I was taking a look at the sample ballot for the midterm election (pdf), and the candidates for U.S. Senator are: John Cornyn, David M. Alameel, Rebecca Paddock, and . . . . .Emily “Spicybrown” Sanchez. Yup, her name on the ballot includes “Spiceybrown”.
Reddit had a great Ask Me Anything with a former SR-71 Blackbird pilot. The one thing that stuck out the most was his answer on why the cockpit was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, “The engines and most of the noise was behind you, behind the sound barrier.” That made me stop down and think about traveling faster than sound, with the sound making mechanisms behind you and not being able to hear it – it was confusing and fascinating and doesn’t make sense but makes sense. He also stated the plane heated up so much that it stretched or grew five inches in flight.
‘Modern Family’ had two references to the television show ‘Dallas’ last night, and one great ‘Gilligan’s Island’ reference.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to understand why people love college sports so much, especially when young men and women are taken advantage of when it comes to making money for the university and there’s so much cheating by every institution. Case in point, the University of North Carolina just got busted for 18 years of academic fraud, and let’s not forget what happened at Penn State and that coverup.
USA Today is reporting that the Statue of Liberty will be sporting a bow tie as part of an advertising scheme. The bow tie won’t actually be attached, but helicopters will create the illusion by don the 60-foot bow tie in front of it.
USA Today also has a special report that’s a pretty good read on the U.S.’s perpetual state of national emergency. The oldest national emergency that’s still in effect was issued by President Carter back in 1979.
While checking the mail I saw my neighbor hobble in with a new iMac and didn’t much of it, but now I know the story behind it.
the windows to the Blackbird would also get so hot a person couldn't hold the hand against them while in flight- their fire resistant gloved hand.