Thursday, April 3, 2003

Airglow and the aurora from the International Space Station. Beautiful! 12:05:35 PM     Some truth from the late Douglas Adams The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. 10:01:15 AM     John Siracusa has regularly flamed the Mac OS X Finder in Ars Technica articles. He now offers suggestions for his vision of a better Finder. This is a topic of some religion, but people interested in Mac OS X should give it a read. I can't say I agree with him, but this is religion. 6:19:29 AM     This came up in a chat about meaningful jokes yesterday. Old, but still very true. A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communication equipment. Due to the clouds and haze the pilot could not determine his position or course to steer to the airport. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, drew a handwritten sign and held it in the helicopter's window. The sign said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People in the building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign and held it in a building window. Their sign said, "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER.' The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map and determined the course to steer to SEATAC (Seattle/Tacoma) airport and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the co-pilot asked the pilot how the "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position. The pilot responded, "I knew that had to be the Microsoft building because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless reply. 6:19:14 AM

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