Monday Personal Notes - cold Spring 2006 edition

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• For my favorite picture of Avril Lavigne, click here.
• Here is a list I am compiling of ways to say What's up? or How's it going? in different languages.
  - Polish: Do widzenia?
  - Arabic: Ki feq?
  - Thai: Wong ay?
  - Chinese: Ni how?
  - Spanish: Que pasa?
  - Hindi: Casay ho?
  - Gujrati: Sue che?
  - Marathi: Kasa kai?
  - French: Ca va?
  If you know any more, please leave them in the comments!
• Quotable... "If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Hello World.
• The crisp new SED TVs that we saw at CES 2006 from Canon and Toshiba have been delayed 18 months due to yield difficulties in manufacturing. I think that means they are too expensive to produce.
• I had a bad experience at an Atlanta Bread Company located in a strip mall on State Bridge Road in Alpharetta. The cashier was slow, the menu was ill-conceived, and they even charged me $.25 for a small side of peppers. Be warned: All franchises are not alike.
• Last October, John Kerry's old campaign charter plane (a private Boeing 727 corporate shuttle) was taxiing in San Antonio. The plane no longer had any Kerry affiliation - it was a private jet company running some company execs out to the West Coast for a charter. Anyhow. A tug came up and asked if they needed a pull out to the runway because the pilots had turned too far at the end. Pilots said no, they would use jet thrust to move themselves. So they reversed with thrust, but when they applied forward thrust it blew down two huge hangars and seriously injured (nearly killed) somebody inside of the. Pilots continued flying to LA. That's the story of how John Kerry's old campaign plane nearly killed somebody last October.
• Remember - The grass is always greener on the other side of the hill. Or Earth, for that matter.
• First launch of SpaceX didn't go as planned - they had to destroy the rocket after about a minute of flight due to an engine fire. Bummer - details
• Reminder - Mates of State in Athens at the 40 Watt tonight, then Friday here in Atlanta. I really like their music, it is a personal thing, your mileage may vary.
• Some friend shout-outs... Congratulations to my sister Emily, who got a nice Leadership scholarship from Southern Methodist University a few weeks ago. She visited the campus on Friday and they actually had a tanning pool. How crazy is that? Also, congratulations to my colleague Jay, who finished 4th place (age group) in his first triathalon. There was a 400 yard swim, 11.5 mile bike ride and 3 mile run.