th and will be on my summer read list (audio or video interview below).
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WSJ: An interview with Howard Wasdin, a former Seal Team Six member (mp3)
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Posted By RichC on May 4, 2011
For those of us that regularly rent cars, we’ve always known that it is costly to bring a car back to the rental agency with less than a full tank. This lesson is doubly important with the higher prices at the pump nowadays. Some car companies are now charging over $9/gallon “if you bring the car back without a full tank” according to USAToday. It might just be a smart idea to pre-purchase the discounted gasoline (sometimes lower than market) just in case you find yourself pinched for time when returning to the airport.
A USA TODAY survey of auto rental gas prices at 13 big airports on April 25 found Hertz was charging $9.29 a gallon at all 13. Dollar and Thrifty were charging $8.99 a gallon at two.
At $9.29 a gallon, Hertz customers renting a Ford Club Wagon, which has a 35-gallon fuel tank, would owe Hertz $325.15 for gas if they returned the wagon with a nearly empty tank and hadn’t prepaid for the gas.
Renters who pay ahead of time for a tank of gas from Hertz or another car rental company, though, may find the per-gallon price cheaper than at many local gas stations.
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