Events

I'll be away from the blog for a couple of days while I return to Chicago. I've enjoyed Nashua, and I'm sure I'll come back to visit. Everyone here was friendly; for example, my unexpected dinner companion, Max: Back Monday. Enjoy the weekend.

These are from my not-small, not-simple camera. (Note: the photos are shown at half-size; you can see more detail if you open them in their own browser windows.) The plane that brung me: Nantucket Memorial Airport, just as it looked in Wings: House on Washington St., with the harbor behind it: Nantucket Town. Yes, it is that charming. I suspect things were different when Ishmael bunked with Queequeg: Another view of Main St.: The Whaling Museum:

I have two cameras. One is very small and very simple, the other is neither. Here are some photos from yesterday that I took with the small, simple camera. Altitude, 7,500 feet (2,300 m): VFR on top, meaning I was flying in visual conditions on top of this cloud layer: Nantucket Island: Also, a bonus shot. As I reported earlier, a tornado touched down about 60 km (40 mi.) east of me on Sunday. As I was getting the Nantucket photos off my camera, I discovered I had a photo of the wall cloud that spawned...

The jury is no longer out: one can now say, without fear of libeling them, that Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are a couple of theiving fraudsters.

Today, actually. I took lots of photos but I'm too pooped right now to deal with them. So tomorrow morning check back for a cohort—nay! a plethora!—of photos. And possibly a limerick. The flight down went quickly (1.2 hours from Nashua to Nantucket), I had a great landing, and took a leisurely stroll into town. (A side note: With AVGAS approaching $5 per gallon, the $100 hamburger now costs $320.) On the way back I encountered (a) rain at Martha's Vineyard that kept me circling offshore for ten mintues...

Microsoft has suspended at least 1,000 contracts with developers for a week, just like (*snap*) that: Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said Monday that Microsoft told vendors who supply the contractors that about 1,000 workers globally would not be needed this week. The vendors, whose workers do software development for Microsoft, also were told to schedule two other days off, Gellos said. Gellos also said the decision was unrelated to a move, announced late last week, to offer new perks to its Redmond...

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne writes today about Sen. James Inhofe's (R-OK) asinine English Language amendment: There is no point to this amendment except to say to members of our currently large Spanish-speaking population that they will be legally and formally disrespected in a way that earlier generations of immigrants from—this is just a partial list—Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Norway, Sweden, France, Hungary, Greece, China, Japan, Finland, Lithuania, Lebanon, Syria, Bohemia, Slovakia...