An Airbus in the Hudson river.
(full story)
I think somebody was looking after these guys,
everyone survived the impact with only some minor injuries.
Basically there were two bird strikes, one on each engine in rapid succession,
something virtually unheard of according to the FAA.
As it only has two engines this kinda sucks…
Kudos to the pilot for landing the kite !!
I wanna sleep, but i just know that it is not gonna happen. Taking suggestion on what to do.
a) Do some actaul work that pays me?
b) Play Warcraft till my eyes fall out?
c) Play Mirror’s Edge till my eyes fall out?
d) Watch a dvd?
e) Knock myself out with a frying pan?
So anyway “The House” is back again with more panic on the dance floor. Turns out the the R60 000 worth of home entertainment system cannot be installed because someone (/does the finger quotients) has made off with the draw wires that are supposed to be in the conduiting. The Electrical consultants inspected before the cover plates were put on and state that the draw wires were present and accounted for. I can see no reason for them to lie or mislead us. There is no vested interest for them to lie, all they have to do if the wires are not in at inspection is go OI !!! put the damn things in.Anyway handy sparky man is going there now to hopefully sort the saga out.
Of course this is not the first problem that has occured with the TV system. The “other” architects on the job made no provision for the equipment in the libray shelving so, nothing fits now and very impressive, not to mention expensive equipment needs to be bought. As we all know the smaller the electronic equipment the heftier the price tag.
Anyway, with that setup, even i who hates cables across my floor would make do, DAMN!!!! that is some nice stuff going in there. I actually think that the sound system could blow a women’s clothing off. That, for the record is a line from the Italian Job on the quality of the sound system, before i get flamed for being a chauvenist…
I don’t want to be in the office anymore. I have had enough of this year it can stop now. Not end mind you, cause the it just has to start again, just stop until it ends.My logic is not of your world…
I am taking tomorrow off. Well at least most of the day anyway, I do have to go and hand in plans at South Penisula Council first thing…weeeeeeeell maybe not first thing. After that i am free as a bird and will probably spend most of it either asleep or doing very little in front of the TV. You see i have my reason for this totally out of the ordinary day off (haha oh that is a funny one that is). I have been starting work at roughly 0330 ~ 0400 am for the past week and staying at the office till about 1600ish. Last night was spent colouring drawings in till midnight. Yes i can colour between the lines. =P All for a council submission for UCT.So anyway a little R&R is earned, well at least i think so. I will probably spend it playing dead rising on the xbox, instead of the finacial statements that i am supposed to be doing.I thought that i was about to finish the game last night. I was wrong oh very very wrong. There is overtime…more zombies to slice, dice, blow up, run over and smash.Ah there will be a van and some tunnels and many many many many many many many deader zombies.
I always said that i would never get a GPS. I have never really seen the point, I would like to think that i have a pretty good sense of direction (dispute at will, should you disagree), once i have been to a place i can pretty much remember where it is and map books have served me well to date. Anyway my cellphone upgrade had an option of a phone with a GPS in it. Nothing to fancy i guess, i have not seen another GPS to compare it with, but now that i have one all i can say is COOL !!!!
We shall have to see about practical applications someday as when i used it yesterday i was kinda preempting the thing. I knew where i was going, but it was fun to have this very polite voice telling me to turn left in 150m and it is kinda like playing a video game or something (yes i will be laughing on the otherside of my face when the polite voice tells me i just crashed into a ditched cause i am not paying attention to the road). I had it all installed in my car this morning with its little cradle goodie. I will probably not do that all that often though, i drive with my windows open most of the time and displaying my cell phone in easy reach is probably not a wise idea.
One practical application for us with a “heavy” foot is that it tells you when you are breaking the speed limit and warns you where the permanent camera traps are =)
I know that this is going to be the first words that my boss is going to utter this morning. I cam in to find that his PC will not boot properly and everytime you put a cd in it crashes. He has once again tried to use the “right click - send to cd” function. I am sure that this have worked sometime somewhere in the world. Perhaps even you* have seen this work in some mythical land where the fae live and trees are made of candy.
I have never seen it or had it work for me, like EVAH! It either crashes the machine, loses the files. Sometimes it even gets as far as burning the files which can then never be accessed again unless you use exactly the same machine while chanting arcane and bizzare rituals of summoning. The success ratio for raises a 7th ring hellfiend is higher than actually getting the data.
“But it works on my home computer” Yes (a) Running Vista (b) perfectly installed burner drivers as they are specifically written for that laptop (c) Have you ever tried to use that disc on another machine “Yes” did it work “No” WOW!!!! really, please refer to ‘Raising Hellfiends for Dummies’ maybe they have the answer.
Conversation with powers that be (P’stB) this morning.
P’stB: “Why is this out on accounts desk?”
Me: “Dunno, i didn’t put it there”
P’stB: “Is she supposed to order another or what?”
Me: “Sorry i don’t know” =/
Me (What i should have said): “WTF man? did i not cover most questions relating to the item on accounts desk by saying I don’t know i did not put it there. FFS why do you always have to repeat questions when people have clearly and without hesitation told you that have no idea what is going on. WHAT !?! do u think the answer is perhaps going miraculously appear in my head somehow. Oh yes hang, I did put it there and i know exactly what needs to be done with it. I was lying the first time you asked for dramatic effect”
You would have to work here to understand the frustration…
A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar,
ATC asked, ‘What was your last known position?’
Student: ‘When I was number one for takeoff.’
Tower: ‘Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o’clock
Delta 351: ‘Give us another hint! We have digital watches!’
Tower: ‘TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees.’
TWA 2341: ‘Center, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?’
Tower: ‘Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?’
From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: ‘I’m f…ing bored!’
Ground Traffic Control: ‘Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself immediately!’
Unknown aircraft: ‘I said I was f…ing bored, not f…ing stupid!’
O’Hare Approach Control to a 747: ‘United 329 heavy, your traffic is a Fokker, one o’clock, three miles, Eastbound.’
United 329: ‘Approach, I’ve always wanted to say this..I’ve got the little Fokker in sight.’
A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out after touching down.
San Jose Tower Noted: ‘American 751, make a hard right turn at the end of the runway, if you are able. If you are not able, take the Guadeloupe exit off Highway 101, make a right at the lights and return to the airport.’
A Pan Am 727 flight, waiting for start clearance in Munich , overheard the following:
Lufthansa (in German): ‘ Ground, what is our start clearance time?’
Ground (in English): ‘If you want an answer you must speak in English.’
Lufthansa (in English): ‘I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany .. Why must I speak English?’
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent):
Because you lost the bloody war!’
Tower: ‘Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency 124.7′
Eastern 702: ‘Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway.’
Tower: ‘Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact Departure on frequency 124.7. Did you copy that report from Eastern 702?’
BR Continental 635: ‘Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern… we’ve already notified our caterers.’
One day the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of the active runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee. Some quick-witted comedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said, ‘What a cute little plane. Did you make it all by yourself?’
The Cherokee pilot, not about to let the insult go by, came back with a real zinger: ‘I made it out of DC-8 parts. Another landing like yours and I’ll have enough parts for another one.’
The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one’s gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: ‘ Frankfurt , Speedbird 206! clear of active runway.’
Ground: ‘Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven.’
The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
Ground: ‘Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?’
Speedbird 206: ‘Stand by, Ground, I’m looking up our gate location now.’!
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): ‘Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?’
Speedbird 206 (coolly): ‘Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, — And I didn’t land.’
While taxiing at London ’s Gatwick Airport , the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727. An irate female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming:
‘US Air 2771, where the hell are you going? I told you to turn right onto Charlie taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there. I know it’s difficult for you to tell the difference between C and D, but get it right!’
Continuing her rage to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically:
‘God! Now you’ve screwed everything up! It’ll take forever to sort this out! You stay right there and don’t move till I tell you to! You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour, and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you! You got that, US Air 2771?’
‘Yes, ma’am,’ the humbled crew responded.
Naturally, the ground control communications frequency fell terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to chance engaging the irate ground controller in her current state of mind. Tension in every cockpit out around Gatwick was definitely running high.
Just then an unknown pilot broke the silence and keyed his microphone, asking:
‘Wasn’t I married to you once?’
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