FlightMemory

Stumbled across a link to FlightMemory.  A fun site that allows you to add details of each flight you take which are then compiled to show some interesting statistics.  I went back and managed to dig up information on 52 flights I’ve taken since 2003.  I know I missed a few but here’s what it comes up with:

Flights

All  52

Domestic 13

Intra-Continental 15

Intercontinental 16

Other flights 8

In Miles  86,131
In Kilometer  138,615
Earth Circumnavigation 3.46 x
Distance to the Moon 0.361 x
Distance to the Sun 0.0009 x
Hours  179:56
Days 7.5
Weeks 1.1
Months 0.25
Years0.021

Imus say Enough is Enough!

My first and last posting on the whole Don Imus/Rutgers basketball mess.

 

Don Imus has been fired. The Rutgers University women’s basketball team has accepted his apology.  He’s an idiot.  They’re very gracious. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Anne Coulter have all had their say.  Larry King found something other than Anna Nicole Smith to fill  his crappy hour for a week.

 

Can the whole stupid matter now go away?  Please?

Osprey goes to war

After nearly 2 decades of development costing $20 billion and the loss of 30 lives, the Osprey V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft is heading off to Iraq later this year.  This will mark the first deployment of the controversial plane.

Able to take off and land vertically, the Osprey’s engines transition to a horizontal position allowing it to perform like a conventional aircraft.

Loud and relatively slow, no doubt the insurgents will be jockeying for the bragging rights of the first Osprey kill.

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Another loss

Fresh on the heels of Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s passing comes the sad news that June Callwood died this morning of cancer at the age of 82.

Ms. Callwood was a Canadian treasure.  Journalist and activist, she fought for the rights of women, gays and the underprivileged for more than 40 years.  She never shouted, she didn’t need to.  Her eloquence and passion got her points across loud and clear.

Canada  has lost an important voice.  Like Vonnegut, June Callwood looked at the world and wasn’t afraid to peek under the rug and expose the nasty bits.