What I love about Twitter is the spontaneousness (is that a word?) of random discussions about virtually anything. Today @oliyoung, @chimpocalypse and I were responding to the South Aussie government’s ambitious road plans by taking about high speed rail and how Australia desperately needs it.
I had a thought this afternoon. Should Chrysler sell Toyota the Dodge brand name, given people will be trying to when they see a Toyota uncontrollably accelerating towards them?
Well that joke sounded wittier in my head. Wait wait, I can make it better! Suppose if its a technical problem, perhaps Toyota could ask Chuck Peddle to help them! Get it? Chuck… PEDDLE? HA!
When I was a kid I dreamed of being a stand up comedian. For the sake of audiences around the world, it’s probably a good thing that never happened.
Have you ever walked down a street on a particular day of the week — any of them will do — and suddenly realised that you should be walking alongside the street not down it? Really, nobody should be walking down a street, unless its one of those pedestrian ones that are closed off to traffic, otherwise a car might come out of nowhere and clip you on a part of your body that had previously never been hit by a vechile before. Unless you’ve walked down a street before, which you may or may not have done.
Well that’s just a tad bit worrying.
Delta chief executive Richard Anderson has reiterated his bullish view that the carrier’s large fleet of ageing Boeing MD-80s retain a cost advantage over newer Boeing 737-800s that is largely driven by lower ownership costs.
I usually don’t read the Singapore Straits Times, but Stephanie Yeow’s graphic in their story about drink driving was just too well done to pass up.
I wish the Singapore Police luck in their efforts to curb drink driving with incentives instead of nagging which I’ve maintained never works because it attacks the symptoms and not the societal causes. For example, both Singapore and Australia have had countless anti-drink driving campaigns pitched through all forms of media and as far as I know they haven’t done anything.
Then there are 23 year old people like me who don’t even have a car licence and probably have one or two standard drinks a month, if that. Go figure.
Having already typed one pointless aviation related post, I figured one more before I head off to bed wouldn’t hurt. I call it "what a bit of paint can do!" The photos were both taken this year by Jan Ostrowski and Nils Baker respectively.
And you know I never did learn what those "nostrils" in the DC-8 nose were for. Were they for bleed air? Because if they were, one could say the DC-8 had a… nosebleed! Get it? Get it? I’m going to bed now.
Today’s favourite photo I found on the internets is the one included above for your convenience. Really, there’d be no point talking about a photo I’d found without showing you what it was, otherwise for all you know I could have been making it up. It’s an integrity thing.
Taken with my iPhone earlier this afternoon and uploaded to TwitPic. Verdana abuse!
In the paraphrased and modified words of Tom Lehrer, if I may digress momentarily from the mainstream of blog posts here, I would like to share something that is completely pointless. Aside from the lack of wood veneer on some of the walls, don’t you think Yerevan’s new airport kinda looks a bit like Adelaide’s new airport? It even has the slanted roof, round skylights, free standing signs and whatnot.
Hard hitting stuff.
If I were a car driver, I could now add Samoa to the list of countries I could figure out how to drive in, because they drive on the right side of the road now. Wait, I meant right as in correct not as in the right-hand side. I meant they’re now driving on the left-hand side. From the SBS Australia news site:
On Tuesday, Samoa will end a century-old tradition of European-style driving, on the right, to become aligned with its Pacific neighbours.
The controversial move will make car importation from Australia and New Zealand easier and cheaper.
But the move has been fiercely opposed, with thousands taking to the streets in protest and backing a law suit to have the change overturned.
Until recently I had no idea so few countries drive on the left. I’m an Aussie and grew up in Singapore and Malaysia, so guess I’m just used to it. Apparently aside from much of the Pacific, Indonesia, Ireland, the UK, Japan, Hong Kong and most of south-eastern Africa most of the world drives on the right.
I know I have my own biases, but I always thought driving on the left made more sense anyway. Most people are right-handed which means they have better control of the steering wheel, while their less accurate left hand is just used for the transmission.
What can I say, people say I tend to have left-leaning sympathies ;-)
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