Author: nic

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Funny

Funny stuff about Pilots

Don’t let these little jokes stop you from taking to the skies….
After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a ‘gripe sheet,’ which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct the problems; document their repairs on the form, and then pilots review the gripe sheets before the next flight.
Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS ‘ pilots (marked with a P) and the solutions recorded (marked with an S) by maintenance engineers.
By the way, UPS is the only major airline that has never, ever, had an accident.
P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.
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P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.
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P: Something loose in cockpit
S: Something tightened in cockpit
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P: Dead bugs on windshield.
S: Live bugs on back-order.
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P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.
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P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
S: Evidence removed.
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P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
S: DME volume set to more believable level.
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P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
S: That’s what friction locks are for.
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P: IFF inoperative in OFF mode.
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.
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P: Suspected crack in windshield.
S: Suspect you’re right.
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P: Number 3 engine missing.
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search
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P: Aircraft handles funny.
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right and be serious.
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P: Target radar hums.
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.
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P: Mouse in cockpit.
S: Cat installed.
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And the best one for last
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P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.
S: Took hammer away from midget.

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Apple Mac Networking Wireless

Mac Passive Scanning

This tool is a great program for the mac to use for passively scanning wireless networks.
Once you have downloaded it, you will need to mount it, safari will do this automatically.  Then you drag it to the applications folder like installing any other mac app. Load it.
Setup your airport card to configured with the program.  Click on preferences from the KisMac menu in the top left.  Click on the driver tab on the top of this window and then add your airport card as the capture device.  Make sure you choose the airport card that is in passive mode.  If you get a message that Kismac could not initiate the driver, you need to choose a different capture device.

Once you have this running Kismac will start to list and say all the SSID that are within range of where you are.  You might be surprised how many networks are in close proximity especially if you are living in apartments.  If you are having trouble using your own signal, pay attention to the channel that your desired network is on.  If more than one network is on that same channel the computer will have a hard time to lock on that signal.  Choose a different one.  In the 2.4 Ghz frequency, the only channels that would be beneficial without overlapping are 1, 6, and 11 or whatever the highest is.  If you can manually set your wireless base station to be on one of those channels without auto, which usually hops around, it will give you better results.

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Computers

Facebook and locations based services


this is a print screen of my log into facebook and how is it using location based services to determine if someone is trying to hack my account.

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lds

Flag Football YSA activity

Tri-regional YSA Flag Football Annual Homecoming
Saturday, September 18 2010
10:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Get a team together for some fun, flag football, and food.
7101 Northeast 166th Avenue; Vancouver, WA 98682
flag football

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Out and About

10 Year Century Jaguar Reunion…..

A fun filled day at the park. Filled with old friends from Nic’s High School past, Cha Cha the Clown, Hawaiian Singer serenading us with his ukulele and lots of yummy food.

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Interesting

Two Moons – snopes

Two moons on 27th August 2010
27th Aug the Whole World is waiting for………….
Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August. It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will culminate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles off earth. Be sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am. It will look like the earth has 2 moons.
The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.
Share this with your friends as NO ONE ALIVE TODAY will ever see it again.
http://www.snopes.com/science/astronomy/brightmars.asp

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Interesting

This applies to credit unions!

This text was received in email from a credit union:
Congress is proposing legislation that will increase your cost to use a debit card. If passed, I believe it will be the end of “free checking” at all financial institutions.  I have a very important request of all Credit Union members regarding this costly and unwise legislation currently being considered in Washington DC.
Most of you have a debit card in your wallet. Each day when you make a purchase with your debit card, the credit union incurs costs as we process the transaction and guarantee that the merchant receives payment for your purchase. In the event that your card or card number is lost or stolen and a transaction involves fraud, the credit union also assumes the risk and suffers the loss associated with the transaction. In return for processing the transaction and assuming the risk, the merchant pays us a small interchange fee. Senate bill #3217 proposes that the Federal Reserve (instead of the free market) will determine the amount of interchange fees we receive. If passed, the bill will nearly eliminate the interchange income credit unions receive from merchants. The risks we assume and the costs we incur will continue to exist even if we don’t receive interchange income from the merchants. You, instead of the merchants, will have to pay these costs to make it possible for us to offer debit cards to our members.
There is still time to influence the decision of Congress, but a vote is likely before the end of June. Therefore, timely action is critical. Here is what I am asking you to do. Please ask your Congressman to oppose changes to the current interchange system. You can express your opposition to debit card fees by calling 1-877-223-5275. Tell your Congressional Representative to oppose changes to the current interchange system. Another convenient way to send your message by email is available at http://capwiz.com/cuna/home/. This easy-to-use system will allow you to convey a message to the entire Congressional delegation and President Obama.
Please call or email your Congressional delegation today to ensure that merchants continue to pay their fair share of the cost of debit card transactions. Thank you for your help in this important matter.

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iPhone

first day biking to work

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Career

bike commuting

This is probably the most un-tech thing I will blog about but I would like to start bike commuting. I will try to make it as technical as possible.
First things first: the route, then the bike, then parking my bike while at work, then do i need to change once i get to work?
So I move to Oregon from Idaho and the culture is very green here comparatively.
I think I would like to take a part in that as well.  Actually my interest in this is probably more because It would be cheaper than buying another car for my family.
Anywho, I have been on the hunt for a bike.  The only real biking I could consider that I have participated in are taking the family out on bike rides in the evenings and Saturdays.  Still that can be enough when you are pulling a trailer for two and trying to keep up with the pack.
So as you can see I don’t have all the experience in the world, but I am willing to learn and would like to keep up my fitness level as a secondary motive.  In the recent weeks I have looked at probably 30-40 different bikes.  With that being said, looking at bikes is very different than actually test riding a bike.  Everything from a straight up touring road bike to fat tire mountain bikes.  Mostly the bikes that I am interested in are road bikes.
Two drawbacks to this:
1.  Road bikes can be expensive.
2.  Road bikes are usually made for fair weather road riding.
What I mean by fair weather road riding is that road bikes usually have the c-clamp brakes that pressure the wheel hub as the braking mechanism instead of disc brakes which seem to perform better in wet conditions.  I am living in Oregon and so 3 out of the 5 last work days have been rainy.  I would like to continue riding in wet weather.  The campus I’m at has a fitness center locker room where I could clean up once I do get to work, so that is very convenient.
As I have been talking with the different salesmen about bikes, I am starting to get sucked in.  I feel myself thinking about this purchase way too much.  Although I potentially could spend a whole lot of money and turn out to be a very big purchase, it really shouldn’t be this hard.
Here is my dilemma.  My main purpose for buying a bike is to commute to work each day.  The factors that play into this are weather and durability since it will be used daily.  Weather makes me want to go for the disc brakes.  Durability makes me want to go for the more expensive components.  The problem is that road bikes don’t have disc brakes.  This turns me into the direction of some cyclecross bikes as well as hybrid or urban bikes.  That’s a whole story in itself how every other sales guy calls every other bike by his own name and category.
The Scott SUB 20 found at REI is the closest I have come to what I think I want.  I say that I think this because I still am undecided.

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Funny

What Really are the Possibilities

A Sense of Freshness…
A new supermarket opened in Topeka , KS . It has an automatic
water mister to keep the produce fresh. Just before it goes on,
you hear the sound of distant thunder and the smell of fresh rain.
When you pass the milk cases, you hear cows mooing and you
experience the scent of fresh mown hay.
In the meat department there is the aroma of charcoal grilled
steaks with onions.
When you approach the egg case, you hear hens cluck and cackle, and the a ir is filled with the pleasing aroma of bacon and eggs frying.
The bread department features the tantalizing smell of fresh
baked bread & cookies.
I don’t buy toilet paper there any more.
Although this is just really funny but I feel like this is what some retailers really are advertising.