Honestly, it sounds like one fuck up after another. Hard to believe. Now the elevator tells me that the pilot is claiming to have been blinded by a white light when they were at 500 ft. Not sure that passes the smell test given all the rest of what they did wrong.
Mal: Cut it out. Job's not done until we're back on Serenity. Zoe: Sorry, sir. Didn't mean to enjoy the moment.
'Ariel'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
brenda m - Jul 11, 2013 5:55:33 am PDT #28827 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 11, 2013 5:57:14 am PDT #28828 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Reflections off the mirror he was snorting blow from, perhaps?
Amy - Jul 11, 2013 6:00:54 am PDT #28829 of 30001
Because books.
Didn't I read that he had never landed that class of airliner before or something?
tommyrot - Jul 11, 2013 6:05:30 am PDT #28830 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
He hadn't landed a 777 at SFO before. He had landed then at other airports.
tommyrot - Jul 11, 2013 6:08:03 am PDT #28831 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Now the elevator tells me that the pilot is claiming to have been blinded by a white light when they were at 500 ft. Not sure that passes the smell test given all the rest of what they did wrong.
Yeah. Two points:
1) He was being trained on the 777. His instructor also bears responsibility.
2) They should have aborted the landing once they reached 1000 feet.
Tom Scola - Jul 11, 2013 6:20:42 am PDT #28832 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Scola's Law of IT: Given the clear choice of a simple solution or a complicated solution, people will choose the more complicated solution every single time. When you challenge someone and try to explain that the more complicated solution is not necessary, you will be met with blank stares, and you will be ignored completely.
I am so burned out in my career.
Hil R. - Jul 11, 2013 6:21:48 am PDT #28833 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Someone called the police because a father took off his toddlers' bathing suits so that they could shower the sand off at the beach. [link]
Jesse - Jul 11, 2013 6:40:18 am PDT #28834 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Given the clear choice of a simple solution or a complicated solution, people will choose the more complicated solution every single time.
Relatedly, I just got an email forwarded by my mother from a friend of hers. The friend asked my mother to forward me her question. I emailed her directly last week. (And we have corresponded before) How does she not have my address?
Tom Scola! Weren't you having some major career shakeup? What ever happened with that?
Tom Scola - Jul 11, 2013 6:47:55 am PDT #28835 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
What timeframe are you talking about? I was laid off last year, was unemployed for six months, and started working for NYC a year ago.
In general, I'm burned out at what I do, I want to do something else, but I don't know what that is, and I have some deeper personal issues to work out before I can figure out what would make me happy career-wise.
Jesse - Jul 11, 2013 6:50:40 am PDT #28836 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was laid off last year, was unemployed for six months, and started working for NYC a year ago.
Oh yeah! Now I remember all of those steps. I just forgot. And I 100% hear you on "want to do something else, don't know what that is." Both when I got out of grad school and when I moved up here I thought it was the chance to Do Something Different, but quickly realized it was the time to Get A Job, and it's way easier to get a job doing what you've already done. Ah well.