Skip to content

Michael Hodges (.com)

Aviation, Freemasonry, Tech nerdery, random musings and anything else that interests me.

Menu
  • About Me
Menu

Got me some Griswold!

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Michael Hodges

I’ve always had Lodge cast iron, mainly because it was easy to buy locally or Amazon, and because unlike the others brands made today – it’s made in the USA. So I looked on eBay and found this one, a #8 size, p/n 704J, which I believe based on the logo type on the bottom,…

Read more

Twas the Night before Christmas, and down at the Lodge…

Posted on December 24, 2020December 25, 2020 by Michael Hodges

‘Twas the Night before Christmas, and down at the lodgenot a gavel was stirring, and in the hodge-podge.Of aprons and jewels and chairs East and WestYou could savour the silence, most gladly divestAll metal and mineral, it mattered not,Since Christmas was nigh and the coals were still hot.In the hearth of your home place, all…

Read more

On This Day: BMW’s logo

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Michael Hodges

On this day 10th day of December, 1917 – BMW’s Trademark, a circular blue and white BMW, called a “roundel”, was submitted for registration at the Imperial Patent Office in Germany.

Read more

Wisdom by Chuck Yeager

Posted on December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 by Michael Hodges

One of my favorite quotes by Chuck Yeager is “It’s the man, not the machine” which is in reference to dogfighting in an aircraft. This of course is meant to say that someone with a superior fighter plane could still be taken down by someone with an inferior one; that it is the operator in…

Read more

RIP General Chuck Yeager

Posted on December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 by Michael Hodges

The man, the legend… Chuck Yeager has left us. He was an ace in WWII (“Ace in a day” in fact, downing 5 aircraft in a single mission), he was the first to shoot down a German Me-262 jet fighter in his propeller-driven P-51 Mustang, he was the first man to break the sound barrier…

Read more

The First SR-71 over North Korea

Posted on November 5, 2020 by Michael Hodges

I came across this interesting little story posted by Linda Sheffield in her “Habubrats” group online: A few paragraphs from my father’s (Col. Richard “Butch” Sheffield) unpublished book.North Korea, November 22, 1969, SR-71 number, 972First SR to overfly North Korea and first to land in South Korea.Some years later General Minter told me that this…

Read more

Throwback Thursday: Nextel Motorola i580

Posted on August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 by Michael Hodges

I was sorting through some old stuff and found this little gem in a box; my Nextel Motorola i580 from back in the commercial electric contracting days. *chirp chirp* I miss those day of the PTT feature. It was very handy on-site for work, though on the flip side there was always the potential for…

Read more

The Past Master Symbol

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Michael Hodges

The Past Master Symbol is a often seen but not so frequently explained Masonic Symbol. It commonly consists of The Compass, Sun, and Quadrant (or Protractor), and in most jurisdictions a Square.The Compass has a familiar interpretations for it is by the Compass that a Mason is reminded to keep his actions within due bounds….

Read more

Farewell, My Brother

Posted on August 1, 2020August 2, 2020 by Michael Hodges

A toast this evening to Bro. Howard Pressman, PM, who laid down his working tools and left us this morning. He was a good man, and not just a man but a Mason, and a very good one at that. He was heavily involved in our fraternity and always willing to go that extra mile…

Read more

Admiral Howe was quite the cheeky fellow

Posted on July 15, 2020 by Michael Hodges

On this day in 1776, George Washington refuses to accept a letter from British Admiral Richard Howe. The admiral and his brother, General William Howe, were attempting to contact Washington without recognizing the legitimacy of his military title. Of course, what they really meant is that they did not accept the legitimacy of the American…

Read more
  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • Next

Recent Posts

  • Famous Freemasons: Bro. Gordon Cooper
  • Faith of the Heart
  • Christmas song for Unix hackers
  • Concorde vs SR-71 Blackbird
  • I’ve Been Ducked!

Tags

Alcohol (2) American Revolution (3) Area 51 (1) Aviation (6) Beer (1) Big Tech (1) Censorship (1) Christmas (2) Chuck Yeager (2) CIA (1) Concorde (2) Dad Jokes (1) Donald Trump (2) DuckDuckJeep (1) Edward Weisser (2) Flying Fury (1) Freemasonry (25) Funny (5) George Washington (2) Germany (1) Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania (2) Groom Lake (1) Jeep (3) Jokes (2) Mary McDonald (1) Military (4) NASA (2) Naval Aviation (1) Notable Freemasons (8) Oktoberfest (1) Philadelphia (4) Royal Air Force (1) Rush Limbaugh (1) Sea Story Saturday (1) SR-71 (2) Star Wars (3) Submarines (1) Thornton Barnes (1) US Navy (3) USS Enterprise (1) Valley Forge (1) Very Punny (1) Walmart (2) William Halsey (1) WWII (2)

Categories

  • Alcohol
  • Automotive
  • Aviation
  • Cool Stuff
  • Feel Good
  • Food
  • Freemasonry
  • Guns
  • History
  • Humor
  • In Memoriam
  • Military
  • On This Day
  • Politics
  • Tech
  • Throwback Thursday
  • Uncategorized

Archives

  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • May 2019
  • March 2019
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • December 2017

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
© 2022 Michael Hodges (.com) | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme