Musings on Random Musings

[tkdguy]

Nothing on the jet crash on here yet ? I am surprised but I am delighted by the number of survivors.

 

I hadn't thought about posting it. I have a view of the airport from my house, and I could see the smoke from my front window. I didn't know what caused it until I watched it on the news.

 

You know, nobody posted about the recent coup in Egypt.

[Old Man]

The crash is awful, of course. From what I've read today it looks like a really egregious case of pilot error--guy was new to flying 777s and his approach was just incredibly wrong. Maybe he had an instrumentation problem. Egypt is just sad. I'm no fan of Morsi but you can't just have the military keep kicking out your elected officials and still call it a democracy.

[Enforcer84]

The crash is awful, of course. From what I've read today it looks like a really egregious case of pilot error--guy was new to flying 777s and his approach was just incredibly wrong. Maybe he had an instrumentation problem. Egypt is just sad. I'm no fan of Morsi but you can't just have the military keep kicking out your elected officials and still call it a democracy.

You can't.

 

*gets on com*

Ok boys, show's over. We can't do this.

[Old Man]

Back to the plane crash--it's almost certainly going to come down to pilot error. The graphs at http://flyingprofessors.net/what-happened-to-asiana-airlines-flight-214-2/ show that the pilots were pretty much behind the airplane the whole time.

 

From the images and video I've seen, I would not be surprised to find out that the plane was dragging its tail through the water before it reached the seawall.

[Old Man]

The crash is awful, of course. From what I've read today it looks like a really egregious case of pilot error--guy was new to flying 777s and his approach was just incredibly wrong. Maybe he had an instrumentation problem. Egypt is just sad. I'm no fan of Morsi but you can't just have the military keep kicking out your elected officials and still call it a democracy.

Yeah, I'm starting to wonder just how badly this coup is going to turn out. 50+ dead already, plus the military has alienated the Islamic fundamentalist political wing. Cue IEDs in 3.. 2.. 1..

[Bazza]

If ignorance is bliss' date=' then knowledge is power ... over the blissful. [/quote'] uummm. no.

 

Unless I conceed it is yourself in which case you are in a simultaneous state of both blissful ignorance and powerful knowledge.

[Cancer]

So nothing on the coach crash in Italy or the rail crash in Spain ? Okm that's fine.

We're just not disaster-oriented folks, aside from gaming scenarios, which explicitly aren't real.

[L. Marcus]

A. and her sister are walking the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, so I'm keen on all news from there; plus an aunt and her hubbie were visiting there only days before the train wreck.

[Old Man]

So nothing on the coach crash in Italy or the rail crash in Spain ? Okm that's fine.

We're just not disaster-oriented folks' date=' aside from gaming scenarios, which explicitly aren't real.[/quote']Both disasters are tragic but also seem pretty clear as to cause--some kind of structural failure in the former, and pilot (engineer) error in the latter. Not a whole lot to discuss.

[death tribble]

A. and her sister are walking the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, so I'm keen on all news from there; plus an aunt and her hubbie were visiting there only days before the train wreck.

If they were on the pilgrimage it is a different route. An art critic, Brian Sewell, did the route from Paris a few years back and it was filmed (for TV) as The Naked Pilgrim

[L. Marcus]

A. and her sister are walking the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, so I'm keen on all news from there; plus an aunt and her hubbie were visiting there only days before the train wreck.

Why do Britons on TV always want to be The Naked Something?

[Old Man]

A. and her sister are walking the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, so I'm keen on all news from there; plus an aunt and her hubbie were visiting there only days before the train wreck.

I thought that was a peculiarity shared by all Britons.

 

Please, do not post pics.

[Cancer]

So there are over 120 lawyers in Congress. Watching a dock on the "lost" state of Franklin it says that one of their constitutions banned lawyers participating in government. I think they might have been on to something...

 

Wouldn't work. Look at Texas. The Texas state constitution explicitly forbids branch banks (remember, many of the founding figures of Texas had fled the US due to debt and had reasons to hate bankers.) It took a while, but sure enough, Texas is full of branch banks now, without that clause ever being explicitly repealed.

 

Money and shysters get what they want,

[Bazza]

 

Wouldn't work. Look at Texas. The Texas state constitution explicitly forbids branch banks (remember, many of the founding figures of Texas had fled the US due to debt and had reasons to hate bankers.) It took a while, but sure enough, Texas is full of branch banks now, without that clause ever being explicitly repealed.

 

Money and shysters get what they want,

sadly agree.

[Cancer]

So there's a sign up in our floral shop that says that we are temporarily out of helium' date=' so we can't fill balloons. The truth is that helium is expensive, and we cannot justify the expense. The floral manager, obviously, makes a profit selling balloons, but when the manager isn't there, which is well over half our operating hours, whoever the half-trained person is who fills the balloon vents half the helium. In short, we are too short-staffed to be bothered selling helium balloons. When people get leprosy or diabetes, the first signs tend to be the periphery. Your toes drop off before your brain, in other words. When society gets leprosy, does it start with helium balloons? The problem with the conceit is that [i']society doesn't get diseases. [/i]All we need to do to address this "leprosy" is to repeat what got us to this point, and the problem is that that was WWII. So. Anyone for WWIII?

The skyrocketing price of helium is due to your friends south of the 49th parallel. The US stopped maintaining a strategic helium reserve, and requiring gas drillers to capture it and sell it to the gov't. So they just let it vent. Supply collapses, while those who need cryogenics watch in horror. So if you equate runaway greed and market manipulation, er, free market economics, to the collapse of civilization, then ... you are very likely right.

[Lawnmower Boy]

So there's a sign up in our floral shop that says that we are temporarily out of helium' date=' so we can't fill balloons. The truth is that helium is expensive, and we cannot justify the expense. The floral manager, obviously, makes a profit selling balloons, but when the manager isn't there, which is well over half our operating hours, whoever the half-trained person is who fills the balloon vents half the helium. In short, we are too short-staffed to be bothered selling helium balloons. When people get leprosy or diabetes, the first signs tend to be the periphery. Your toes drop off before your brain, in other words. When society gets leprosy, does it start with helium balloons? The problem with the conceit is that [i']society doesn't get diseases. [/i]All we need to do to address this "leprosy" is to repeat what got us to this point, and the problem is that that was WWII. So. Anyone for WWIII?

The skyrocketing price of helium is due to your friends south of the 49th parallel. The US stopped maintaining a strategic helium reserve, and requiring gas drillers to capture it and sell it to the gov't. So they just let it vent. Supply collapses, while those who need cryogenics watch in horror. So if you equate runaway greed and market manipulation, er, free market economics, to the collapse of civilization, then ... you are very likely right.

The thing is that no-one knows how much a helium balloon should cost. We could double the price, and we'd sell them. So, sure, two grand a tank is a lot to pay for helium. But we could make money selling it. The thing is that we choose not to do so. That kind of decision has been made before: no butcher in store, no selling individual eggs or butter or lard to weight. Penny candy, saffron, vanilla beans. . . No bulk items or penny candy, at least at our store. . .

 

One after another, things that every grocery store carried are dropping out of our business model. People have been mistaking this for progress. Retail is moving past those old-fashioned whatnots. I'm beginning to think that it isn't, that someone needs to do something about it.

[Cancer]

A few months ago, I watched a new opera, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Before heading off to the opera house, I dined at a restaurant named Absinthe. I did have a glass of that liquor with dinner.

 

Maybe it was the drink or the heat of the opera house, but I had the strangest hallucinations during the first act. Notably, my peripheral vision kept interpreting the arch at the far wall as a large shadow person standing beside me.

 

I hate to think what my hallucinations would have been if I had been watching Mephistopheles.

Long ago in a campus newspaper there was the comment, "Never watch a porn movie and then The Gumby Movie back-to-back while stoned." Wisdom for t he ages.

[tkdguy]

Then again, some movies make better sense when you're under the influence, like Head (the Monkees movie).

[L. Marcus]

The Gumby Movie? As in the Python's Mr Gumby?

[Cancer]

No, Gumby the iconic claymation figure, which actually came years before MOnty Python got together.

[Cancer]

No comment on the Kanye West interview ?

Who or what is Kanye West? </snark>

[L. Marcus]

A man with a spectacular case of foot-in-mouth disease. Also sings a bit.

[Nadrakas]

Re: Musings on Random Musings I like cheescake haggis.

Mmmm...Haggis.  Ok, now where do I get some Cheesecake Haggis (Not "Cheese & Haggis")?  My daughter (8, soon to be 9) loves Haggis...she also loves Cheese, so naturaly when I told her that Cheesecake Haggis existed...well she wanted some.  My little boy (6) wants some too.

 

Haggis, the food of the Gods!

 

Haggis! Haggis! Haggis! Haggis!

Lovely Haggis! Wonderful Haggis!

Haggis Ha-a-a-g-g-g-i-i-s-s Haggis Ha-a-a-g-g-g-i-i-s-s.

Lovely Haggis! Lovely Haggis! Lovely Haggis! Lovely Haggis!

Haggis haggis haggis haggis!

 

 

Served with Tatters, Spinach & Chedder Cheese...Yummie!!! And a Good Beer!!!!!!!!!

 

Enjoy!

 

~ M

[Cancer]

I have no idea what they're doing upstairs, but it sounds like a raving mad bumblebee playing a steel didgeridoo.

You will get much more amusement value out of everyday annoyances if you ruthlessly apply Rule 34 to the scenarios you employ in your metaphors.

[L. Marcus]

... That answer did nothing to soothe my annoyance. The only thing I can think about re. the noises plus Rule 34 involves Mi-Go.