[Editors note: For some reason this post has no stylistic value whatsoever, despite the grandeur the author imagined in his head before engaging in a spastic typing frenzy. The text is jumpy, the transitions are nonexistent, and perhaps the author should reconsider writing. In general. But it’s what you get for tonight.] Since Jonah couldn’t get here to visit, I had to entertain myself. Yesterday, I managed to convince Sydney to brunch with me at Miriam’s, which has excellent Israeli breakfasts, but after coming home she passed out in front of MLB.com. After consulting the internets, I discovered that She…
Well, I got up at 4:30 this morning and drove to Denver. I didn’t get on the Delta flight to JFK at 8, and then I didn’t get on the 11:10 flight to Cincinnati. Berck said I had a good chance of getting on the next flight to Cincinnati this afternoon that would get me into LGA late tonight, but he’d also said that about the other flights. All I wanted to do was go home and crawl back in bed, so I gave up.
Eli leaves next week for China. We’re all very excited. USA Today had an article today taken from Eli’s blog post. They’ve also got his blog on their Sports page with a cool picture of him.
[Deadhead means a flight where one is on duty, in uniform, and traveling on company business, generally for the purpose of being in position to work another flight. It does not mean simply being an airline employee traveling on an airline, like many people seem to think it means. That is, I’m not deadheading when I’m commuting.] While on reserve, one gets to see what’s perhaps the roughest side of an airline operation. Last week, I was assigned for a trip to DCA where I would deadhead to DCA, and then work a couple flights from DCA-JFK-DCA. After taxiing around…
I don’t watch propaganda movies, so I’m not going to watch Expelled any more than I’m going to watch Michael Moore. But, after reading an amusing article about the astounding contrary-to-fact claims in Expelled, I thought I’d mention this website for those who might be interested in the truth (or rather, lack thereof) behind Ben Stein’s claims: Expelled Exposed. In short, Intelligent Design isn’t science simply because there are no hypotheses to be tested. Since there is nothing to test, there is no research being performed, and thus no work is being peer reviewed. Proponents complain that “the scientific community…