My unexpected stop in Omaha
AP: Threat Forces Flight to Land in Omaha. I was on this flight, on my way home for Christmas from Reno. I was originally happy that we found a nonstop, non-redeye flight from Las Vegas to Hartford,...
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Pictures from an Omaha hangar
As promised, here are some pictures from my unexpected stopover in an Omaha airport maintenance hangar after a bomb threat diverted my flight from Vegas to Hartford. We didn't take too many, and were...
View ArticleExcerpt in Wired
Off-topic: if you're a regular reader of crazymonk.org, check out page 20 of the latest issue of Wired magazine, with Sarah Silverman on the cover: Jon May has a Futurama-related excerpt from one of...
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Conventions and protests
Part 1: The ConventionI got up early yesterday to make sure I got to the Reno Events Center in time for the registration period of the Democratic Washoe County convention. Once I picked up my...
View ArticleDisco Demolition Night
I was born during Disco Demolition Night, a Chicago White Sox home game in 1979 where unwanted disco records were collected and blown up in center field, causing a near-riot. When it exploded, the bomb...
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Summer photos
I've uploaded a selection of photos taken during my various weekend travels around the Eastern Sierras and its foothills for the first half of the summer. Locations:*Reno (NV) *Lake Tahoe (CA)...
View ArticleTopics on crazymonk.org
I've been slowly working on this for nearly a year now, but I've finally gone through and tagged all of the posts on crazymonk.org. This is a casual blog, so I haven't been particularly consistent in...
View ArticleOff to New England
Posting has been light here during the dog days of summer, and it's about to get lighter: I'm on vacation until September 7th, when I'll be in various places (and attending two weddings) in...
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Top 20 Albums of 2008
As I was struggling to rank my top albums of 2008, I read Roger Ebert's top twenty films of 2008 where, finally giving up winnowing his choices down to just ten, he wrote: If you must have a Top 10...
View ArticleNotable 2009 consumptions, so far
I haven't been posting much recently for various reasons, and I can't honestly say whether that will change or not. But one thing I haven't done here recently is mention a few things I've...
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