The computer animation in this video recreates the flight path and Hudson river landing of US Airways Flight 1549. Although the details of the story are by now familiar to nearly everyone—the plane hit a couple of geese, which took out the engines, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing on the Hudson, saving the lives of everyone on board—the animation captures the sequence of events in an extremely precise way. The animation is timed to the audio track from the traffic control towers,which really shows how little time there was for the pilot to act. The whole incident from strike to landing takes about two minutes.

Dog Monkey?

For those of you that know me really well, and for those that don’t, I have an addiction to reading the news on the internet. For some reason I feel I just have to know what is going on at all times. I really need to go cold turkey and just stop reading the news all together as Timothy Ferris says in the 4 Hour Workweek, but I haven’t been able to pull myself away from the internet goodness that is 24/7 news.

Today, I am glad I haven’t gone cold turkey yet. I read the craziest thing I think I have ever read from a politician in my life … that I can remember. Maybe I feel this way because I have gone over a day without any  sleep, but even with me being loopy these comments are just plain crazy. Check out this link for the full article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/biden_taxes

Joe Biden, the Democratic Vice Presidencial Candidate said Thursday on ABC’s Good Morning America that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans.  … “We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people,” 

Noting that wealthier Americans would indeed pay more, Biden said: “It’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”

Is he serious? Did he really say that? Do they really believe that? Patriotic to pay more in taxes? This is the craziest thing I have ever read. I vaguely remember this as a Disney story, no not the one Matt Damon was talking about but the one, I think it’s called Robin Hood.  And sorry Matt, you aren’t Robin Hood in this story, you would be the one with your money getting stolen.

I would like to articulate my thoughts a little bit more but my brain is not working correctly at the moment. After I get some sleep in the near future… hopefully … I will say a little more of what I think about the Biden comments.

And, by the way, I love the picture above.

The following video may be one of the weirdest you have ever seen. I love it! Make of it what you will.