This is *not* how you want your flight to go…
Jul 092020
Jul 092020
Good discussion of just how awful they were… and how they could’ve been far, far better.
Jul 082020
It is common practice for an aerospace company to crank out many and sundry concepts for derivatives of the aircraft they produce (if they didn’t, Aerospace Projects Review never would’ve come to be). This is certainly true for jetliners. And of course, in many cases derivative are in fact produced… the DC-9, 707 and 737, for instance, saw many stretched, stretched further and stretched some more designs enter service, packing more passengers onto airframes that don’t cost much more to buy or operate.
One derivative that went no further than the concept stage was a 1970’s Lockheed idea for a twin-engine version of their three-engined L-1011. This would have been a *smaller* aircraft, but presumably cheaper, more economical to operate as an “airbus” on shorter routes. However, there were already a number of jetliners to fill that role, and with as expensive as the L-1011 turned out to be to maintain and keep flying, this idea basically never had a chance.
Jul 082020
Hey, look! No politics or news about how we’re now firmly embedded within the Crazy Years!
A few years ago people started adding bits of music from the movie “Interstellar” to videos of things rotating out of control. Sometimes the result was comedy gold.
And sometimes there was a convergence of memes…
Jul 072020
Statues and monuments that have stood for more than a century are being vandalized and destroyed from coast to coast, businesses burned and looted, cities destroyed… with the people doing the damage *not* being charged. But if you paint over a blatantly political message painted onto a street? Watch out!
California man, woman who vandalized Black Lives Matter street mural and dismissed racism face hate crime charges
Anderson and Nelson each face two vandalism charges and a charge of “violation of civil rights,” according to the district attorney’s office. The two face a year in county jail if convicted.
The frak. “Violation of civil rights????”
Jul 072020
The June 29 meeting of the Manhattan Community Education Council District 2 meeting devolves into a straight-up struggle session, with a Mass Attack Of Karens. Fortunately, the target ain’t havin’ it.
Summary:
People have lost their damned minds. A few little people gained themselves a smidgen of power, and they promptly turn into hysterical tyrants. Fortunately, they’re caught on camera and the internet never forgets.
Jul 072020
At least, I’d *like* to believe that this is peak stupid, but let’s face it… there’s always a challenger ready and willing to rise to the occasion and be even stupider.
People like this are a reason why there’s a need for written instructions on shampoo bottles.
Also, she’s a teacher. pic.twitter.com/yDbi3mU9PH
— Garbage Human (@GarbyJooman2020) July 7, 2020
HUMOR (that’s scary in its accuracy) BONUS ROUND:
The video “Alternative Math” was posted to YouTube in 2017. it is clearly meant to be a satirical takedown of Trump/conservatives… yet, apart from some throwaway lines by some TV talking heads, the whole things shrieks “this is what you get when woketivists take over the media and academia.”
Jul 062020
“Just Some Guy” is a YouTuber who mostly talks about comic books and similar pop culture topics. But here he gives a thoughtful and insightful explanation of what drives the BLM movement and ideology. *Very* interestingly, YouTube has decided that the video is terribly offensive and has thus put it behind an “Age Restricted Video” wall, which means you’re unlikely to find the video unless directly pointed towards it. *Extremely* interestingly, there’s nothing actually offensive in the video. No naughty words, no name calling, no white supremacy or any such, just a pretty good discussion of the topic in light of Eric Hoffer’s book “The true Believer.”
I think the problem that YouTube has is that Just Some Guy concludes that BLM isn’t a movement with a valid cause, but instead a religion that *needs* a devil, and that devil is “the white man.” And, worse, Just Some Guy is a *black* guy. That sort of apostasy cannot be countenanced.
Jul 062020
Aerial news chopper footage of illegal fireworks going off over Los Angeles put to Vangelis’s score from “Blade Runner.”
A bit surprising to see that Los Angeles is – at least kinda-sorta-in-a-way – telling the anti-America woke brigade to go F off by setting off as many pyrotechnics as possible.
Jul 052020
Sure. Why not.
And for good measure, here are Speedbump and Buttons sacked out on a couch.
