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Coincidentally, a 175 showed up on Coatesville (Indianapolis) Craigslist recently. Asking $18,000. Charitably speaking, its condition is: "needs work". But it has been kept indoors, airframe looks OK.

The internet, as artifact, has been one of history's great Force Multipliers. Analogous to the internal combustion engine, the automatic rifle, the vacuum tube, the electric motor, it made some form of power available to the poorest of individuals. Changed our politics; altered our perceptions...

Hmmm, erratic behavior, sudden onset, reset helps temporarily, situation worsening, latest firmware no better... Dunno, routers are pretty simple internally these days. Once you set them up, they stay stable. Could be your wall wart. Once their capacitors begin to leak, they go out of spec on...

Reddit r/flying recently had a posting about a lakefront flight complicated by a stadium TFR. Exciting moments under the class B, with nearby airline traffic.

This place exemplifies the Boondock Paradox: when you finally get away from it all, everything is far away. And this place is hot: summertime temps well over 100F daily, with only trace amounts of rain. Forget convenience stores. In your hour-long drive to the nearest Trader Joes, you will pass...

The privacy guys are talking up tutanota.com these days.

No. They work or they don't. But, as you suspect, they can be compromised/infected/rooted, etc.. There are a few things you can check. Log in to the router's administrative area, check the logs, see if there is lots of traffic to odd places in the world. Sometimes, routers offer a graph of...

Chicago native here. This guy, to be charitable (and polite), was a blowhard, spinning yarns to credulous reporters, just for the sake of seeing them go to print with his stories. The Italians in my old neighborhood were perfectly fine folks. They joked that you could tell they weren't Irish...

Lots of Lucent employees were true believers, and held stock in their employer as a matter of pride. Nice when the company is on top of the world, and you have a few thousand shares. In the post-telco crash, such people were impoverished. In a web site that keeps track of such things...

And what's with that whole Italian persona? Is that from the Calabrian Isaacsons? You gotta wonder...

BS Electronics, Michigan State. Worked for a time with Industrial and Mechanical engineers, got registered in Illinois (no specialty). Worked straight embedded logic design, it was rare to have any PE colleagues. Masters degree, Computer Science, focussed on communications protocols. Worked...

Simon at Convoy flashlights makes single-quantity, semicustom, lights at reasonable prices. Search "orange S2+ flashlight, with XPL HI led inside and ar-coated glass,biscotti firmware" at aliexpress for an example. The U64C emitter, and 7135x3 driver, give a daylight color temp, and plenty...

Definitely appealing in that role. I always liked Keith Carradine, too. He once did a dead-on portrayal of an engineer (and pilot), got the know-it-all personality just right. Typically, performers go overly nerd/introvert in these roles, way awkward, embarrassing to watch. But Keith was...

Sunflower oil is fine, too. Once nicely browned, serve with a few drops of premium olive oil. Fresh scallops are of course the best. But the frozen ones at Aldi are not bad at all. A local French place serves up thin-sliced scallops, cooked but cooled, with a light vinaigrette dressing, for...

Yes, it's last year's model. Functionally pretty much the same as the latest, with the exception of Apple Pencil support. If that's important, you may have to pony up the $160 (plus the outrageous pencil cost). I got the 10.5 pro and pencil last year, it is a nicely engineered combo and works...

The time is just about here. Hundreds of companies are in the genetic engineering space. The general idea is to snip the bad genes out the DNA molecule, and substitute good or harmless stuff (I am simplifying here). Thereby, the problems with every living thing become solvable, from Alzheimers...

On the topic of memorable netflix comedy lines: "Street Smarts!"; John Mulaney, Chicago Irish guy. Any number of vulgar reminiscences about previous boyfriends; Ali Wong, San Francisco Chinese woman. The kids know all about this stuff, btw.

Beautiful flying day for sure. Lakefront was the scenic route. Did you return the same way? or to the west?

Hi- I am a veteran of THR surgery: 1st one done in the 1970s--shocked the AME when I went in for my 3rd class medical. I had a great recovery and had no problem using the rudder of a 150. I went thru revision THR some 10 years ago, outcome not so positive. I have a bit of range of motion...

As a super-rusty private pilot just getting back into flying around the Chicago area, I like the extended videos. Learned a bit about landing at Schaumburg, which I should be doing in the next few days.