Friday, February 7, 02003
Go visit the Borderlands of Pwan. Yes, I got sucked into some marketing crap for Jennifer Government, but only because the book's a lot of fun. I recommend it highly.
Posted at 11:37 PM EST [Link]
Cage's ASLAP is being played as slow as possible.
Those modern composers are a wacky bunch. I've been listening to some George Crumb which is supposed to be "heard from afar, over a lake, on a moonlit evening in August".
Posted at 10:56 PM EST [Link]
Man Throws Bomb at Nut Vendors in Yemen
Posted at 07:29 PM EST [Link]
In light of the recent note that brought back a plane from National here's some Air Force trivia for a change:
Form O-96 – This form is used by cadets at their table in Mitchell Hall to report on the quality of food and service. The real intent is to use the Form O-96 as a training aide to teach fourth classman how to fill out an Air Force form (black pen, within the space given); how to make corrections on a form (single line through and initials); how to properly make comments, including negative ones, on an official form; and how to follow procedures in a short period of time under pressure. USAFA folklore explains that the normal blocks to check if the meal and service were fine: fast-neat-average, friendly-good-good. These words were allegedly used in Vietnam as a challenge and response during a successful rescue attempt in which the downed pilot was a USAFA graduate, but did not remember the challenge/response for the day. Cadets and graduates on commercial flights have been known to write on a napkin “fast-neat-average” then ask a flight attendant to give it to the cockpit crew for the proper response.
Posted at 09:00 AM EST [Link]
Wednesday, February 5, 02003
"I've seen TVs inside the steering wheel and even in the rear-view mirror."
Posted at 06:55 PM EST [Link]
Monday, February 3, 02003
With AOL/Time Warner's recent $98.2 billion loss, you could build 49 space shuttles at $2 billion each.
You could probably even get them to throw in an extra one for free to make it an even fifty.
Posted at 07:20 PM EST [Link]
Remembering the Shuttle, Forgetting the Loom: Interpreting the Challenger Disaster, May 1994
A symbol of preparedness and accurate prediction, the lifeboat is both a physical and psychological escape from technocultural terrors and, more ambiguously, a condensed version of that same technoculture. In a radioactive, terrorist, and generally chaotic world, one can only plan a move to a smaller, safer box--ideally the enclosed world of the harmoniously functioning and disaster-resistent spaceship.
It's almost ten years old and reads like it could have been written last week, especially the "age of limits" verbage near the top.
Posted at 01:24 PM EST [Link]
Sunday, February 2, 02003
An Accounting Will Be Owed
Posted at 12:08 PM EST [Link]
