The post I wrote last week about the unusual use of a railroad car near Mastodon, NM, to launch a primitive plane in a cross-country flight had a couple of errors that my wife pointed out and I have since corrected. In describing the takeoff from a modified hand rail car, I inadvertently swapped theContinue reading “Corrections and a flashback…”
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A kindred spirit???
Every year on my birthday, I look disappointedly at the “Today’s Birthdays” section in the “Today in History” feature in the Albuquerque Journal. Virtually no one on my birthday is memorable. The only vaguely famous person who showed up on that list (until he died a few years ago) was actor John Ritter, who wasContinue reading “A kindred spirit???”
Beyond Kiss-Cam…
I never cease to amazed at how fans at various sporting events clamor to grab t-shirts, mini footballs, baseballs and other trinkets tossed into the stands during breaks in the action. I’ve long suspected that if a cute cheerleader with a bucket of dead rotting fish started throwing them into the stands, fans would fallContinue reading “Beyond Kiss-Cam…”