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…
I just got back to Brooklyn from Maine. I’d never been to Maine before. I need to figure out which states I’m lacking now. I think I’m down to like Vermont, New Hampshire and Alaska. I got to the airport at 6:45am for my 7am ready reserve shift. I was on duty until 5pm. At 4:15pm, they called me to go to Maine. At first, annoying. But then I remembered, “Hey, that means I get to fly a jet!” And then we had a 1.5 hour ground delay before we could come back to New York. I landed on centerline,…