I’m thinking about buying a new printer. Right now, I have a desktop laser printer. I’ve been very happy with laser printers. They work fine with recycled papers, whereas inkjets waste a lot of ink on them. The recycled paper is kind of sponge like and absorbs the ink. The ink also scatters a little, which makes the image look fuzzy. Laser is always sharp. Best of all, the laser’s cost per copy is dirt cheap compared to the $350/gallon cost of ink jet ink.

I’m a private pilot. The FAA sent me an e-mail today regarding the new laser warning system used to alert pilots who accidentally fly into restricted/prohibited/ADIZ areas. They even show video footage of what it looks like to pilots. I think that a lot of people who are not pilots would like to also see this, so I reproduce it here…

Our skydiving show at Thunder Over Louisville got rained out. It’s also our last year.

Found out that it was a bad storm. The Modem and Firewall are fried, not just the power supply. The person taking the insurance claim was kind of clueless

Looks like I took a lightning strike while I was gone. Lots of computer stuff doesn’t work anymore.

Today I had to honk at another driver but later got to talk to them. It was an awkward, but interesting event.

I cancelled my XM radio for all the reasons I mentioned earlier. “Reason for cancellation” was one of the fields the customer service rep had, so I listed “displeased with Clear Channel as a corporate citizen” as the reason.

24 hours after my first live post, I have traffic. 1 human, and 14 bots

After seeing an article on BoingBoing showing off this “transparent laptop” illusion, I just had to try it out myself.

I think I’m going to let some of my domain names expire. I own or manage hundreds of domains. When competion entered into the domain name market place and the cost of domains fell to under $10, I started buying more of them. I bought a lot of them that were cool or that I [...]