Here’s the cockpit of a Boeing 737-85C.
How realistic are those scenarios where someone over the radio guides an inexperienced pilot to a safe landing? .
Ask the pilot’s Patrick Smith says not at all.
He also has some interesting information about pilots’ salaries.
A friend writes in his Christmas letter that his high-school-age son named a file reallylonghomeworkblahblahblahblah.doc.
“In less than 14 months, any traditional television set still connected to its antenna will receive nothing but static, as the broadcasting industry cuts over completely to its new digital frequencies.”
Did you know this? Does it matter to you (that is, do you have any analog TVs without cable)?
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In the survey, Republicans with a college degree were substantially more skeptical about global warming than Republicans without one. Democrats with a college degree were significantly more convinced global warming was a problem than were Democrats who didn’t go to college.
I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev’rything free in America
What a load of stuff that now is.
A young blonde Icelandic woman’s recent experience visiting the US.
Link via Digby.
Dick Wolf, the producer of the Law & Order shows is 61 today.
Author Sandra Cisneros is 53.
It’s the birthday of the poet and novelist Sandra Cisneros, born in Chicago in 1954. When she was growing up, her Mexican-born father would often have bouts of nostalgia for the home country, and he would force the whole family to go back there for a few months.
She went on to college, and she later said she was lucky to be a girl, because her father didn’t care what she studied. He just expected her to meet her husband. So she was free to study an impractical subject like English. She kept writing, and one of her professors encouraged her to apply to the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.
But once Cisneros got there, she felt totally out of place. She said, “My classmates were from the best schools in the country. They had been bred as fine hothouse flowers. I was a yellow weed among the city’s cracks.” One day, her class was given an exercise to think about the houses they’d grown up in. Cisneros’s family had only owned one house, an ugly red bungalow. Listening to her classmates describe their childhood homes, she realized that she had grown up in a completely different world. She said, ” It was not until this moment when I separated myself, when I considered myself truly distinct, that my writing acquired a voice. … That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”
The French colors were lowered and the American flag raised in New Orleans on this date in 1803, signifying the transfer of sovereignty of Louisiana from France to the United States. Arguably the transfer was one of the two or three most defining moments in American history.
As ultimately defined, Louisiana Territory included most of the U.S. west of the Mississippi River, east of the Rocky Mountains, except for Texas and New Mexico; that is, parts or all of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
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