Archive for the 'Odd' Category

Ice Update

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Forgive the glacial progress of this explanation…

About 2.5 years ago, I found stalagmites growing from in my ice cube tray.

Today, when reading about ice ribbons, I came across an explanation of the stalagmites.

Just thought my loyal readers (both of them) might be interested ;)

Aircraft upon which I have flown

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

I am not quite sure why I decided to write this…

Actually, I know exactly why: I was browsing air fares between North America and Japan, and found the cheapest fair had a stop-over in South Korea. The interesting thing was one leg of the flight is on a Boeing 747…

I’ve only once ever flown on a 747, and that was a half-hour flight where I was the only passenger. I’ve never taken a “real” flight on one. That got me to thinking “what are all the other aircraft types upon which I have flown?”

Hence this list…

  • Airbus A320 (ACA)
  • Boeing 737 (CPC, CDN, PWA, SWA)
  • Boeing 747 (ACA)
  • Boeing 767 (ACA)
  • Boeing 777-300 (JAL)
  • Canadair Regional Jet 900 (DL)
  • Canadair Regional Jet 700 (DL)
  • De Havilland Canada Dash 7 (TAF)
  • Douglas DC-10 (CPC)

I’m sure I’m missing some.

Rather odd comment spam

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

About a year-and-a-half ago, I wrote this very short entry, which said (in its entirety):

My car is one year and ten days old today, and I just rolled over to 10,000 km. That’s 6000 miles for the metric-impaired. I think I’ll buy her a drink. She looks thirsty.

Today I found the following comment in the moderation queue:

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Now let’s see…

  1. The comment is longer than the entry itself.
  2. It did not contain any links to questionable web sites.

Either someone is being sarcastic, or I have been hit by the world’s worst comment spammer.

Comment: Mark as Spam. Click. Done.