Spike ,'The Killer In Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
25 seats away from the window? That sounds weird. Like there are 25 seats nearer the window, just empty.
As long as they give me something to lean my head against to the side, I'm easy. The BA flights I took to Kenya did so nicely.
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."
BWAHAHA! I love that one. That's been making the rounds for a while, but it's still funny (to me). Ze Germans are also why 9 is pronounced "niner" in aviation-speak.
I have tentative dinner plans, but I think my desperate need to crawl into bed and whimper a few times will usurp them.
Can I get some therapy-related ~ma, please? I'm going through a really rough patch right now, and I'm having trouble moving forward.
~ma, Tom.
Aw, Tom. Lots of ~ma.
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.
Yeah, you'll definitely want to be skipping ROBOT CHICKEN's take then.