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I Think I’ll be an Astronaut… or something…
So much of our lives are concentrated around our careers. How many times when you were little did someone ask you: “So what do you want to be when you grow up?” Even more interesting, how many times did the answer change? I remember wanting to be everything from an author to a marine biologist, a teacher to a musician… a computer programmer. For those that are all ‘grown up’, are your current fields anything... [read more]
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Politics, Religion and Sex
What are the three things that shouldn’t be discussed around the dinner table? Politics, religion, and what was the other one, was it sex? I had never understood the statement until as of recent when the first two of the the trio were brought to discussion. Sitting around the dinner table with my two brothers, mom, and dad, we discuss everything on the list with not problems. We have vibrant arguments and joke about opinions... [read more]
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Flying without me flying… weird
Today was the first day of flying that I haven’t been in the cockpit in such a long time! I had completely forgotten how fast these big jets move compared to my little Beechcraft Skipper. Right now we are cruising at a mild 32,000 feet somewhere over desert and mountains. We’ve been flying for just over two hors of our three and a half hour scheduled time. The flight from Dayton to Detroit was rather... [read more]
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Scooby Doo, I Need You!
There’s a mystery in my cube… how exciting! Every morning I walk into my cube and do the same thing. I pull my chair out from where it is pushed in under my desk; grab my computer bag from its hiding spot getting my laptop out. Before sitting down I set my laptop onto it’s docking station, hit the power button, and hit the power button on my second monitor. Only then do I put... [read more]
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fortune -o (heh)
Do you know what my favorite program of all time is? It is this little program called fortune that runs in the Unix shell. I have it set up so that whenever I open a new shell here at work I am greeted with a message from the fortune. Today, I half asleep, rolled into my cube at about 8:20am. I turn on my computer and start going through the morning chores of warehouse inventory... [read more]
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My Name is Jason, and I’m a Computerholic…
Yesterday I was talking online after work, and all of a sudden I just got this urge to throw my computer against a wall. Was it broken? no. Was I angry? no. I just really didn’t want to stare at the screen any longer… so I went over to a friends place and we went for a walk through a local park… it was good. So…. I realize I’ve been definitely slacking off on the... [read more]
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Flight Lesson 17 - Is this plane airworthy???
Arriving at Lunken as the sun was dipping past the horizon, it was a strange feeling… Usually I’m leaving the airport at this time, not just getting here. Tonight, we start night flight with a nighttime cross-country… and I don’t think anything more could have decided otherwise for us. During preflight we were checking lights and noticed that the landing light was out of commission. Kind of against regs to fly without the landing light…... [read more]
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Back to past ideas…
Not much time today to sit and write a halfway decent post (at least in my mind) Team Pawlak is now on the prowl… you remember me mentioning Project Melon??? Well its back. Tyler and I are hard at work trying to bring this idea to life. I have a few other ideas that I’ve been working on behind the scenes as well. I don’t even care if we really making any profit of the... [read more]
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Fun C++ Problem
Hey all… I ran across this fun C++ problem in a forum and thought it worth sharing. It was quite embarrasing trying to figure out the answer. My mind hasn’t had to think like that in such a long time. Here’s the problem: eh… ok, so I can’t paste the code here or else it messes up the browser… click the link below to get the source file… sorry :-( Click here to download the... [read more]
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To Fly, or to be Invisible…
Have you heard the recent commercials on the radio where the two guys are debating over whether it would be cooler to have the super power to fly, or the super power to be invisible? I think the commercial is for some cell phone… or something… apparently their marketing campaign failed with me… So here’s my thought process… If you know me at all you would immediately say… well of course Jason would rather fly!... [read more]
Jason Pawlak
Me and my Internet
Husband, Dad, Navy Officer, Coder, and Tinkerer. I have many interests and am always looking to learn something new. This site is a launching point to the many areas of the Internet that represent me.