Flying Coffin

Well I'm off to Calgary tomorrow for a "celebration of life" and after some debate have decided to fly instead of driving.

In the course of discussion with the cognescenti at the pub one person suggested that the plane I'm scheduled to fly on was a "flying coffin". Let's hope this isn't the case.

Hopefully, see you later.

PS:

If I don't survive, remember TBot, what your duties are as my unofficial executor!

Oxford English Dictionary: New Entry Under Asshole

It Was Only A Matter Of Time

We knew it was coming, and after the boys at the mine turned down probably their 2nd best potential employee, we knew it was coming to the 'loops!

Greyhound Gets Serious

The Streak Is Over

Based on a similarly named individual I played a couple of tracks from this artist's greatest hits CD yesterday before lecture. And surprise, surprise, no one new who it was. This breaks the class's streak of correctly identifying the artist in the last 18 or so attempts.


And yes, based on Mr. Brown's recommendation I played some Jackson Browne. I guess it's back to indie music recorded this century!

Hotter Than Hell

Former Canadian defense minister Paul Hellyer, 83, suggests that alien technology recovered from crashed UFOs could provide green alternatives to fossil fuels. From the AFP:

Alien spacecrafts would have traveled vast distances to reach Earth, and so must be equipped with advanced propulsion systems or used exceptional fuels, he told (the Ottowa Citizen)...

"We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if applied quickly enough," he said.

Now why aren't guys with insight like this no longer in politics?