That's how Lenin put it -- "The world is divided into the 'who' and the 'whom'."
As a speaker of Russian I must say this: One of the things that fascinates me about this remark is that it means EXACTLY the same thing in Russian as it does in English. "Ktaw ee ktawm" has the very same sense that "who and whom" does. Translation neither adds nor takes away from this meaning. (Indeed the phrases are linguistically related, though you have to go all the way back to the Indo-European mother tounge
hello, i suddenly am having trouble seeing the writing in my atc screen. its all blurred and hence unreadable. the same is true for the heading..ie. where u control the SIM. can anyone tell me what is the cause of this.....or better still how can i correct...>?< thanks...teebirdie2@aol.com as u can see i am new here in the forum....but help me please!! Gene
This weekend, I'm off on a bit of an expedition. Now, it's on several fells in the Lake District( for my overseas readers, you'd probably call it a couple of small hills, but for us in the UK it's a big thing!)
So, I thought, so I don't get lost, why don't I fly the route beforehand on FSX with my newly acquired photographic scenery? Would it be detailed enough?
It was. I could fly the whole route in the Ultralight. Now, all I have to do is not get lost on Saturday and Sunday!
You've probably heard the term 'Well, it's close enough for jazz.' Whether you were actually playing jazz (and what jazz is) at the time is a matter for another day, but when is it close enough for jazz?
As you may know, I play the Sax. Recently, I was playing a twelve bar blues with some others, and one we had finished( quite difficult with no drummer!) the bassist said to me "Next time,can you stick in the same key for all of it, please?" Now, I wasn't offended by this, but it stuck me that
In a post in the FSX forum I said that good art is whatever good artists say is good art, and that good music is whatever good musicians say is good music.
alexm responded by saying ...
No way, no how! I mean this in a friendly way... but you've crossed way over a line with me with that statement! Music and art are so incredibly subjective, I don't see any way to defend that, although I will respect that many will attest to its veracity. Even good musicians/artists will disagree on what is
It's only the 10th, but while driving back from Safeway the urge -- the need -- the demand that I write, and write today, struck with high impact. I was furious that day in 2001, fighting mad -- so mad that I called the Israeli Embassy in San Francisco to offer my services in any capacity they might see fit. But I couldn't get through. Their switchboard was jammed, and by the next day I had calmed down a little.
I suddenly understood what the attack on Pearl Harbor had meant to the people of
Its 1965, and my father brought from Germany a toy that made me the happiest five year old in the planet. I have nerver again seen such a high-tech toy, with quality and attention to detail.
Its puzzling, I thought that the future would produce better quality. Progress gives the idea of improvement, but in this case I reckon the 60s was the "future" compared to today. In those days there were no "made in China" mass cheap products. Only Japan was entering the industrial world with lower price
After closing our Golden Midi Music And Software business I spent 1.5 years in an unsuccessful search for a well-paying high tech job. It finally dawned on me that being 40++, and having been an entrepreneur, I had become an Untouchable.
I moped around our remotely located property for another few months till the cold weather of late Fall set in and it was no longer fun to go for walks with my favorite cat. It was actually the cat who took ME for walks, the same route every time. She would ge
I originally posted this piece about a year ago on a different site. I'm using it here as it is a good introduction...
On all of the Flight Simulator related sites I have joined I have used the name 'N2056'. I will explain here the motivation behind that.
I've been involved in PC flight simulation from the very first program that played on my brother's Apple II a long time ago.
I was involved in real flying long before that. My father was the gateway to the incredible world of building
My bit about surface tension caused me to mention physics conservation laws. (In the title of this blog, kindly append an "s" to the word "Law".) I want now to say more on that subject. It will also, remarkably, be an opportunity for me to wax poetic about the joys of Julian's, the NYC pool hall at which the movie "The Huster" SHOULD have been shot.
While I was at NYU my best friend was a guy named Karl Erb. Karl's father was an aeronautical engineer who had designed the nose gear of the YB-4
Once again, I was at Beccles Airfield, doing my bit to help with operations. I went refueling aircraft when needed and practiced radio work under supervision as I don't yet have the piece of paper to say I'm capable of it. I had several complements from the pilots and the owner of Beccles Airfield, saying I sounded very professional. Hopefully I can get that license at some point, hopefully with a PPL thrown in for good measure.
My computer is failing. I tried to fly but at some point in my l
Today I had a chance to see, close up, a yellowjacket swoop down and then hover to get a drink from the waters of our condo development's swimming pool. Unfortunately it made the mistake of doing it into a trough between shallow waves, resulting in its failing to rise as fast as the side of an approaching swell was rising. Then the creature was no longer hovering but instead was in the water, trapped by surface tension.
Surface tension is also responsible for the beautiful sheen on the gentle
All I intended to do this morning on the computer was to file my bid for next week's(?) flights with Noble Air, check up on a couple of scenery files I wanted to add, and write briefly to this blog. Instead, I also downloaded a Tu-144 that was over 100MB, checked the GMInsideNews forum for the latest and greatest (or at least the most predictable). I intended to do these thing briefly, and proceed to the gym in my continuing fight with my ever distorting shape.
But, no, it turned into readi
None of us was born knowing FS. And as we learn stuff and perhaps become apparent experts, we should all recognize that a) every one of us has gaps in his knowledge, and b) most of what we know about FS has come from the collective wisdom of the forums. Thus there is nothing for arrogant active forum people to be arrogant about. To a first approximation most of them have invented nothing and have created nothing. Their arrogance is the way they deal with their own feelings of inadequacy, or so i
This post is, effectively, a continuation of an earlier thread dealing with rock shows in the NYC of the 50s. That thread is here ...
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The music business was very different in the 50s. Back then there were no giant recording companies (though there were a couple of sizable publishing companies). There were many independent small record labels, but only a few large ones like Atlantic, who were late arrivals and really didn'
It was January? of 1965. I was employed by Applied Data Research in Princeton, NJ ...
I had conceived, designed and written some software to control flatbed plotters in a way that was independent of the details of the devices. (Today we would call that aspect of my code a "class driver".) And then I was able to make a sale of the software to Shell Oil Company.
This was pioneering software that knew how to do 3D projection and perspective. So the user could move a virtual pen through 3-spa
In a land far far away I served a 37 month tour of duty as a Senior Radar Maintenance Supervisor in The US Army. One night I was summoned to the operations room with a complaint that the radar system I was monitoring was giving "False returns". I trotted down the hall and asked the operators what was worth getting me up in the middle of the night. I was immediately shown a radar "Track", on an 1800+ knot aircraft inbound. A very quick system check showed the system was working normally. I immedi
xxmikexx asked me about the sailing I did last week. Well, when I say I was sailing all last week, I don't actually mean I was on a boat 24/7.:D
I just went sailing every day. I sailed various dingies - Pico, Laser 1, RS Feva. If you've never heard of these, don't worry.;) You may have seen the Laser at the Olympics, which Ben Ainslie of the UK won!
I'll see if I can get some photos, I think there might be one.
As Mike McCarthy suggested, I'm here to tell what I have learned about Area 51 and the Aurora from the internet and various books I've had a look at.
First off, supposedly, the Aurora took it's first flight at Groom Lake (Area 51) in 1989. It was retired in around 1999 or so but was then put back into service recently.
I'll just list the estimated statistics here from wikipedia (I know wiki isn't a reliable resource, but a reliable resource wouldn't matter to much with an aircraft that d
8/27/2008
The fringes of the hurricane from Florida spun across the mid-south last Monday, drenching us at evening rush hour. About 5 minutes after I got home and fired up the box to check e-mail, a near-by transformer went sizzle-pop and the prospects of an unpowered evening flashed across my brain as everything went quiet and dark.
Adapted to the loss with a 90-second walk across the street to my son's home where we had dinner and watched about half of the Battlestar Galactica pilot on D
Hello fellow bloggers,
That is a bit assuming on my part. Who knows if I will like this, or if my life, times and opinions are interesting enough for anyone to read, let alone comment on.
If someone were to section my trunk they would presumably count 63 rings. (If I were a tree). I reside in the great state of Nebraska, home of a formerly great, and soon to be great again, football team known as the Cornhuskers. On any Saturday when the Cornhuskers play in their home stadium in Linco
