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

Friday, July 31, 2020

Herman Cain

I am very sorry to hear of Herman Cain’s death. I heard him speak back in February of 2011. He came up to Plymouth and spoke at our Li...

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Grilling High Tech CEO's, medium rare

Congress hauled the CEO's of Google, Apple, Facebook, and a couple of others up in front of a Congressional committee today. Questionin...

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle, 1883

This is the Ur-Robin Hood book. It has all the Robin Hood stories that I ever heard of, Robin Hood’s quarterstaff bout with Little Joh...

Sunday, July 26, 2020

The pilots should have gone around.

Pakistani International Airlines crashed an Airbus A320 (flight PK8303) back on 22 May of this year. The aircrew got out of position on the...

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Is your college offering on-campus instruction this year?

A lot of colleges, many in California, won't open classrooms on campus this fall. They will expect students to watch videos online, rea...

"Studies" to be required of California Students

The rule of thumb for college students is "avoid any major with "studies" in it's name. Like gender studies, black studi...

Casablanca Bogart and Bergmann, 1942

Released in 1942, just after Pearl Harbor. Black and White. Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is running a nightspot in Vichy Fr...

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