I was playing around with some Photoshop filters and discovered this one. I applied it to a picture I took of Tonica when we came up with the famous ‘flightsuit and red shoes’ picture that ended up on everyones desk but mine at work. The halftone effect simulates coarse Newspaper print. I simply created a [...]

A Tornado touched down in the center of Clovis last night in some pretty severe Thunderstorms. I was on my way to Clovis from the Base and must have arrived 15-20 minutes after it dissipated. The center of town looked pretty beat up. Powerlines were down everywhere, sparks flying; roofs lay around in the streets [...]

A friend sent me this and I thought it was worthy of including here.
From now on when I go out in Germany I’ll have to fill this out… :O)

and this is what I’ll get from Tonica…

Just some small updates on what’s going on. I’ve been spending some time outside in the nice weather with my laptop – not because I wanted to, but because I can’t seem to get consistent Wireless reception in my room. Once I go outside I can access the internet, but can barely see the screen…trade [...]

I tagged along with Korn today when he did a friend a favor and picked him up at the Amarillo Airport with his Moody private plane and brought him back to Clovis. It is a 4 seat plane and only took 40 minutes to get to Amarillo. What a great time. It is a shame [...]

Fuck you, would be spammers. One little change to my blog and your fucknut bullshit viagra crap can’t get through. I think adding 2+4 is a small price to pay for honest commenters in exchange for me not having to delete 200 spam mails every day. Today, only one made it through, and strangely enough I [...]

Starting the last three days, I have become the victim of Spam like you would not believe. I did not know that Spam also attacked blog comments. I do not want to turn them off, since it is one of my favorite things to look if there are any new comments to stuff I have written. In [...]

LET HIM FLY A PLANE!
I flew my first sortie today after 3 months of doing nothing and loved every minute of it..Even having to step to a spare Aircraft after the battery died was a familiar and strangely welcome experience. Thanks to Korn for playing babysitter…

I realise as I start to write this that I have not yet really explained the origin of my Blog Title. Most of the people I work with will understand it, but I realize now it might not be so self explanatory to the non-military pilot. When I think of it, the name is actually pretty lame, [...]

Just added my next picture of the week. You can navigate to it from the page buttons, or simply click here…

Well not really tips per se. I just got in after a long night of discussing religion, society and moral values with some friends. It really motivated me to start blogging about the subject, but, even as drunk as I am right now, I am wisely going to steer clear of the subject. It is [...]

After spending a month tinkering with the code on my previous Theme I finally figured out that it was not inherently flexible enough for me to make the changes I wanted without taking a course in PHP and CSS. I changed to this one and I really like it. I only have a couple of small [...]

This is one of many Photoshop tutorials I’m working on. The result of this Fire effect is about as realistic as I’ve seen. You can find the tutorial here. I added my own effect to improve on it (Thanks to an idea from Sprouts wife…) As a last step I took a very soft medium brush [...]

Don’t trust the title. I won’t switch to the good side. (If you consider PCs running Microsoft the Dark Side). I spend more time fixing, adjusting, debugging and generally dealing with ass pain on my desktop than I actually USE it (just ask my wife). What pisses me off is the randomness of it all. Back [...]

I could kick myself. Really. I don’t know how much time I  have spent finding pictures for my online galleries, editing them and, most importantly, resizing them so I’m not uploading Megabytes of Photos and destroying my Bandwidth limit. Here’s my point – I edited each picture individually (including all the ones Tonica has on [...]

This is a test to see if Music will also work. Bear with me, I’m bored and experiMENTAL.
 Hound War Song

Alternate Title: How sad am I, by Limey.
Got bored last week waiting for my cake to bake, so I set up a tripod and took a picture every minute. After that I tought myself how to create a movie from individual pictures and how to embedd that movie into this blog. I guess it worked…
Note to Snakeye and [...]

I have to take back something I posted earlier. The ’special’ seat reservation I recieved for being delayed 24 hours wasn’t as special as I thought. Yes, I had the emergency exit row with more leg room than a Limo, but, and this is a big BUT, across the aisle is the front row area [...]

Blogging on the road…a new experience. I just bought 20 minnutes of hotspot time from my hotel wireless provider to post an update to my travel extravaganza. After having slept 3 hours only to leave the house at 4:15 in the morning, I got to the airport in plenty of time to make my flight. [...]

Well, this is my last day in Germany for a while when I go back to Cannon to fly with the Hounds. It has been 3 months since my last flight, if you don’t count the back seat ride I got in the Eurofighter. It is sad that I had to pretty much manage this [...]