OK, it’s old (early 90’s). But it’s funny.
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Sep 032012
Sep 032012
A followup to this. This seems to raise more questions than it answers… there are only two rather small engines, which would seem insufficient to drag this thing to Mach 3, especially being up above the fuselage in a lower pressure recovery region. The wing is necessarily thick and draggy, but it looks *really* thick and draggy.
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Sep 032012
Short form: if you were born to British parents, but were born in a British colony rather than in the British Isles, you’re not really a British citizen. Sorta in-between. And readily deportable, it seems.
July 7 survivor faces deportation from Britain
Guess who’s not readily deportable from Britain. Go on, guess.
Sep 032012
Queens man busted with massive arsenal, mountain of ammo in his apartment
His “massive arsenal:” two pistols, some BB guns and a bunch of knives. The “mountain of ammo” would, assuming it’s 9mm, fill a space maybe a foot wide, a foot high and three or so feet long.
That’s some quality reporterizing.
Sep 032012
From the National Weather Service National Hurricane Center:
Tropical Storm KIRK
ZCZC MIATCDAT1 ALL TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM TROPICAL STORM KIRK DISCUSSION NUMBER 20 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL112012 1100 AM AST SUN SEP 02 2012 KIRK IS NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES AND A 1214 UTC ASCAT PASS INDICATE THAT THE SYSTEM STILL HAS A CLOSED CIRCULATION BUT IT IS BECOMING ELONGATED.
Sep 032012
Panoramas from the Spiral Jetty area of the northern end of the Great Salt Lake.
Sep 022012
Two very different views from about a month ago.
Looking west.
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Looking south.
Sep 022012
I’ve been to a whole bunch of memorials. And for the most part, the people who go to them treat them more or less with the respect and dignity they deserve. The Wall in D.C., for instance, is a place where if you joke around, you will quickly find yourself at the center of attention of a great many people you don’t WANT paying attention to you (bikers *REALLY* don’t seem to brook a whole lot of screwin’ around at the Wall).
But then there’s the NYC 9/11 Memorial:
Tourists treating 9/11 Memorial like a playground
Presumably a number of these ill-behaved tourists are out of towners. But that applies at a *lot* of such memorials and such around the world, where the out of towners behave with some decorum. So what’s different here? It’s not that 9/11 has faded from memory. The 9/11 memorial is, from what I’ve seen, spectacularly uninspired, but that hardly would seem to make people turn it into a dump. Perhaps the density of visitors is too high? If there were half as many visitors they’d be better behaved; but as always seems to be the case, when you have too many people packed in too tight, behavior tends to turn to crap. Sort of a tragedy of the commons thing.
As Agent K pointed out: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”
Sep 022012
It seems they are planning on moving from their current digs to Hawaii. In January, 2013. Which would seem to indicate a lack of confidence in re-election.
The Obamas Already Preparing for Move to Hawaii in January 2013: Hyde Park neighbors talking about Chicago house being sold soon
Here’s the kicker: the price of the place they’re apparently buying? A cool $35 MILLION. Suck it, 99-percenters!
Sep 022012
Rev. Sun Myung Moon, self-proclaimed messiah who founded Unification Church, dies at age 92
Second moon related death in a week or so. Who wants to bet that this crackpot gets more press than Armstrong did?
One wonders what the Moonies will do now…