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TUESDAY TRIVIA: When the Apollo 12 astronauts landed on the moon, the impact caused the Moon's surface to vibrate for 55 minutes. Note sure of the source or veracity of the above statement. Len

Hello, For work the company has provided me with a new laptop. In a cost cutting measure they did not provide me with a second power adapter. This would mean each night I would have to unplug the AC adapter from the dock and take it home or along on a business trip as opposed to keeping the...

Boy 9 years old presents with having seen a "worm" in his bowl movement. Parents can't find said worm but this is not something the kid would make up. Parasite is described (based on child's drawing) as about 2 inches long, an 1/8 of an inch thick, white with dark bands or ridges. Call...

Hello, Does anyone here use the software product Mind Manager from Mindjet Corp? If so, how do you like it? Does it integrate well with MS Office products, allowing you to update the underlying document from within the Mind Manager application? Thanks, Len P.S. Here is the link if...

Normally aspirated 310 HP, 197 knots, 900 foot take off run, Star Wars avionics, options include TKS KI, AC & 02...all your for less than half a million. --- Len http://www.mooney.com/aircraft/ovation3/

What software tools, like Intuit's Quicken & Turbo Tax, do you use to manage your personal finances. I'm curious as I'm helping to organize a client conference at work (our clients are mostly investment managers) and I was thinking a discussion panel of the leading providers of such software...

I'm in the midst of helping David (son, 10) build an electro-magnet as a school project...most everyone is probably familiar with the "design"...a battery holder with a lead connected to a wire that is wraped around a 3 inch bolt and returns to the negative side of the battery holder. I'm...

Hello, Cut To the Chase I would like any feed back on the 2005 model year Lexus ES330...anyone out there know anything about this particular make and model as I'm thinking about buying a used one with 16,000 miles on the odometer. Thanks. Len The rest of the story... Someone else has a...

This is an accounting meets marketing type of question. Is there a way to write a formula or perhaps another formating based method that will change the text color for a value based on the value? What I want to do is have a result appear as red for a negative number and green for a positive...

Found this in a very unlikely place...1999 Annual Report of a financial service company....not entirely sure of the accuracy but found it interesting anyway. From his Aunt Effie’s farm in Massachusetts, physicist Robert Goddard launched the space age in 1926 with a pipelike, ten-foot rocket...

I am having a problem on one of my home computers with saving files in Microsoft Office applications. Saving a file causes the mouse pointer to change to an Hour Glass icon and the program becomes non responsive. On initial occurrence Windows XP suggested reporting the problem which the...

Link to the story in the "Daily Local News" (local newspaper) http://www.dailylocal.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16489842&BRD=1671&PAG=461&dept_id=17782&rfi=6 Picture of the post crash aircraft can be found here (this is the landing page, changes daily)...

I found the following interesting... Reuters reports that mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments has ramped up its stake in US airlines - and is a leading shareholder at three big carriers, citing SEC filings. According to the report, Fidelity has a 13% stake in UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, a...

Hello, I have a file...probably a transcript of meeting notes from September 1998 that has a file extension of .NBK. I can't figure out what application I would have used to create this file and I can't figure out what application to use to open it today. Anyone familiar with the...

Mainly because it is not affected by SB 569 Len

Good News First Friday night while talking about my flying plans for Saturday morning with Karen (wife) my oldest boy (David - soon to be 10) chirps up and says "I'll go flying with you dad.". In the past David has has been "iffy" about flying as he's gotten air sick a few times so I was...

NTSB Identification: FTW84FA075 . The docket is stored on NTSB microfiche number 23461. 14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation Accident occurred Wednesday, November 23, 1983 in EL RENO, OK Aircraft: Gulfstream PEREGRINE, registration: N600GA Injuries: 1 Serious. AT ABOUT 215 KTS THE PLT ROLLED THE...

My older boy, David, has to write a report on Lancaster PA county. It has to cover four or so topics about the county. One of those is going to be the airport. Anyone know if there is an online resource for history on Lancaster PA airport (KLNS). Thanks. Len

I'm starting the process of moving all the cra.. er, data off of my old PC's (at least 6 harddrives I can think of off the top of my head). I did find a device to actually mount the existing hard drives and connect via USB but there are significant downsides. The unit only supports two hard...

For some reason unknown to me the old teletype routing address of the AFB where I spent 3+ years popped into my head (RUCLEFA)...I must have typed that letter combination at least a million times from 1976 to 1979. Anyway, for yucks I Google RUCLEFA and a bunch of messages for Homestead AFB FL...