That would be me. It seems that people got tired of hiding because of the weather, and decided to come out in droves to wherever the hell my Saturday chores are sending me to. I have already beat them twice, but I don’t know if I can keep the barbarians at hold for much longer. [...]

I don’t understand what the hell is with all this animosity towards Ashton Kutcher (and to a lesser degree, Seann William Scott). Dude, Where’s My Car? is a hilarious movie, a true classic. I have seen that movie a dozen times and it still cracks me up. I just managed to catch Just Married a [...]

One of the grand masters of Puerto Rican comedy, José Miguel Agrelot, has passed away in his sleep. He was 76. Don Cholito was an old school comedian from a dying breed that saw show business as the means to make people happy, not as a meal ticket. This is a man that worked radio [...]

It took me nearly three weeks to figure out that X-plane has a built-in pilot’s log, just like the feature I was used to see in MS Flight Simulator. In less than a month I have accumulated about 21 hours of flight, and not as many crashes as I thought! Yesterday was probably one of [...]

I am not going to waste my time with a review for this movie. I just want to say the following: 1. No longer can anyone give shit to Charlize Theron about her being just a pretty face. That woman deserves the respect of the Academy! This was the performance of a lifetime. Be prepared [...]

I originally started this issue over at my blog (http://www.livejournal.com/users/pvera/2004/01/13/), but I guess it is time I move it over here since it is about to degenerate into a technical argument. I am starting to re-learn ASP.net, since I have not used it for over a year and it is obvious that we will need [...]

First of all, don’t get your hopes up, XP7 is not a combat flight simulator, it is a flight simulator. Many planes come with weapons, but there is absolutely no targeting unless your plane has an optical sight (I highly doubt any of these actually work) and you use dive-bombing. If you do have weapons, [...]

The major of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Rafael “Churumba”? Cordero Santiago, one of the most colorful politicians in the history of the commonwealth, has passed away at 8:50 AM Atlantic Time. He was 62 and died from consequences of a brain hemorrhage. Churumba was a very charismatic politician and a very avid sports fan. I am [...]

So I decided I would fly from Bern in Switzerland and take a look at the mountains. Shouldn’t be too hard, right? Wrong. I had X-pilot 7 setup for real weather, which downloads the local weather conditions before each flight. It seems that no matter where I try to fly to this week, the weather [...]

We had snow forecasted for the DC Metro and suburbs area, and stupid idiot that I am, I woke up earlier and was on the road by 6:45 AM. That was big mistake #1. My bus was 40 minutes late. This is a route that runs every 30 minutes, so obviously something was wrong. The [...]