August 05, 2005
EAA AirVenture, Oshkosh - 2005
eaa_airventure_oshkosh_2005.mp3 - 20MB - 57:42
Rose and I drove up to Oshkosh, Wisconsin last weekend for EAA AirVenture, a large, week-long fly-in/airshow/pilot convention. A main theme of AirVenture this year was the new "Sport Pilot" pilot certificate the FAA approved last September. This is an exciting new ticket intended to make recreational flying cheaper and more accessible. AirVenture showcased a lot of new low(er) cost light sport aircraft which this ruling enabled. EAA was also giving away free Student Sport Pilot certificates to motivate people to get out there and start learning to fly. It and exciting time in recreational avaition. If you've always wanted to learn to fly, now just might be the perfect time (or at least once Sport Pilot schools get established).
In this show, my wife "Rose" makes her podcasting debut, gives me a hard time, and enjoys her first airshow. I didn't do any interviews, but I captured a lot of audio from the show itself as well as a bit of radio traffic off the scanner. I included some of that in this recording, but if you're interested in more, let me know - I may post an additional file with the departure radio traffic in real-time just to give a sense of how crazy it is flying in and out of there at peak times. With the small amount of radio and show chatter I included, in addition to our road-tripping and story telling, this show comes in at just under an hour. For the trip, the weather was perfect, if a little too sunny, and a good time was had by all. We drove up Saturday morning, stayed in a rented house overnight, and drove back home Sunday afternoon. Driving time was only about 2 hours each way and traffic was light.
Enough typing - Join us in Oshkosh!
Some notes and links:
- 00:00 - Intros - EAA AirVenture - 7600 On Air interview - Flickr Photo Set - Oshkosh
- 02:11 - Inrto II - and it's 'wife and ME', not 'wife and I.' UGH.
- 02:43 - Ready for departure
- 03:16 - Hello to "Rose" - my fanbase - soundseeing to an ATM in Zion - Shakespeare in the Park II - murder
- 06:48 - On the road! - shout out to the peeps - Bristol Rennaissance Faire - we never hit any traffic, it took less time than anticipated - what's in a name, AyM? - dead air, um, dead air - bodyart
- 15:12 - Training at KENW - Now It's Overhead - Rose by any other name - I break(sic) for phone calls
- 18:27 - Dawn and Drew drive-by - holy crap! - roadside fireworks and pr0n - I've been to West Bend before! - Cornhole = Butthole / the drewhole - interactive porn? - tilting at windmills (photo)
- 30:32 - Radio chatter
- 31:02 - Fond du Lac pit stop - pictures of leaves - actually, there's a lot out west, I just haven't gone that way for some reason
- 35:52 - Arrival radio traffic (slightly accelerated, but not by much)
- 36:44 - Our arrival - stealing Nick Cave - bad South Park rendition - know when to say when
- 37:27 - P-51 climbout
- 38:04 - P-51 startup and taxi - Sweet and Lovely starts up (photo) - I rescued a guy's hat
- 40:51 - Waiting on the flight line - exciting announcements and missed pictures
- 42:10 - "Remove your cover" for the National Anthem (photo)
- 43:32 - Crank it up (photo) and get it started (photo)
- 44:52 - Wrapping up the airshow
- 45:15 - Recap and planning at IHOP on Sunday morning
- 47:21 - Departing the seaplane base - silly accents - don't go home on 45 - putting the 'flash' in flash drive - soundseeing without pictures - why do I like the word 'glorious' so much? - the sign-off
- 51:06 - Good-bye, but don't go away
- 51:39 - Dedication - NTSB report
- 55:33 - The Missing Man (photo) - Taps
Contact info:
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July 20, 2005
Listen to Madge
If you haven't listened to Madge Weinstein's Yeast Radio, you have to. If your impression of Madge is what you've heard on Adam Curry's Daily Source Code and you weren't impressed, you should check out this episode. Up until recently I didn't 'get' Madge because the in first full episode I listened to, she was just cleaning up dog shit, breathing heavy, and kvetching. Not my idea of a good show. But I gave it another listen and I have not been let down again. Her interview technique and poise is impressive. Especially in cases where she is dealing with idiots.
Check it out.
July 11, 2005
Flying to Alaska
My latest audio post is a collection of recordings I made on the Alaska Airlines trip to Anchorage a few weeks ago. The recordings were made on the iRiver iFP-899 which was plugged into the aux out on a Sigtronics Transcomm II portable intercom. I used the mic on my LightSPEED 20XL2 ANR (Active Noise Reduction) aviation headset, which was also plugged into the intercom. I also used the headset to monitor the recording by jacking the iRiver's out into the 'music in' jack on the LightSPEED control box.
The topics covered range from the scenery outside, the amount of daylight in the middle of the night, the recording setup, a new aviation podcast, 7600 On Air, the first mashup I ever heard, etc.
Some of the first recordings were lost as I was getting the setup right, so there's no inline intro. There are also a few dropouts, but overall, the audio is pretty good.
I end on a silly note, with my first Skype voicemail, care of Nate and Di.
Thanks again for stopping by.
Other links:
- Culture Cafe with nLinus and Wife
- K9 Cast with Tara and Walter
- The Nate and Di Show
- Urban Family Night, The UFN Show
- The Dawn and Drew Show
- Podcast 411
- The Podcast Pickle - thanks for the free hat!
Contact info:
- email: eblo at ratula dot net
- call: 206-FEW-EBLO (206-339-3256)
- skype: oblivion9999
The recording is: flying_to_alaska.mp3 - 9.3MB - 26:29 total.
July 05, 2005
Fireworks!
Last night, we got to a good spot to watch our local fireworks display just in time as they were starting. The whole show lasted about 25 minutes, and for a small city, I must say we represented. This grand finale rivaled anything we've seen in Chicago - perhaps made more spectacular because we were so close, but as you can hear for yourself, it lasted about a minute. I've don't know if I've ever seen so much phosphorus burning at once before. Impressive. And parking was a breeze- we were home in about 5 minutes. Small towns do have some advantages.
Other random, cool things I saw in the sky this weekend included an F-4 Phantom flying into KUGN on Friday evening (not sure what was up with that, but it was very cool to see), what I think was the Lima, Lima flight team flying formation over our house (I think they were performing west of us earlier in the day - they flew from the west, made a fairly sloppy 180 to the right, and headed back west. There were 6 of them, and though they were high, looked like what I remeber them flying), and 3 Wacos playing tag around Campbell Airport (C81), sometimes with smoke on. Oh, and a botched banner pick-up, that was kind of cool. I need to get flying again.
Otherwise, it was mostly a working weekend. A. had to do work work, I added another gate to our fence, painted the hinges on the other gate, put down the timbers around our garden and a flower bed, and did other general putzing around. We swam quite a bit, too. And I had to run in to work on Sunday to kick a persnickety machine. So we worked, but in a very laid-back manner.
And hey, I broke my laptop. I dropped it off the couch right onto the power plug. The plug broke and afterward the laptop was not fully recognizing the AC. It'll run the lappy, but not recharge the battery. So I took the plug apart and rewired it. Same deal. I brought it in to work today and plugged in the adapter I have here. Same deal. So it looks like I busted the connector on the motherboard for the second tie in about 6 months. I'm getting a lot of use out of this warranty, let me tell you. . . ..
That's all the babble for now. For today's podcast rec., check out K9Cast with Tara and Walter. Tara saw one of my posts talking about hearing protection for Martini in the airplane and took it upon herself to do some more research for me. In Show #3, she gave me some great suggestions on alternative earplugs to try. They've also discussed training, picking up strays, etc., so if you like dogs at all, definitely give them a listen. Thanks for the tips, Tara and Walter.
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June 10, 2005
Catching up.
I suck. Way behind on posting. A few things:
- Going to Alaska soon. Woot! I need more Compact Flash memory.
- I met Drew of the Dawn and Drew Show podcast and took him for an airplane ride. We recorded the intercom and radio traffic, and he made a show of it. Listen here. Usually they're rated R, but this one is just PG.
- For your dose of gay culture and other sex talk, make sure you check out Urban Family Night, especially Episode #17. Think an audio gang-bang version of Savage Love. Rated R.
- Another great laugh, even if somewhat offensive, is Keith and the Girl. God, they make me laugh. Also rated R.
- Also, I recently bought an iRiver iFR-899 1GB mp3 player/recorder a) for the upcoming trip b) to perhaps start podcasting on my own.
- Tonight we read-through this year's Shakespeare in the Park. A. gave me a LOT of lines this year. Wow. It'll be fun.
- I know there's more, but off to work I go.
Later.
