Education

Proof that “administrators” need to be weeded out of the educational system at all levels, and a lot of teachers need to be retrained.

 

More proof.

WTF?

Maple money

Those wacky Canadians.  What more do I need to say.

IPMS/USA Journal Vol.25 #2

I won’t review this issue, since I have several items in it.  This is just to let you know it is out and as always I recommend membership in IPMS/USA

Magazine review: Scale Aircraft Modeller Int’l Vol. 19 #4 (April 2013)

I previous announced a number of years ago on this blog that I’ve stopped buying SAMI.  The quality went seriously downhill and I just stopped finding value in it.  However, everyone once in a while I buy an issue just to see if things have changed.  The have.  It has gotten worse.

First, the positive stuff………

Ok, now the bad.  Nearly everything.  Uniformly, the models built for the articles are bad.  Some really bad.  A few examples.   The new Meng G.91 kit is a nice model, but you wouldn’t know it by the photos of the review model.  It is brush painted and I don’t mind that, but it isn’t well done.  The reviewer managed to make a new, state of the art kit, look like a 30 year old Frog kit.  The new Airfix kit of the Vamp is the subject of  one of the centerpiece articles of the issue.  Yet, the historical article doesn’t have much meat to it, and the color profiles aren’t particularly good.  Also, the review buiimld up of the kit is not well done.  There is obvious overspray and other building flaws that make it seem like the model was rushed for this issue.

I won’t be buying SAMI anytime soon.

Proud moment

Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit,  posted one of my photos from the Tea Party protest at the IRS in Louisville.

When it rains…..

it pours.

3-D printing

There has been a hoopla recently about 3-D printed plastic guns.  As this article points out, that misses the real point entirely.  The world is about to change.

Chinese whizz bang

More ASAT tests from the Chinese.    I think we may one day regret we don’t have such a weapon ready.

Greek tragedy

Mark my words, Greece is going to explode.