Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Airport Remote iPhone App Is History

The Airport Remote App for the iPhone Is No More


The FAA has begun furloughing its 47,000 employees (including air traffic flight controllers) on Sunday, 21 April, as a result of the Democratic controlled administration failed to control spending cuts.

Illegal aliens need not worried about impunities. Anything. And nevermind Jehadists killing Americans here and abroad (Benghazi is forgotten already). Why? If a Kenyan-born socialist community organizer can become the president of the United States, the Constitution be damned. The Democratic party will continue to provide illegal aliens access to medical care, education, and other services denied to citizens. US citizens to just shut up and pay more taxes for these services and for Obama family's excessive vacations and what nots. When elections come about, the trademarked dastardly Democrat ploys have always been in the using of bribes for votes, union coercions, fraudulant voter registrations, and unethical intrusions into the opponents private lives (i.e. hacking computer accounts to expose personal information). But I digress.

Since I will be traveling by plane this weekend, I wanted to see how the FAA furlough program affect flight delays. So I fired up my trusty Airportremote iPhone paid-app, as it replicates the flight information display monitors seen at the airports. The app failed to load, however, since Monday, 23 April. It's error messages reads as follows:

"Data Error. Sorry. Invalid data returned."

This Airportremote app which I'd paid is no longer found in the iTunes store. It's gone. Vanished.

Fortunately, the parent source for the Airportremote app continues to function.

This source still provides free real-time mobile apps for monitoring airport and flight events, and then some. If you want a good airport and flight status app, or in need of a replacement for the defunct Airportremote app, click on the FlightStat site link below to download the parent version for both the iOS and Android platforms:

FlightStats Mobile Apps Downloads

Saturday, April 20, 2013

New Lennox HVAC Installed

19-20 April 2013
New Lennox Elite HVAC Installed with R6 Flexducts


The new HVAC system is performing better expected in its quietness, heating, or cooling efficiency.

With the new energy efficient Lennox HVAC installed, the next project under consideration is perhaps a buffet counter in the patio.

Monday, April 15, 2013

A Gift for Summer, Rich and Rare

"The Seasons" excerpts
by Abigail Stanley Hanna (1857)

"Spring must unbind the icy chains,
And send the streamlet o'er the plains;
Call the feather'd songsters home,
That far in southern climates roam:
Must bid the springing grass appear,
And daisies crown the bright parterre;
Gently distil her silent show'rs,
And propagate her budding flow'rs;
Thus gathering up her treasures fair,
A gift for Summer, rich and rare."

15 April, Home Garden Photo
Lavender Trumpet Vines
(Clytostoma callistegioides)

Maxim Venegerov, violin
and Itamar Golan, piano (1992)
Violin Sonata #5 in F Major "Spring" Op. 24
II. Adagio molto espressivo (Beethoven)

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A Wine Country Tax Preparation Expedition

  • Saturday, 13 April 2013
  • - clear and Windy; 70s
  • - round-trip driving to the Napa Valley took about half-day
  • - worked 3-hour non-billable time on target federal and state tax returns
  • - "all's well that ends well"

Friday, April 12, 2013

Et je chante ton nom


Mireille Mathieu (1981)
- Une femme amoureuse
(paroles et musique originale par Barry et Robin Gibb)

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An Over-tax Existence

I finished my 2012 income tax reporting and owing big-time to the Kenya-born Obama and his what's mine is mine, what's yours we'll will tax and and spend socialistic party agenda aftermath There is one more tax filing I'll do tomorrow for a relative, regardless.

Anyway, the next post is a YouTube I made after completing my tax returns. It assuages the tax preparation stress when in the course of "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's."

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth

Some Home Garden April Blooms, 2013

"Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
For time will teach thee soon the truth,
"There are no birds in last year's nest."
   - Longfellow

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Eddy Duchin's Birthday Anniversary


A birthday tribute to:
Eddy Duchin
pianist, pop bandleader 1930s - 1940s
(10 April 1910 - 2 February 1951)

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Eddie Duchin with Lee Sherwood, vocal (1936)
- Moon Over Miami (Burke & Leslie)


Moon Over Miami (1935)
Music: Joe Burke
Lyrics: Edgar Leslie

Eddy Duchin (piano) and His Orchestra
Lee Sherwood, vocal (1936)

Moon over Miami
Shine on my love and me
So we can stroll beside the roll
Of the rolling sea

Moon over Miami
Shine on as we begin
A dream or two that may come true
When the tide comes in

Hark to the song of the smiling troubadours
Hark to the throbbing guitars
Hear how the waves offer thunderous applause
After each song to the stars

Moon over Miami
You know we're waiting for
A little love, a little kiss
On Miami shore

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

The Last Notable Reagan Era World Leader

Margaret Hilda Thatcher
  Research Chemist
  Lawyer
  Prime Minister
Died on 8 April 2013,  age 87

A 1978 Margaret Thatcher Interview

Wednesday, April 03, 2013

The National Cherry Blossom Festival, 2013

The National Cherry Blossom Festival
Washington, DC
20 March - 14 April 2013

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Norrie Paramore and His Orchestra (1964)
- Cherry Blossoms (Japanese Traditional)