I'm number two! I'm number two!

They stole my idea!

My current one is dreadful. My hair is all greasy and bed-head looking. I keep wanting to "lose" my license so I can get a new one. Though it expires this November.

I always wanted to have my DL picture taken when I was really stoned so if I got pulled over I would look normal.

I'll take the parachute over those damned gliders any day.

he crashed 16 times during the journey.

I was sitting in the car this morning when I read this original post, and I was trying to think of this epic flight, but I couldn't remember enough details to cite it. Great write up, and this deserves to be near the top of the list. It was a truly epic, though sadly forgotten, endeavor.

Thanks for all the Lindbergh info. As much as of a plane junkie as I am, this was all new to me. Good stuff.

Gossamer Albatross. Designed by Paul McCready and flown by Bryan Allen, it completed the first human-powered flight across the English Channel in 1979.

Beat me to it. That plane is now hanging in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in DC. I just saw it two days ago. It's amazing how small it is.

I just drove from Austin to Norfolk, over three days and one blowout, with three boys (8, 8, and 11). They don't bounce around the Odyssey because we don't let them take their seat belts off. We grew up taking trips like yours, and we know better. But I can certainly identify with "Don't make me stop!" because…

I was attending a commencement ceremony last week, and there were people 100 ft. away from the stage taking flash pictures with the built-in flash. They are going to get a great picture of the three or four rows in front of them. The thing is, with the stage lit as it was, and with just a modicum of knowledge, they…

I solved this problem with a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. And $1500. As the school PTA historian, I see many parents with kit Canon and Nikon cameras set to Auto and taking glorified P&S pictures. But without a fast long lens, you're in a world of hurt.

Makes sense. I hadn't watched the video. Thanks.

They may have counted the laptop bag as a "personal item" akin to a purse. Or, as you suggest, they just didn't give a fuck.

Apparently, the violin put him over his carry on limit. I carried trumpets on a plane last month with nary a peep from the airline.

Good point. But isn't there a pressurized portion of the hold for carrying animals? I didn't see that he was over the carry on limit. If so, too bad, so sad. When I carry my trumpets on board, it's my only carry on.

I'm a professional trumpet player, and there's no way on god's green earth I would ever check my horns. I've also never had a problem getting them stowed in the cabin, and a violin case is usually not much larger than my trumpet case. That being said, they do make special travel cases for musical instruments, and…

It always bugs me when they say, "X people are dead including the shooter." Fuck him, don't list him in his own body count. How about, "X people are dead, and the shooter killed himself," cowardly bastard that he is.