Posts Tagged ‘flying’

Fly-In/Drive-In Breakfast at Marion Airport

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Every year for the 4th of July, Cedar Rapids puts on this huge fes­ti­val to cel­e­brate. It starts up in mid-June and goes through the 4th. For the past sev­eral years, Ariesna and I have bought but­tons for the fes­ti­val1 but have missed most of the fes­ti­val. Given that we live in Cedar Rapids now, […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jul 1, 2007

Serenity

Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews

As my long time read­ers might recall, I watched a show called Fire­fly a while back and greatly enjoyed it. This week, thanks to one of my co-workers, I had an opporunity to drive 5 & 1/2 hours to plant my butt in a packed movie the­ater at 10 o’clock with a bro­ken air conditioner. […]

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Read more | Comments (3) | Jun 24, 2005

Online Games

Posted by Mark | Filed under Site News

I know I’ve not posted in a while; I just haven’t felt like it and life’s been kind of tir­ing. Even this keeps up, I prob­a­bly won’t be post­ing for a bit again but here are a cou­ple of online games to keep you amused in the mean­time: In this Chess game, –which requires Java– […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Mar 7, 2005

Low Flying Cameras

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links

.… these folks over at the RC Groups forums who have been rig­ging up small dig­i­tal cam­eras to their R/C air­planes and get­ting some fan­tas­tic low-altitude aer­ial pic­tures. The trick is to find cam­eras that are light enough not .… 2005 Cal­en­dar Entries [RCGroups] Kudos to Giz­modo for the link! My favorite entry is a toss […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Dec 2, 2004

Review: Steaming pile of poo

Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews

Over the week­end, I had the oppor­tu­nity to go and see Sky Cap­tain and the World of Tomor­row. Wow was that ever a mis­take! I went in know­ing that most of the review­ers out there had said it was bad and about half of the geeks were say­ing the same1. How­ever the trail­ers for the […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Sep 27, 2004

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