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Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Cool Links, 22 Jan/09

APOD’s famously broad definition of an “astronomy picture” (they decided that the awesome “Where The Hell Is Matt” video qualified) has lead to a really spectacular lenticular cloud photo from NZ being today’s image.
Not sure what a lenticular is? Think, “Gee, that looks like a UFO” and youŕe most of the way there. I’ve only [...]

A Fine Flying Day

Up early this morning for the second flight of my Flight Instructor training – a very good flight, overall, with a bunch of stuff I hadn’t seen since the very early days of my Private Pilot training (six years and 300+ hrs ago…). It was clear, cold and very, very frosty this morning, though!

This evening [...]

Photos & Videos

The damnable snow is mostly gone; the local Airport Authority’s biggest piece of snow-clearing equipment was sitting in front of one of their garages, presumably for a bit of TLC before it gets put back into storage. The big snowblower has this lovely, very un-Victoria piece of bravado on the cab door:

Also, go and watch [...]