tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75764882024-03-13T03:30:47.593-07:00The HyperfacetHere I try to put ideas together in ways that perhaps are not immediately apparent. After all everything and every cause and effect is ultimately related to every other. Finding these hyper-dimensional ties between things and pointing them out is my pleasure, and indulgence here.Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-40488187538495023632011-07-28T19:24:00.000-07:002011-07-28T20:32:34.669-07:00About the Debt CeilingWhat they are NOT telling us about the Borrowing Limit (aka Debt Ceiling);<br /><br />The Debt ceiling is getting Lower every day because of inflation.<br /><br />Today the Debt ceiling is 14.3 Trillion US$ or 303.4 thousand tons of Gold.<br /><br />Last year, 2010, in June the Debt ceiling was 12.4 trillion US$ or 336.1 thousand tons of Gold.<br /><br />So when measured in Gold the debt ceiling has fallen since last year by 32 thousand tons of Gold.<br /><br />Why do I get the impression I'm hitting the upper atmosphere on a de-orbit without a heat shield?Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-16912871120850489082011-07-28T10:56:00.001-07:002011-07-28T13:11:12.020-07:00US Borrowing Limit POSTULATE<div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix"><div><p>Postulate;</p><p>The DEBT Ceiling OR Borrowing limit is irrelevant.</p><p>REASONING;</p><p>The USA CAN NOT Borrow any more money.</p><p>Witness the following observation (AND MATH);</p><p><a href="http://hyperfaceted.blogspot.com/2010/07/whats-in-gram-part-ii.html">Last Years Calculation</a><br /></p><p>Last year, that's right One Year Ago, the national debt was equivalent to 352,242.3 tons of GOLD. More gold than the entire production of the world since we first started digging the little gold flecks out of the sand.</p><p>TODAY, the National Debt is only worth 303,378.91 tons of GOLD. A drop of 48.9 thousand tons and now in range of total worldwide estimated gold ever mined.</p><p>The Postulate is that; "WE CAN NEVER BORROW MORE MONEY THAN THERE ACTUALLY IS". The laws of physics prevent it and there is an actual physical limit beyond witch we can't go.</p><p>Lets talk about this on the golf course with speaker Boehner and president Obama.<br /></p><p>Notes;</p><p><span jsid="text">National Debt per GoldPrice<br />GoldPrice = US$ 1615.30 / troyounce = 51933.101 US$ / kg<br />NationalDebt = 14293065510000 US$</span></p><p><span jsid="text">14293065510000 US$ / 51933.101 US$ / kg<br />= 275220.72 thousand kg<br />= 303378.91 ton of gold</span></p></div></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-34431687182213057682010-07-11T10:02:00.000-07:002010-07-11T10:02:41.920-07:00Plane Taking Off<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/TDn5I3bmbCI/AAAAAAAACIM/7rFsdnZYV7Y/s1600/IMG_7279.JPG"><img alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/TDn5I3bmbCI/AAAAAAAACIM/7rFsdnZYV7Y/s400/IMG_7279.JPG" border="0" /></a><div style="clear: both;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent;" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-84289193032260152942010-07-01T20:19:00.000-07:002010-07-01T22:13:45.962-07:00Whats in a gram (part II Gold)I just did a quick back of the envelope calculation I was curious about;<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Washington State Debt</span><br /><br />6 Billion US$<br />325,240 lbs gold<br /> 162.6 tons gold<br /><br />Or an 8 ft diameter sphere of solid gold<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Federal Debt</span><br /><br />13 Trillion (+/- a few Billion) US$<br />352,242.3 tons of gold<br /><br />Or a 103.6 ft diameter sphere of gold<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And an interesting observation;</span><br /><br />In the entire history of humanity it is estimated that the total amount of gold ever mined is 343,000 tons of gold. That's 20 million years of mining the stuff AND ITS 10,000 tons less than the amount of DEBT we have.<br /><br />I'll email you numbers if you want to check my figures. I used the recent record high for the price of gold of $1,260/troy ounce.Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-38074318209614872732010-06-18T01:26:00.000-07:002010-06-19T15:19:25.257-07:00Jill England 36th District Legislature<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/TBstsTUNJsI/AAAAAAAACIA/p6nd85x1TGo/s1600/IMG_2914.JPG"><img alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/TBstsTUNJsI/AAAAAAAACIA/p6nd85x1TGo/s320/IMG_2914.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><h3>Professional Experience</h3><br />Software Designer/Engineer; Creating software for private industry and State of Washington DOAG, DSHS, Seattle DOJ, Federal Public Health Service <br /><br /><h3>Education</h3><br />Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems University of Puget Sound 1984<br /><br /><h3>Statement</h3><br />$6.2 Billion dollars in the red and Olympia can’t cut spending. That’s $931 for every person. Next year will be higher with pensions still unfunded. It’s time to bring common sense back to our state.<br /><ul><br /><li>I believe in improving our education system by giving teachers more autonomy.</li><br /><li>I'll cut wasteful spending.</li><br /><li>I’ll not ignore the people’s tax initiatives.</li><br /><li>I’ll reduce business manufacturing bureaucracy that is driving jobs from our state.</li><br /><li>I'm against the income tax initiative because it does not eliminate other taxes such as sales tax and we know it will eventually be applied to all state citizens.</li><br /></ul>Help me restore fiscal responsibility to our state!<div style="clear: both;"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none; padding: 0px; background: none repeat scroll 0% 50% transparent;" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-9568945602883169222010-06-13T13:50:00.000-07:002010-06-14T16:09:57.096-07:00VFR not recommended ...<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/TBVEioAbIUI/AAAAAAAACH0/UrbX5txSJ6U/s1600/IMG_6375.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CLEAR: both" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/TBVEioAbIUI/AAAAAAAACH0/UrbX5txSJ6U/s320/IMG_6375.JPG" /></a><br /></div><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Preflght, on arrival do not fly over the cylindrical building at the end of runway eight. Contact Portland Approach for Mandatory Advisory 119.0 before PDX airspace. VFR not recommended due to low ceilings en-route.</span><br /><centered><br /></centered><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><centered>Walls within walls and the brick in this wall is round.</centered><br /><centered>Walls soft and hard,</centered><br /><centered>My destination surrounded, controlled,</centered><br /><centered>The sky gray, covered.</centered><br /><centered>Before me this cover touched the hills, impenetrable.</centered><br /><centered>Over the hills my destination lay.</centered><br /><centered>Decisively, ninety degrees right I turned</centered><br /><centered>So I would go West instead of South,</centered><br /><centered>And dodge,</centered><br /><centered>And weave,</centered><br /><centered>Below and then above,</centered><br /><centered>Looking for the door I knew was there,</centered><br /><centered>Rechecking, always feeling something was left undone,</centered><br /><centered>Around the storm and hills I flew</centered><br /><centered>To the valley of the great western river called Columbia,</centered><br /><centered>Through the valley I approached the Metropolis,</centered><br /><centered>Listening as Pearson weather crackled to life through the static,</centered><br /><centered>I contacted the controller,</centered><br /><centered>Who instructed, ordered, requested,</centered><br /><centered>I stay below her airspace,</centered><br /><centered>And I ducked below the limit,</centered><br /><centered>And was then too low to easily see my destination,</centered><br /><centered>Then I saw the round brick,</centered><br /><centered>The cylindrical tower of apartments</centered><br /><centered>I had been told to avoid,</centered><br /><centered>Marking the end of the runway and my destination.</centered><br /><centered>I turned, I flared and landed with the wind.</centered><br /><centered></centered><br /><centered style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Inspired by flight from Harvey to Pearson Field June 2010</centered><br /><centered></centered></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; CLEAR: both"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px" border="0" alt="Posted by Picasa" align="middle" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-33219439926348250362009-04-21T19:56:00.000-07:002009-04-24T13:58:11.757-07:00A Civil Life<div align="left">The current crisis of conservatism in America is of dire concern for all of us. Bottomless debt, the end of the ideals, end of freedom, and end of the promise of a better life looms above our necks as the proverbial sword of Damocles, while we squirm on the block struggling against all hope for a reprieve. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Many have feared these days were coming. Back in 1970's the incredible debt and inflation of the era put fear into many. But the problem never got better. Except for a brief respite in the 1980's government has grown more powerful, more intrusive, and more irresponsible at a logarithmically increasing rate. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Today many of our own neighbors will tell us, yes the end of America as we knew it is at hand and yes the totalitarianists are at our very gates but, let it come, it's not so different than what we have now, and we will find a way to live under their rule. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Shame on them! Shame on Americans who would not support freedom and Shame on us for not speaking out against this among our own friends. For these phony Americans will not find some benign dictator in the wave of oppression that is to come. They will find the most brutal despots, those without a true religion, without a true civil government and who destroy all hope of families to succeed on even the most basic of levels. They will be but slaves in their masters empire. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">For these despots do not believe in individuals striving to make themselves better people, they seek absolute control through the application of violence against the governed, and they despise the notion of the basic union of one man and one woman to form a functional family unit and as the basis of an individually rewarding and enduring society. </div><div align="center"><strong>A True Religion,<br />A True Civil Government,<br />A True Domestic Life </strong></div><div align="left">These are the foundations of America. These are the principles our founding fathers attempted to protect when they codified the Federal Government. These are the principles we have not lived up to in the last 100 years, and the punishment for not living up to these ideals is coming down upon our heads and we must admit that we justly deserve it.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">Before we can win our fight against the Marxists we must recognize our own personal failings in these areas and we must not suffer that lies spoken against these ideals be uttered unchallenged. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">In the arena of a True Religion, we must allow that a true religion requires that every individual admit their faults, and recognize that they can and must strive to personally improve, not by their own judgment but in the eyes of their creator. This is and underpinning assumption of our society, that the individual can better himself not just financially but also spiritually.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">In the arena of a True Civil Government, we must never rule by the sword, that is never rule by murder. The Turks ruled by murder in the 15 through 17 hundreds. This was paralleled by the papacy and Spain ruling by murder during the Spanish inquisition. In the Americas of this time the colonists terrorized their populations and burned “witches” at the stake. Criminal gangs employ rule by the sword, murdering their rivals and civil authorities. Immediately you should think that these incidents are not on the same scale, but they are on the same scale in the heart. Once you choose that path you are a murderer and it’s only a matter of your price which will get larger every day as you attempt to maintain and extend your power. It can start small with simple trials and over year’s blossom into a full fledged murdering witch-hunt-inquisition; McCarthy trials, sex predator or child abuse accusations on false evidence, drug busts by swat teams in the middle of the night on false warrants. We must never as individuals allow ourselves to participate in or abide such atrocities and methods of governing. Rule by the sword in all of its manifestations is evil and must be resisted with every ounce of our humanity.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">In the arena of a True Domestic Life, we must all recognize that the ideal and in fact only self sufficient renewable unit of society is a family formed by the union of one man and one woman with their own children. Other societies despise the idea of monogamous marriage. These societies do not respect the woman in society and treat her as though she were one of many slaves. Our own society both Europe and America seeks to establish homosexual marriage as an equal or even superior union to monogamous marriage. A homosexual marriage is not self sustaining and can never be a building block for any culture that wishes to grow and be prosperous for the long term. In fact these 'marriages' do just the opposite, they cause a culture to diminish in its values, and it's people to diminish in their numbers, over time. Because this is such an emotional topic let me add that members of the same sex can form mutually supportive agreements or unions for them to live to together and support each other. This will never be the same as a family unit which creates and educates their own children and I believe that every person can see this perspective if they stop for a moment and are self reflective. 'Gay Marriage' however is a diversion from other very real perversions that have been instilled upon domestic life in America in the last 100 years. The government has increasingly subverted the family by supporting unlimited abortions, extortive child support permitting 'mothers' to raise children without fathers, omnipotent state imposed ‘Child Support Services’ bureaucracies that operate by inflexible rules and arbitrarily destroy families in their children’s name. Worst of all is welfare which undermines the families’ right to raise their own children. The Federal Governments intrusion into religion, family values, and subsequent destruction of a true social life defies an adjective. </div><div align="left"><br />In all three areas we have failed miserably both individually and as a society. The root of the failing of the others is our failure in the first. We must have a belief that our creator wishes that we be a better people and we daily strive each individually to improve ourselves in his eyes. To work in concert with natural laws, each love and protect our fellow man, and each of us recognize our individual faults that we may be better people tomorrow. This is the fundamental principle of a 'True Religion'. This is the fundamental foundation of a free people. If we can once again find this in ourselves we may also find that the will and strength to resist tyranny has again been restored within us</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left">We can hardly hope to prevail against false religions, governments, and domestic living when we refuse to recognize, admit, and correct our own failings, <em>our own sins</em>. This is as true today as it was five hundred, or a thousand years ago.</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">I draw inspiration for this post from Martin Luther in 1528.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">See </span><a href="http://www.crossings.org/thursday/2002/thur1010.shtml"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">http://www.crossings.org/thursday/2002/thur1010.shtml</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;"> for a sumation or "LUTHER'S WORKS, vol. 46: 157-205 Revised translation by Robert C. Schultz.", also </span><a href="http://www.puritanboard.com/f24/martin-luther-war-against-turk-40430/"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:78%;">http://www.puritanboard.com/f24/martin-luther-war-against-turk-40430/</span></a></div><div align="left"></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-15941284758921261862009-03-02T19:32:00.000-08:002009-03-02T19:41:15.342-08:00Socialism is ...Slavery is ownership and control of one person by another.<br /><br />Socialism is ownership and control of all persons by the State.<br /><br /><br />Song For The Times;<br /><br /> Revolution 1, The Beatles [White Album] Disk 2Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-50647776211187245082009-02-28T20:31:00.000-08:002009-04-24T12:10:00.564-07:00You gota wake up people ...It is so surrealistic, it's like everyone's dropped acid and they are letting the 'chosen one' get away with everything he promised to do during the election. Raping and pillaging the American Constitution, tromping on the bill of rights, and stealing untold trillions from future generations and giving them to his 'friends'.<br /><br />And everyone is just walking around in dream; "Like it's ok man, he's the choosen one, he knows what he is doing, the media would tell us if something was wrong."<br /><br />Everyone is so blind to it all. They are going to wake up in 30 days and ask themselves, what just happened?Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-78334205095162381402009-02-28T20:19:00.000-08:002009-04-24T12:09:33.721-07:00Hybrid SUVO'bama won't you buy me a Hybrid SUV,<br />My friends all drive smart cars they're greener than me,<br />I long for the day when I live carbon free,<br />O'bama won't you buy me a Hybrid SUV.<br /><br />O'bama won't you buy me a flat-screen TV,<br />Government bailouts are trying to find me,<br />I wait for my subsidy each day until three,<br />O'bama won't you buy me a flat-screen TV.<br /><br />O'bama can't you finance my night on the town,<br />My house speculation has really brought me down,<br />I'm counting on congress to buy the next round,<br />O'bama won't you finance my night on the town.<br /><br />Everybody now,<br /><br />O'bama won't you send me my next welfare check,<br />I could get a Job but, Lord what the heck,<br />My 12 kids need health care and I need that too you bet,<br />O'bama won't you send me my next welfare check.<br /><br />Amen.<br /><br />With apologies to Janis JoplinFirefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-32052610754545370672009-02-28T19:33:00.000-08:002009-02-28T20:12:30.523-08:00And Now There Is No One LeftTHEY CAME FIRST FOR those who were independent and lived in rural America,<br /> and I said nothing because I lived in the city,<br /><br />THEN THEY CAME for those who spoke out against the theft of property and rights,<br /> and I said nothing because it did not agree with the mainstream broadcasts, <br /><br />THEN THEY CAME for those who clung to their right to their weapons,<br /> and I said nothing because I did not carry my gun,<br /><br />THEN THEY CAME for those who clung to their religious beliefs,<br /> and I said noting because I was not religious,<br /><br />NOW THEY have come for me,<br /> and no one is left who can hear my screams.Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-91423666706107702502008-04-01T18:29:00.000-07:002008-04-01T19:33:22.285-07:00What's in a gram?One gm can be converted into .025 Terra watt hours, or 25,000 Mega watt hours, or 33.5 million horse power hours, or 2.23 million gallons of gas ... or one Nagasaki, depending on which measurement you think you understand.Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-51843315057619345382008-04-01T17:30:00.000-07:002009-04-22T20:14:34.089-07:00Using light units!One of my favorite programs is the Unix 'units' program. This program can convert from cm to miles for example. The really cool thing about it is that all of the definitions are in a special 'language' and stored in a file called units.dat.<br /><br />Many years ago I taught units a very cool trick by substituting the value for the speed of light with 1 and changing the length of a second to meters. This creates the awesome ability to quickly change mass to energy and vice-versa.<br /><br />Currently I use the version of units that comes with CGWIN.<br /><br />To create a light_units.dat file apply the following changes to a new /usr/share/light_units.dat file.<br /><div class="quote"><br />$ diff -dtw --unified=1 units.dat light_units.dat<br />--- units.dat 2001-12-13 07:22:13.001000000 -0800<br />+++ light_units.dat 2004-08-21 18:25:18.965594600 -0700<br />@@ -291,3 +291,4 @@<br /><br />-s ! # Duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation<br />+#s ! # Duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation<br />+s 2.9979246e+08 m<br />second s # corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine<br />@@ -574,2 +575,29 @@<br />#<br />+# Information to compare energy usage and generation to energy released<br />+# from nuclear devices. For giving a rough idea.<br />+#<br />+<br />+ton_e 1e+9 calorie<br />+ # kilotons as a metric mass measurement<br />+ # (kilotonnes) of TNT gives a value of<br />+ # 1000 c/g, well within the reported range,<br />+ # while treating it as "kilo short tons of<br />+ # TNT" gives 1102 c/g, at the extreme<br />+ # upper end of the reported range. Thus a<br />+ # kiloton can be called a "kilo metric ton<br />+ # of TNT" and a "kilo short ton of TNT"<br />+ # with about equal validity.<br />+ # Should this be Thermochemical Calorie? or IT Calorie?<br />+#<br />+# http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/levine/bombing.htm<br />+#<br />+hiroshima 12.5 kton_e # 08-06-45, 3600 kg, 9ft 9in, littleboy, u235, 118,661 killed<br />+nagasaki 22.0 kton_e # 08-09-45, 4050 kg, 11ft 4in, fatman, pu239, 73,884 killed<br />+littleboy hiroshima<br />+fatman nagasaki<br />+<br />+nova 10^44 J<br />+#<br />+<br />+#<br /># Dimensions. These are here to help with dimensional analysis and<br />@@ -691,3 +719,2 @@<br />#<br />-<br />sec s<br />@@ -885,3 +912,4 @@<br />pi 3.14159265358979323846<br />-c 2.99792458e8 m/s # speed of light in vacuum (exact)<br />+#c 2.99792458e8 m/s # speed of light in vacuum (exact)<br />+c 1 # The distance of a second is 2.997 meters ergo<br />light c<br />@@ -889,3 +917,3 @@<br />epsilon0 1/mu0 c^2 # permittivity of vacuum (exact)<br />-energy c^2 # convert mass to energy<br />+#energy c^2 # convert mass to energy<br />e 1.602176462e-19 C # electron charge<br />@@ -1089,2 +1117,3 @@<br /># NIST publication 811<br />+ly lightyear<br />lightsecond c s<br />@@ -1534,3 +1563,4 @@<br />earthradius_polar 6356912.0 m<br />-earthradius_equatorial 6378388.0 m # Could be wrong? 6378136.3 m better?<br />+#earthradius_equatorial 6378388.0 m # Could be wrong? 6378136.3 m better?<br />+earthradius_equatorial 6378136.3 m<br />landarea 148.847e6 km^2<br />@@ -1557,3 +1587,4 @@<br />venusradius 6.3 Mm<br />-marsradius 3.43 Mm<br />+#marsradius 3.43 Mm<br />+marsradius 3397.2 km<br />jupiterradius 72 Mm<br />@@ -1664,3 +1695,3 @@<br /># extended.<br />-nauticalmile 1852 m # Supposed to be one minute of latitude at<br />+#nauticalmile 1852 m # Supposed to be one minute of latitude at<br /># the equator. That value is about 1855 m.<br />@@ -1671,2 +1702,3 @@<br /># 1954. The UK switched in 1970.<br />+nauticalmile 2 earthradius_equatorial pi / 21600 </div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-30734140437719120252007-12-30T13:59:00.000-08:002007-12-30T13:59:50.448-08:003D Color Anaglyph of Cascades, Mt. Phelps<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R3gU1E3JEbI/AAAAAAAAALw/lmTRXML384s/s1600-h/mtThompson_Anaglyph.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R3gU1E3JEbI/AAAAAAAAALw/lmTRXML384s/s400/mtThompson_Anaglyph.jpg" border="0" /></a> <br /><br />This is the Cascade Mountains east of Seattle. The rock standing up in the mid foreground left is Mt. Phelps and the peak in the background on the right is Mount Hinman on the north side of Snoqualmie pass. I believe that the peak in the center of the picture is Cashmere Mountain just west up the valley from Leavenworth. Cashmere Mt. is the furthest point visible in this picture and is the center of this anaglyph.<br /><br />This picture taken from about 6000 ft on the south side of Tolt Reservoir looking south east.<div style='clear:both; text-align:NONE'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-50560952301534330152007-12-14T19:02:00.000-08:002007-12-14T19:07:55.266-08:00Global Warming Is Mass Hysteria<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R2ND2E3JEaI/AAAAAAAAALo/JDDhkZE0rmM/s1600-h/IMG_2381.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R2ND2E3JEaI/AAAAAAAAALo/JDDhkZE0rmM/s400/IMG_2381.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria</a><br /><br />Mass hysteria, also called collective hysteria, mass psychogenic illness, or collective obsessional behavior, is the <a title="Social psychology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_psychology">sociopsychological</a> <a title="Phenomenon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenon">phenomenon</a> of the manifestation of the same or similar <a title="Hysteria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria">hysterical</a> <a title="Symptom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symptom">symptoms</a> by more than one person.<br /><br />A common manifestation of mass hysteria occurs when people believe they are suffering from a similar <a title="Disease" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease">disease</a> or ailment.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria#_note-0">[1]</a><br /><br />---<br /><br />The above definition of mass hysteria describes our collective frenzy of 'Global Warming'. We need to recognize Global Warming as the collective western psychosis it has become and think about what we are doing reasonably.<br /><br />One of the symptoms of this psychosis is that collectively we don't recognize it as such.<br /><br />Fortunately this hysteria has only infected the western world and most of the worlds population are insulated from it.<br /><br />--<br /><br />The picture is the partially flooded Snohomish river valley, near Duvall, after our recent annual flood last week .<br /><br /><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"></a><div style="CLEAR: both"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-76370726814740933702007-12-08T23:22:00.000-08:002007-12-14T18:52:47.183-08:00Bellevue, Seattle, Olympics from the Cascades<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1uXqP6f54I/AAAAAAAAALU/CpQlyk4wSnw/s1600-h/IMG_2559.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1uXqP6f54I/AAAAAAAAALU/CpQlyk4wSnw/s400/IMG_2559.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />On the way back from the mountains we saw Bellevue, Seattle, Bremerton (can't really make out anything of Bremerton) and the Olympic mountains. Both lake Sammamish and Lake Washington are visible in the picture. The tallest building in Seattle is the Bank of America building (formerly the Columbia tower on the left of the city. On the right of the city, the tall tower (with the ship behind it) is the Seattle Space Needle.<br /><br />This shot makes the city seem awfully small. <div style="CLEAR: both"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-65835470406348934002007-12-08T23:08:00.000-08:002007-12-08T23:10:47.222-08:00Cascades McClain Peaks<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1uUgP6f50I/AAAAAAAAAK0/vUBooHpB_Ww/s1600-h/IMG_2417.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1uUgP6f50I/AAAAAAAAAK0/vUBooHpB_Ww/s320/IMG_2417.JPG" border="0" /></a> McClain Peaks are on the left, Mt. Phelps is on the right. We just had a major snow storm in the Cascades, followed by a heavy warm rain. Its frozen again today in these pictures with more snow expected tomorrow.<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1uUgv6f51I/AAAAAAAAAK8/7w4fgONIAO8/s1600-h/IMG_2438.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1uUgv6f51I/AAAAAAAAAK8/7w4fgONIAO8/s320/IMG_2438.JPG" border="0" /></a> Here we are coming around the north side of McClain. Very steep terrain, cliffs, snow chutes etc.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1uUg_6f52I/AAAAAAAAALE/2Gu6Ru6hSl4/s1600-h/IMG_2443.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1uUg_6f52I/AAAAAAAAALE/2Gu6Ru6hSl4/s320/IMG_2443.JPG" border="0" /></a> Swinging around to the west side of the peaks.<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1uUhf6f53I/AAAAAAAAALM/qX67M0ZE73k/s1600-h/IMG_2452.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1uUhf6f53I/AAAAAAAAALM/qX67M0ZE73k/s320/IMG_2452.JPG" border="0" /></a> Closest approach. This shot is very clear and quite a bit of detail can be seen. It would be a pretty serious technical climb to get up here with feet on the ground. <div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-1401152937537550252007-12-04T22:15:00.000-08:002007-12-04T22:15:41.653-08:00Sun Shines on Seattle<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1ZCDP6f5zI/AAAAAAAAAKs/_KkSFfc0Vgs/s1600-h/IMG_2212.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1ZCDP6f5zI/AAAAAAAAAKs/_KkSFfc0Vgs/s320/IMG_2212.JPG" border="0" /></a> Sun shines on Seattle today. The flood I was concerned about on the Snohomish will not happen. The flood level not only will not be as bad as last year, it won't even be in the top ten.<br /><br />I'm happy about that. Doesn't mean we won't get another storm. We typically have up to two a year.<div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-56962175687546669322007-12-03T19:22:00.000-08:002007-12-04T22:16:50.471-08:00Storm 'Emergency' in Seattle ... Not!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1TH7f6f5vI/AAAAAAAAAKM/55rZnYsLR3I/s1600-R/IMG_2056.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1TH7f6f5vI/AAAAAAAAAKM/EygRMKolAOU/s160/IMG_2056.JPG" border="0" /></a> Today our Gov. declared 'A State of Emergency' because of 'massive flooding, heavy rain, and high winds. Granted the wind was bad in some places but, it wasn't as bad as last year when parts of Seattle lost power for almost 4 days. The 'flooding' was bad with some local flash floods but, it wasn't as bad as last year when the Snohomish reached the tops of the levee's in, well the town of Snohomish though it may reach as high as last year again tomorrow, it's been much worse the recent past.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1TH8f6f5xI/AAAAAAAAAKc/1sIZhNE3bRM/s1600-R/IMG_2114.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1TH8f6f5xI/AAAAAAAAAKc/fQbBh8eHYfY/s160/IMG_2114.JPG" border="0" /></a> Frankly, if flooding and high winds happen every year in November and December its no longer an emergency its just another monsoon season in Seattle. By the way, we invite everyone to come visit us during monsoon season. We have great coffee and our favorite tour buses are recycled WWII amphibious trucks.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1TH7v6f5wI/AAAAAAAAAKU/lS5nGpgbefI/s1600-R/IMG_2095.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1TH7v6f5wI/AAAAAAAAAKU/nAUQKKOJKj8/s160/IMG_2095.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R1TH8v6f5yI/AAAAAAAAAKk/X2b-yuRHBPw/s1600-R/IMG_2168.JPG"></a><br />Come to Seattle during the monsoon and "Ride the Duck". We will leave the water fountains running for you. :)<br /><br />It's not an 'Emergency'. Yes it is a bad storm but it happens every year. Relax already.<br /><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-85488285753114522672007-11-30T00:26:00.000-08:002007-11-30T00:28:14.158-08:00Eagle Sclupture<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0_JSOWfPMI/AAAAAAAAAKE/7E0oaisGOXg/s1600-R/IMG_1888.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0_JSOWfPMI/AAAAAAAAAKE/XjcjR8jwEQk/s160/IMG_1888.JPG" border="0" /></a> This is a beautiful and thought provoking sclupture on the stairs next to the Federal building in Seattle. It is an eagle in a cage. Symbolically it is quite thought provoking and I stop to look at it a couple of times a year. <div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-41546415374843845642007-11-29T23:53:00.000-08:002007-11-30T00:16:47.849-08:00One of my Favorite Things<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0_BcOWfPLI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/Gxzq7da2HbE/s1600-R/pa28Pannel.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0_BcOWfPLI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/P9NGBvrQRs0/s400/pa28Pannel.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />This is one of my favorite things. I'm currently approaching Mount Pilchuck from the south a little east (2 miles) of the peak closing on Bathtub Lakes.<br /><br />On the panel, clockwise from the top we first have the clock, which I did not set so ignore it. Next is the airspeed indicator which is showing about 115 mph. The attitude indicator shows a slightly nose high attitude. The altimeter reads 6,700 ft. Rate of climb (below the altimeter) shows 400 ft/min. DG shows we are heading magnetic 10 deg (roughly north). Turn coordinator shows no turn.<br /><br />The Garmin GPS bolted to the yoke shows 97 knots ground speed and 12 deg bearing, there is no way point selected. Can not see the tachometer as it's behind the yoke, it was about 2500 rpm.<br /><br />Throttle Quadrant, throttle is open, mixture (red leaver) slightly leaned, forward is full rich. Master switch (the red one) is on, axillary fuel pump off, split strobe rocker has tail beacon on with wingtip strobes off, pitotheat (airspeed probe de-ice) is off. To the right of the mixture the carburetor heat is off and the exhaust gas temperature meter 'EGT' (for helping to set mixture) is inoperative.<br /><br />The engine gages across the middle just behind the yoke indicate, oil pressure green, oil temp green, amps looks like 6 or 7 which, since almost everything is off is ok, left fuel tank obscured by the yoke, fuel pressure good, right fuel tank full.<br /><br />Starting at the top of the radio stack the com is set to radio one, the top one which is set to 120.20 or Paine Field east runway, Com 1 VOR/ILS radio is off. Comm 2 below is off as is it's VOR. The transponder is squawking VFR or 1200, mode C (alt) activated ('altitude encoding' displays aircraft altitude on aircraft controller's radar screens.)<br /><br />The last thing is the magnetic compass, on top of the dashboard in the window, which shows a north heading. There is also a temperature gage through the window that is not visible in the picture but was reading zero Celsius at 7,000 ft.<br /><br />The next three things after clearing the mountain were, setting the GPS course to KPAE, trim for decent and 150 mph cruise, check the PAE Atis and verify tango was still current. Interestingly the decent profile calculation from the GPS (500 ft / min) indicated the decent from 7,000 should start just west of Pilchuck at 145 mph to reach pattern altitude 2 miles from the airport. That calculation was very close to the actual result.<br /><br /><br /><div style="CLEAR: both"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-24616707698328278922007-11-29T20:32:00.000-08:002007-11-29T20:35:49.082-08:00<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0-SVuWfPKI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/45h4-CubQTw/s1600-R/wamutowers.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0-SVuWfPKI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/oP33D-EkW5c/s320/wamutowers.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />In this <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">panorama</span> are the two Washington Mutual Towers. A new condo project is going up in front of them. You can see why developers would rather not have the Aurora <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Viaduct</span> along the water front. We could probably replace it with a floating bridge <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">across</span> Elliot bay someday. Building a tunnel would be tough since its on in either Glacial till or land fill along the waterfront. Someday though we will get our <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">rictor</span> 8 and knock the thing down.<br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Stitched</span> together like this the resulting image above is 4,138 by 3,486 or 14.4 million pixels. It is not saved to that resolution in this blog.<br /><br />The building on the right is featured in another image in this blog. I still think it is the prettiest building in Seattle. <div style="CLEAR: both"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-35098604760995586452007-11-27T07:54:00.000-08:002007-11-28T22:43:37.053-08:00Mt. Pilchuck<A HREF='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R05dX-WfPJI/AAAAAAAAAJo/HV7VW0KPQds/s1600-h/mtPhilchuck_1.jpg'><IMG SRC='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R05dX-WfPJI/AAAAAAAAAJo/HV7VW0KPQds/s320/mtPhilchuck_1.jpg' border=0 alt='' id='BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_' ></A> <div style='clear:both; text-align:NONE'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div><br />Click on any of these for a larger image version.<br /><br />I realized last night that I took several image 'series' on Sunday that could be strung together for a wider angle view of Mt. Pilchuck. Even though individually most of the images have motion blur, when combined they make some impressive panoramas.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0w95eWfPGI/AAAAAAAAAJM/s9aXQQXzNHs/s1600-h/mtPhilchuck.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0w95eWfPGI/AAAAAAAAAJM/s9aXQQXzNHs/s160/mtPhilchuck.jpg" border="0" /></a> The image above is a wide angle (with fair distortion) of Mt. Pilchuck with the peek on the left and Bathtub Lakes on the right.<br /><br />This second image is the back/east side of Pilchuck. Bathtub lakes are directly below the plane, the sadle is in the center and the north side of the mountain is visible on the right of the image<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0w93OWfPFI/AAAAAAAAAJE/C2PHlIp0IK4/s1600-h/BathtubLakes.jpg"><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0w93OWfPFI/AAAAAAAAAJE/C2PHlIp0IK4/s160/BathtubLakes.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />This is a good two image combination of 'Bathtub lakes' with low distortion. The dark smudge through the right half of the image is the pilot side vent window.<br /><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-4099732427148294602007-11-26T19:19:00.000-08:002007-11-27T17:50:40.043-08:00Mt. Pilchuck on a Late November Sunday Afternoon<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0uNQeWfPBI/AAAAAAAAAIk/GjKaTP4PunQ/s1600-h/IMG_1601.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0uNQeWfPBI/AAAAAAAAAIk/GjKaTP4PunQ/s160/IMG_1601.JPG" border="0" /></a> Sunday, when the fog lifted, and I'd <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">preflighted</span> everything I could get to, cleaned the oleo gear struts with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">WD</span>40, washed off the bird dirt, and added 40 gallons of 100LL <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">av-gas</span>.<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0uNQuWfPCI/AAAAAAAAAIs/AeDps4hjmnE/s1600-h/IMG_1561.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0uNQuWfPCI/AAAAAAAAAIs/AeDps4hjmnE/s160/IMG_1561.JPG" border="0" /></a> I soloed her out to Mt. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Pilchuck</span>. These are the now frozen 'Bathtub Lakes'.<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0uNROWfPDI/AAAAAAAAAI0/siFcwS5KVw4/s1600-h/IMG_1574.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0uNROWfPDI/AAAAAAAAAI0/siFcwS5KVw4/s160/IMG_1574.JPG" border="0" /></a> Two <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">valleys</span> north of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Pilchuck</span> is 'Three Fingers'.<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0uNReWfPEI/AAAAAAAAAI8/9EMGljT2B_8/s1600-h/IMG_1583.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" style="CLEAR: both; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0uNReWfPEI/AAAAAAAAAI8/9EMGljT2B_8/s160/IMG_1583.JPG" border="0" /></a> This is the saddle area of Pilchuck to the right and below are Bathtub<br />Lakes, to the top and left is the peak.<br /><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left">The flight to Philchuck took about 20 miniutes, climbing to 7000 ft. Returning to Everett took only eight miniutes using the descent and smooth air to cruise at 150mph.</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"></div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7576488.post-44041397488778176332007-11-26T18:41:00.000-08:002007-11-26T18:41:48.434-08:00A Winter Day on Elliot Bay<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0uD7OWfPAI/AAAAAAAAAIc/zHqpz4GZY94/s1600-h/IMG_1662.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_awSKO5fS28s/R0uD7OWfPAI/AAAAAAAAAIc/zHqpz4GZY94/s400/IMG_1662.JPG" border="0" /></a> <br />We don't even need black and white film (or digital settings) to take monochrome pictures at noon in Seattle. Temperature 38 F, overcast with a snow storm coming in. (Rain in Seattle and snow at higher elevations and north of Everett)<div style='clear:both; text-align:NONE'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Firefoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13094158355256054361noreply@blogger.com0