From the Washington Post SAUK RAPIDS, Minn. — Veterinarian Dennis Bechtold looked at the dead rabbit in disbelief. The rabbit’s wart-like growths made it look like a mythical jackalope–an animal that is half rabbit half antelope.
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And today I learned how to open hangar doors. I was actually scheduled to fly at “blue flight, second go.” Because giving me an actual time would have been too simple. I sat in on the blue flight commander’s standup. This was the second standup I’d been to, and the blue flight commander seems to be more easy going than the white flight commander, but his students seemed to perform better. I’m not sure how well I would have done in his students’ shoes today. They certainly gave better answers than I would have expected from any student around 10-15…
I came home to find a blog entry with the wife challenging the math of a someone quoted in a Newsweek report. It’s just not a good idea for her to challenge other people’s math. Apparently posting her mispost would be immature and wrong of me. I will say that she had me momentarily confused. I even cranked up rpncalc in a shell to make sure. “Jonah, aren’t there nine and not eleven?”
Every door at the Air Force Academy has a sign that says FPCON: ALPHA. It’s clearly very, very important. As best I can tell, it’s no different than the terror alert color code warnings. FPCON stands for “Force Protection Condition”. How do they come up with these things? I mean, what does that mean?? Is it really English? Every Academy telephone has a pad of paper next to it on which you’re supposed to write down bomb threats. I don’t know that the academy has ever HAD a bomb threat. Our tax dollars at work. At the training today, they…