The Washington Post reports Rumsfeld gave military officials the authority to shoot down, if necessary, a small plane that wandered into restricted airspace over the nation’s capital May 11. The plane, one of the federal officials said, came within “15 to 20 seconds” of being downed before its pilots finally heeded repeated orders to turn away from the city Actually, I suspect the story is BS and just an attempt to scare people. ]]>
Internet Radio links on PenguinRadio this week. Man it is a pain to keep them current. I have about 200 broken links left to fix, and I’m sure as soon as that is done and I run the program, the link checker will kick back another 200 or so offline (college radio stations are often offline in the summer, which really blows). At least my hand isn’t killing me. In other news, I think I’m going to be getting one of these shortly. ]]>
The other day I’m sitting downstairs when Trooper 7, the Maryland State Police helicopter on the Eastern Shore flies overhead heading towards its base in Easton. No big deal–happens a lot.
But about a mile offshore, it banked heavily and came right back toward my house. I mean right at my house. About 100 yards offshore, it stopped, hovering right outside. It put down its gear and stayed hovering.
Needless to say, I was a bit curious. I flipped on the Coast Guard radio to discover two jet skiiers had crashed just down the way about 50 yards. I flipped on the boots and tromped along the shoreline to find one of the jet skis sunk and the other under repair. But then they asked me “have you seen a canoe?”
“No”
“He’s missing”
I then looked to the pier and saw some firemen from North Beach and from the Navy base looking out to sea. I climbed up to talk to them and they said a canoe was missing and thought to be in the drink. The helicopter started searching down the shore and eventually reported “I see a canoe about two miles past the Navy base.” The firemen mounted up and drove down there to investigate, and I decided to head back home.
I then ran into my neighbor who said “It’s my canoe–someone borrowed it without asking. Stupid dumb ass.”
Well, it eventually turned out they found the guy. He was in town at a bar, just borrowing the canoe to “get some bait” to go fishing but he changed his mind and decided to get a drink.
Life in the country.]]>
120 shots to kill the five buffalo. Didn’t the Indians used to kill them with a few arrows? So much for semi-autmoatics being these awful deadly weapons. Can’t even kill a cow…]]>
The Seattle Times reports that these $30,000 tires that go on the big dump trucks are almost impossible to find. I should go scour some playgrounds where they’ve been turned into sandboxes I guess.]]>
Air Force One landed with three engines in Georgia, the first 747 ever to land in Tiblisi apparently. Guess they weren’t sure if it there would be too much power or something. ]]>
Radio Programs rather than just radio stations, as is the case with PenguinRadio. I’m scraping the schedules of major radio stations to determine what is on when and then making it available to those who come over to my site. It’s working pretty well, but I’ve got to find a way to do it in a more automated fashion. We’ll see how it goes. ]]>
PenguinRadio. This is what I’ve wanted to do, and said I would do as long as far back as 1999, but just never could find the right tools to make it happen. But now it is, and you can look at what programs radio stations are playing at any given time (still needs more work and other stations, but it is coming along. ]]>