Gray Dudek

Got this on an email from my father. Usually the joke emails he sends are far to rude to be put on my blog (keep sending ‘em though Dad!)

Nonetheless this one was just, well, priceless.

Being a keen pilot myself this just made me smile because of the shear balls of the guy.

Begins:

In addition to communicating with the local Air Traffic Control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give foreign Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute ‘heads up’ if they will be transiting their airspace.

The following conversation was heard on the VHF Guard (emergency) frequency 121.5 MHz.

Air Defense Radar: ”Unknown aircraft you are in our airspace, identify yourself.”

Aircraft: ”This is a United States aircraft. I am not in your airspace, confirm.”

Air Defense Radar: ”Confirm, you are transiting our airspace. If you do not depart we will launch interceptor aircraft”

Aircraft: ”This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send ‘em up here, I’ll wait…”

Air Defense Radar: (total silence)

…just priceless…

This was shared with me by a good friend via Facebook so I have dragged it over here to share further. Simply genius and what is going on with the guy in the background with the camouflage shirt on? Ha.

Dolls linked to films and TV programmes dominate a list of top toys for Christmas produced by an industry body.

Fireman Sam and Buzz Lightyear both feature in the leading dozen items picked out by the Toy Retailers’ Association.

Licensed sales now represent 26% of total toy sales, up 5% in the year to August, the group said.

But there remains room in the list for more traditional games such as Lego and Monopoly.

Technology

The association’s prediction of the Christmas best-sellers range in price from £19.99 to £84.99.

The more technologically-advanced toys include children’s video cameras and electric guitars.

“The technological advancements used in many of the toys we reviewed this year were simply amazing, and demonstrate how forward thinking manufacturers are, in what has been a challenging yet extremely positive year for the toy industry,” said Gary Grant, who sat on the selection panel.

Toy puppies and dolls are most likely to be popular among girls, the panel said, with war toys more keenly snapped up for boys.

The full list of the predicted Christmas best-sellers is:

• City Airport (£84.99)
• Fireman Sam Deluxe Fire Station Playset (£29.99)
• FurReal Go Go Walking Pup (£59.99)
• Jet Pack Buzz Lightyear (£39.99)
• Kidizoom VideoCam (£59.99)
• Monopoly Revolution (£29.99)
• Moon Dough Barn (£19.99)
• Nerf N Strike Stampede ECS (£54.99)
• Paper Jamz Guitar (£24.99)
• “Pumpaloons” – action game (£19.99)
• Sylvanian Families Motorcycle and Sidecar (£24.99)
• ZhuZhu Grooming Salon (£22.99).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11627946

Just been invited by @McCann_NY to contribute to the new blog going out there. Some serious thought leaders are getting involved from our network to it’s one definitely to watch/bookmark/feed/you know the drill.

Take a look and throw some comments at it – with a good level of contributors involved from across the Globe you’re sure to get a welcomed response.

http://www.truthhunting.com/

Finally I managed to get rid of Recovery Desktop which has been annoying me for a couple of days. I switched to a new HP second monitor for my laptop and every since then desktop went into Recovery…

So, I did the following to get rid of it and decided to write about it here so you can read it too but also so I know where I put the fix in case / when I need it again.

1. Go to Run and type regedit
2. Now navigate to this path – HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\SafeMode\Components
3. You would find a key named DeskHtmlVersion
4. Right click the key and select Modify
5. Under the label Base, select the radio button Decimal
6. Change Value data to 0
7. Click OK
8. Sorted (or might need a reboot!)