Picture From The Past

We got a new printer/scanner/copier today since our old printer was crapping out, so I started scanning in some of my old pictures, and this one is probably one of the best, for many reasons:

But I have one big question about it: when the hell did Derek and I have an SNES to use?

Airshow!

I decided to go to the Discover Aviation Days airshow today at the Anoka County-Blaine airport.Piper PA-12

Piper Cherokee 140B

Cessna 177 Cardinal II

Airport Tug. Note small block Chevy and B&M shifter.

Yak-52

Unknown Homebuilt

Prop on a Cessna 120 or 140

Baby Lakes

Aero L-29 Delphin

Old Luscombe

Stearman

Grumman Guardian control-line model
T-6's!
One of the coolest things I got to see was the Golden Wings Air Museum. It's usually not open to the public, but it is this weekend.
Waco CUC-1
Cunningham-Hall PT-6F, one of six ever built and the only complete one left
Keystone K-84 Commuter
Aeronca C-3
Fleetwings Seabird
Taylor Aerocar
Aerocar interior
Stearman YPT-9
Avro Avian

One of the biggest draws of the museum is that the guy owns five different kinds of tri-motors:
Kreutzer Air Coach K-5, the only surviving Kreutzer tri-motor
Stinson SM-6000-B, the oldest surviving American Airlines airliner
Stinson Model A, the only surviving low-wing tri-motor Stinson
This Ford Tri-Motor is the oldest surviving one, and it has been flown by both Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart.
So what do you do when your Ford Tri-Motor becomes all old and busted? You turn it into the new hotness, a Bushmaster 2000, a re-engineered and re-engined Ford.

Boredom

I was bored tonight, so I decided to take all of my Playstation and PS2 games out of the binder I put them into take to college, and put them back into their cases. While I was doing this, I decided to catalog all of the games in my videogame collection. The totals worked out as follows:

Playstation: 73
PS2: 53
Sega 32x: 1 (Motocross Championship, but no 32X)
Sega CD: 4 (But no Sega CD)
Super Famicom: 1 (Area 88)
Phillips CD-i: 1 (Tetris)
Mattel Aquarius: 1 (Tron Deadly Discs)
Game.Com: 4
Virtual Boy: 3
Atari 5200: 2
Sega Genesis: 27
Sega Master System: 13
NES: 70
Game Boy: 2
Game Boy Color: 2
Game Boy Advance: 8
3DO: 20
Atari 2600: 22
Atari 7800: 1 (But no 7800)
Intellivision: 20
Super Nintendo: 16
PC: 17
Macintosh: 32
Famicom: 2
Dendy: 7
Saturn: 17
Dreamcast: 15
Xbox: 1 (But no Xbox)
eReader: 3 (But no eReader)

Grand Total: 447

The sad thing is that maybe only a fifth of these games I've actually actively played, and probably around 200 have never been tested. Also, when I was going through my games, I found some I forgot that I had.

But will I stop collecting?

Nope. I just bought a factory sealed copy of Auto Destruct for the Playstation off eBay for $2.25 shipped.

Grand Total: 448

Addendum: I also decided to go see just how many computers I have.

1 IBM P70,
1 IBM PS2/56 486SLC2,
1 IBM that I dont feel like digging out from under the stairs to find out what model it is,
2 Mattel Aquariuses,
1 Apple IIC,
1 Micron Millenia,
1 TRS-80 Model III,
1 Commodore SX-64,
2 Commodore 64's,
1 Commodore 64C,
1 Commodore 16,
1 Blue & White Macintosh G3,
1 Macintosh 5400/200,
1 Macintosh TV,
1 Macintosh 660AV,
1 Macintosh Powerbook 5300CS,
1 Macintosh Powerbook 1400CS,
1 Macintosh Powerbook G3 Wallstreet (it will rise again),
1 Macintosh LCII,
1 Macintosh LCIII,
1 Macintosh Quadra 700,
1 Macintosh IIsi,
1 Macintosh 637CD,
2 Macintosh SE's,
1 Newton,
1 Macintosh.

Total: 29

There is a F**king Hole In My Ceiling

So I was sitting here in my room studying for my American Government final, when a really good thunderstorm started. It's been raining for the majority of the past two days. So as I was studying, I heard a noise, and I assumed that it was water coming in through the window. So I closed my window, but I felt water dripping THE TOP OF MY HEAD. So I looked up and saw a single, solitary drop of water on the ceiling. I just barely brushed it, and a small torrent of foul smelling brown water poured onto my head.

Then I noticed that there was another drop of water on my ceiling, so I grabbed my towel bar and jabbed it (you can see it down and to the left of the original hole).

Flood Control.

I think I'm going to stop poking holes in my ceiling for a while, as it is still raining pretty good outside.