plane has crashed

Not a crash. By all accounts, it was a well-executed emergency landing.

I would have thought the machine design now would guard against that....

Well, yeah. Nowadays the designs are pretty good at limiting the damage to the engine, and not letting it rip off the wing or shred the rest of the aircraft.

Canadian geese can do a lot of damage

Canada geese, not Canadian geese.

I heard that a passenger reported that, given that they ended up in the water, the landing was remarkably soft.

I just ordered pizza. YAY

I didn't like the way the anchor on the Boston Channel I was watching kept emphasizing the Canada in Canada Geese. Dude, if we are going to start taking down Americans, it won't be with geese. They're totally rogue and can't be trusted.

I am stuffed with Ethiopian foodm. Yum, but now so sleepy.

Happy Birthday msbelle!

A (Canadian) friend of mine had an old beater of a car in high school, a chevy nova, I think. It was held together by her father's engineering prayers. Anyway, she used to say that hitting one Canada goose would be all it took to total it & kill her. But she figured the goose would survive.

I had a weirdly anthropomorphic response when looking at the NY photos. "Aw. The plane looks so sad stuck there in the water. It must be embarrassed."

I swear to you, I have not been drinking.

Although, now that I mention it. I might make some cocoa with Kaluha.

There was an article I read in the paper today, and there are 13 seats left on the Barbers and Hairdressers of Rochester bus going to Washington for the inauguration, and I so wanted to go. It is sponsored by a 1/2 african-amerian/1/2 Indian (Native American) activist City councilman who was once a barber. And went to high school with my mom.

If I had a bus, I'd go! (The logistics of transport are making me dubious. I want to, though! If only my cat didn't need meds, I'd sneak down the night before.)

Speaking of groups making the trek, I want to share this story : [link]