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EDIT: Whoops, I guess this story was already posted in the other Haiti thread. 18 Jan, First airdrop into Haiti- sounds like it went pretty well: CNN Link

Apparently it can haul more than race horses and sports cars:

Kimber makes a nice .22 1911 conversion as well as a complete .22 1911

At least then we'd get holidays off

Haha! "One of these days, I'll quit this nightmare"

Ah, so many memories. I had forgotten about the shoelace thing. The sad part about ROTC is that even potential aviators with the requisite highly calibrated bullshit detector have to play the game since ROTC is controlled by the shoeclerks and they are the keepers of the gates to UPT.

ROTC has always been a place to actively teach and instill shoeclerkery in potential officers at an early age, under the guise of buzz phrases like "attention to detail" etc. Do they still play the "sports" at FT where more emphasis is placed on rigid adherance to the rules and calling "point of order" on the other team's violations than on any kind of athletic prowess?

If you're looking for something around the size of the D-lux in a point and shoot, I just bought a Canon S90 and really like it. It has the same sensor as Canon's G11, but with a better lens in a much smaller and lighter body. It's pricey but still $300 cheaper than the D-Lux 4 and has very good image quality for a compact. It also has full manual controls and a programmable control ring on the front that makes changing common settings like aperture/shutter speed/ISO very quick and intuitive without having to dig through menu options. Granted, the D-Lux 4 has HD video and a hot shoe, but neither of those are things I see myself needing in a compact camera. For what it's worth, from what I've read the D-Lux 4 is basically a more expensive Panasonic LX-3 (which has a Leica lens), so you might look at those as well.

Yeah, I've known a couple of those guys. Interesting bunch. Something must happen to you when you put that ACC patch on. (edited for spelling)

Some places have been doing it for a while. At Disney though, if an employee sees some huge dude in line who is obviously not going to fit on the ride, they're not allowed to tell them so. They have to let the person try to fit anyway and then send them away when they indeed don't fit.

2. I've rolled into Wal-Mart wearing the DFDU on the way home after a 24 hour duty day/10 day trip and would have been real pleased if someone came up to me and asked WTF.

"Featuring Envy-G"... Classic

Those guys got in some trouble for unauthorized use of the ATC lab

You know what I fucking hate? Reflective belts.

Airman: "We don't serve their kind here. Your droids, they'll have to wait outside until they find some reflective belts. Yes, I know he's gold and shiny as hell, but it's my commander's policy. If you don't leave now, I'll have some storm troopers arrest you."

Well that was somewhat anticlimactic. I guess I'll just continue the Star Wars references to what may or may not have happened at the O-Call: Baseops poster: "They never even asked me any questions...about reflective belts"

I wouldn't be surprised if they did arbitrarily block sources of dissent, taking a page from the communist China playbook.

Hopefully the facebook group will continue to grow exponentially between now and Saturday.

Yeah, ours too. The stupidity knows no bounds.

Make friends with a two-star?

Ours did. I don't really use it to do work when I'm TDY, but it's nice to be able to log in once every couple days to delete emails so i don't have to spend an hour of my workday after a 10 day trip to sort through my e-mail trying to find what's important. It's also nice not to ever have to remember my AFportal password anymore.

I probably would have gone with the 32 bit version except I've read that a 32 bit OS will only recognize a maximum of 3GB of RAM. FYI, if anyone has a valid .edu e-mail address, even from an online school like Touro, you can download Windows 7 Professional for $29 from here: Win 7 Pro student offer The main page that comes up is for Office 07 Ultimate, but near the bottom of the page there's a section called "Other Student Deals From Microsoft" that has the link to Win 7.

I'll have to try that. I knew that Win 7 supposedly had some kind of compatability mode but I didn't know you could apply it to specific programs. I ended up getting it to work by having to manually install some of the certificates. The link on portal to download the reader software has a PDF attached to it now with instructions for installing on 64 bit operating systems. So far, I'm impressed with Win 7. I've had a couple minor issues, but it seems pretty stable for an operating system that's only been released for a week.

So I took the plunge and installed Windows 7 yesterday. Has anyone found out how to get the CAC reader software to work with Windows 7 64 bit?