I am a big fan of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. He recently went to Comic-Con. Here is the video;

My favorite three comedians are George Carlin, Dennis Miller and Stephen Wright. I was saddened to learn this morning that Comedian George Carlin passed away.

I saw Carlin the first time I was out in Vegas. At the end of his routine he did his famous bit on "the" Seven dirty words you can't say on radio or TV. He said when he originally did the bit, it was not "the" seven words, it was "here are seven words you can't say".

A radio station played the bit late at night in 1978, and they were fined by the FCC. They took their case all the the way to the Supreme Court until the court said that you cannot actually say those seven words.

Carlin said that he was proud because his name was mentioned in the annals of the Supreme Court for all eternity.

Thanks to James Ahrens for sending this to me;

You Might Be a Redneck Pilot If: 1. Your stall warning plays DIXIE. 2. Your cross-country flight plan uses flea markets as checkpoints. 3. You think sectionals should show trailer parks. 4. You've ever used moonshine as AV-Gas. 5. Your 172's wheel pants have mud flaps with a chrome silhouette of a reclining nude. 6. Your toothpick keeps poking your mike. 7. You've ever taxied around the airport just drinking beer. 8. You wouldn't be caught dead in a Grumman Yankee. 9. You use an old sweet mix sack as a windsock. 10. You constantly confuse "Beechcraft" with "Beechnut." 11. You've never flown a nose-wheel airplane. 12. You refer to formation flying as "We got us a convoy." 13. Your matched set of lightweight flying luggage is three grocery bags from Piggly Wiggly. 14. You have a gun rack in the rear window. 15. You have more than one roll of duct tape holding your cowling on. 16. You figure mud and manure in your weight and balance calculations. 17. You siphon gas from your tractor to go flying. 18. You've never landed at an actual airport even though you've been flying for over 20 years. 19. You've ever ground looped to avoid hitting a cow. 20. You consider anything over 500-ft AGL as High Altitude Flying. 21. There are parts on your aircraft labeled "John Deere." 22. You don't own a current sectional, but have all the Texaco road maps for your area. 23. There's a brown streak down each side of your airplane; exhaust on the right side and tobacco on the left. 24. You have to buzz the strip to chase off the livestock before landing. 25. You use an old parachute for a portable hanger. 26. You've ever landed on Main Street for a cup of coffee. 27. The tread pattern, if any, on all three of your tires is different. 28. You have a pair of fuzzy dice and some small copper shoes hanging from the Magnetic Compass. 29. You put straw in the baggage compartment so your dogs don't get cold. 30. You've got matching bumper stickers on each side of the vertical stabilizer. 31. There are grass stains on the tips of your propeller. 32. Somewhere on your plane, there's a bumper sticker that reads "I'd rather be fishing." 33. You navigate with your ADF tuned to only AM country stations. 34. You think an ultra light is a new sissy beer from Budweiser. 35. Just before the crash, everybody on the UNICOM heard you say, "Hey Y'all-Watch This!" 36. You use your airplane for camping.

A buddy sent me a link to this web site for SQL on Rails. I found this hysterical. Watch the screencast. If you have ever watched a Ruby on Rails screencast, you will get the joke.

With the New Year fast approaching, I wish everyone a Happy Holidays and Happy New Year.

I have not bloged this much do to my schedule, but one of my New Year resolutions will be to blog more.