Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts

Monday, October 15, 2007

Some men dedicate their lives to science. Some men dedicate their lives to politics. I'm dedicating my life to understanding you.


Random musings on my trip to Florida-

The Express tickets for theme parks are criminally cool. I never had to wait over five minutes to get on a ride. It allowed me to do everything I wanted in one day.



At Universal's Islands of Adventure I was shocked to see Captain America alive. I was sure I'd heard he'd recently taken a bullet. Also - check out the bods on Wolverine and Storm. They didn't look like they'd been fighting anything, least of all calories. Meow!

I used to read the "Blondie" comic strip and as I recall the Dagwood looked more like the sign outside the restaurant...


...than the actual sandwich.




Stupid shark. I went on the ride twice and he attacked the boat both times.



Echoes of 911 always seem to come up. We were told this is the reason we couldn't get any closer to the shuttle Discovery than this.



No, Dean, you can't drive the Shuttle Transportation Vehicle and no, it doesn't do a "wheelie."



The Reflective Wall for Fallen Astronauts is one of the most beautiful memorials I think I've ever seen.



We were able to shoot a manned Apollo rocket around the moon without Microsoft Windows. Just saying...



Workers as the Kennedy Space Center don't appreciate the joke where you ask to see Major Nelson's office so you can check the pencil-holder for Jeannie.



It's just a little sad that the Space Center has such a "history museum" vibe to it. They show the video of John Kennedy proclaiming we were going to the moon and it's hard not to get choked up.

Then you realize that our greatest achievement was over 30 years ago with the moon landings. It's sort of like Lewis and Clark came out the Northwest, proclaimed it terrific, then nobody followed or built on their accomplishments. We don't seem to want to do things anymore because, as Kennedy said, "they're hard."



Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Man, it's so hot you could fry an egg on my face.

Off to the land of the hanging chad. See you in a couple of days.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

How can all these things happen to just one person?

Of all the excuses posited to explain away the 18,000 undervotes in District 13, Florida the weakest has to be the "intentional decision by voters to skip this race." As someone who has voted in every election since I was 18 I can say the only races I might intentionally skip are those down-ballot like judgeships in which I might not know a lot about the candidates. On the high-profile congressional and gubernatorial votes it always comes down to the lesser of two evils.


(The "Bringing up Baby" quote was for Aaron. Probably the best of the great screwball comedies, IMHO.)