| Sunday, January 18, 2009 |
10:51 - We'll be happy to take some of that CHANGE off your hands
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Sometimes, mailbox spam is worth scanning before trashing:
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
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| Saturday, January 17, 2009 |
21:01 - I think we've all been here
http://www.xkcd.com/530/
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Am I right? Am I right?
Seriously, I think it was a situation very much like this that led me to find out about the "say" command. That or writing that "Mac OS X Leopard Phrasebook" linked at right, a handy guide for nerds locked out of their apartments.
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| Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
18:37 - In the event of a water landing...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/15/new.york.plane.crash/index.html
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Yikes:
Man, the things that happen around here.
Bird strike takes out both engines and an A320 goes into the Hudson in plain view of the whole West Side—and everyone gets out fine, albeit into some of the coldest weather they're expecting to see all winter.
You know, it's not like the airline really can be held accountable for this sort of thing happening—you get geese in your engines and you're not going all the way to friggin' Charlotte—and besides the pilot gets all the kudos in the world for bringing it down in one piece—but rational or not I've probably taken my last trip via USAir. True, they're the cheapest from Westchester to anywhere I want to go, but lately that has meant you no longer get anything at all for free, including sodas and peanuts. And under the insult-to-injury heading you can file the privilege of getting to look at an ad for a Patrick Swayze cable series glued to your tray table for six hours, instead of a movie on a 7-inch screen six rows ahead of you.
But even that I'll endure over having to worry about this sort of thing. I mean, seriously: this was just one regional airport away from being my accustomed flight. I've always made it a point to actually pay attention to those emergency-exit cards, and not just because it's a source for cynical amusement. Guess I'll continue with that policy.
UPDATE: It's 2009. Of course someone got it on video.
The whole rescue was over in like six minutes. They weren't dawdling about. Damn fine work all around.
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| Wednesday, January 14, 2009 |
18:27 - And he didn't even nuke anyone
http://www.deanesmay.com/2009/01/14/judging-george-w-bush/
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In the comments to this post on the changing goalposts of the expectations of the Bush presidency, Dean Esmay notes:
I really see him as the Harry Truman of this era. Obama may also be like Eisenhower, who came in and made Harry Truman’s policies popular without really fundamentally changing them.
That's interesting in light of this:
Gallup: Bush Presidency Closes With 34% Approval, 61% Disapproval ★
In the post-WWII era, ahead of only Harry Truman and Richard Milhous Nixon.
What do we all think of Truman these days, anyway?
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18:17 - That's not right
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According to my weather widget deely, the next two days will see temperatures dipping to zero overnight, plus snow, and highs in the teens. Not impressive to some, I know, but I grew up in a town where it's currently in the seventies. It's taking a little while to feel out the moods of the year and just how far it's willing to go to make its point to me.
But what I don't get is this:
Whitehorse. Whitehorse! You could go out in your shirt sleeves in that kind of weather. You're not supposed to be able to survive in the Yukon in the middle of January; let alone thumb your nose at people hunkering in their little snow forts in New York.
Oh, and incidentally, I think it's fairly hilarious that in these conditions we're all essentially keeping our food in refrigerators to keep it warm.
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Brian Tiemann
