Archive for June, 2004
Questions
Izumi and the kids are away in Japan for a month so Tyler could attend the last few weeks of Japanese kindergarten and hopefully pick up some of the language - a bit of an experiment. Before he left he asked me why things get smaller when they move further away into the distance. Good [...]
Mad Ernie Fletcher
Kentucky Governer Ernie Fletcher was the source of widespread panic in the Capitol yesterday when the Governer’s Beech King Air 200 lost its transponder signal 13 miles away from the DC area airport. The air traffic controllers with the FAA knew about this but neglected to inform the folks that run air security for the [...]
Nashville
Greetings for Nashville, Tennessee where I am writing to you from the Factiva booth while we wait for the sound crew to finish hooking up the A/V equipment for tomorrow. I’m here for the next few days for the annual gathering of the Special Librarian’s Association where we will show off our latest developments.
The conference [...]
Ride of the Valkyries
I’m not normally a muscle bike type of person but the image of the new 1800cc Honda Valkyrie caught my eye. I think I feel a mid-life crisis coming on!
