Z425

GMail is barfing on this video and I wanted to send it to some people, so I'll just put it here.

I bought this thing broken from a guy on the forums for a huge discount. I got my parts today and this is the second flight. The first flight it would not lift off the ground. A few adjustments and it flies quite well. I was planning on flipping it and selling it quickly, but it's actually much nicer than I was expecting. We'll see how long it lasts. It still might be too big to fly in the house and that's what I really want for the winter.



The video is pretty short as my memory card ran out on me. doh.

Jason got a mailing from these assholes. He called them up. Apparently they hire another organization to collect money for them and only 15% goes to Wisconsin Narcotics Officers Association. From that they give some unknown amount to the actual officer training. So pretty much nothing.

At the bottom of the form it has a checkbox..

"I am contributing an additional $3.00 to defray the fundraiser's mailing and processing costs."

hahahha. Even worse than that.. It states that you can not even deduct your donation.

Who in the world would be stupid enough to donate to this? How can this shit be legal?

There's a bus parked outside my window. That's quite unusual. Turing likes buses so I pick him up to look at it.

Hmm. What's that water dripping from the back exit? WTF. Is the bus driver peeing from inside the bus and letting it drip out the door? WTF! No way.... Holy shit. He is. When he's done he zips up, walks to the front of the bus, switches the sign back from 'not in service' and continues on his way.

Usually my run-ins are with the fine parking officers doing and saying idiotic things, but this is so much better. haha.

My post from awhile back..

http://www.z425.com/patents/memory-over-wifi/

Sweet..

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/review/eye+fi-adds-wi+fi-to-almost-any-digital-camera-316537.php

My copy of Vista Ultimate!!! Damn it. I was just about to install it! Which reminds me.. I really need to get reimbursed. Here's the list I sent in.

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I don't remember the values I quoted on these items before, but here they
are as I computed today.

I lost the following value on my RC equipment. These values are computed
from the difference between the going rate and the price I got for them
when I sold them at my 'fire sale'.

$75 heli
$30 gyro
$10 servos
$10 motor
$25 flight sim (dongle was in the fire)

The following items never sold as I kept dropping the price and people
still did not want them. At a certain point I didn't want to just give the
items away and took them off the market.

$75 transmitter
$25 receiver

These items were also in the fire..

$150 leather office chair. It cost me $350 when it was new.
$650 computer I was selling.

Total

$1050

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Here's my RC sale link just for fun..

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=681695

As per usual I am out of the loop on local events. This weekend is the FFRF.org annual conference. Yesterday Janel mentioned that Hitchens was going to be speaking and I actually managed to get to it.

His talk was good. He has cool stories and he's super quick and smart. Nothing you can't see on youtube. The interesting bit was during the Q&A. Immediately people went in on him about Iraq/Iran and it pretty much remained that way for the entire Q&A.

Hitchens believes that we need to be very proactive against Iran ever attaining nuclear weapons. To the point of a first strike if need be.

Of course this does not go over very well with a crowd in super-extra-liberalville Madison Wisconsin. The vibe shift was quite amazing. Everyone hung on his every word. Pretty much nodding their heads to themselves. Then BAM.. WTF.. Does not compute! haha. It was awesome.

Anyway. He very easily stood his ground against the angry mob. It was very impressive. I'm adding him to my list of role models.

After the talk during the book signing I stood near the signing table so I could overhear what was going on (why don't more people do this? i was the only one). A guy came up with a book to sign that was sent to him from his son from Falluja. It had something written in the sleeve that he showed Hitchens. Hitchens was obviously moved. He spent a couple minutes writing back to the guy's son ( in guy's book! ) and at the end said pointing to the what he wrote.. This is my voice mail number. Please ask your son to give me a call. I thought that was a pretty damn cool move.

Quite the adventure at my vasectomy consultation today. All is well. Joking with the doctor about random crap while going over the 'brochure'. We were almost done and I mentioned.. oh yah.. Sometimes I can get really nashouse (wtf, how do you spell that). I was feeling it a bit at that point, but the second I said it, it got 10 times worse. I then said.. Yep.. I'm actually getting n* now. He directs me to lay down on the exam table. I stand up..

Next thing I know I am on the floor. I open my eyes to see the doctor telling me that I had fainted!!! I guess all this talk about testicles brought about some latent n*ness of being kicked in them something.

It was pretty neat experience actually (minus the n*).. I went instantly into my sleep state and I remember dreaming about something for the few seconds I was down. It was very slick how my brain just switched back and forth. Rebooted!