I want a Luke Danes of my very own.

Right, so. I have been abandoned by my boss and my coworker, who both e-mailed me this morning to say that they were taking the day off.

Also, it is about twenty degrees warmer today than it was yesterday. Mm, smell that tornado weather.

Yes, there was excellent Luke this week.

I have been abandoned by my boss and my coworker, who both e-mailed me this morning to say that they were taking the day off.

Is that even legal?

I got a call this morning from the people who I wrote the course for. They wanted to know when the updated was going to be posted. I managed not to say either "Oh, when Portland Man gets over his snit," or "You know how I kept giving you all of those deadlines that you zoomed past? This is why they existed."

Then, of course Portland Man apparently updated the stuff yesterday (which is good), but without sending any sort of notification to us (which is bad and unusual). But I don't have to communicate with Portland Man today, and that makes it better than yesterday.

Yay! NYC is getting its first new subway line since WWII: [link]

GG is on FIRE this season. So so so so good.

TAR, well...eh. I'm not hating it this year, but generally by the final 4, I feel like I know the teams pretty well. This year, the challenges havebeen set up so that I have no idea what the remaining teams are good at. I feel like it's going to come down to luck, and not much else.

I also loathe the Weavers with a stone passion. The throwing garbage at the other teams cars, along with the whiny "We're the only ones on this race trying to live a Christian life!" at the pit stop -- feh. Maybe you should start trying to lead a "Christian life" by not being complete assholes to everyone you come across. 'Cause I don't remember Jesus saying, "And you shall be a complete dickwad to anyone you choose, as long as you thank me by name every time every time you go through a green light."

Yay! NYC is getting its first new subway line since WWII

And it might get here before WWIV!

Re: GTD: I haven't finished the book yet, though I've done a lot of tertiary research on it online (the 43 folders blog and the like). But last night I started making a list of all my projects, along with next actions, and the result was extraordinary-- after that, I became more relaxed, my mind cleared, and I was able to be present in the moment. I felt really motivated.

November 09,2005 | HONG KONG -- A Boeing Co. jet took off Wednesday from Hong Kong to try breaking the record for the longest nonstop flight by a commercial jet -- a trip that involves flying over the Pacific Ocean and North America before landing in London.

"We plan to smash the current record," said Captain Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann, one of the four pilots of the 777-200LR Worldliner, one of Boeing's newest planes.

The flight was expected to take about 23 hours and cover more than 12,586 miles, a Boeing statement said.

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Yikes. Can you imagine sitting in an plane for 23 hours?

But that's not even the longest commercial flight by time. During WWII, somewhere around Australia there was an airline route flown by Catalina seaplanes that took more than 24 hours (non-stop). But the crusing speed of the Catalina was around 120 mph so the distance was much less.

And it might get here before WWIV!

Seriously.

Is that even legal?

Unfortunately, yes. Of course, this means I can play iTunes as loudly as I want, and I don't have to pretend to be working when I'm actually slacking.

If I had time to slack off.