Bad Drivers, Obama, and Google Wave

Well, I've been lacking in posting lately mostly because I have been super-busy basically rewriting the documentation for the Flight2 System. It's pretty fun, but a lot of work. If you'll notice (looking closely) in the picture there, they have the new CDU in that picture (the 2 boxes with green text just above the engine throttles) but they don't show that it has a color screen and they also don't mention that the documentation for it isn't quite yet written! Anyhow, it keeps me busy with lots of work.

First point of the day is one that I make often: I am unimpressed with Iowan drivers. As I was driving to and from home last weekend, I was driving up in the rain with a fairly dark sky and saw a ton of cars that didn't even have their headlights on on the freeway! Come on people! Just about had someone run me off the road yesterday because they decided to pull out of the center turn lane and back into traffic as I was finishing moving into that lane (don't want to scratch my pretty car!). It just seems like constant problems not to mention the fact that they don't even have to do parallel parking to get a license (T-parking I'm not sure about). Anyhow, please get better at driving Iowans!

I was very impressed with Obama's speech tonight about Afghanistan. He said a lot of good things and while I thought that the 18 month deadline for getting troops into Afghanistan and out is a bit short, deadlines are good and hopefully it will make the army work harder to get the job done. Gotta love those little jabs at the Bush administration that he lays into speeches, though you usually have to read between the lines a bit. If you missed the speech, listen to a bit here:



I also recently have been toying with Google Wave. It's pretty neat and the ability to make edits to conversations and add images and documents is cool, but even cooler are the extensions and bots. I got one recently that records and transcribes a phone call into the wave for you (from a MIT guy), very cool. Hopefully we can put it to work for Kaleidoquiz. Hope everyone reading had a good Thanksgiving and was able to visit with family and friends, now I'm off to eat some post-Thanksgiving pie. Cheers!