Category Archives: Work

Flying a 737 in a demo today

Posted on February 29, 2012 by sandinak

Well .. flying a simulator. We have high-fidelity plane modeling and medium fidelity simulator. I’ll have someone take pics of me and post em here.. but lots of fun. I have learned that flying a Jet is way different than … Continue reading →

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In Boston

Posted on February 10, 2012 by sandinak

Got some quick work supporting Dept of Transportation on a cutover. Got to hang with my bud Desmo .. had a nice evening. It’s cold up here. They’re expecting snow .. and the accents ( tho I am sure I … Continue reading →

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NASA Space (radio) Station

Posted on December 12, 2011 by sandinak

Kinda cool .. nasa has it’s own radio station http://www.rfcmedia.com/thirdrockradio/ .. I think i’ll tune in 😉

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Night Motion Timelapse: Outer Banks on Vimeo

Posted on June 15, 2011 by sandinak

Night Motion Timelapse: Outer Banks on Vimeo on Vimeo via Night Motion Timelapse: Outer Banks on Vimeo. What a beautiful view! .. and the Hatteras Lighthouse too!

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A Cray-2 supercomputer named “Voyager” photographed at NASA Langley Research Center in 1989 [PIC] : technology

Posted on September 27, 2010 by sandinak

Reddit Link:A Cray-2 supercomputer named “Voyager” photographed at NASA Langley Research Center in 1989 [PIC] : technology. So this was funny.. This morning I am perusing reddit and lo and behold they have a pic of the Voyager cray .. … Continue reading →

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Surgery and Hurricanes

Posted on September 1, 2010 by sandinak

So … Devyn has surgery today.. His first. We’re all a little nervous .. but he’s not as much as I am I suppose. CHKD has been fantastic. Went on a tour of the facility last night and talked to … Continue reading →

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STG Wins Contract

Posted on August 16, 2010 by sandinak

So I have been working for Raytheon For the last few months on a cool project in the ATOL. They were working under a contract called ConITS and had bid the next iteration called LITES. They lost and STG won … Continue reading →

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We’re on TV

Posted on July 27, 2010 by sandinak

So the I take the boys to work every other week to have lunch with me in the cafeteria. It’s a nice break for them and gives us some good bonding time. Today we were in there and were asked … Continue reading →

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UnixSig Presentation

Posted on July 22, 2010 by sandinak

I spoke at UnixSig here at Langley yesterday about my use of SVN for maintaining common unix environments. Went well and I am putting my notes up here. It’s a cool way to maintain your dotfiles and other unix-ish configuration … Continue reading →

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Kicked Facebook to the Curb

Posted on May 14, 2010 by sandinak

So I took the plunge. Facebook seemed like nice to keep up with some family, however, the trolling and lack of concern of the company for my privacy and such has lead me to kick it down the hatch. I … Continue reading →

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