Comments on: Fleet Week http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/07/fleet_week.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:55:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/07/fleet_week.html#comment-13922 Rueful Red Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:50:24 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/07/28/fleet_week.html#comment-13922 <p>Have fun! Give them a wave from me!</p> Have fun! Give them a wave from me!

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/07/fleet_week.html#comment-13921 ninme Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:09:43 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/07/28/fleet_week.html#comment-13921 <p>Yeah I heard that. They were so busy asking permission for making every move that normal undergrad activities started seriously eating into their tuition-paying time. If you know what I mean.</p> <p>Some people think that a mountain lake or a Hawaiian sunset are proof of god. I think they, if anything, do the opposite, since I look at a mountain lake and see the glaciers that formed it and light wavelengths and air particles when I look at a Hawaiian sunset. But something like a B-52, or any number of examples of human industry, now that, I think, proves god.</p> <p>I'm meeting Peter for sandwiches from the market on the roof of his building to watch the ships go by. Yippee!</p> Yeah I heard that. They were so busy asking permission for making every move that normal undergrad activities started seriously eating into their tuition-paying time. If you know what I mean.

Some people think that a mountain lake or a Hawaiian sunset are proof of god. I think they, if anything, do the opposite, since I look at a mountain lake and see the glaciers that formed it and light wavelengths and air particles when I look at a Hawaiian sunset. But something like a B-52, or any number of examples of human industry, now that, I think, proves god.

I’m meeting Peter for sandwiches from the market on the roof of his building to watch the ships go by. Yippee!

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/07/fleet_week.html#comment-13920 Rueful Red Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:34:58 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/07/28/fleet_week.html#comment-13920 <p>I was playing soccer at Antioch College in the 1970s when a B-52 came in to land at Wright Patterson AFB and the sun went out. All the hippies getting their athletics credits booed, while I goggled at such an amazing machine. To use a much-cheapened word, awesome.</p> <p>Initial plans for the B52 were drawn up hurriedly in a hotel in Cincinnati. As were plans for Sherman's march to the sea, come to think of it.</p> <p>Antioch College has just announced it's closing down. Four years of smoking dope didn't add up to a degree, apparently.</p> I was playing soccer at Antioch College in the 1970s when a B-52 came in to land at Wright Patterson AFB and the sun went out. All the hippies getting their athletics credits booed, while I goggled at such an amazing machine. To use a much-cheapened word, awesome.

Initial plans for the B52 were drawn up hurriedly in a hotel in Cincinnati. As were plans for Sherman’s march to the sea, come to think of it.

Antioch College has just announced it’s closing down. Four years of smoking dope didn’t add up to a degree, apparently.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/07/fleet_week.html#comment-13919 ninme Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:48:54 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/07/28/fleet_week.html#comment-13919 <p>They are beautiful.</p> <p>La, how martialistic we all are.</p> They are beautiful.

La, how martialistic we all are.

]]> By: HalfEmpty http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/07/fleet_week.html#comment-13918 HalfEmpty Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:12:43 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/07/28/fleet_week.html#comment-13918 <p>Heh for many years my extended family has maintained a fishing camp on Taylor County's coast. I've seen all kinda fun stuff, especially in the winter when it used to be deserted. One cold spring morning I was casting for 'em mullets when I saw a black speck in the distance, it got bigger and wider, bigger and wider, I saw the smoke, then started hearing the sound (I had poor hearing even then) I was getting fairly certain it was a low level B-52 practice strike. Kept an eye on it, it didn't deviate. I held my index finger vertical a foot from my nose. Just like in the books, the sucker started climbing my index finger! I dropped the net and started jumping up and down in insane glee! About 5 seconds from deafness I covered my ear and started to scream. I got down just in case, and looked at the underbelly of a B-52G, with what looked like brand-new white flash paint and a full set of SRAMs. Beautiful.</p> Heh for many years my extended family has maintained a fishing camp on Taylor County’s coast. I’ve seen all kinda fun stuff, especially in the winter when it used to be deserted. One cold spring morning I was casting for ‘em mullets when I saw a black speck in the distance, it got bigger and wider, bigger and wider, I saw the smoke, then started hearing the sound (I had poor hearing even then) I was getting fairly certain it was a low level B-52 practice strike. Kept an eye on it, it didn’t deviate. I held my index finger vertical a foot from my nose. Just like in the books, the sucker started climbing my index finger! I dropped the net and started jumping up and down in insane glee! About 5 seconds from deafness I covered my ear and started to scream. I got down just in case, and looked at the underbelly of a B-52G, with what looked like brand-new white flash paint and a full set of SRAMs. Beautiful.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/07/fleet_week.html#comment-13917 ninme Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:50:14 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/07/28/fleet_week.html#comment-13917 <p>Heh.</p> <p>We were driving up the Kitsap Peninsula once upon a time, a long, interminable road completely lacking visual interest (think the Jersey Turnpike, but without New York to look forward to. Or even Philly.), and these big ol' things started flying past, real low, all sorts of 'em. Don't know what they were but it sure was fun!</p> Heh.

We were driving up the Kitsap Peninsula once upon a time, a long, interminable road completely lacking visual interest (think the Jersey Turnpike, but without New York to look forward to. Or even Philly.), and these big ol’ things started flying past, real low, all sorts of ‘em. Don’t know what they were but it sure was fun!

]]> By: Rueful Red http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/07/fleet_week.html#comment-13916 Rueful Red Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:50:05 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/07/28/fleet_week.html#comment-13916 <p>Say hello to the Coastguard, the Senior Service of the USA. When you see five B-2 bombers fly past, I'm told that they cost as much as the Coastguard costs in total.</p> Say hello to the Coastguard, the Senior Service of the USA. When you see five B-2 bombers fly past, I’m told that they cost as much as the Coastguard costs in total.

]]> By: ninme http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/07/fleet_week.html#comment-13915 ninme Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:13:20 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/07/28/fleet_week.html#comment-13915 <p>Jessica!!!</p> Jessica!!!

]]> By: HalfEmpty http://www.ninme.com/archives/2007/07/fleet_week.html#comment-13914 HalfEmpty Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:11:07 +0000 http://d829161.u25.nozonenet.com/archives/2007/07/28/fleet_week.html#comment-13914 <p>Way the bajeeus OT, I just looked at that Hippo CLip. I just dunno. That maybe the weirdest thing I've seen in a month.</p> Way the bajeeus OT, I just looked at that Hippo CLip. I just dunno. That maybe the weirdest thing I’ve seen in a month.

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