Archives for January 2007
Our House Is For Sale
brentdanley
Kirsten and I have been planning to leave Kansas since 1996 when the Air Force issued our Permanent Change of Station (PCS) orders while we were living at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. I’ve now graduated from WSU, Kirsten has recovered from her surgery and is done with post-operative care, and the remaining […]
Boeing Corporation’s New 797 Aircraft
A coworker forwarded an email to me today about Boeing Corporation’s new 797 “blended-wing-body” aircraft. The picture attached to the email (posted here) is quite interesting. This aircraft will likely never come to market but it’s fun to think about the future of airplane design. Aerospaceweb.org has additional information as well […]
Vegans Muted By Fanaticism
Doug Lloyd
I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few days ago about a vegan chef in NYC. The article wasn’t especially interesting to me as its focus was preparing delicious vegan dishes. What is interesting is the vegan lifestyle. Veganism is, according to the Vegan Society:
A philosophy and way of living […]
Phlickr PHP5 Libraries
goodlux
I recently purchased Building Flickr Applications With PHP from Amazon.com and read it on the airplane to Boston. The authors, Rob Kunkle and Andrew Morton, do a fantastic job explaining how to install the Phlickr PHP5 libraries and use them to harness the power of the Flickr API.
I’ve recently started using Phlickr to write code […]
Car Chase
brentdanley
I witnessed a car chase today while taking pictures of trains.
On the drive home I crossed some railroad tracks and noticed an approaching train. I quickly pulled onto the first side street and parked in front of a car that had been pulled over by the police. I put the 18-75mm glass on […]
Snow!
kirstendanley
We had some good snow yesterday so today I took the girls outside for some fun. We made snow people, had lots of fights, and built a fort. This is probably the girls’ first experience with good snow. We don’t get much snow here in Wichita and what little falls is usually tiny dry flakes […]
Freedom of Religion
The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Warren Jeffs, was arrested in August 2006 on felony charges for accomplice of rape for allegedly arranging the marriage of a 16-year-old girl to a married man. This raises interesting questions about religious freedom. Can you do whatever you want […]
The Bush Administration and Due Process
The remarks this week by Charles D. Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs at the Pentagon, should cause outrage inside the Bush Administration and cost Mr. Stimson his job. According to a New York Times report Mr. Stimson said he was “dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation’s top […]
Military Training Instructor “Stripped” of Duties
I’ve never understood why Christians who believe God created humans in his image could also find that very creation disgusting, vulgar, and shameful. The line dividing church and state is becoming less and less clear.
My February issue of Playboy Magazine arrived today. In it is a beautiful pictorial of Michelle Manhart, a US Air Force […]
Letter to a Christian Nation
Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation is only ninety-one very small pages long. I started it last night and finished tonight although it could easily be read straight through in one evening. The letter is written to Christians who wrote Sam letters in response to his much larger volume, The End of Faith. While […]