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Brin's photo shoot

Well, Our new IMAC has a nifty little camera built into the screen. "the B" found it and figured out how to use it. She acted alone. When I got home from work her mug was all over my desktop. for all the embarassment she has given me ie church and movies. You know what they say "paybacks a... cinch"

Self-Aggrandizment

       Aqua-dots and ME:

   Well,  here's another toy re-call.  I should have known by the menacing name: Aqua dots.  Perhaps china has decided the fastest way to destroy a country is through there toys. I don't blame china though, of course;   This is Capitol ism strikes again. (I reserve the right to spell capitalism however I want)

      So there you are a fly on the wall in  a cooperate meeting at (Whose Your Daddy toy manufacturing company) WYD.  One of the junior executives brings to light that one of the toys WYD  is about to release my be laced with date rape drug GHB.  The executives then talk amongst themselves about the cost of putting real glue in the toy rather than said 

date rape drug.  They do a quick cost/benefit analysis and vwala.  They apparently determine that it is not cost effective to produce a child-safe product and release it to the masses.

           Why the title.  heh heh...

   We got a guy at work who really wants to be promoted so he went to then newspapers and had an article done about how great his boss is so he could get said promotion.   So it gave me ideas and well; now I am on the news.  This blog isn't really funny is it?  I'll go have a cream soda and hope for the best on the next one.

The Data is in

      To use a steveninsm, "Americans agree".  Over the past 10 days Americans have voted about there fear of flying.  Statisticians have "massaged the numbers".  After a 5 tailed double blind study involving actual Americans. We can say our data is statistically significant and Americans are a afraid to fly.  I am glad I am not alone.  And now on to more pressing bloginess(Tm).

AIRLINES COME-UPINS

I would just like to go on record one more time. Air travel is not as safe as we think it is. Not that I don't trust the science; I Don't trust Science in the hands of capitalism. (I probably came to this paradigm by working in health care)

What a surprise, NASA is withholding/delaying the release of an airline safety report.

here is my favorite quote.
According to a report out of Washington, NASA wants to avoid telling you about how unsafe you are when you fly. According to the article, when an $8.5M safety study of about 24,000 pilots indicated an alarming number of near collisions and runway incidents, NASA refused to release the results. The article quotes one congressman as saying 'There is a faint odor about it all.' A friend of mine who is a general aviation pilot responded to the article by saying 'It's scary but no surprise to those of us who fly.'"

Near mid-air collisions? Twice as many bird hits? people say to me all the time "When was the last time you heard of an airplane crash? oop here's one 2 months ago. so it didn't crash but whats the difference really? The luck of a sober pilot?
When I walk down the Jetway, When I am about to set foot on "The beast" I always think about my mortality. I may not be outwardly fearful of getting on the plane. I don't usually think "today is the day I die" no no no.. but I do consider my mortality. I consider the risk.
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