Took an introductory flight from a flying school in San Carlos. The instructor took my friend and I up in a Piper Archer and we headed off over SFO, the city, the Golden Gate bridge and Alcatraz. Then out towards Napa and on this stretch I got control for around 20 minutes. It was great [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 15, 2008
Why ask for the Moon?
So India lands a spacecraft on the Moon. Commendable scientific achievement. But in reality, what does it achieve? Any new discovery? New data collected? Something new unearthed in the last 39 years since the first Moon landing? Err, no. Zilch. Zero. NOTHING. A prestige issue then? Err, why would a nation of a billion people, [...]
November 10, 2008
Management by walking around
After a gloomy and foggy Saturday whose only highlights were the fun movie Madgascar2 and dinner with friends, I woke up late on Sunday to see that it was a lovely day and actually sunny! With a couple of friends, went to Golden Gate park in the afternoon and then back to the Golden Gate [...]
