They went up. They looked around. They came back down. What a way to start the day.
Yearly Archives: 2025
The Day Before the Cold Front
They say that a front is blowing thru tonite. In the meantime…
Imagine
Krugman: America Has Become a Digital Narco-State Imagine … if the United States were to legalize … heroin… [It] would quickly become a huge, multibillion-dollar industry [and] would become a significant part of GDP, even though heroin harms and often kills those who consume it. Given the increasingly naked corruption of U.S. politics, the heroin […]
Airbus vs. The Sun
Search around a bit. Look for the terms “Airbus 320” and “radiation” and “grounding”. What you’ll find in most cases is a pseudo-technical summary of the so called “root cause” of the problem that led to the recent emergency Airbus 320 recall. It’s the sun, you see — solar radiation corrupted the flight computers. But […]
3 Ottos
“Let me tell you how my day started, Mr. Hasan,” Matt said. He was fidgeting in his chair, something he doesn’t usually do. He was particularly animated, waving his hands around with a huge smile on his face. And he wasn’t waiting for me to ask him how it started. “My dad and I went […]
Classroom Music
Is there music coming from the classroom next door? I can barely hear it. Wait. Can I? A high voice that periodically gets drowned out by the chit-chat in class (some of which is related to the test review they’re supposed to be doing, some of which is … not). There it is again. I […]