Author: Ian

Update!  Pictures Here Well, it took 2 days, but we made it back from Savannah — here’s the story of the trip.  We flew there a week ago Saturday and had a few days to aclimatize before the classes started.  I took two full day classes on Assisted GPS (using a cell phone with some…

Item Number 1: We finally got our last package that we mailed from Europe.  It was sent July 14th from Liverpool and got here today.  We had all forgotten what was even IN IT.  But “Yay” all the same.  We were just starting to think we should put a trace on it or something. Item…

A buddy of mine, who I used to play a lot of guitar with, got some of his work put up on Youtube today.  He’s the tall, bald, drink of water playing the yellow guitar on the left.  Have a look at the other videos that are related, he’s in a fair bunch of them….

Over the last couple of months, the Canadian Space Agency has been recruiting potential astronauts for their next batch, and, of course, I applied.  I made it through the first cut of 5000 applicants, but not through the second cut of 2000 applicants.  Sigh.  Oh well, I didn’t really think I’d get in, but hoped…

I have finally uploaded a selection (200 out of about 4000) pictures to my gallery on the Squid.  I evenwent so far as to caption them all so you can see where they are without me telling you.  Give yourself a good 15 minutes to have a peruse.  I DIDN’T upload great huge 5 megapixel…