Apparently, way back when, they bought out public transportation companies and eventually had them systematically shut down such that consumers had no choice but to use their cars, despite what the public wanted. See The Great American Streetcar ScandalI was almost thinking they might be changing their pro-oil wasteful ways by offering FlexFuel ( Read more... )

My boss found this strange test at 9types.com and asked that we all take it. I scored a 6 on type 5, and a 5 on type 4. Type 4, "The Romantic" or "The Artist" wasn't that interesting, and only about 25% of what it says really fits me, and not that well. But Type 5, "The Thinker" or "The Observer" fits me in most ways, and I was surprised. I ( Read more... )

I was trying to pick up Santa Monica airport tower frequency on my dad's old funky "all band" radio a couple nights ago. There was so much static and bleeding from other frequencies that it was pretty useless... but I finally heard this guy asking Santa Monica tower to land on runway 21-left, which was funny cause there's only one runway (no left ( Read more... )

Boy I'm tired... I planned a flying tour around LA for parents and my mom's brother.

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A coworker came up with that. Neither of us are big valentines day fans, apparently ( Read more... )

I recorded the end of this dopey thing on PBS about greek olympics vs modern ones, and after it was over, it recorded a live music performance called something like Celtic Woman Presents... The first performance was Walking in the Air. OMG it's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. I went and searched iTunes music store and there are ( Read more... )

Yay, I finally had fun at a party. It was probably mostly thanks to Ian, who is the fox who invited me in the first place. As I mentioned, he e-mailed me out of the blue cause he found me on furry proximity locator.

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I keep watching this trailer and thinking it's so beautiful... http://www.onesixright.com/video/16R_aerials.htmlThen I show it to other people and they're like "it's just a bunch of planes flying around..." Bah! I thought other dragons would be more appreciative. Have they forgotten what it is to fly ( Read more... )

There's a movie called The White Diamond about an experimental airship used to fly above the canopy of a dense jungle to study and film and such. It kind of looks like a diamond, because it's shaped like a tear drop on its side, so the tail end has the angular diamond shape ( Read more... )

The only person at work I would consider a friend flew back to Texas last week, claiming some mysterious medical problem she didn't want to talk about... And now instead of returning this week, she wrote an e-mail to resign. Apparently the "medical problems" were actually "family problems" she doesn't want to talk about, and she wants to stay in ( Read more... )