Twelve years old.
June 17.
3 years from driving.
6 years from voting.
6 years from college or the military.
Half way to the age when I became his father.
A lifetime of possibilities.
Happy Birthday to my son.
Finally sorted through a couple of thousand photos and picked about 100 or so to share. Something for everyone here, if you like aircraft!
Thomas and I took a walk along the beach last night and took a few photographs. All the pictures of me were taken by Master Thomas as well as this awesome pic! Click here for the rest of the pix.
Here is my review of the new Star Trek movie: Go see it.
Here she is. Our new ride, a 2009 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited in Deep Water Blue. Thomas has his eyes on this one… Sweet 16 isn’t THAT far away afterall.
My plan to control the world is done.. at least the prototype.
I have created a globe that has RFID tags stuck on the insides that drives Google Earth. So, in effect, I have created a remote control physical globe for a virtual one. 
Right now the globe only has three tags and supports viewing Africa, Antarctica and the good ‘ol U.S. of A. via a Touchatag reader.
To Google Earth’s credit, just using a command-line to load a .KMZ file is quick and painless, with no noticible UI refreshes, etc. So, the effect of using the globe remote is smooth and seamless. I’ll publish a video and how-to later.
Here’s a link to the pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmknight/sets/72157615349049677/
Randomness from this week in photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnmknight/sets/72157615371310694/
Enjoy.
I took this picture of the ISS last night as it flew behind my house. I don’t know why NASA didn’t consider the big tree in my backyard when they decided to give me a fly over. Silly rocket scientists. Couldn’t have have cut down some branches at least with a laser or something? For those wondering if a follow up shot of Endevor chasing the ISS is order, the answer is yes. Now, NASA just had to cut down some trees from space…
