Thanks to a family friend who was a successful Mary Kay saleswoman, I used to wear a lot of Mary Kay cosmetics when I was a teen and young adult. When I started my career, one of my coworkers was trying out the Mary Kay thing as a side gig since she enjoyed cosmetics and despite also being an engineer with an…

Dealership Closes Rather Than Pay Customer It Screwed Over A Measly $3,000

He brought out the “nuclear weapons” line like he had no real answer so he just brought in the ultimate zinger to shut everybody down. The perfect *ahem* trump card to win all arguments, suitable for anytime you either don’t have an answer or are tired of the debate, perfected by small children playing with action…

Well, I suppose possibly Trump is arguing that if the sea level rises enough, there will be oceanfront property all the way up in Michigan. Not sure if he means the Atlantic sloshing around the Appalachians and actually drowning half the continent, or somehow flooding up the Seaway and turning the Great Lakes salt, or…

Same here, although after both of my cruises, I discovered that I suffer from something I’d never heard of before: mal de debarquement. It’s where you feel totally fine at sea, but after the cruise, you feel as if the ground is moving. It’s rather unsettling, and it lasted significantly longer after the second cruise…

The phrase “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me” comes to mind.

Our kids get older -- we don’t, and neither do our dogs!  (I wish....)

We got our latest dog in 2020, and we keep thinking he’s still the baby of the family. Shocked me when the vet gave us a printout that listed his age.

darthspartan (awesome userid) conveniently gave us the flightradar24 track, which includes the tail number: N916DU. Plugging that into the website airfleets.net gives us the history of the aircraft. This is a Boeing 737-932ER, serial number 64884 LN:7379.  It was delivered January 30, 2019, so it’s about five and a…

Mine too.  I guess we get what we pay for.  ;-)

True, like the Pioneers before them and New Horizons after them. But they will be silent and lost to us, entrusted to the ultimate deep.

The Voyagers are my very favorite spacecraft. ;-) I will be sad when they go. I was a toddler when they launched. My favorite video as a little kid was a video recording of a NOVA special about the Voyager mission. V’Ger was pretty much my introduction to Star Trek.

It’s nailbiting at this point, anytime something goes wrong with one of the Voyagers.  It’s going to be hard when one of them goes.  It was hard enough losing Pioneers 10 and 11, and they didn’t last nearly as long.

It’s probably out of warranty by now. ;-)

Aw, ruining a perfectly good conspiracy theory with reality... ;-)

Spoken like a professional test pilot. I read that as he wishes he could have kept working on Starliner until the situation was well enough understood and they could come home on it, finishing the job he’d set out to do, but the bosses said there was no more time. That has to be frustrating, especially after seeing…

What’s more, Pineda has since discovered that the footage captured by her car in Sentry Mode has reportedly been wiped from the car’s memory, meaning that no footage of her and Ortega attempting to open the car to rescue the child remains.

You’re getting into av geek pedantics

This makes me want to watch “2001" again and think about where we once thought we’d be by now.  :-)  Sort of puts our aspirations into perspective.

And the fact that he won’t comment says a lot more about him than any statement he could make about the incident.