60 Minutes “Herb and His Airline”

This is a CBS 60 Minutes feature on Herb Kelleher and Southwest Airlines that originally aired on October 15, 1989. In part one, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft interviews Herb and explains how Southwest operates, highlighting its differences from other carriers. The show’s full opening sequence is included.

Part 1

Part 2

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Bag of Randomness

  • I have a busy week.  There’s a project I’m working on that will require over-time and I have to prep for my Thursday night class.  Teaching four to five chapters in four hours takes a lot of prep work.  All that to say there will probably be little posting this week, maybe just a bunch of bag of randomnessesssesssesse.
  • Oil prices are dropping, but gas prices are rising, here’s an explanation why.  Well, sorta.
  • I always enjoy watching the live musical performances of best song for motion picture or whatever the real name for that category is during the Oscars telecast, but it appears this year all the songs will be shortened to 60 seconds in a melody.
  • Rhyner and Corby came pretty darn close to leaving Sports Radio 1310 The Ticket.  Link
  • My office building overlooks Love Field and from the lunchroom I saw the new Sports Illustrated cover model plane.  What was hilarious was all the men going towards the closest window pulling out their camera phones to snap a pic.
  • On the way back from lunch I saw one of those duck crossing signs, but what caught my attention and boy do I wish I had a camera at the time, were ducks under the sign waiting to cross the street.  They were looking both ways as if they were human.
  • Interesting death in the paper yesterday, someone died after crashing into a church sign.  Article
  • I had a friend tell me that as a child growing up on a U.S. military base in Germany during the 70’s they use to throw rocks at the German kids and yell, “We won the war . . . . we won the war.”  It’s something now as an adult she regrets.
  • I’ve discovered that a common typo for me in my inter-office emails is typing “think” when I meant to type “thing.”
  • I still haven’t lost any weight but I did have to tighten my belt one more notch.
  • My friend Barry posted one heck of a vehicle prank.  Pic
  • Beliefnet has a bunch of interesting Lincoln quotes, this one stood out, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
  • Religion answers the ‘Why?’ while science answers the ‘How?’ OpEd Henry G. Brinton is pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Virginia and author of Balancing Acts: Obligation, Liberation, and Contemporary Christian Conflicts.
  • Theistic evolution
  • The McNuggetini: A McDonald’s chocolate milkshake with vanilla vodka, rimmed with BBQ sauce and garnished with a chicken McNugget.
  • Channel 5 is getting a new weather girl.  EdBark
  • Gatorade sure does have an interesting ad campaign.  First they come out with those impressive G commercials , and they have taken those commercials to the next level by having ordinary people on the radio talk with that music in the background.  Now they have commercials that are the total opposite with some kind of fairy tale.
  • A polar bears sticks his head in.
  • I’m pretty impressed with this new transparent display from Samsung.
  • Darth Vader kills George Lucus tattoo.  Link
  • Speaking of Lucus . . . here’s an interesting Trilogy Meter of movie trilogies.
  • Have you seen Mel Gibson’s new facial hair?
  • A New Jersey library starts to lend out kindles.  Article

Kittens Inspired by Kittens

How rude . . . especially the second time around

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I Use To Believe

I Used To Believe is a funny and bizarre collection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were children. It will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts. The following pages will reassure you that the things you used to believe weren’t so strange after all…

www.iusedtobelieve.com

Here’s a preview:

  • When praying I thought saying Amen at the end of the prayer was the religous version of saying “over and out” at the end of a radio communication.
  • As a child I went to a protestant church, but I used to tell people that I was a pedestrian.
  • I was convinced that God was married to Mother Nature until I went through Confirmation in the eighth grade.
  • I used to believe to believe that you couldn’t drink 7 up unless you were 7 years or older
  • I used to believe that if you opened your eyes when you prayed, you would see God and then die.
  • I played with Barbies all the time as a little girl, and their lack of nipples led me to believe that my own nipples would fade when I grew up.
  • I used to believe that the reason you folded your hands together when you prayed is that your folded hands were the micophone you prayed into so God could hear you
  • i used to think easter island was called that because a giant bunny ran around and layed eggs there.
  • I thought Richard Nixon was God because he could interrupt any TV show, even on public television
  • We all know what going to the toilet and defining what #1 and #2 are, well, I believed that diarrhea was #3 as it seemed to combine 1+2.
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