The address is funny, but watching “Cheney” and “Pelosi” is even better. I encourage you to stick with it to catch the response from “Obama” and “Hilary.”
Hat tip to kos.
Archive for January, 2007
Not the SOTU
Posted in WM_archive on January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
First snow
Posted in WM_archive on January 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Mark and m k w beat me to it, but here’s my first snow pic of this winter.
Fear of flying
Posted in WM_archive on January 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
One of the things I like about my current apartment is the view. Not only is it great (and I can get wonderful sunrises), but it provides a daily fix for one of my fascinations: watching planes.
Folks who have visited my Flickr account may have noticed that I sometimes just hang out in Gravelly Point to watch planes really close up.
I don’t know which came first: the fear or the fascination. I do not like to fly. I’ll do it if push comes to shove, but I’ve also been known to drive many hours to avoid flying.
Anyways, while the weather here wasn’t great, it wasn’t horrible either. Given that, it doesn’t exactly help my fear that I witnessed two “do-overs” this weekend…one yesterday, one today.
Whenever I see this, I figure it’s a pilot who doesn’t land at National very often. Check out the problem on the map.
In general, when planes land from the north towards the south, they basically fly over the Potomac into the downtown area. This helps reduce noise and presumably provides some measure of safety if a plane experiences a problem.
Sometime a while back, the FAA allowed planes to essentially cut the corner over Rosslyn, VA, which is just north of Arlington National Cemetery.
This is probably fine and good, but if you look at the map, you can see that the runway that lines up with this approach is actually a shorter one that cuts diagonally across the main runway, which lies almost directly north/south.
So I think what happens is a newbie pilot (to National) visually lines up with the shorter runway, and then realizes that 1) it’s the wrong runway and 2) there’s no time to line up with the correct runway.
So hello, do-over.
These things don’t even make the news, so I guess they aren’t that big of a deal. But given how much I “love” flying, I can’t imagine how I would react to getting that close to landing and then feeling the plane begin to ascend!
Update, 1/16: Jake thought I might be confusing planes from the same airline who were landing and taking off at the same time. Here’s a short video I shot yesterday showing a normal approach and landing, picking it up just as it approaches the Washington Monument. I actually can’t see the planes taking off when they take off to the south…they are under the treeline. But I sure can see a plane that approaches and then flies over the airport.
I love TiVo
Posted in WM_archive on January 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I probably should be embarrassed that I’m TiVo’ing the People’s Choice Awards (but it is a slow TV night :). But it did allow me to notice a great new TiVo feature, which was that when I selected record, TiVo let me know that this was a live program, and if I wanted, it would extend the length of the recording.
Nice!
Speaking of sweet technology, I’m with Mike…the new Apple iPhone looks scary good!
What a great shot!
Posted in Photography on January 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Kathleen was enjoying today’s unseasonable weather as well. But check out this awesome shot she got!
Where's winter?
Posted in WM_archive on January 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Margott and I did lunch at the Lebanese Taverna at Pentagon Row today. We thought we might actually be able to eat outside, but no. I had the shawarma pizza, which was yummy (fortunately, since the leftovers are going to be for dinner shortly).
Afterwards, we sat outside and watched the ice skaters in their t-shirts. Having a refrigerated ice surface meant that there was still skating even though the temperature was over 70 degrees.
The weather services are saying we might be seeing more seasonable weather soon. I hope so. I like snow!
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