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

Monday, June 30, 2014

Google Maps

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Now that they stopped printing road maps, Google is how I get from here to there if I haven't been there before. They updated the softw...

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Driving to Cape Cod

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An old and good friend, a fine young man I have known since he was a young boy, got married on the Cape this weekend. I was invited. So I ...

Friday, June 27, 2014

So who is the real dummy?

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The story going round the internet has the inventors of a self driving car doing a demo in DC. They get Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District...

Thursday, June 26, 2014

It ain't how many, it's what's in them

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The TV newsies have been keeping score. They show how many executive orders Obama, Bush, Clinton, and Reagan issued. This is cute, but it ...

How do you fire an IRS Commissioner?

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John Koskinen, appeared at a Congressional investigation. Well scrubbed, freshly shaved, pink, well fed, well tailored. He then got into a...

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Corey's Gun Shop

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Is out of .22 Long Rifle ammunition. He told me shipments come in now and then and sell out within hours. He had the larger caliber stuff,...

The Lore of Whiskey

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Whiskey in the US is a brown colored hard liquor sold at 80 to 100 proof (40 to 50 percent ethyl alcohol). It is sold as Scotch, Bourbon, a...

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