News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Wikileaks and leakers

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Wikileaks has posted an incredible amount of classified reports from Afghanistan. This mass of stuff reveals names and home villages of int...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Whither NASA?

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Or, how to get men into space. NASA wanted to scrap the Space Shuttle and build a new booster and space capsule, kind of an enlarged Gemini...

Chevy Aveo roadtest

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So I selected "economy" as the renta car type, and sure enough, I get a Chevy Aveo sedan (not the hatchback). Drove it for a week...

Monday, July 26, 2010

If you have time to spare, go by air....

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Just returned from a flight to Seattle. The pleasure started at check in where the TSA is waging war on men's toiletries. They objecte...

Monday, July 19, 2010

Blogging may be light

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I am flying out to Seattle tomorrow morning and won't be back until Monday. I may or may not have Internet access out on the left coast...

Sunday, July 18, 2010

WWI, or how to wreck a civilization

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Blurb for "The Lions of July" by William Janner. A "Guns of August" kind of history book. "In the days before Wor...

An Attaboy for Stupid Beast

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Or perhaps an attabeast. Stupid Beast is a city apartment raised cat suddenly transported to the wilds of northern NH. She started out flin...

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