Today’s entry is brought to us by the luckiest man on Earth.  Ringo Starr , Richard Starkey, was the wrong man in the right place when the Beatles landed their first recording contract.  Replacing long time drummer Pete Best, Ringo brought his minimal talent to the studio and became one of the most famous people in the world.

Rather than rest on the laurels of being part of the most successful band in the world, Ringo has continued to labor under the delusion that he is an artist and has released album after album of dreck.

Of course, this meant the former moptop couldn’t let the holiday season pass by without bringing his personal stamp to music that is already plenty bad without his tonedeaf renditions.

Yes, you can still find it at Amazon if you’re really desperate but for some reason it’s now called “Best Of Christmas”.  Perhaps Santa filed a restraining order.

The Sea-Tac – Seattle Tacoma airport has removed all Christmas trees from the terminal after a complaint from a Rabbi.

A Seattle rabbi with the Central Organization for Jewish Learning hired an attorney and threatened to sue if the airport did not erect an eight-foot menorah to balance the message of the Christmas trees. Rather than give in to this demand, which the airport authority reasoned would only result in other religions demanding the same treatment, all 15 trees were removed.

“Holiday” decorations (whatever that means) are still allowed.

UPDATE: The trees are going back up!  The rabbi says he will not continue with his lawsuit so the airport authorities have decided to bring back the 14 trees.

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Much has been made of the production delays that are hindering the Airbus A380 launch.  The most common reason stated is “wiring problems”.  It turns out that the problem was caused by deisgners in different European countries using different versions of the 3D design progam CATIA which has led to wiring from one section not lining up with the others. 

Airbus manufacturing is unlike anything else in the world.  Different parts of the aircraft are made all over Europe and than married together at the main assembly plant in France.  Needless to say, everything has to mate perfectly and herein lies the problem.

Each A380 has 530 kilometers of wiring!

Read this interesting explanation from Flug Revue in Germany.

Ogden Nash

“People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven’t what they want that they really don’t want it.”