http://www.michaelyon-online.com/friday-morning-at-the-pentagon.htm

Liveblogging is where, as you watch an event, you continually update your blog with your impressions of what is happening.

Drunkblogging is when you add alcohol.

Steve Green of Vodkapundit and Pajamas Media pretty much invented it - and is still the best at it.

Read along as he drunkblogs President Obama's speech at West Point last night:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/drunkblogging-obamas-afghanistan-speech/

Takeaway: 

I stumbled on a discusson on the Atlas forum regarding the possibility that Sergent Couplers would cause cars to derail on tight radius curves, based on their tigher lock and shorter shanks than the Kadee couplers.

I can't say this any better than they can - so I'm going to copy them outright:

Project Valour-IT began when Captain Charles "Chuck" Ziegenfuss was wounded by an IED while serving as commander of a tank company in Iraq in June 2005.

During his deployment he kept a blog (an online personal diary, opinion forum, or news analysis site-called a milblog or military weblog when written by a servicemember or about military subjects). Captivating writing, insightful stories of his experiences, and his self-deprecating humor won him many loyal readers. After he was wounded, his wife continued his blog, keeping his readers informed of his condition.

As he began to recover, CPT Ziegenfuss wanted to return to writing his blog, but serious hand injuries hampered his typing. When a loyal and generous reader gave him a copy of the Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred software, other readers began to realize how important such software could be to CPT Ziegenfuss' fellow wounded soldiers and started cast about for a way to get it to them.

A fellow blogger (blog author) who writes under the pseudonym FbL contacted Captain Ziegenfuss and the two realized they shared a vision of providing laptops with voice-controlled software to wounded soldiers whose injuries prevented them from operating a standard computer. FbL contacted Soldiers Angels, who offered to help develop the project, and Project Valour-IT was born.

In sharing their thoughts, CPT Ziegenfuss (now a Major) and FbL found that memories of their respective fathers were a motivating factor in their work with the project. Both continue their association with this project in memory of the great men in their lives whose fine examples taught them lasting lessons of courage and generosity.

In the years since its founding in 2005, the project has acted to meet emerging needs and its mission of supporting the the severely wounded has expanded.  In addition to voice-controlled laptops, Valour-IT now helps provide active and whole-body video games such as Wii Sports, which is used to great effect in physical therapy,  and personal GPS systems that help compensate for short-term memory loss and organizational/spacial challenges common in those with brain injuries.

Just click on the thermometer to the left to contribute.

The Hawaiian Railway Society rescued (and got added to the Register of National Historic Places) the last section of the original Oahu Railway & Land Co., a 3 foot gauge common carrier on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. After rehabilitating a 6 1/2 mile long section of it, they use a couple of ex-US Navy 45-ton diesel locomotives and some open observation cars built out of flatcars to run tours every Sunday afternoon.

I created a Google Map of the path it takes:

... despite how some might want you to.

I took a screenshot in case they actually notice it - it's already been up about 2 1/2 hours....

Interested in what I've been doing in the model railroading world recently?

Check out my Model Railroad Hobbyist blog at http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/blog/jeffshultz to see my latest experiements with a new type of speaker in my Alco C425 and my new Sergent Type SE double shelf couplers - the correct couplers for my tank cars.

http://www.newsherald.com/articles/obama-76464-henry-focus.html

"If Obama has his way, his health care plan will be funded by his Treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by his Surgeon General who is obese, signed by a president who smokes and financed by a country that is just about broke. What possibly could go wrong?"

Yep, the Country's in the very best of hands:

When I was a kid I built model kits. Lots of them - mostly airplanes, some armored vehicles (tanks, etc). I generally built them quickly - and they looked like it.

So these days I give the glue time to dry before moving onto the next section.

No problem - generally looks a lot better that way.

But it takes soooooo long!

I know... I need to get multiple projects running simultaneously so I can switch between them.

Not a bad idea. A little hard on the dining room, but not a bad idea....