Unrelated, but he was assigned to Alamogoo-goo when my wife was born there, which I found just as interesting as the whole article.

Always good to meet fellow writers, even if it's one blogs like this. Most of my experience comes from screenplay writing (a couple of which have gone on to win awards, so there's been some limited success) and short stories. The project I have now is an animated thing so I'll probably never get it done unless I "wow"…

This right here is the boat that I've been in for going on six years now with a project of my own. The only thing holding me back is affording the art; everything else is pretty much done.

Stuff like this makes me grin. Sometimes my dog will interrupt a video chat between me and my wife and he is always so confused, yet excited, to see and hear me. He'll always cock his head over to one side until it's almost vertical, then bark and whimper and wag. He's a doofus but I love him.

Stuff like this really makes me hate my high-school-aged self for identifying as a staunch Republican. It's not like this is anything really new; I'm sure they were holding the same strange beliefs back in the early Aughts.

It looks almost like "panic braking" right there at the end. He's luckier than most people, though I bet he still spent some money fixing the legs. I'd have them inspected first thing after something like that. Those old Maules are tough but they do have their limits.

As the owner of an old M20E, I can tell you that it definitely is a Mooney thing. There's a certainly mindset that comes with owning one, I guess. It doesn't like soft fields all that much but it'll do what I tell it to with the occasional grumble. Not much room for error, though.

Sounds like the gearbox either seized up or started to eat itself. It looked like a typical auto-rotation (from what I could see) and he put it into the drink upright, which is very good.

Also, I looked it up. That's a Maule M-7-235C. Those things can take-off with only 250 of runway. At most, they'll use 900 some-odd feet for landing. They're ideal for situations like this.

Honestly, no, it's not. Your first few landings will seem harrowing but you'll have enough instruction and ground school beforehand to make it relatively safe. By that I mean you'll know when to abort a bad landing and when to continue through to touchdown. All too often I see new pilots trying to force an airplane to…

I can't tell what that aircraft is, but I'd wager its landing speed is around 50knts and he's doing at least 70 or better. Even with the barn doors out, the speed and sink rate are hard to control at that altitude. He may be going slower, but it's difficult to tell.

I get the feeling that the FAA is going to try to classify these as aircraft, requiring the use of radios and transponders and requiring operators to understand Part 91 regulations, and then do likewise with typical R/C aircraft to keep the playing field level. All based on the type of hysteria the word "drone" seems…

A fair and valid point. I don't know much about the technical limitations so that's enlightening.

That's actually pretty remarkable. It makes me wonder what the size of GTA5's map would be if they added in San Fierro and Las Venturas to it, and whether or not the next-gen consoles could handle a map that size without significant loading times.

Even after working in the food service industry, I'm still amazed by how some people choose to act and/or react. I never understood why anyone, especially educated people, believe that acting like this or saying these things is appropriate simply because someone is serving you. One of my managers used to equate it to…

I find this to be an intriguing twist on Half-Life, and I think it demonstrates how well some of the levels were laid out. Plus the sense of scale, such as the Lambda Complex's reactor and the Anti-Mass Spectrometer in C-33/a.

Just the '79 Bronco? If I could find a way to mount a M134 on my Mazda, it would make it a better car. Everything's better when you can fart bullets at everything else.

Looks like the -A model there. I'd wager it'll be the only one able to carry and fire a respectable (I use the term loosely) amount of anything pictured here. The -C model even less and the -B model less still.

I bet all those Hot Pockets would still be frozen in the middle.

I've seen one too many baseball games where the home team comes back with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and walks off. Like Gibson's home run exemplified, it ain't over 'til it's over.