To date, as of tonight, is $463 billion. (As you read this, it’s more like ###.) There’s really no way to think of this number in any way that makes sense. What got me thinking about it was the Superconducting Super Collider, canceled by the republicans, because it was just insanely expensive at $12 billion. We could have built 38 of them by now. That’s right, 38. Wow. How does this compare, to say, the international space station? The total costs of the space station through 2010 are estimated at $130 billion. So, we could nearly have four ISS’s for…
My wife is driving off into the snow to straw poll caucus for religious nutjobs that (thankfully) don’t stand a chance. I vaguely considered voting, but caucusing is too much trouble, and as an independent, I’m not welcome in this two-party monopoly anyway. Things are becoming less and less clear about my job. Folks in the class before the class before ours are still waiting around for sims. The whole thing is pretty much absurd. I’ve pretty much settled on driving down there on Sunday. I’ve got a few days left to do whatever it is I need to do…
I just found out I’m going back to ground school. It’s like I’ve been told to repeat the 10th grade. I’m not really sure I know what’s going on. What I do know is that last week I got an email that consisted entirely of an Excel attachment. I get one of these every week or so, and I open it to see if my name is in it, and it never is. Until last week, when the spreadsheet included these lines: 37395 Nachzen,Berck E 1488 F8 JFK CRJ FO YV IAD CRJ FO 2/11/08 The sum total of the…
Jonah wanted a picture of the massive pile of beans at San Tung. I figured I’d get it after we were done eating, but by then they’d processed most of them. Dave got this one before they were completely done.