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January 8, 2010 - just_a_day
If you know me...
If you know me you've heard my Dell support story. The fun site Farck.com takes each days headlines and re-writies them, and just came out with Top 20 headlines of 2009 as voted by users. My favorite is: "India loses contact with an unmanned spacecraft conducting its first moon mission. Support techs ask Mission Control to confirm that the spacecraft is turned on and that it is currently plugged in ".
If you know me at all, you understand why I'm drawn to sites like AirSafe.com. In their Airline Safety Review for 2009 they state that "2009 tied with second fewest fatal airline crashes in any year " since they started reviewing in 1996. Then they go on to state that the "14th annual review discusses eight fatal airline events, and 10 other significant events" that are quite scary. Then go to planeCrashInfo.com and look at their cause stats. Did you know that Sacramento airport (a pretty small airport) was built in the midst of a migratory path and has the most bird hits of any airport in Western US? <sigh>
If you know me at all, you know that I just love little techie tricks and shortcuts like 10 cool things you can do with a USB flash drive, 12 Extremely Helpful Photo Editing App Cheat Sheets, 21 best Excel shortcuts — all in one place, 10 Useful Firefox Extensions to Supercharge Firebug, or 12 Top Notch Online Presentation Tools.
If you know me then you know that any suggestion of race/religion profiling or human rights violating sets me off. When an acquaintance (through job hunting) told me she agreed with searching anyone who looked like or had a name suggesting they might possibly be a Muslim before they can get on a plane (for the good of all, she added), I suggested that all Born Again Conservatives should be searched before they were allowed near any federal buildings or areas that have clinics. Of course the response was about me being anti-Christian, which I'm not. I was just turning it around to show her how crazy the notion was. Religious profiling won't work anyway, it's a religion, not a race and comes in all colors, sizes and sexes. We'd need to enforce something like the yellow star armband.
Posted by marksusan1 at January 8, 2010 10:53 AM | 