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Spin Zone / Re: Official Unofficial Christmas Thread
« on: December 25, 2023, 11:53:06 AM »
First Christmas for the wife and I without our daughter.  She went with the fiance to visit the soon to be in-laws…

Do have a number of friends coming over for dinner so that will be nice.

Merry Christmas to everyone.

-Dan

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Spin Zone / Re: Pray for Israel
« on: October 09, 2023, 06:28:14 AM »
Quote from: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on October 09, 2023, 05:33:28 AM
Sorry your cruise got spoiled Dan.

Thanks, we are obviously disappointed, but absolutely nothing compared to the Israelis.  Feels way more personal being this close.  Plus I’ve been talking with our guides for several months getting things setup.  We feel like we have friends that are involved.  Quote from one of our guides, after we cancelled and told him we would be praying for him and Israel.   Got to admire the determination:

“It is what is is
We are counting casualties
No much options.  Harsh Times.
The next few days Hell will be largely provided.”


-Dan


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Pilot Zone / Re: What I Am Doing on my Summer Vacation
« on: July 21, 2023, 01:02:10 PM »
Flying up to Chicago tomorrow morning, then driving.  RV-14A isn't done yet :(

We (TangoFlight) will have a plane on display at the EAA Aeroeducate booth, and I will be speaking Monday morning.  Stop by and heckle me if you don't have anything else to do!

-Dan


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Pilot Zone / Re: Thinking about a Cirrus
« on: June 17, 2022, 01:24:06 PM »
Quote from: Username on June 17, 2022, 12:10:51 PM
Hm...  I stopped looking at Cardinals a while ago when the cantilever wing AD came out for it and the 210s.  It is the sexiest Cessna around.  It's plenty fast and has decent full-fuel payload of 670 pounds.  Not a lot of range, though.  Worth taking another look... thanks!

Put over 500 hours on our Cardinal.  Loved that plane.  Sold out to my partner when I finished my RV-9A. 

Was able to get my late 80's grandmother into the plane several times with just a little step stole.

-Dan

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Spin Zone / Re: Covidiocy Continued
« on: January 26, 2022, 10:31:02 AM »
Quote from: Little Joe on January 26, 2022, 10:22:05 AM
We loved the Moose's Tooth, but if you are still there, you HAVE to check out F-Street Station.  We were referred there for the food and only found out that it is an aviation themed restaurant when we got there.  We keep saying we are going to go back to Anchorage just so we can go there again.

Thanks, I have a red eye out late tonight, but hopefully will have some time between meetings today.  Might try to check it out for lunch!

-Dan

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Spin Zone / Re: Let’s Go Brandon
« on: October 18, 2021, 03:44:35 AM »
Was flying back from a fly-in yesterday.  Was a beautiful CAVU day so just flying along not talking to anyone, but monitoring center and gaurd.

About every 10-15 minutes for over three hours someone (different people) would come on guard with "Let's go Brandon".

-Dan

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Spin Zone / Do Masks Work?
« on: August 13, 2021, 05:58:45 AM »
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/do-masks-actually-work-the-best-studies-suggest-they-don-t/ar-AANfurl?ocid=msedgntp

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Spin Zone / Re: First world problem
« on: July 31, 2021, 03:21:21 AM »
Wow, I feel dumber for even scanning that article.

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Spin Zone / Re: Why masks?
« on: March 11, 2021, 01:36:10 PM »
Quote from: Steingar on March 11, 2021, 12:34:10 PM
Because vaccinated people can still be infected and pass on the virus. It's already happened.

I take it you didn't read the article?

-Dan

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Spin Zone / Re: Governor of Texas: "Fire That Teacher"
« on: August 25, 2020, 06:30:09 PM »
Quote from: Anthony on August 25, 2020, 03:24:10 PM
Austin?

I’m up in Georgetown, make it down to Austin about once a year at most.  Used to be a fun place to visit, but I got old(er) and it got weirder...

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Spin Zone / Re: Next Hoax?
« on: May 19, 2020, 04:29:10 PM »
Quote from: Bob Noel on May 19, 2020, 05:31:56 AM
Don't forget that online courses are an option (albeit with their own set of problems)

Online high school classes are an absolute joke.

I teach high school Engineering/Aviation/Aerospace.  My Tango Flight Program (www.tangoflight.org) is in 11 high schools around the country.  Every one of them is shut down for the remainder of the school year.  However, all are currently planning to open in the fall.

My local school district went to online classes in March (right after spring break).  To call it a joke would be a huge understatement.  I did better than most teachers, but only averaged about 70 percent of my kids doing ANYTHING.   

We just received word this week that we must pass every student.  Unless we can document a ton of different ways that we called parents, students, counselors, principals, etc.  then we have to pass the (entire semester is credit only).

I  refuse to do it.  I passed everyone that put forth any effort, including a number that don’t deserve it, but I can not give someone credit that I have not even heard from since before spring break.  Maybe I’ll get luck and they will fire me.  It will save me having to decide if I’m coming back in the fall or not.

-Dan

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Spin Zone / Re: Time to Reopen the Country
« on: April 21, 2020, 07:11:28 PM »
Quote from: Mr Pou on April 21, 2020, 08:10:38 AM
Davey Crockett was born, here I was not lol.

I’m currently sitting about a ten minute drive from his birth site.  I’m waving, wave back!

-Dan

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Spin Zone / Re: Neil Peart
« on: January 11, 2020, 08:01:31 AM »
Best Rock drummer of tall time.  Had the privilege of seeing Rush several times.  The energy and talent of all of them was incredible, but Neil was on a level all by himself.

Huge amount of respect for his talent, and the way he handled himself through unbelievable tragedy in his personal life.

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Spin Zone / Re: My solution for health insurance
« on: August 12, 2019, 07:23:10 AM »
Add to that price transparency.  The vast majority of medical care is non-emergency.  Make it was for people to comparison shop for that knee replacement, etc.

-Dan

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Spin Zone / Re: "A software fix"
« on: March 29, 2019, 07:27:51 AM »
Scary story.

Have a Phd friend that is doing some REALLY high level AI stuff.  Interestingly they are using GPU's to do the heavy processing.

Anyway, they developed a system that could analyze MRI's, etc.  It very quickly got to the point that it was way better than a doctor at detecting anomalies.  Then the scary part.  It has started exhibiting behaviours (it is a learning algorithm) that they can not explain.  i.e. it is doing things it shouldn't be.  Small scale at this point, but Skynet stuff...

-Dan

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