High Carb Books

A new novel by Tom Clancy, called Locked On.

http://www.tomclancy.com/

Available tomorrow.

Can’t wait to read it!!!

Mike

Wow, on June 14th you can again read a book by Tom Clancy (although again co written)
You can find out about the book at his official website at: tomclancy.com.

There is also an excerpt of the prologue which you can find here: prologue excerpt

you can buy it here:

I finished reading Dead or Alive a while back and really enjoyed it, as I enjoyed many of his books. I really like that I can keep following the characters from previous books in this series. Jack Ryan, Jack jr., Chavez, Clark
etc.

Mike.

Dead or Alive, is the name of the new novel written by Tom Clancy, it will be out on December the 7th, 2010.

Have a look at his website: Tom Clancy

You can pre order it from Amazon:

F-15 Eagle – F-16 Fighting Falcon – P51 Mustang

From Abbotsford Air Show 2006

Wikipedia entry: Boeing (McDonnell Douglas) F-15 Eagle
Wikipedia entry: Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon
Wikipedia entry: North American Aviation P-51 Mustang

A-10 Thunderbolt 2 “Warthog”

From Abbotsford Air Show 2006

Wikipedia entry:A-10 Thunderbolt 2

This is a test to see if I can embed pictures using Picassa web albums in my posts, and apparently it works.

- Mike

I totally forgot/ didn’t know that there was actually a game called Red Storm Rising for the PC (Published in 1989). As I was curious to see what the game was all about, I registered at the site and downloaded the game (here is the link: http://www.classic-pc-games.com/pc/simulations/red_storm_rising.html, to actually download the game you will have to visit a sponsor site and fly through some hoops).

In the game it is World War III (just like the book) and you play a United States Submarine captain tasked with stopping the Russian Navy. You can be a captain in different classes of submarines, such as the Los Angeles class, the Permit Class, etc.

I only played it briefly last night and got stuck at one of the screens because I did not know which keyboard commands to use.

The graphics of the game are horrible but then again the game was published in 1989 and alot has changed over the years.

Enjoy!

I found out that there is actually a board game based on the book Red Storm Rising. I had a quick look and it seems like a pretty cool game.

You can find the link here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3707

Pretty cool.

Mike.

Imagine this scenario:

You are the proud owner of a new iPod Touch or iPhone and downloaded an audio book from Audible.com to listen too. Lets say you downloaded a fictional novel and the story talks about fighter pilots and their planes.

So you are happily listening along and the story talks about an F-14 fighter plane taking off from an aircraft carrier, after the sentence ends the audio player pauses. You look at the screen of your audio player and there is a button that indicates a video is available, you press the button. After you press the button the audio player displays a movie of an F-14 fighter plane taking off from, you guessed it, an aircraft carrier.

How cool would that be?

Of course if you do not press the button the story will just continue for your listening pleasures.Can you imagine if this technology was added to a download of Dan Brown’s

the Da Vinci Code

You would be able to see a clear picture of the Mona Lisa or the last supper, track the path the two main characters travel on Google maps, reference material from the Knights Templar, etc.It is almost like an interactive game.. or interactive TV…

just some ideas…

- mike