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DRONEon episode 8...

The subject is Obstacle avoidance. I was reminded about this feature as the Kobe Bryant crash on Sunday January 26 killed all nine aboard a Sikorsky S-76B aircraft.

If I had to do a quick list of advances in consumer drones, I would split them into generations. We're probably in the 4th generation. The 1st generation had simple drones. The 2nd generation added camera drones. The 3rd generation added drones with GPS and had detection on landing where the drone would stop it's descent if it sensed the terrain were higher than where it initially started from.

The latest generation of drones have obstacle detection from the front, rear and below. If you steer one of these drones into some trees, it will halt at a distance established in the avoidance setup menu. Let's say, 10 feet is the setting and you are moving toward a building, the drone will stop at 10 feet away of any unknown obstacle.
Once technology like this was only available on drones costing a few thousand and now the feature is standard on drones down to the $500 price range.

Kobe's multi-million dollar Sikorsky didn't have any obstacle avoidance equipment, nor did it have a 'black box' flight recorder. Regarding the crash, there are several different stories but the official report probably won't be released for 12 to 18 months.

The pilot flew in foggy conditions that were so bad, several police departments in the area grounded their helicopter operations.
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Exorcism in blogland...

My focus has been on work and home remodeling this week, but I noticed a calmness in the blogs that can only be described as and Exorcism.
Toward the end of last year, I witnessed demons flying around the room from time to time and things were building to a point where it overshadowed all aspects of normality.
I'm guessing the Bishop of CS came all the way from the Vatican to burn incense, sprinkle some Holy Water and vanquished the spirits about.

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Uhura had the first Bluetooth...

Star Trek came out in 1966.
Uhura was the communications officer aboard the USS Enterprise.
Her claim to fame is having the first Bluetooth.
It was massive by today's standards and it appeared to have it's own radiator!

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4.20...

The wind is down and I'm charging batteries to catch a few model aircraft flights this morning. The batteries I use are lithium polymer or Li-Po for short. They develop lots of power for a short time, so I have several when I go flying.
It's important to monitor the flight time because draining a battery below 3.8 volts will shorten its life. Batteries are pretty expensive, around 25 to $30 a piece for the style I use.
Depending on batteries deserves a Blog of its own!
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laser etched diamonds...

Two coworkers were talking about an expensive diamond ring purchased while on a cruise to the Caribbean. I asked if there was a chance of fraud and they both agreed no, because the diamonds where etched with serial numbers.

I'm not into jewelry and wasn't aware of the practice, but I do recall scratching my social number on the frame of my 10 speed bike back in the 1960's

Same concept!
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Ahh.... the smell of burned dust...

It went down to 40 Fahrenheit with winds of 25 miles per hour last night and I put the heater on for the first time.
As expected, the place filled with a burned smell as the dust on the heater coils burned away. Defeating the purpose of heat, I had the windows open for a while to allow the fresh air in and the smoke smell out.
Good thing it didn't set off the smoke detector.

Tonight, it's expected to be in the 60's so no plans for the heater... but that decision will be made later! Much later...
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Trump's popularity just skyrocketed...

Now that an Iranian lawmaker offered a $3 million reward to anyone who killed U.S. President Donald Trump.

Top story on Yahoo! this afternoon. I suppose there will be more news at 11.
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A performance to die for...

When asked, many professional musicians say they want to go out of this world on stage. It happens to very, very few. Saturday night, it happened to 71 year old singer-songwriter David Olney while performing at a festival in Florida.
In the middle of a song, stopped, apologized shut his eyes and remained still. He said "I'm sorry" and the musicians around him thought he was just taking a pause. His head tipped to his chest as he sat motionless on his stool, never dropping his guitar.
They lowered him from the stage as a doctor in the audience tried to revive him until the EMT's arrived, but it was too late!




My short list of musicians who ended their careers while performing:

I recall Tiny Tim suffered a heart attack on stage at a benefit. His wife helped him back to their table where he collapsed and never regained consciousness.

Guitarist Darrell Lance Abbott, aka Dimebag Darrell was murdered while performing at a nightclub.

Drummer for the rock band Chicago, John Thomas Hashian aka Sib Hashian died on stage in the middle of a set while performing on a cruise ship.

Guitarist for the heavy metal band Rigor Mortis (how appropriate) Mike Scaccia collapsed on stage performing for the 50th birthday of singer Bruce Corbitt.

Former Megadeath drummer Nick Menza died on stage in the middle of a set, rushed to the hospital and pronounced DOA. The cause was congestive heart failure.

I cannot remember the name of the singer while performing poolside stepped in a puddle while holding the microphone and was electrocuted. Another performance to die for!



Honorable mention for Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards who almost kicked it. At a live performance, his guitar made contact with a microphone stand and the voltage threw a spark of blue light that knocked him unconscious.
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predictive text blog...

I fight with my phone because it tries to put words different than what I'm thinking.
That was a struggle to say and the rest of this blog will be totally predictive text.

Sunday morning at the age of the United states and the United states and the United nations United nations meeting in Miami this week in the United kingdom Delray police department was the only place where did it come from being late in life and the situation was not immediately clear but the decision to leave the country alone would have prevented him from taking his own trip with the government and he would have been a little less concerned about the possibility of an attack on the country and a few other people who had a problem with his actions as well as the military or the government in the past to be fueled by the association between shit from the war or the military in Iraq to the client of the page and how to get the president to be fueled with a serviceman and the other side by the way he was in the middle of the war.



Google, WTF are you thinking?
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Hit me up for unforgettable and pleasurable experience...

Mixed weather this week as Monday to Wednesday was partly sunny and warm. Less rain, cooler temperatures and extreme winds by Friday. Trump was in Mar-a-Lago during Christmas and New Year so the model airfield was shut down. Flying 'anything' was banned.
Last night, we were getting winds of 25mph and the weather channel had advisories posted. I checked the weather this morning and again it's windy.
Should I chance flying?
This morning, I checked to see where Trump is and again he's spending time at this Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, so flying around here won't happen.
My plans today are to head to Miami and continue on my renovation project, Should the winds drop down, I'll catch a few flights in the local school yard, far... far away from Mar-a-Lago.

Doing my sweep of new profiles, I recognized one photo that's been on the internet for years. I don't recall her name, but it's an adult model and stolen photos of her appear on dozens of dating sites. She's 27 from New Orleans here and one site has the same photos of a woman who is 23 from New York. Also, one of her photos appears on a site for an escort service with the opening line "Hit me up for unforgettable and pleasurable experience" showing a phone number for contact.

Oops... my blog is skating over a few topics, but I recall not long ago something about prostitution at Mar-a-Lago but rich people get news like that washed away. Maybe you recall, I think it had to do with a football team owner during a Superbowl celebration. Prostitution, one of the oldest occupations on record or so I've read. I'm thinking... what if a businessman travels to a city and the cab driver suggests a companion for the night. The guy calls the woman and she meets him at his hotel room. She slips something in his drink and he dozes off for an hour or two only to awake and his wallet, ID, credit cards, cellphone and money have disappeared.

Truth in advertising, in that night being an unforgettable and pleasurable experience... unforgettable that he was robbed and pleasurable that she ended up with this money!

The game goes on... Scammer 1 and unsuspecting businessman -1 as he has to explain to his wife what happened while on a business trip.

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I meet thousands of thousands and take pictures of them...

There are SOME who actually believe him, maybe even thousands of thousands...

liar
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spitting in public...

Now that's a habit that I've never picked up.
It's amazing I see it quite often especially from women!
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