Christopher Blizzard

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Month: January, 2004

Rollerball was a terrible movie.

It's not like shaver
didn't warn me or anything. It's just that I can't resist
sometimes.
Last Sunday I had my first instrument flight that included
actually flying in a real live airplane. There was an airmet
[...]

Damn the man.

Everyone should stop and take the time to read this
article, even the non-geeks.

haha made you look

Does this
look familar to anyone else?

I blame bz.

An
excellent little article on framing. I tend to think about
these things in most conversations I have and especially when I'm
dealing with anything coming out of the media. Many times it's
not the answer that's important, [...]

I blame alecf.

Right now I'm trying to backport galeon 1.2.7 to Mozilla 1.6.
Don't ask why. It's not that much fun as there have been some
signifigant changes to the charset manager interface as well as
some other small changes. Apparently, a [...]

I’m going to need to eat something soon.

I had another instrument lesson on Saturday. It went OK, but not
great. My scan kept breaking down in the simulator so the one
approach I did was messy, at best. In an embarrassing moment I
discovered that the [...]

do you know what a localizer is?

Had two back-to-back instrument lessons over this weekend with my
instructor, using a sim when appropriate. Did my first ILS
approach yesterday and another one today. I'm reasonably
comfortable doing VOR and NDB approaches at this point as well. I
[...]

where our star shows off his white trash leanings

I have to admit, I haven't been impressed with the look of a car
in quite some time but the new
Mustang makes my heart jump a bit. I think they did a really
good job with echoing the style of [...]

mars attacks!

This image needs a new title. Discuss.

it’s a new year

Back from a whirlwind tour of the northeastern united states and
canada. Spent new year's with Mike in toronto which was a lot of
fun. Having a GPS for these trips means you can build interesting
statistics. For example:

Syracuse [...]