I had finally had it with my car’s gutless wonder of a 1.8L 4 banger engine.  I needed something with more pep!  I really got tired of having a decent, albeit 14 year old car, that was capable of 0-60 in the time it takes to cook a chuck roast! So I searched around and found an engine I ...

I had one of those moments today, when I clicked on a link a friend of mine sent me.  Oh sure it’s childish.  But once there, I could not help but click a few interesting selections.  Well after about the 4th or 5th one I found myself sitting here in my office, by my lonesome, laugh...

Seriously funny! During the entire video I couldn’t help but think of my Sister and Brother-in-law freezing their petunia’s off in the –25 Degree heat of St. Paul MN these past few days. [video link] I have one word for the Polar Bears… “Evolve!â€�  Yep, I became a fountain of nose mi...

This past weekend I found myself in Norfolk, VA.  I was there with my wife Ginger, and my Mom and Dad to attend the commissioning of the US Navy's newest aircraft carrier the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77).  And what a spectacle it was... I have witnessed other ships commissioning'...

Today is my Dad's Birthday! And,I am really bummed I cannot be in Jax for his 75th Birthday, however, I know he is surrounded by his friends from the neighborhood and the church this evening having a good time.  I wanted to give Dad something nice for his birthday so I sent him my first copy of...

Well sort of... I've created and published my first book, "We Own the Airfield and the Airspace!" It is actually an experiment in using the popular book making organization "Blurb."  I have to say I'm mostly happy with the experiment thus far.  The process of creating (layouts), editing, a...

These were the odds facing Ginger on Monday as we played our final games at the Las Vegas Hilton. 1 in 649,740! Ginger had become a convert from standard slot machines to video poker once I explained that the rules and regulations of the machine are better.  Video poker machines operated in sta...

Above: Jeff Bridges and Jeff Dowd, the inspiration for The Dude. I received a very exciting e-mail this morning at 3:59 a.m. It was from Jeff Dowd. And I'm a big enough nerd about "The Big Lebowski," particularly thanks to this terrific book, that I knew that Dowd is the real life inspiration for Je...

Today I celebrate (?) my 42nd Birthday.  And, amazingly enough, I am looking forward to this weekend! A couple of months ago, Ginger and I and our good friends Stu and Linda sat down and said, "You know we haven't really taken a vacation together, we really ought to!"  From that point on w...

The team at "And Still I Persist" have adapted Hans Rosling's "Trendalyzer" (see: Radar post ) to visualize the current US banking crisis. "We chart the total assets of the bank along the horizontal axis, the value of loans that go 90+ days late on the vertical, and the size of the circles represent...