I was up flying very early yesterday morning – when the sun began to rise, the sky lit up in a blaze of glory. These pictures (taken with my phone) do not do it justice. These images were taken about 20 miles southwest of Albuquerque, NM looking east towards the Manzano mountains. I have a… [Read More]
Archives for August 2011
Abandonment
I found the following information about abandonment in my reading. It was enlightening and helpful to me, I won’t bore you with why. The Five Stages of Abandonment are: Shattering: Severing of love-connection, devastation, shattering of hopes and dreams. The emotions are shock, panic, despair, feeling you can’t live without your love. Withdrawal: You’re in painful… [Read More]
Jet Man!
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Another of Jet Man’s HD movies. This one is of his flight over the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It includes the helicopter flight up and the parachute landing next to the Colorado river. It is a big download but well worth it. The video footage is gorgeous! Enjoy! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4CX-8Eo_6I
Potty Mouth?
Why do so many people feel that they are unable to communicate without swearing? Yes, all cursing bugs me – actually, a lot of things bug me. However; I can overlook a bit of it. It is the people that do not have any non-swearing adjectives in their vocabulary that REALLY bug me. I used… [Read More]
More Object Serialization
In my first and second postings on serialization, I focused on the basics of the concept. This time around, I want to give you some additional tips that I learned the hard way. As always, the System.Runtime.Serialization namespace or System.Xml.Serialization namespace is required and all of this is applicable to all of the .Net languages (VB.Net,… [Read More]
Shoal Fin Keel
There are a bunch of strange terms in the boating world. One used in regards to sailboats is a shoal fin keel. There are lots of different types of keels and I thought some photos of the last haul out of my sailboat might help in understand what a shoal fin keel is. This is… [Read More]
Dinghy Concert
Beautiful video! You just have to love the song, the singer, and how relaxing it is! Fabulous! 4th Annual Clarkes Court Bay dinghy concert in Grenada. Grenada is part of the Windward islands in the Caribbean sea. North of Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago; south of St. Lucia .
Is Mobility Good?
Do you ever wonder if the mobility that our society enjoys is a good our bad thing? I was sitting in the Atlanta airport watching the mass of people rushing about and thinking about this. Transportation hubs are an interesting orchestra of motion. Some people are in such a rush, others do not seem to… [Read More]
SQL Common Table Expressions
I’ve been working with Microsoft SQL Server Common Table Expressions (CTE) lately and am totally impressed every time. My most recent experience was needing a temporary table with the fixed number of rows into which I would load some data based on the row number (basically). There are several ways to accomplish this with T-SQL. … [Read More]
New Face
It seems that many people are talking about face transplants. My current one (the original) has been heavily mauled by life so I started looking around for a new one. The following is the best that I could come up with….