Valour-IT Challenge: It’s Not Over Yet!
Some teams are looking at a snapshot of the talleys thus far and think they’ve got it in the bag. *Ahem* Bluto says it best
Some teams are looking at a snapshot of the talleys thus far and think they’ve got it in the bag. *Ahem* Bluto says it best
(11 NOV) UPDATE: Final Day for the drive has been pushed to the right — now 12 NOV! While there has been good-natured snarking aplenty between and betwixt the four teams, we still shouldn’t lose sight of what this is all about. Quoted below is a letter received today which elegantly drives the point home. …
Current Status by Team Place a bid for some really neat stuff here OK folks, time to get serious — forget about cute, fuzzy kittens or dogs in dire straits. We need to see some serious action in the funds column…or the COD gets it: … And ALL my seagoing buds know what happens…
(5 Nov Update): Read this for some perspective on the competiton. Check current status here. And don’t forget the auctions — there’s some really great stuff over there, including signed original artwork and books, rare memorabilia and other great things. So it’s not Friday – but as promised here, presented for your viewing pleasure, a…
OK folks – there’s our side: …And, well, their’s…sitting around all pretty like static displays Hmm, might be seein’ one of these again in the near future…just, sayin‘, you know…
So – get a couple hundred bucks ahead and Team Zoomie starts feelin’ their oats? Laugh it up folks – here’s your future:
(2 Nov Update) Check it out — over 10% of the way there. Thanks folks, but we still have a long way to go as yet. And you know what? It needn’t be a huge contribution (though those would certainly be welcomed too!). Five dollars, ten – even twenty will go a long way…
Mike over at No Angst Zone has picked up the gauntlet and dares to think the Junior Service can prevail. Ha! He even tries to resurrect that phony test off VA Capes. Remember that? The one where not only the targets were, well, you know, "fixed". Afterall, when they had to go against a real…
Open challenge to Mike over at No Angst Zone — if Team USAF is ahead of Team Navy after the final reckoning on 11 Nov, then the following Friday (16 Nov), my Flightdeck Friday post will be devoted to a (gag) scummy, prissy, no *real* tailhookin’ USAF/USAAF/Air Corps plane, your choice. I’ll give it the…
“Support our Troops” So says the ubiquitous magnetic sticker on yet another non-descript vehicle on the road up ahead – but one wonders if the driver/occupant knows of a program that directly, materially supports our troops in a life-changing way? That program would be Valour-IT (Voice Activated Laptops for OUR Injured Troops). The short story is…