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Over the years we’ve amassed a large collection of Hash House Harrier event giveaways. We used to have boxes full of hashing t-shirts, but now we’re just hanging on to a few old favorites Donna wants to make into a quilt. We took the others to local hash meets and gave them to new hashers […]
The Pima Air & Space Museum restoration team rolled out our Mil Mi-24 Hind gunship earlier this week. I mentioned this helicopter in an earlier post, after seeing it partially disassembled in the restoration hangar. I was particularly struck by the robust transmission, which would not look out of place in a battleship’s engine room. […]
“I’m a psychiatrist, Miss Taylor. Normally, when people hit things with their car, there are skidmarks on the pavement. A brick wall is a pretty good reason to use the brakes, turn the wheel. You didn’t do that.” — Jude Law as Dr. Jonathan Banks in Side Effects Side Effects (2013, USA) A subtle mystery […]
Most of this TGIF/I hate Mondays/hump day bullshit is driven by drinkers, who like to pretend they don’t drink during the week.
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news roundups. YCRT! censorship news: Good to know: five ways to bypass internet censorship and filtering. ACLU encourages FCC to resist calls to censor broadcast content. Network hygiene: US military blocks access to The Guardian’s website over Snowden revelations. “I’m fucked in […]
Seriously, would you ever fly that carrier again?
Obviously we don’t yet know what happened to cause Asiana Flight 214 to crash at San Francisco International last Saturday. Anything I say will be speculative, but based on what I’ve seen, heard, and read to date, it sure looks like the pilots, through their own actions or inactions, got low and slow on final […]
Still playing catch-up … I realized this morning I’d forgotten to chronicle our neighborhood 4th of July parade, an event I photoblog every year. Don’t worry, there are photos and here they are: It’s become a tradition for our kids and grandkids to come to Tucson every summer for our neighborhood parade, itself a tradition. […]