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The captain is required to acknowledge any communication from another crew member during regarding the safety of the flight. It can be the co-pilot, the purser (that is the head flight attendant) or any other crew member. This is the result of a United crash in Portland in the late 70's where the plane ran out of…

My wife is a flight attendant and one thing you left off is never, never, never, touch a flight attendant. On a flight to Tokyo a passenger got up before the plane was at the gate. She told him to sit down, which he did reluctantly, but when the plane came to a stop, he jumped up and got his carry on from the…

This is a video of me trying to get all the cardboard boxes after Christmas into the recycling bin.

Hitchhiked from Juba in Southern Sudan to Mbale, Uganda and then to Jinja during the same period. Got a ride from a UNHCR worker in his Landrover. After being asked to leave the country by Dr. Obote, got a ride with on double trailer pipe hauler headed back to Juba. There were six of us in the cab and lord knows how…

A middle aged well respected lawyer and family man in Portland was lured to his death by meth addicted girl and her boyfriend on a chat line (remember those?) with the promise of sex. He had just left the parent teacher conference for his twelve year old and told his wife he was going to the office for a few hours. …

I don’t think Mayor Bloomberg would approve. You definitely can’t do a stunt like this in NYC!

I think that Stephan A. Smith is the obvious choice and runaway winner. However.....

Registration here in Oregon is relatively cheap since there is no sales tax. However, you do need to get a bi-annual smog check that can be tricky. On the upside you can usually get Pick & Pull to come get it when the car dies by the side of the road and even get a few bucks for it.

I have a friend who got tired of making car payments so he would buy cars for $500 and drive them until they died. Most of what he bought were very high mileage economy cars, but if he got more than three months out of them he figured he was well in the black. One month he had a GTI that he was very proud of, but…

Several years ago I bought a rough Suzuki GT 750 “Water buffalo”. I spent the winter cleaning and restoring and replacing which was many hours of enjoyable time. Actually riding the thing was an adventure with strange bursts of power as you accelerated, awkward turns and panicked stops, punctuated by intermittent…

Yes, but most improvements are usually incremental considering there are millions of humans playing basketball around the world and the best end up in the NBA. Steph’s 3 point shooting is at least a magnitude better than anyone before him. It may not be a deal with the devil, but I don’t think nutrition and fitness…

After watching Steph Curry sink 3's from all over the gym at a rate that no other player has ever approached, including fanatic shooters like Larry Bird who practiced incessantly. Do you think he could have signed a deal with the devil? His soul in exchange for a freakish ability to shoot the 3?

I went to see the Harlem Globetrotters in the late 70's and Meadowlark Lemon would chuck a bunch of hook shots in from half court. Watching Steph Curry reminds me of that.

I think Carly is a feminist icon. I mean this with all sincerity. She has shown that she can fail just as well as any man.

But why are they selling this in Oregon? Salem is 60 miles from the state line. Curious. Perhaps to avoid sales tax?

The South Sydney Rabbitohs are a good story. On my first trip to Australia more than 10 years ago I was looking for something unique to bring home. Found a Rabbitohs jersey on sale in a sporting goods store and bought it because it was so funky. The team was bad back then. Chicago Cubs bad. They were one of the oldest…

It’s you’re, your or yore.

I was at the game and the misses were the source of the drama. Can’t believe Valeri missed the first one. He is the Timbers’ best player and usually a clutch player. No one in Portland misses Beaver baseball.

This car only looks good at closing time. Definitely coyote ugly in the morning.