I like this:

I always had the impression that those rules were more to keep the fliers and patients paying attention to their pilots and doctors than for safety reasons, which is understandable if misguided. Don't they know that whatever's on facebook is guaranteed to be far less interesting than this book I'm allowed to read?

ps - That Star Wars "Inside Job" thing was fabulous.

In unrelated news...

I just kind-of got asked to be a wiki editor.

It’s like they knew just how much I’ve been fighting the urge to join a wiki for, like, years. ... since before I joined Facebook. Shit. I’m so going to do this, even if I resist for the next month; and even if it requires "learning mediawiki syntax for developing content". It’s a forest ecology wiki. I am so screwed. I should just say goodbye to me evenings and weekends from now on, shouldn’t I?

hahahaha, shit.

My mom got permission to use her cell phone in the Mazankowski Heart Institute last week. I figure, if they let people hanging out in the heart surgery recovery wards use their cell phones (all's ok, my dad's getting screened, nothing's that scary), then whatever else is supposedly being affected really can't be truly getting that affected.

... or hospitals would have ALWAYS been wifi/cellphone/pager/etc. -free zones, for the sake of all that sensitive medical equipment.

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.

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

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

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.

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.