Thursday miscellanea #22

  • If you have to put an airliner in the drink, this is the way to do it (155 folks into the Hudson River; 155 folks out of the Hudson River alive!).  The pilot’s name is Chelsey B. “Sully” Sullenberger.  Bravo, sir!
  • It is colder tonight than it has been in northern Alabama in six years.  Forecast low is 5 above, with a wind chill of 10 below.
  • We met Dad and Martha for teppanyaki tonight, and it was quite good.  I knew the boys would enjoy it, but they were positively delighted.  I love that.  Isn’t it sad how our respective thresholds for such go up as we grow up?
  • Speaking of growing up, I was enjoying Death Proof again the other night and wondering if the young adults my boys will become will like it.  I like a lot of my dad’s favorites, but there is a lot of difference even from one decade to the next in moviemaking, and multigenerational affection hardly seems a slam-dunk.
  • I blogged about Ricardo Montalban yesterday, but I need to mention Patrick McGoohan, who also died this week.  He was Number Six on The Prisoner, as well as Dr. Ruth in the still-excellent Scanners.  It was a tough week for science fiction.
  • Supposedly we can expect a new Kiss album in 2009.  There are many ways such an eventuality could go, and only a couple of them are good.  We’ll see.
  • I watched Lea with some string cheese recently, and realized why it was called that for the first time.  (I’ve always just taken bites.)  Yeah, that’s probably a little streak of airheadedness.
  • Robert Ferrigno wrote a hilarious piece on Bush and Obama hanging out just before the inauguration.  Enjoy it, especially if you’re not particularly enthusiastic about The One.  You might feel a little better.

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4 thoughts on “Thursday miscellanea #22”

  1. I was listening to the radio yesterday when the news came on about that plane – what a great job he did staying cool and doing what needed to be done. This morning my husband said the news was saying in his spare time he was a glider pilot.

    And, string cheese is a nasty sounding name.

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  2. That pilot did a fantastic job of putting the plane dowb, albeit, in the water.

    I eat string cheese the same way Lea does.

    Do you think we could at least get some of the white stuff if it’s going to be that cold?!

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  3. I believe he is supposed to give his first interview tomorrow. One of the stories released yesterday said he chose the river because if they lost control in a populated area, it would kill so many more people.

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  4. I was somewhat relieved to read that the flight data recorder matches exactly his version of the story. It sounded to me like, at first, the feds were trying to trip him in interviews.

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