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March 24, 2013 -- 4:37 PM
posted by Par

F.A.A. May Loosen Curbs on Fliers’ Use of Electronics:

According to people who work with an industry working group that the Federal Aviation Administration set up last year to study the use of portable electronics on planes, the agency hopes to announce by the end of this year that it will relax the rules for reading devices during takeoff and landing. The change would not include cellphones.

One member of the group and an official of the F.A.A., both of whom asked for anonymity because they were not allowed to speak publicly about internal discussions, said the agency was under tremendous pressure to let people use reading devices on planes, or to provide solid scientific evidence why they cannot.


Meanwhile, the office I was a locum at last week still had a sign that says "Please turn off cellphones as they interfere with sensitive medical equipment." As if the physicians or staff turn off wireless equipment in the hospital, let alone in a family physician's office, let alone for unproven safety reasons.

March 18, 2013 -- 11:28 PM
posted by Al

Kind of funny you posted this video up today Par. I had anti-corruption training today.

March 18, 2013 -- 9:35 PM
posted by Par

March 17, 2013 -- 7:50 PM
posted by Par

Thanks, alison. Should be fixed now. Let me know if you guys find anything else!

March 17, 2013 -- 4:35 PM
posted by alison

Uh, Par, I think I just found a glitch. If I go in to edit a post, select "preview" and then click on the "submit" button attached to the previewed posting, it reposts the original content and creates a new (blank) entry at the time that I made the revision.

If I make the revision, select "preview", and then select the "submit" button on the post-editing input box, the edit appears and there's no new blank post. I also don't get a new blank post if I just plain submit without previewing...

Seeing as I don't know how to delete my own posts, I'm editing the blank post that appeared on my first editing attempt with this comment.

March 17, 2013 -- 4:28 PM
posted by alison

Remember when we discussed the need for some sort of writing-while-in-the-shower tool? Why didn't we invent it? I still REALLY need one of those, and grease pencils don't seem like the wisest choice.

I wrote Jess & Matt's wedding toast in the shower (and then had to remember it until I found a pen & paper). And today, I composed a letter to my employers in the shower and had to chase pen & paper across my apartment because I was forgetting it. argh.

Trivial things, I know, but it would be REALLY CONVENIENT if there was an easily-cleanable-but-waterproof solution to this problem. (And a Sharpie isn't it. They stop working once they get wet.) I'll bet we could sell it in the Sky Mall catalogue. hey, I wonder...

Nope. They do however have an 8GB Sound and Camera pen with a 2 MPX camera that can record over 1 hour of video. SkyMall's special.

March 14, 2013 -- 12:14 PM
posted by Beck

Awesome! I didn't know a VM movie was even on being considered

March 14, 2013 -- 10:18 AM
posted by Par

March 14, 2013 -- 9:49 AM
posted by Par

Happy Pi Day, Friends!!

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March 13, 2013 -- 12:46 AM
posted by alison

Holy awesome, Matt! That's really exciting news!

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