Site Maintenence
Well I seem to have successfully moved the site from it’s lower URL to take over the tervfect.net domain which I should have done from the initial site creation stages.
Anyway, since I did not do that, I have had several errors pop up around the site such as login failures, missing posts and other issues. As of today, I believe that I have worked out all of the bugs and that the blog is now 100% running. The only downside is that from a plug-in reset, I have lost ALL of my stats for the last two years, which is a shame as I rather enjoyed seeing just what people wanted to read and what they didn’t.
I will continue to look for more game fixes, and more liquor to drink for your reading pleasure. Don’t forget that my ads are awesome and that you should click them. And as always, I am sure my reading population was absolutely devastated by the 15 minute downtime that was experienced by the server, for this I apologize.
Enjoy,
Tervferific.
BAD SELLER: SurplusStuff.com
Feedback about SurplusStuff.com and my contact Lee Frank,
Surplus Stuff.Com is a website that offers hard to find parts for ginger counters and other civil defense and cold war articles. I had made one purchase from this website with all going well, quick shipping, fast feedback etc. However, on my next order, somewhere around 48 hours after the first order had arrived, I had one of the worst experiences of internet purchasing Ever.
This began as a standard internet purchase. I bought a CDV-700 repair kit (Old Civil Defense Geiger Counter), which arrived promptly within 5 days with no issues. After this initial purchase (around $15 US), and my satisfaction with the kit, I then placed an order to purchase a CDV-700 – Victoreen Model 6 B, working electronics board. The order was submitted same as the first. This item I was told was on back-order, but they would contact me as soon as they had one in stock. Awesome I thought, as these items are extremely hard to locate, and I still have not managed to find one to this day.
After being contacted that they had the item in stock, I sent payment via PayPal same as the first order. After around two weeks of turn around time, I had received nothing in the mail, nor any correspondence from them about the order. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I sent an email, asking for the status of my order. I waited around another Two Weeks before receiving an email from someone named Lee Frank, telling me that he had been on vacation but would be sending the item directly. This was fine with me as I was not in any particular hurry, not to mention the limited availability of the item.
After two more weeks of waiting for the item, it had still not arrived. I started another correspondence with SurplusStuff, and it was exactly the same as the first. After a significant amount of time waiting on a reply, I finally received another email apologizing and promising that I should receive my part soon as soon as it was in stock. OK, this is odd, as I was contacted about paying for the item because it was in stock. I sighed aloud and told them to send it when they could.
Fast forward a month. Still no product, no email, nothing. It has now been over two months since my initial payment to this company.
At this point I finally ask for my money back from Mr. Lee Frank. This time, I received my reply within 24 hours. This time, he claimed that he could not ship to me because my address with PayPal was not the same as the account holder, and that he had quote “had a bad experience the last time he done that”. The claim my PayPal was incorrect was completely false as I have a verified address with PayPal. Not only that, but I had received an order from him without issue two weeks prior to placing this order. Not to mention, if there was some problem with shipping the item, why did they not contact ME rather than waiting on the reverse to happen? Regardless, after two more days of excuses that my PayPal was in error, I notified Lee that I would just like a refund.
A few more emails were exchanged with me explaining that I would rather have the item, that they were in error about the PayPal issue, and the fact they had already shipped to me at the same address once before.
Needless to say, after a few more unprofessional emails, I eventually had to threaten PayPal litigation for my refund if he did not supply me with my money back or my purchased item. After another few unprofessional emails, including one with Lee being very upset that I dared to threaten him to get my refund, I finally received my money back.
While the entire purchase was only around $25 and change, it was the point of not getting ripped off for me. For those wishing to acquire the hard to find items this site lists, be wary, and do not pay any other way than PayPal or a credit card where you can dispute the purchase. I am sure that if I had sent a check or money order, I would never have seen my money again.
Still to this day, I would rather have received my repair board as I still have not been able to locate one, and I refuse to spend 100′s of dollars on another one from eBay as these items are over 50-60 years old. If anyone else has had experience with this company, I would be glad to hear it.
I have talked to many people that have never had an issue with SurplusStuff, and perhaps I am one of the unlucky few. I felt that I was more than patient in the matter, as not many would calmly wait months with little to no correspondence on a purchase in this day and age of instant email and next day shipping.
In short, be wary if you deal with this company.
Site Maintenence
I am in the process of having the blogs take over the entire tervfect.net domain rather than being a link from the home site which was pointless.
As I transition the blogs over, there may be some issues such as 404 errors or login issues.
If you experience any issues with the site, comment to this post with what you encountered and I will try to get it fixed up.
Finals are almost over for me this semester so hopefully I can find some more useful game fixes, hacks or other handy but hard to find code. And of course, if I drink any different alcohols I will be sure to review them here.
Site Downtime
For the few that do frequent this site, I wanted to update as to why the site was down for a significant period of time.
Long story short, identity theft resulted in an inability to pay my hosting provider until safe payment could be secured. This took over a month and until such time, my account with them was locked.
Otherwise, if I come across anything worth posting up here I will do so. The video games and liquor reviews are my most popular posts, with guitar and flying being low on the interest scale, so I will try to find some more fixes and such that those visiting this site wish to see.
Thanks for your understanding, not that you guys were devastated or anything……
Long Time No Post
It has been a while since I have posted to this blog, and the only excuse I have is that life has been extremely busy. Between full time college and my private business and family life, I have had little time to post to this blog for those very few that subscribe to it. With my college degree demanding quite a bit of chemistry, and my life-long obsession with chemistry and related sciences, I have since built a laboratory in our basement for various experiments.
For those that have followed this blog for any amount of time, you can say that my interests tend to ping-pong around the world as far as the subjects that are pursued. If I do try any new alcohols they will for sure be reviewed, as well as the other posted interests that those following this blog may have been accustomed to. I will also be posting, rarely, the chemical related reactions that are preformed in the laboratory for the others that will be interested in this type of chemistry.
For those of you only wanting to see the latest liquor reviews, I have no intention of ignoring new alcohols as I come across them. I will be in fact writing a review of some of the TGIF “the liquor is in it’ bottles available at some liquor stores and the corresponding reviews from my perspective of these products.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years, and not so many hang-overs. I look forward to any feedback that I might receive that is not from the random spammer just looking for a handout. For those that actually take the time to register to this site to leave feedback, you are very highly praised for taking time out of your day to give feedback to an off-the-wall blog such as mine. Thank you all, and have a good year.
Deadspace 2 – “Could not initialize video hardware” error fix for nVidia.
I recently picked up Deadspace 2 when it was on sale through origin. Very shortly I noticed that if I had played the game, it would give the “Could not initialize video hardware, please restart deadspace and try again” error. This would not resolve until the system had been fully restarted.
After some searching, I found the solution with nVidia hardware, is that the game does not release the video resources. The cure is fast and easy, open task manager (Ctrl,Shift,Esc), click “show processes from all users”, then kill any processes from nvidia that are running. Sometimes just killing nvsvc will work, but if you have nTune installed, you will probably need to kill that as well.
Services to kill/restart:
nvvsvc.exe and possibly nTuneService.exe, and nvxdsync.exe
Killing these services will “unlock” the video hardware allowing Deadspace 2 to start. You will probably need to do this every time you start the game without a restart if you are having this issue.
While there are other issues that can cause this error, those with nVidia video cards are encouraged to try this fix before other troubleshooting.
Liquor Review – McCormick Vodka
Posted by Zeno in Wine & Liquor on September 5, 2012
Yes it has been a long time since anyone has posted to these blogs but with the traffic we are receiving it seems necessary to get off my butt and post something, so here is another vodka review for your pleasure. This time I am reviewing McCormick Vodka. This is a “bottom of the barrel” vodka usually found next to the likes of Popov and others in this price range. I will say that for the price this is not a terrible vodka, and for mixed drinks it’s the best you can purchase in it’s price range.
In comparison to Popov and others in the less than $15 per 1.5L vodka’s, in my experience, McCormick’s has the least amount of hangover headache. I learned very fast in my drinking escapades that cheap liquors usually came with terrible after-morning headaches, and while the McCormick brand vodka isn’t excluded from this category, they have at least managed a cheap vodka that stands above the others in its price class. For the money you can’t beat this vodka, although I would NOT recommend it for anything other than a party mixed drink liquor. Drinking this stuff straight up is far from pleasurable with a disagreeable fore and after-taste. As far as using for a mixer however, this is the best for “just a couple” of drink parties. Anything more however will leave you with pretty nasty headaches the next morning. In comparison to the slightly more expensive vodka’s, there is no comparison. If drinking any more than two drinks is your goal, unless you are hosting a frat party, this along with all the other less than $18 per 1.5L vodka’s will leave you with a terrible headache the following morning. However, for party mixers, long island iced tea’s and other purposes, McCormick’s will fit the bill and leave your wallet with enough money to buy a pint of the better vodka’s for yourself.
Blog Updates
Well if anyone visits my site more than once, you probably notice that updates are few and far between anymore. Family is keeping me busy busy busy, and if you can’t tell by the types of posts on this site, my interests skip from here to there throughout a year. My current interest is laboratory chemistry. Yes I know, it’s not normal to do chemistry, physics and radioactivity experiments and mathematics for fun, but I guess I’m abnormal in that regard.
I will try to keep on track, and will of course post more liquor reviews and video game fixes as they come around. I am honestly surprised at just how hard it is to find fixes to common game issues being that there are entire sites with 1,000′s of users dedicated to these issues. Most people unless they are just bored HATE searching through forums for simple fixes. The BF3 and Flight Sim fixes for instance took me weeks of time, and 100′s of pages of forum searching to find the answer. Why can’t they just put as the thread name, PROBLEM FIX, no, that would be too easy I suppose.
I am glad that some of my posts have helped even just a few people, and appreciate those that take the time to go through my rather arcane sign-up and approval process just to leave a comment. I am sure many more benefitted from the posts but did not take the time to create an account to reply.
If not for the 100′s of spammers a month that attempt to post junk on my site such methods would not be necessary, and I completely gave up on a forum because I just don’t have time to edit 500 posts a day for “GET BIGGER NOW” and “FREE DRUGS” posts for the ONE post that is legitimate.
Thank you all!
Decent Vodka’s under $20 per 1.5L
Posted by Zeno in Wine & Liquor on November 26, 2011
It has been a while since I have posted any reviews of any liquor or wines, so I thought I would put a small write-up of the latest flavorings of Vodka I have had the pleasure of trying over the last few months, and my top picks for under $20 vodka’s in the 1.5L sizes. I picked the 1.5L sizes, because if you are going to invest in more than a pint, you get much more for your money going with 1.5L sizes rather than 1/5ths as you are literally getting double the amount of product for usually in the order 0f $3-5 dollars more than you would have paid for the 750mL bottle. I also only have a couple of drinks a night tops, so I avoid the gut-rot vodka’s like the plague. If you are going to enjoy a nice drink, don’t buy 2 gallons of Barton’s for $8. These cheap liquors serve their purposes for parties, or large mixes, but for those looking for something that tastes good rather than just gives them a quick buzz and a nasty hangover, check out the offerings listed below.
- Pearl Vodka ($15.99 – $18.99 – 1.5L) – This has been my top pick vodka for some time now, it’s very smooth, mixes well, and has no aftertaste to speak of. It is a wheat distilled vodka from Canada, and sometimes comes with two flavored mini-bar sized pearl bottles of Pomegranate and Plum flavors (I favor neither but to each their own). This is the vodka I have purchased for over 3 months now when I am buying 1.5L sized bottles. Great prices, and an awesome taste make this one of my favorites. Like any good vodka, you could take a mouthful of this and feel absolutely NO burn until you swallow, no matter how long you hold it (Go on try it .
- Ruskova ($17.99 -$21.99 – 1.5L) – This is an authentic Russian made vodka and isn’t carried by many of the smaller vendors yet, but if
you do find it, pick it up, it is a very smooth vodka, and you will be surprised at the quality vs. price. Also, I am not sure if they are still doing it, but most of the bottles I found had a $5.00 off coupon since it apparently is a rather new import. These required mailing in with the proof of purchase which is a rather PITA, and I never actually attempted to collect the $5 (something I believe all companies count on when making these types of offers), but it’s something nonetheless.
- Boru ($18.99 – $21.99 – 1.5L) – This is a vodka made in Ireland, distilled from grain with five times distilled posted on the front. This
vodka tends to be just a bit pricier than both of the above, and has just a bit more of an aftertaste as well, which I attribute to the five distillations vs the 7 other vendors do. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not much of one, but is noticeable if you have tried several vodka’s like I have. It did make it into my top five list though, so don’t hesitate to give it a try.
- Pinnacle Vodka – No Flavoring ($18.99 – $21.99 – 1.5L) – As far as I am aware, all of Pinnacle’s products originate in France, and they make several popular liquor types such as Gin and Vodka. They have also recently introduced a line of flavored vodka’s, one of which was “Whipped” flavor (like whipped cream), and several others. I myself have never been a fan of flavored vodka’s, I tend to use schnapps when I need other flavors like peach etc. Their website also boasts that they won the “Gold Medal Exceptional
Best Buy of 2010 from the Beverage Tasting Institute”, so they are obviously doing something right. Against the above vodka’s, this one tends to be my lower pick, but mainly just for the extra dollar or so it costs to purchase more than a taste standpoint. It has almost no aftertaste and is another very smooth vodka, so if you haven’t given them a try, maybe today is the day.
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Sobieski Vodka ($16.99-$19.99 – 1.5L) – This is one of my all time favorite vodka’s. I haven’t purchased as many 1.5L as 750mL bottles because the pricing seems to be off between the two (not linear like other brands), but if I am purchasing a 750mL bottle, this is my first pick. They have recently started flavored offerings like other brands such as citrus which I personally tried (by accidentally grabbing the wrong bottle), and it was good, and mixed excellently with orange juice for screwdrivers. If this vodka’s 1.5L offerings price was as good a deal as their 750′s, it would be my top pick, however, it still had to make this list as it’s extremely smooth and has almost zero aftertaste.
Thanks for reading the above reviews from just another guy that has no financial stake in any of the above companies but just started this blog years ago giving my take on the best lower end liquor and wines to buy for those like me that were just starting out in the territory. When I first started trying alcohol’s a few years ago I didn’t know any mixed drinks other than a screwdriver, and had no idea what anything tasted like as I had been a complete non-drinker until my 30′s for reasons I won’t go into here.
If anyone would like a specific brand reviewed by me, or if you are curious about a brand I may not have listed here, feel free to comment, all feedback is appreciated, all except trolls of course. Any discussions I have been privy to, deteriorated into the usual dribble you see on other websites like YouTube, and will be promptly deleted so don’t bother if you are one of those types.
Have a Great Holiday and Safe Holiday Season!
Battlefield 3 APPCRASH problem SOLVED (Hopefully)
While this doesn’t completely fix the crashing issues trying to get Battlefield 3 up and running in multi-player, here is a copy-paste post I just made on the Battlefield 3 forums.
If you are constantly getting the below APPCRASH, having the game fail to load with an APPCRASH, have the game crashing while changing maps, etc, I THINK I have FOUND THE SOLUTION, thanks to another gamer which SO FAR is working like a charm!
Note this doesn’t fix the occasional CTD’s, or the APPCRASH that happens when trying to join servers sometimes.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: bf3.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4ec142d8
Fault Module Name: bf3.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ec142d8
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0001bf0c
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
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SOLUTION:, This is a memory issue from all research I have done, and even though I have 4GB of available RAM (well 3GB with the “memory hole” 32bit systems have”, and am running a nVidia 460 GTX with 1GB of video memory, I was occasionally getting “Out of Video Memory”, or “DX11 Failure due to not enough video memory, make sure you have at least 512MB of video card memory”. While this error was very rare, the APPCRASH listed above, was a CONSTANT thing, especially after yesterday’s “Patch”, I wasn’t able to finish ONE SINGLE MATCH, and usually it was taking at least 20 tries just to log onto a damned server. Frustration doesn’t begin to describe my anger at this issue as BF3 MP is FAR better than MW3 IMHO, at least in the multi-player aspect of the games.
The fix, I was running “Custom” video settings with all set to High, 4X AA, 8X Anso, and High for everything else. I had also tried “Auto”, which changed almost all my settings to “Ultra” or “High”, with nothing on lower than “High”.
While the hardcore gamer in me cringed at the thought, and per another MP gamers advice when asking if everyone else’s MP was crashing as much as mine, he suggested lowering my video settings. So I lowered ALL settings to MEDIUM, set AA to 2X, Anso to 2X and disabled AA Post Processing.
LOW AND BEHOLD, the next game started right up, with no crashes, it finished the round, and even switched maps!!! YAY!
I tried fiddling with some of the settings trying to find the culprit, and with everything set as above, setting smoke effects to High almost immediately resulted in the above APPCRASH.
I Plan to keep messing with the settings, It’s possible there is a memory leak/shader code error, etc, somewhere in the smoke settings, or maybe the Post Processing for AA is too much for my system, either way, I have played for 2.5 straight hours now and untold matches and map changes without a single crash!!!
Maybe there is hope for this game after all.
So, if you are getting the APPCRASH with the above codes in it “Mainly the c0000005 which pertains to memory”, try lowering all your settings to Medium, and then play with them from there. I noticed almost no change in the detail of the game which was a welcome sight, having a mediocre gaming system that usually plays Crysis 2 on High detail would have sucked to have to lose all the eye candy BF3 has to offer.
SYSTEM: Dell XPS 720 with E6750 CPU running on nVidia 680i-SLI chipset (Yes I know it’s old), 4 GB of Crucial memory, and a nVidia 460 GTX video card. All Stock Clocks, and Yes, it will play Crysis 2 and BF3 on all High settings with very playable frame rates (30-40′s)
UPDATE: Well, I have been playing quite a bit since posting this fix, and while I still get the APPCRASH upon starting the app (IE you click a server, it will get to “Loading Level”, and stick there, upon clicking the game icon you have the crash to “Close program or Find a Solution”), otherwise, NO crashes, hope others are having as good results as I.
Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Crashes
I don’t have issues with the single player aspect of this game whatsoever, however, on trying to load multi-player mode, I usually get the following.
“Game Manager” will get to “Loading Level” or “Initializing” , the BF3 icon will show on the taskbar, but when clicking it, the game has crashed with the APPCRASH message listed below.
After today’s “update” the game now crashes even more than it did, not getting more than about 2 minutes into ANY server before it crashes. Always with the same APPCRASH data. I have been told the c0000005 is memory related, but I am running 4 gigs of memory that passes all memtest algorithms without fail. I am running the newer nVidia drivers released just for this game, and the game actually ran better Before the patch today, sometimes getting hours of playtime in before a crash.
System is Dell XPS 720, E6750 processor, nVidia 460 GTX, 4 GB Crucial RAM, nVidia 680i-SLI chipset, and other standard hardware. NO it is not overheating, NO it is not overclocked, NO the PSU is giving out plenty of current (It’s a 1KW PSU), if it was ANYTHING hardware related, why would the single-player aspect of the game work flawlessly without ANY crashes. There is another issue here, probably pertaining to either the network packet handling of the multi-player itself, or something in the way origin is handling memory overflows.
I am going to try reducing down the system after a reboot and disabling EVERYTHING not needed to keep the system alive and see if the crashes subside. The fact that they are now 400 times WORSE than before today’s patch tells me they tried to fix it, and know there is a problem but failed miserably at it.
This system runs ALL other games flawlessly, including MW3, single AND multi-player without issue.
If someone finds a fix to this issue, me as well as 1,000′s of others around the internet would love to hear it as I am about to give up completely on playing BF3 multi-player, which is disheartening being that I have waited so long for it’s release.
Also note that Battlefield – Bad Company 2 played without fail.\
Here is the APPCRASH data, that never changes.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: bf3.exe
Application Version: 1.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4ec142d8
Fault Module Name: bf3.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ec142d8
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0001bf0c
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
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New Wine, Long time between posts.
Posted by Zeno in General, Wine & Liquor on April 15, 2011
I know it’s been forever since I have posted on this blog, I honestly didn’t think I had too many subscribing until I checked the books tonight. I will try to keep posts much more updated without long stints of inactivity. I have recently been taking tactical / handgun classes at my local tactical training school, registering for more college classes, taking Yale and Harvard Astrophysics and Partical physics lectures online, completing Private Pilot training with at home ground schooling, learning to fly RC helicopters, and last but not least caring for my 6 year old step-son and making time for my Fiance’ and me. So life is pretty hectic in every sense of the word and I just haven’t had time to get on here and post about much of anything.
Before I give a usual wine review, I wanted to make everyone aware of a very informative podcast for those interested in any way in network/tech security called “Security Now” which is part of the TWiT network and has been around for a long time now. They have an extremely involved security/programming guest named Steve Gibson, which some of you may know wrote SpinRite, which is a LIFESAVING hard-drive tool that has personally saved around 5 hard drives and the data they contained of my own, and they are STILL running today after FAILURE 5 years later!. The tool can be purchased from <href a>http://grc.com</a>, as well as many many free tools Steve writes for whatever he finds an interest in. One of the most original things about Steve is that ALL of his software is programmed in assembly language, which means to the layperson, that there is NO compiling of the code, it is written in a language that CPU’s understand directly, so his software requires NO installation routine, NO Dll’s, NO uninstall, and have an extremely small footprint, usually in the kB range rather than the MB range of 99.999% of software available today. Steve’s main source of income besides his side projects is SpinRite, and for ALL hard-drives that are not SSD technology (IE Mechanical), it works literal magic, operating on the lowest level possible, meaning that the software can work on drives running ANY operating system and ANY file system imaginable. If you have any questions check out his homepage above for it and many other tools. Another cool aspect about Steve is he was the one to actually Coin the term “Spyware”, and discover some of the first iterations of spyware ever found!
SO the usual liquor review!
One of the BEST low cost red wines I have EVER EXPERIENCED is a rather new on the market “winemakers blend” out of California called Apothic. This wine offers all of the best tastes from Shiraz, Merlot, and Cabernet Sauvignon wines, with an extremely smooth taste and pleasant tannins.
This wine averages around $10.99 a bottle US, and if you see it in your local spirits store I Highly Recommend picking up a bottle and giving it a try. Besides the higher named bottles like Woodbridge, Rosemount, Etc, this wine offers all of the taste at half the cost. Highly recommended! 
(Avg Cost $10.99 per 750mL bottle.)
Kindergarten Placement Test
Today I want to tell you about the Kindergarten placement test. My son has just taken this test, and it truly upsets me. The 1st thing that upsets me is they ask my son to count as high as he can, well he can count to 50 easy, when he gets to 29 he can’t remember 30. So they then mark that he does not know his 20′s…. O.K. I can see that they could mark not knowing 30′s but to say as high as he can count is 19, that’s not right. The 2nd thing they did was pointed to body parts, She pointed to her cheek, he said cheek, they marked it wrong of course cause he did not call it a jaw. She pointed to her ankle, he said foot. So it is wrong. Now he is marked saying he does not know any body parts. This again is wrong. They showed him his ABC’s on flash cards. he missed 3 lower case letters. Guess what….. It is now marked that he does not know any of his alphabet. So to all the parents with a little one going into kindergarten, beware the placement test. Also to the people and the government who made these test. This is not right. Something has to be done about the way you test our kids.
Flight Lesson 2 – Pictures & Comments
Had my second flight lesson today from Knoxville Flight Training Center. As with my first experience, the flight crew there is top notch, very friendly and know what they are doing. We took up an old 1977 172 SkyHawk. We took off from DKX, landed at GKT then after a few turns and basic plane handling/feel training headed back for a landing on runway 26 of DKX. Most exciting part was finding out AFTER the lesson that my instructor wasn’t even assisting but just laying his hands on the yoke!! He knows I have several hundred simulated flight hours, but he has more confidence in my flying than I do I think , either way, we didn’t die, or even hit hard, no bounces and even had a slight tailwind in the final approach, although I could have hit the runway center-line a bit better. For a second flight hour and 3rd landing, I suppose I’m already farther than most, I can’t say either way, anyone with any comments, experiences etc., for flight schools or flight in general are welcome to comment. I am currently looking for financing if anyone has experience or advice in that area for flight training.
Enjoy the photos, working out the bugs, but hope to have thumbs here with full size on click, that probably won’t work out the way I want it yet though, I only have limited time to work on this blog right now with the kid and the girl to manage, plus finals to help her with this weekend. Hurray for Contract Law….
Demonoid Account Request
Posted by Zeno in General, Technology on May 17, 2010
I have been trying to become a member to the Demonoid.com torrent site for over four years it seems. And with my always hectic schedule I haven’t ever managed to get on during one of their very very short sign-up time’s, which if I remember right was like between 4PM and 5PM -8:00 GMT only.
So without blathering on anymore, Registrations are Closed and the only way to get a usable account now is with an invitation code, which I assume comes from a current member.
So, I am asking that any member that has an account on Demonoid.com and would be willing to lose one of there’s, to please send it to me at the listed Blog email. Place some obvious subject line to weed it out of the spam filter and my own “Auto-Deleting”
The torrent searching sites around out there these days have really went to shit, and I would really like to be able to check out Demonoid being that 90% of torrents I download come with their tagged text file.
You may directly email me any codes to zenosxr@yahoo.com. NO spam please, or I will just block your entire domain.