vtjohnhurt

Saw some new interesting things at the Kerouac Center booth on Shattuck Street today. Stop by if you're interested in how the project is progressing.

I don't want to scramble what I heard and get it wrong.

I have a high threshold for pain and annoyance. I've the habit of ignoring pain and other people's annoying behavior. This habit has served me well, until today.

I'm in the NE US heat dome without AC. 'I'm fine.', but then I casually made a cold drink, and I gulped it down. I realized that the heat has been grinding me down gradually, and that I was just ignoring it. Delirious would be hyperbole, now I know that I need to be more proactive about keeping cool.

And I think I will lay of the caffeine because that seems to blur my self-perception of physiological impact. I'm old, and maybe that's part of my problem, so make sure that the old people around you keep hydrating.

Who was this Swiss Champion, and does anyone have a link to his prescient lecture?

In 2010, when I was searching for my first private glider, a mentor suggested I read an English translation of a lecture given in German by a Swiss gliding champion. The champion recounted a long list of friends that he'd lost to fatal accidents in early composite gliders. He suggested that destroying all of these gliders would be an effective way to reduce the rate of glider fatalities.

That never happened, but new glider types got safer. 'Automatic hookups' arrived, and the propensity to abruptly enter spins was designed out. FLARM arrived. Then, 'safety cockpits' arrived, and more recently 'nose ho

I opted out of flying on too many hot days last year, so I'm motivated to try some additional hot weather coping tips.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/570954

https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/1tqr0rm/tow_pilot_death/

I have 'good medical insurance' but a PSA blood test was not covered. For the exact same test: Quest=$178, Labcorp=$133, BILH(Lahey)=$72

Last February, I found that a CT Calcium Score Test at Lowell General Tufts was much less than other area providers.

Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/faa-drones-proposed-rule.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.wx2Z.NiPMtwrZJXlM&smid=url-share