Category Archives: Random Thought

NASA: Against the odds, Winging it.

NASA: Drinking the right stuff.

What’s Space travel without a little alcohol and sabotage?

NASA has released two reports that claim Astronauts on more than one occasion were drunk before liftoff and that recently a computer was sabotaged. Awesome.

Aviation Week & Space Technology reported on its Web site that a special panel studying astronaut health found that on two occasions, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a safety risk.

The independent panel also found “heavy use of alcohol” before launch — within the standard 12-hour “bottle-to-throttle” rule, the magazine reported.

What is “Bottle-to-throttle”? I’m going to start using this term and make sure it takes. Whenever I’m in a hurry: “Let’s go, the game is starting. Bottle-to-throttle.”

This whole episode just proves there is no reason for a man space program. These guys don’t even fly the ‘ship’ they just sit on top of the rocket.

Bottle-to-throttle.

Mens Room Marketing.

Hot Rod Poster at Riverview Tavern.

I’m a little confused as to what the marketing team working on the Hot Rod account was thinking.  The only reason I know this films exists is because I’ve read about it above urinals; is that what they were shooting for?  The last place I’m likely to remember any product is at the urinal.  The only reason I recall this (which I have seen in bars everywhere) is because I took the picture.

Please return the Sports Page to its rightful place… above the Urinal (ie. the greatest idea ever).

Amongst Other Flaws, Airline Industry Can't Count.

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As you well know I despise no organization more than the Airline Industry and their evil ways. My traveling experience has rarely been without incident. I have had bags lost, items destroyed, flights canceled, delayed, rerouted, and even emergency stops in Indiana to empty the shitter and fill the gas tank. I’ve done my time. I’ve have never been reimbursed or compensated in any way. I’ve paid $100 flight-change fees on more than one occasion. In short I hate the Airlines, all of them. So today I read this article about how they don’t even keep track of my delays properly. Then they start talking about how bad it’s already been this summer:

Over all, this could be a dreadful summer to fly. In the first five months of 2007, more than a quarter of all flights within the United States arrived at least 15 minutes late. And more of those flights were delayed for long stretches, an average of 39 percent longer than a year earlier.

Great. So in nearly half a year one fourth of all flights have been delayed. How are these people still in business. If any other Industry couldn’t properly deliver one fourth of their product/service would they still be in business after six months? Especially with no sign of it getting better any time soon. Then there was this warning:

Moreover, in addition to crowded flights, the usual disruptive summer thunderstorms and an overtaxed air traffic control system, travelers could encounter some very grumpy airline employees; after taking big pay cuts and watching airline executives reap some big bonuses, many workers are fed up.

Awesome. In short, don’t fuck with their employees because they’re willing to blow at any minute because they’ve been shit on for far too long. Well, don’t work for such a shitting company that consistently shits on it’s customer. Literally shits on it’s customers.

My shitty experiences are here, here and here.