Pima Air and Space Museum and the Davis-Monthan Boneyard

Went out to Tucson last weekend ahead of some business meetings I had in Tempe on Tuesday. Primary purpose: visit the AMARG and the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base airplane boneyard (I think “boneyard” sounds less ominous than “graveyard”, although I suppose maybe it shouldn’t). Tours of the boneyard are facilitated by the Pima Air and

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How Many Things Can You Find Wrong with This Article?

Teed-off pro golfer who killed hawk in Orlando area apologizes Here are the problems I found (from top of the article to bottom): That being convicted of “killing a migratory bird” is punishable by up to a year in prison. The quote: “It’s just senseless when people kill wildlife when they are doing nothing but

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The DIY Kitchen Table Project is Done (or Close Enough)

Here’s proof: It turns out that, size-wise, the table’s more of a writing table than a kitchen table. The idea that two people could eat at this little guy is almost laughable. Oh well. It’s the size that would fit in the allotted space, so I’ll deal with it. The table isn’t for me anyway:

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States That Do Not Love Me

According to Google Analytics, my blog has only been visited by people in 39 of the 50 US states + DC. Here’s who’s missing out: Alaska Delaware Maine Michigan (and I sort of *lived there* for four weeks) Mississippi Missouri Montana Rhode Island South Dakota Vermont West Virginia Wyoming Punks. Clearly the M-states are killing

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Energy Drink Challenge: Monster vs. Full Throttle Fury

The quest for the perfect daily beverage-as-drug continues. The last four days have witnessed my first encounters with both Monster and Full Throttle Fury. Next week, Cocaine! (Actually, I think they got forced to change their name. Oh well.) Monster: Tastes like someone melted every flavor of Jolly Rancher ever conceived and then mixed it

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US War Deaths per Day by Conflict (War, Battle) and How Iraq Compares

These should be in order chronologically and it’s admittedly a little weighted toward the Pacific Theater of World War II. In case you don’t want to read to the bottom, Iraq: 3,973 deaths in 1,806 days, 2.2 deaths/day. Event US Deaths Duration Deaths/Day Lexington & Concord (Revolution) 50 1 day 50.0 Estimated death count (US

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Blog Post Titles with Colons: My Personal Shame

Four of the last six? I gotta learn to mix things up with the titles. (And what’s with all the em-dashes? How old *am* I? Twenty-three? Jeez.) bkd

Experimenting with Drugs: How Alternating Doses of Energy Drink and Melatonin Have Kept Me Alive Another Two Days

One big upside to having a widescreen laptop is that you can do ridiculously long blog post titles without getting to the end of the input form. Just FYI. The last couple days I’ve been dosing myself with Energy Drink in the morning (8 oz./morning, Rockstar Juice variety) and then loading up with melatonin to

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Trabuco Road Delenda Erat

(Vince, you out there? How’d I do on my conjugation?) Closed shop on my spec-fic literary magazine dream. Officially. It’s probably been dead since last summer — at least, in my heart. I feel bad for holding onto some stories over that time. It’s probably not the biggest crime ever committed by an editor, but

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Getting Closer: My Do-It-Yourself Kitchen Table Project So Far

I love writing blog post headlines for the sake of search engine findability. Seems honest. We’ll see where I end up ranking. So I’m building my own kitchen table, a *small* one. Here’s what I’ve learned so far: Wood glue alone isn’t strong enough to hold a table together. And good luck trying to get

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