And Loughead eventually became Lockheed.

This is what Russia does with its time and money. It builds war machines and trains troops. Don’t get me wrong, the United States does the same thing. The difference lies in that the United States government has fostered a thriving infrastructure of business and technology which has trickled down from military, NASA,…

I’ve spent the majority of my life in fire and EMS services. Several years ago, I found myself spending time in Russia between Moscow and parts of Siberia. In America, anyone can just walk in to a fire station and talk to the guys or ask for a tour of the station or fire trucks. It happens all the time. I thought I…

I actually owned the Spiderman/Superman team-up comic as a kid. I was 10 when it came out and I thought it was one of the greatest things ever. While I still have many of the comics I bought in the mid 70's as a kid, I somehow lost that particular comic. It was an over-sized comic book, quite a bit larger than others…

“While most of us don’t have a job that allows us to slip the surly bonds of Earth”

I’ve done this before, and it definitely works. Just don’t be evil.

Alexa on the Fire Stick. OK, I’ll take it. I’m not sure how often I’ll use it, but it can be fun to play with. My buddy has an Echo and uses it for his shopping list. Any time they think of something they need, they tell Alexa to add it to the shopping list. Any time they’re out of the room, I’ll tell Alexa to add…

The app on your phone or tablet has a voice search function. Alternatively, you can purchase a voice enabled remote. I have a voice remote for one of my 1st gen Fire Sticks. I’ve hardly used the voice capabilities, but the remote itself is larger and seems more ergonomic than the original remote.

“This telecast is copyrighted by the NFL for the private use of our audience. Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL’s consent, is prohibited.”

I know the correct answer is supposed to be, pay off my bills, quite my job and go on vacation. In that order. Nah, The first thing I’d do is to buy every cool Lego set on the planet, and many of the custom one-off creations. Everything else will come after that.

Sometimes the mutual understanding is to agree to disagree. It doesn’t mean one loves science and the other does not.

These things don’t bother me, so I watched it. There’s almost nothing in the video disturbing in a gory manner. It is disturbing to see the kid hanging out his window and texting while a man he just killed is laying in the street behind his car.

“consider asking if you truly need the ride”

I think it’s just an interesting convergence, because yes, many people avoided CPR because of the mouth to mouth aspect. I did hands only CPR on my neighbor a couple winters ago who was out shoveling snow. While shoveling in his driveway, his heart stopped and he fell over, essentially, dead. I was able to start…

I’ve always preferred a scoop stretcher in almost every situation because of the way it wraps slightly around a person. Unfortunately, it wasn’t considered standard of care, so if there was even a hint that someone fell or was involved in a collision, they automatically received a C collar and backboard. I’m really…

CPR is typically tweaked here and there every few years. There’s almost always a small change of some kind somewhere. Hands only CPR is the biggest change to hit CPR since CPR became a thing. I’ve been an American Heart Association CPR instructor for over 30 years now, and the latest changes are huge. They’re also…

Another recent and huge shift is moving away from backboards and cervical collars for people who have fallen or been in car accidents. Of course, this has been the standard of care in emergency medicine since the 60’s. If you fell or were in a motor vehicle collision of any kind and went to the hospital by ambulance,…

Here’s one which flew over my house a couple times back on 9-17-15. This is an aircraft I actually see fairly often, yet I’ll never tire of watching it fly through the sky.

I’m not a rule fetishist, but I absolutely knew that was a rule, and I’ve seen this penalty called many times over the years by other refs. That the ref let it go is just amazing to me.

Personally, I prefer the Fire Stick, although I have to admit that I’ve never used or owned a Roku. I purchased the Chromecast on day one, just as I did the Fire Stick. Having used both, I personally feel the Fire Stick is far superior to the Chromecast. The Fire Stick actually runs Android as the operating system.…