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I was putting my shopping away today, and I just had to laugh at the contents of my fridge afterwards. From looking at the contents, it’s just typical that I’m single. To the left is a quick photo of the contents. I don’t know if I should be proud of it or not

This makes me wonder… what’s in the fridges of other single guys out there? I’m sure some people have worse things in their fridge.

See, the guys who have chicks – they usually have some things of nutritional value in the fridge – but for the single guys who live of burgers, steak and pizza – then there’s not much else to put in a fridge apart from what you see here.

Oh – and we all know that the beer goes at the bottom of the fridge – because that’s where the coldest air is. Coke and cheese just don’t deserve that. And the lettice got thrown out shortly after this picture.

I went to the movies on Friday with a girlie I met not that long ago. We went to see The Producers by Mel Brooks. I have to say, it’s one of the best movies that I have seen in a long, long time. I haven’t seen the original version (before the movie became a play that became a movie), but I’m keeping an eye out for it at the DVD store! This was the first movie in a long time that made me laugh out loud (literally!) while watching. A great watch – if you can, go see it!

Yeah – I’ve finally gotten around to finishing it all up. Over at the Xplane section, you can find all of the fun stuff to do with Xplane, DAPS, and probably more over time. It’s nice to have 293 files instead of 1606 to hunt through

This is a tad weird which has made me wonder how the hell this happened. I got some ice cubes out of the freezer that I made a few days ago, and theres these inch long spikes of ice coming out of the cube. Pics of the ice tray. Now this is interesting, as there was nothing on top of the ice trays and they were placed on the top shelf of the freezer. If someone has any ideas on how these were created, I’d love to hear it Update: I found a really good article on this here.

I’ve been getting into Xplane and VATSIM pretty heavily lately – and I’ve been working of the real procedures from Airservices Australia. These are great, however there are a lot of waypoints missing from Xplanes database. Airservices also have 1606 PDF files (one page per file) of all the DAPS information for Australia. After talking this through with Airservices, I have been given permission to alter these and redistribute to people using VATSIM. What I have been working on is to gather all DAPS related to one airport, then combine them into a single PDF file. This takes the number of PDFs for the average sim pilot to hunt through from 1606 to around 370 – and you only need one for the airports you use. More news on this to come as I complete this work (already taken the best part of 3 days!). I have also submitted the missing procedure waypoints to Austin to see if he can add them into an update to Xplane.