I think Sydney’s probably just been instructed to fasten her seatbelt. Her flight’s about 10 minutes longer than it should be because of an absolutely solid and very long line of thunderstorms. They took the first hole they could find:
Finally got the second physics exam back: 96%, which gives me the highest score in the class. This is a vast improvement over the last test.
People ask. Here goes: A (smallish?) motorcycle tank bag (magnetic, probably?) PockeTerm kit Weller WLC100 Soldering Station 64GB+ SATA-III SSD Nikon D90 House with a garage Sailboat Vinyl! Used in good shape, or new. Some suggestions: Any Led Zeppelin other than Coda or or the first self-titled album. Pink Floyd other than the Wall or a Momentary Lapse (I think DSOTM is still being pressed…). Velvet Underground. Joni Mitchell (other than Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter). Old stuff that’s maybe edgier than my Dad might have had that ought to be listened to on Vinyl. Or, better yet, new Indie bands…
Sydney, looking like a brown Berckes.
Much has been said by much smarter people than I about the idiocy of the TSA. There’s some vague evidence that industry groups are finally starting to realize that it’s likely the entire industry is being harmed by the incompetency of the U.S. government. But, I think, that’s only part of the problem. Once the traveler gets past the TSA, there’s still an onslaught of harassment he must suffer, much of it at the hands of the airlines themselves. Yet people are still flying. The airlines are making money by treating their customers like shit, and while there’s much complaining,…