As I mentioned in my previous post on this great North-by-West Adventure, I was leery of the DFW plane change experience……. I was very surprised and pleased to find that they vastly improved the tram system and it was no hassle getting to my departure gate with plenty of time to spare, but there was one big problem……. The plane we were supposed to fly on got pulled at the last minute……. They substituted a 767 and everyone had to go to the counter to get new seat assignments…… This wasn’t the problem…… I got to keep my window seat, and after telling the agent that I still wanted to be on the “A” side of the plane, she gave me seat 17A and told me that I would really enjoy it…… I wondered what she meant, but that wasn’t the big problem either…. After boarding the plane, I found that seat “17A” was in a two-seater private compartment with a heavy curtain so that you could be totally separated from the other passengers and crew sort of like the old private sleeping compartments on cross-country trains…… This wasn’t the problem either…… The seats were big and plushy with electric recline, lumbar, footrest up/down and footrest extension……. No problem….. Plenty of room and storage space for your carry-ons….. No problem……. “17B” was the problem…… Instead of some nice, beautiful female with a great personality, or even a human of any kind, I draw lots with some 70ish anal with a serious attitude…… Talk about a waste of cool space!……. I immediately reclined , extended the footrest, fired up my DVD player and tried to make the flight go by as fast as possible…… But, I guess, all-in-all, my trip up here was good….. It just could’ve been so much better!!!……..
What is,
how do you get Honey Madness?
Yes, MR is making a Thanksgiving inspection of residents of MR Central located in the Great NorthWest…… eh?….. Flights are booked and plans are made……. From the 18th thru the 27th , all my posts and/or comments will come from the secret MR server located there….. I am hoping to see rain, snow, and clouds, three things you DON”T see in Oklahoma….. I hope not to see abundant sunshine, hot/cold temps at the same time, and wind as Oklahoma weather consists of Too Hot, Too Cold, Too Windy, or a combination of any or all of them at the same time….. We get so little moisture, there’s no reason to factor it in…..
So-o-o, watch out Seattle and surrounding locations, MR is on the way!……. eh?….
I
cant believe no one got last week’s quiz. It was too easy. So, I’m running it again this week. “Lion’s Tooth” in French translates into what common plant. Ask someone what “tooth” is in French. That should give it to you.
Have you guys heard of Instant Runoff Voting? It’s a voting mechanism that caters to multi-party systems. Being a 3rd party voter in the past, it definitely appeals to me. The basic idea is for a voter to rank the candidates instead of just voting for a single candidate. Here’s a summary from the Instant Runoff Voting site:
The IRV works basically as follows: Instead of just casting one vote for one candidate, voters rank the candidates: 1,2,3, etc. (hence, the motto, “it’s as easy as 1-2-3.”). If no candidate receives a majority of the #1 votes, the candidate with the least total of #1 votes is eliminated. The second choice votes from these ballots are then transferred to the other candidates. The ballots are recounted, and candidates are eliminated in this fashion until 1 winner emerges with a majority of the vote.
The IRV site also has a good demo of how Florida might have turned out in 2000 with IRV. Click on the “How IRV Works Flash Presentation” box.
Just Now Stumbled onto this one:
www.challengerblog.com
If you’re interested here are the other posts by JEK on the new Challenger:
original New Dodge Challenger MRC post
Dodge Challenger in 2008
What plant corresponds to the French phrase “lion’s tooth”?
AND, What
is the nickname for Mississippians?
Recently Sirius Satellite Radio introduced the Stiletto, The Totally self contained Portable sat. Receiver. Now the next phase in the revolution is the Launch of Sirius Internet Radio. Now you don’t even have to have a receiver to listen to 100% commercial free music and the best entertainment today just log in to your account from any computer and listen. Just $12.95 a month.
Lets send the Radio Monopolies (Clear Channel, Inferion Etc) and the FCC a clear message “Were Mad as hell and we won’t take it anymore” Quit telling us what we can listen to and what we should not hear! NO MORE BULLS@%T.
I Know that this a blatant plug, but I just want all of you to hear what i have discovered each day You guys are the smartest people that I know and you shouldn’t be forced to listen to stupid dumbed down entertainment. www.sirius.com
That Right Friends It’s time to get out there and make a difference on Tuesday, Lets take back our country from special interests and Big business. The old saying that “If you don’t vote you can’t bitch” should be amended to “If you don’t vote you have no one to blame but your self”
Remember “You have one, Use it!”
THINK.
I read in
the paper today that a duck’s quack doesn’t echo. Can anyone tell me if this is true.
……and a real scary one too!….. I just read in the paper that the Seattle SuperSonics are, as of today, owned by Oklahomans….. Ouch!….. All because the Sonics think they are too good for the Key Arena….. Is that “StupidSonics”???….. Just wait until they get to Oklahoma….. What is that old saying, “The grass is always greener on the other side of the Rockies”?…… Ha-Ha……
The word “estuary” literally means what?
And
for fun:
People from the state of Maryland are nicknamed…………..? (talk about obscure)
Where’s everybody?….. I know I’ve been attacked by the “Overload Bear”….. That’s an old “Bearing” joke….. Just can’t “Bear it”, but, that has no “Bearing” on what’s going on, etc., etc….. As you can see I don’t have much to say, but I plan to “try” (keyword) to say it more often than I have been….. If you’re out there, Hi, and comment back….. A throw around the bases might be nice……
Oh, in case I forget the “Keyword” I mentioned above: Happy Halloween tomorrow….. Was I finished?…..
I caught part of this on the radio on the way to work this morning….. A songwriter, who was a guest on a local morning radio talk show, was talking about a song he had written which had a line in it about being in a disco when John Lennon was shot….. He said his producers were having trouble finding someone to sing it because they didn’t want to give the impression that they were that old and/or would have been in a disco in the first place….. Gotta protect their image I guess….. He basically called them lame and vain……
I personally was at the Shepard Mall Theatre watching “The Blues Brothers” movie for the 4th time (Not by myself – I had talked different people and groups into seeing it and I just had to go along each time, you understand)….. Heard it on the radio after leaving the theatre and at that time it was just that he had been shot….. Went to a friend’s house, heard the rest of it, and listened to Blues albums the rest of the night…..
Where were you?….. I know some of you were not that old, or maybe, not even born yet, but it’s human nature to remember what you were doing and where when some major event in the time line occurs….. I can also tell you to the minute where I was and what I was doing when JFK was assassinated….. I can’t hide my age now, as someone, J.J., babbled all over the blog about my big 6.0 birthday…… Oh, yeah, I promise to “Get Back” to rest of the 3D-2N B-Day Bash details soon…