50 Bands to See Before You Die:

This is so annoyingly subjective, but the list is still cool.

I have only seen 2 on the list (The Strokes and Neil Young). My father has seen 2 as well (Stones and The Who).

New Scientist Breaking News - Smart beer mat orders refills

So simple - I can't believe it hasn't come out until 2005!

death and destruction:

I forgot to mention in my Thursday, September 22, 2005 Weezer & Foo Fighters Concert summary that Weezer did 'Death and Destruction' off 'Maladroit' as a roller coaster instrumental. 'Twas beautiful; should have been there.

No relevance, just a good pic. 

Lake Champlain. 

Music biz index

Bemuso.com - Music biz index

Interesting.

We Won:

Our Coast Guard-comprised relay team won last weekend's Marine Corps 5K Team Category. Here's the proof. There was a mixup with our team name. We're down as Team Coast Guard (similar to Team America). What we had told the dingleberries was that our name was '5K Crashers.'

We got our pictures taken with the local Hooters girls. Supposedly, those pics will be posted on this same site; runresults.net

Sometimes... 

...you just got to rock. 

New (to me) songs/bands/flight blocks

I’m missing the season finale of Rockstar: INXS; I’m on the schedule for 2 night flights (formations complete today); however, excited to fly these flights though.

‘Hell Yes’ by Beck.

‘Go It Alone’ by Beck.

The Statler Brothers:
‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken’
‘Do You Remember These?’
‘The Class of ‘57’

The Rents. 

Bah-sten 

Charles & MORE DUCKS! 

Historics. 

Our sweet bikes that we took off of some sweet jumps. Don't be jealous. 

Pretty sweet Newport beach sand sculpture. 

Pulling in to Newport. 

Newport Bridge....not called that though....Pops? This is the mighty bridge that keeps N.A.P.S.ters sane. 

Providence from the new high speed ferry. You can barely make out the Biltmore sign right in the center of the photo. 

Formation solo flight today; it rocked:

Yes, everytime I sling my dog tags around my neck I hear GDDCBCBAAGABABCBGBA....sorry (Top Gun theme song).

This flight is most student’s favorite flight in Flight School. It was definitely in my top 3. When I flew with our Skipper a couple weeks ago, his comment on our initial accent resonates still, “There are worse jobs, Jim!”

No kidding!

The trigometry works out that when flying formations in the T-34, we’re just shy of 11’ apart from each other – and they trust us to fly these alone! For us Coasties, these flights are essentially pointless, but who cares?!, they’re fun.

Our formation call sign was ‘Metal.’ My form partner is an Italian exchange student. I always said, ‘it works out for our language barrier that most comms are via hand signals…’ It’s pretty badass to hear ‘Metal’ over the radio in a thick Italian accent. I wanted our callsign to be ‘Callsign’ or ‘Deznuts.’ I didn’t think they’d fly (pun very intended). You want the word to be 2 syllables and clear with hard sounds like ‘Short Track.’ Some good ones lately: ‘Ramrod,’ ‘Jedi,’ & ‘Jitterbug.’ It’s good comic relief when you’re up there focusing on the maneuvers and ‘Ramrod’ is transmitted. I then recite the entire Super Troopers scene in my head.

So that’s that for my solo days…until I rent a Cesna or something.

"Girl" by Beck.

New Metal:

"I Died For You" by Iced Earth
"Bullet Ride" by In Flames

There's this genre that I haven't heard of or simply heard until a week ago; battle metal. It's like medieval metal but totally different from goth....not anything like goth. It has these keyboarded horns - totally fun!

Same meaning, different spelling?:

Synonyms are different words having the same meaning.


Homophones are words that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.
(‘Homonym’ and ‘homograph’ are synonyms for ‘homophone’).

Heteronyms are words that have the same spelling as another word but with a different pronunciation and meaning.
('Heteronyms' and 'homographs' are also synonyms).

(And since my lousy research revealed the possible anomaly with the word ‘homograph,’ ‘homograph’ is a homophone).


So, what are words with the same meaning, but different spellings called?

3 come to mind right away; theater/theatre, center/centre, and color/colour.

I ask, because I don’t know.

This picture corresponds with the below link. 

The BNR Metal Pages

Best, and only for all I know, exclusive metal page. I heard of it this afternoon and already have some new short-term-favorite metal bands.


Turisas is one of these new fav's.

1st time. 

Aramark served CGA. 

'Ehhhhh Batttah!' 

Pre-game. 

WEATHERMAN GETS INTERUPTED

WEATHERMAN GETS INTERUPTED

Proof that i got to drive one of these bad boys: 

Ride the Ducks is always a humorous and informative tour...at least in Seattle, Providence, and Boston. 

Last Aerobatic solo flight and last real solo for a while:

Kind of a crazy day. Lately I've been extremely stressed about making this Friday’s commercial flight to Boston. See, I’m trying to catch a 3:08 flight but I may have a tie-cutting ceremony, the hurricane…yadda yadda… So it was such a treat to get up in the air with today’s unusually stellar weather.

I flew with the Skipper for my Safe For Solo flight and he promptly got me back in the air before sundown. This last flight was my favorite flight thus far. I will get a few more solo flights but only with an instructor tailing behind our formation. Depending on what rotary airframe I get next year, I may not fly solo like this until 1. I rent a Cesna somewhere (not likely) or 2. I fly my own single-engine personal plane (don’t own yet) as a 55 year old retiree. No matter, I cherished the flight, did the aerobatic maneuvers, and flew low, checking out the east coast of Mobile Bay. The sun was setting, there was no traffic, and I…was...alone…