Have we heard of this? [link] I'm listening to a local radio show on it now.

Also, to add to Hec's list JEEVES!

Dana, my sistah in itch! I've taken the hairdryer to spots, too. But benedryl helps me, so I'm lucky there. I have, in severe cases of mosquito bites, taken oral benedryl along with applying the benedryl cream. I've heard you aren't supposed to do that, but I'd scratch myself raw if I didn't.

Hobbes was not cooler than Calvin. Weirdo.

Hobbes was not cooler than Calvin. Weirdo.

True dat.

Dana, my sistah in itch! I've taken the hairdryer to spots, too. But benedryl helps me, so I'm lucky there.

I honestly feel a little guilty complaining when I know you have it worse. I raise my hair dryer in itchy solidarity with you.

Funny air traffic control quotes: [link]

A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out after touching down. San Jose Tower noted: "American 751, make a hard right turn at the end of the runway, if you are able. If you are not able, take the Guadalupe exit off Highway 101, make a right at the lights and return to the airport."

Allegedly, a Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard the following:
Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"
Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war."

I know why he has to speak in English! Because screaming AIEEEE may be the only universal part of a given language, and we prefer to avoid that part.

(Yes, hello, watched a docu on the Tenerife air disaster a couple weeks ago, and hello to the phenomenally stupid.)

I honestly feel a little guilty complaining when I know you have it worse. I raise my hair dryer in itchy solidarity with you.

Don't feel guilty. I have a prescription for narcotic painkillers! I'm not hurting.

Jetblue sent me an email. Bad news: the jet I'm scheduled to fly out in on Friday is going in for maintenance. Good news: Flight not cancelled, I'm booked on another airline. And I get a $25 voucher for future flights.

Buffistas, get thee to Target. Bunny ears are on sale for $1.

This is a fairly dark Calvin and Hobbs comic: [link]

That sent me immediately to a "That is WRONG and NOT TRUE AT ALL" sort of headspace. Not so much with the sad, and more with the horrified anger.

Airliner of the future: [link]

You might be flying in one of these by 2030!

That's the promise of the blended-wing, a radically new kind of aircraft set to take to the skies for the first time this month. Originally conceived by McDonnell Douglas and developed by NASA, the blended-wing merges fuselage and wings and eliminates the tail, reducing drag. That makes it vastly more fuel-efficient than regular "tube-and-wing" jets, according to Boeing (Charts) engineer Norm Princen.