Katherine and I flew out to Cumberland Airport this past sunday for their first Pankcake breakfast of the year. They hold it every sunday, rain or shine, from April till October. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it out a couple more times this year (even if i have to drive).

Good food, friendly pilots, and lot of planes to see. Stearman, Gyrocopter, Baby Great Lakes, and other great planes.

Katherine manned the video camera and caught my 2 landings of the day and our take off from Cumberland.

Today was April fools day.

I like April fools jokes. they make me chuckle. I have a habit of doing something to someone in the office each year. This year it was Scott Blakes turn, he’s the ‘new guy’ that we hired in September 2008.I also have a desire to top what i’ve done in previous years … After some thought, this year I decided to Wrap his desk, and everything on it in Aluminum Foil. Katherine got the idea that I should fill the drawers with Easter Grass. I hate easter grass, so i thought it was a good idea.

It took about 45 minutes to do, and about 110 sqrt ft of aluminum foil, and 6 bags of easter grass. Could ahve used more easter grass.

Here are the pictures:

http://mbond.smugmug.com/gallery/7778410_djZ96#503335337_yuoBT

Game consoles ’cause skin sores’ … seriously? This was ‘just found’ and is ‘interesting’?

Its been around for YEARS, and is well known by most anyone in the late 20′s to early 30′s that spent far too much time playing Atari and got blisters where the joy stick kept rubbing, or not being able to open your hand after playing a game all night long.

Kids today are stupid.

Kid: “Hey doc. what’s wrong with my hand? i can’t move it after playing video games for 12 hours straight” …

Doc: “OMG. Its a new condition! Lets write a journal article about it.”

What a bunch of losers with their ergonomic game controllers. In my day, we didn’t have ergonomic controllers that fit nicely in your hand. We have little plastic bricks, with sharp corners and edges and cracks that would pinch your skin. They should have had more warnings on them than lawn darts …

We all suffered from this ‘disorder’ and we always knew exactly what caused the ‘disorder’…

Pong Claw.
Nintendo Thumb.
Gamers Grip.

Or any of the hundred other names kids around the country gave this ‘disorder’ …

/rant.

One of my favorite things about living 5 miles from town is how dark it is out here at night. I had forgotten how many stars there are at night. I think that it’s one of my favorite things about the house, looking forward to enjoying it this summer.

We’ve had our iPhones for a week now, and I’m pretty happy with it. Twitter, facebook, IM, RSS feeds, and email. Even posting this entry from it.

Getting over being sick kinda sucks, but I got a couple video games out of it. “Wario Land: Shake It” is a great game. Lots of replay value doing missions, but not crazy long like a lot of the current games on the market. 2D side scrolling games still rock.

This is a test posting from my iPhone. If it works it should have a picture attached to it.

Seems to work. Using the wordpress app from the app store. Let’s you attach a picture you have already taken or snap a picture from the app itself.

This amused me. Mostly because it’s kinda true.

http://powazek.com/posts/1655

Like designers, if you give a programmer a problem with parameters, they’ll apply every bit of genius they have to solve it in the best possible way. If you tell them how to do it, you’ll suffer the wrath of an angry God.

Not unrelated are the 3 virtues of a great programmer:

1. Laziness – The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don’t have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
2. Impatience – The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don’t just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.
3. Hubris – Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won’t want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience.

I try to hide my god-like arrogance, but I know I mostly fail at that .

I love spam … and now, i know a little more about it.

MMMMmmmmuuughhhhmmmm … tasty, tasty, Spam.

Official SPAM FAQ

As part of our wedding package, Katherine and I received 1 free year to the Lakeview Fitness center. So far we have been taking advantage of it several times a week.

I enjoy working on the weights for a while (very low weight, very high repetition. I’m working on stamina, not building mass), then hitting the Stair Masters and then a 5 minute jog on the tread mill to cool down before jumping into the pool. When i go by myself, or meet Katherine there, I usually spend 1.5 to 2 hours there. About the same amount of time as if i had gone to karate, but the workout is very different.

Katherine gets there and immediately heads for the swimming pool. She swims crazy fast and is blowing way past my own swimming goals. I like seeing that, gives me something to push towards and she seems to enjoy it a lot. She has also been helping me improve my swimming, and trying to break  me of some of my bad habits.

One thing that I have noticed about swimming is that it seems to help me heal. I injure myself fairly regularly. I have a couple of bad ankles, a bad knee, 2 bad shoulders, and a back that likes to go out if i twist wrong while I’m jumping. I’ve also broken most of my toes multiple times in the last 3.5 years and am currently getting over Plantar Fasciitis.

What I’ve noticed though is that swimming seems to relieve the pain AND speed up the healing. My guess is that it is a combination of stretching more and additional muscle usage in a low-impact kind of way. I’m a firm believer, that if something hurts you need to work the pain out of it. Swimming seems to provide that benefit faster than other forms of exercise that I know.

Just something else I wouldn’t have figured out if it wasn’t for Katherine.

Previously our navigation was along the top of the page … It had a nifty scroll down effect that showed child pages … but it didn’t work real well for deeply nested pages. It also had the flaw that unless you happened to notice it or knew it was there it got lost very easily.

if you scroll your eyes slightly to the left you will notice that there is not a section called “Pages” there. That is the new navigation. As you click around it will still show child pages as they are available, but its a touch more obvious to the casual obeserver.

Most likely it will need some tweaking as we add more pages, but it should work for now and be a lot easier to use.

I finally finished my version of how Mike proposed. The story, complete with pictures, can be found under the “Stories” tab, titled Engagement-Katherine’s Perspective. Watch for Mike’s Perspective to be added soon.

UPDATE: I added mine too …