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| Wednesday, September 21, 2005 |
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Beat the crap out of whatever movie they were showing 
| | Just put up a gallery of pictures taken out the window of a United flight from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles. |
Look up
| | Should be visible over most of the Southwest U.S. |
Plane chase
| | Jet Blue flight 292, an Airbus A320 with a cockeyed nose gear and with 140 passengers and 6 crew, is now (5:30pm PDT) circling Los Angeles, burning off fuel preparing to land at LAX (Runway 25 Left, the southmost of the four) by 6:00pm. |
| | The story has the full attention of all the LA TV stations, plus the news radio stations. It's like a car chase, but in the sky. |
| | While this is clearly a something-broke situation, and it has to be a nervous time for the passengers, I'm sure the crew will bring the plane down safely. I'm betting the gear will reorient itself as soon as it hits the ground. It's currently turned sidewas. (How? Nobody knows.) |
| | The fact that it's happening, live, in the world's biggest media market, makes for a very compelling story. I'll be watching along with everybody else. |
| | 5:57pm. Looks like it's on approach. 6:00pm: not yet. |
| | On the phone with Britt (veteran pilot) at 6:06: This is no big deal. The plane will come to rest with the nose about six inches lower than it will usually be. |
| | 6:16pm. On approach. 6:18pm. Two miles from the runway. |
| | 6:21pm. Done. And Britt was right. Bring over the ramp, he says. The burning tires are already in reruns on station replays. |
Tracking Rita
| | flhurricane.com combines Google Maps with other hacks to produce this storm track for Hurricane Rita. Click on "Legend" and you'll see how it's grown from green (tropical depression) to red (Category 4) — and now (5:00pm PDT) white (Category 5). |
Handbasketry
| | We tested Santa Barbara Living in early 2001 by taking a little apartment near the beach. Not long after we got there, I called up Cox and asked for a cable Internet connection. A technician showed up the same day. We hooked up the cable modem, and obtained connectivity so fast our heads spun. I could hardly believe it: 7Mb down and 3Mb up. This was a huge gain from the no-choice "IDSL" we still had in Silicon Valley, which was about 2x the speed of dial-up. It was also faster than the T1 in the office I rented. |
| | Since then Cox has cut back on speed and service. What we have now is a fraction of what we had when we moved here. (More here.) Now I'm wondering if service could get Even Worse than it is now. That's what I gather from The Head Lemur's ex's experience. Part 2 is just as scary. |
| | Meanwhile, we're building a new house, next door to this one. I'm beginning to wonder if there's a Better Way for that one. Sadly, I don't think there is. The alternative to Cox here is Verizon, which in recent experience has failed to provide service at all. |
I hate missing these things
Fitness training
| | "All the news that's fit to print" just doesn't work any more. |
| | It wouldn't have been so difficult for you to plug yourselves into the new mainstream - the Washington Post did it by creating blog links that referenced most every blogger who, in turn, referenced one of the Post's stories. Too liberal, too conservative, that's not the question. Just simple tit for tat. Engagement, not detachment. |
| | The public is now apparently demanding "All the news that fits, we print." |
Wide school
| | Newsday: Welcome to the world of cyberbullying, a new age form of aggression that can instantly erupt with a few keystrokes. At least one expert describes such virtual smearing as a suburban phenomenon because so many adolescents have their own computers and unsupervised time to use them -- making Long Island the perfect environment for it. |
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