Scenic Route
I took an alternate route home yesterday evening to avoid some construction traffic and I drove by the Air National Guard portion of the Nashville Airport, where I saw Air Force One from about 150 yards away. I wish I had a camera with me at the time. I also saw the plane that made an emergency landing from a bomb threat sitting out on a runway far away from everything. I'm glad I didn't have to fly in or out of Nashville yesterday.
Friday, May 28, 2004
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Where's Mo's Tavern
This a very cool guide to Springfield, home of the Simpsons. Check out the big map. I can't find Mo's Tavern yet, though.
This a very cool guide to Springfield, home of the Simpsons. Check out the big map. I can't find Mo's Tavern yet, though.
Thursday, May 20, 2004
Just Pay Hatch
This new diet device may be one of the dumbest things I've heard of in a long time. Using something like this is just admitting that you're a complete loser who has no hope of ever doing anything about being fat. I'm fat, but I know that I need to eat less and exercise more. If you're ever thinking about buying one of these, don't. Just pay me the $400.00, spend 8 weeks eating every meal with me, and if it looks like you're eating too much I'll punch you in the nuts. That should soon train you to eat smaller portions.
This new diet device may be one of the dumbest things I've heard of in a long time. Using something like this is just admitting that you're a complete loser who has no hope of ever doing anything about being fat. I'm fat, but I know that I need to eat less and exercise more. If you're ever thinking about buying one of these, don't. Just pay me the $400.00, spend 8 weeks eating every meal with me, and if it looks like you're eating too much I'll punch you in the nuts. That should soon train you to eat smaller portions.
Why?
How do head-on train collisions still happen? Would it not be fairly inexpensive to mount multiple cheap sensors in the tracks that start broadcasting warnings when two trains are heading towards each other? Even with sensor failures the sheer number of them would be able to detect the problem well in advance. No reason to expect rail companies to have any more foresight than any other company these days. Everyone just wants to look at the results for next quarter.
How do head-on train collisions still happen? Would it not be fairly inexpensive to mount multiple cheap sensors in the tracks that start broadcasting warnings when two trains are heading towards each other? Even with sensor failures the sheer number of them would be able to detect the problem well in advance. No reason to expect rail companies to have any more foresight than any other company these days. Everyone just wants to look at the results for next quarter.
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
41 Miles Up!
I guess I'm still a complete space geek at heart, because I still get shivers when I read about Burt Rutan and Scaled Composite's SpaceShipOne, which was launched today for the third time and reached an altitude of almost 41 miles, which is 9 miles short of being considered space flight!
It's almost time to abandon NASA and have the government start paying for cargo to be launched into space from the lowest bidder. NASA has pretty much outlasted it's usefulness at this point and is just a colossal waste of money on an agency that has no pioneering spirit any longer. I mean they're too afraid to even service the Hubble telescope, so why would we entrust them with the effort to go back to the Moon or onwards to Mars? We need to put the space shuttles into museums and use some of the money saved to offer bounties similar to the X-Prize.
I guess I'm still a complete space geek at heart, because I still get shivers when I read about Burt Rutan and Scaled Composite's SpaceShipOne, which was launched today for the third time and reached an altitude of almost 41 miles, which is 9 miles short of being considered space flight!
It's almost time to abandon NASA and have the government start paying for cargo to be launched into space from the lowest bidder. NASA has pretty much outlasted it's usefulness at this point and is just a colossal waste of money on an agency that has no pioneering spirit any longer. I mean they're too afraid to even service the Hubble telescope, so why would we entrust them with the effort to go back to the Moon or onwards to Mars? We need to put the space shuttles into museums and use some of the money saved to offer bounties similar to the X-Prize.
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Van Helsing
Paul "Fatboy" Clemmons and the Evil Tennessee Tobacco Lobby are trying say that Van Helsing was a complete flop. I went to see it this past Sunday since my wife was merciful and didn't make me see the Olsen Twins movie. I thought it was fun but completely goofy and over the top. You can't expect too much from a summer action flick anyway. Buy a big popcorn, a box of peanut M&M's, a big ole diet coke, and sit back and enjoy it. Just seeing Kate Beckingsale in a corset was worth the admission price.
Paul "Fatboy" Clemmons and the Evil Tennessee Tobacco Lobby are trying say that Van Helsing was a complete flop. I went to see it this past Sunday since my wife was merciful and didn't make me see the Olsen Twins movie. I thought it was fun but completely goofy and over the top. You can't expect too much from a summer action flick anyway. Buy a big popcorn, a box of peanut M&M's, a big ole diet coke, and sit back and enjoy it. Just seeing Kate Beckingsale in a corset was worth the admission price.
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