The Hindenburg catastrophe occurred on 6 May, 1937. The cause of the fire remains unknown, though there are multiple theories. Surprisingly, only 36 people perished in the disaster, one of them a ground crewman. The loss of the Hindenburg caused a decline in public interest in airship travel. What would have happened if the Hindenburg had not been lost? Maybe zeppelins would have remained popular. Also the band Led Zeppelin would have had to come up with a different photo for their debut album's cover. Personally, I'd like to fly on an airship some day. But I'm eccentric like that.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Thoughts from the White Board - May 24

At least I think it's the 24th.  It's Thursday.  That much I'm sure of.

Mmmmhhh...  Bacon.  I was just thinking of bacon.  Aren't you thinking of bacon too?  Not Sir Francis Bacon, the guy who...  now what did he do again?  Google to the rescue.

Ah yes.  "Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban(s),[1] KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution."  Thanks Wikipedia.



No, I mean good old fashioned bacon.  Pork meat cooked in its own grease in a skillet.  Yeah.  That's what's on my mind.  And everybody keeps showing it.  I've seen it repeatedly on TV lately.

How the TV people are mocking me. / Source: Bacolicio.us

(sorry about the font change.  Stupid blogger interface...)  So I acquired a door last night.  It was a cast-off door that was used as packaging on the door shipment last night.  It was a rough night, by the way.  But that's beside the point.  As for the door, I asked my boss if I could have it, since it was going in the trash otherwise.  It's a decent little door.  Narrow and remarkably sturdy.  I don't think it is a hollow-core one like most of the cheap ones that my... eh-hem - place of business - sells.

I hauled this puppy home, for the most part slung across my shoulders,  and am storing it in the garage for now.

It's narrower across than a normal door, and I think it might fit the hole that I cut in the wall between our bedroom and my daughter's closet.  I cut that hole when my daughter was just a baby, since she doesn't need a closet and my wife filled the regular closet up with her stuff.  They're 1940s-era closets, so there isn't much spare room anyway.  

Anyway, I figure the door should fit the hole I made way back when.  With a bit of work, that is.  I'll get to it.  Eventually.


Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. - Max Planck

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes! - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren


Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. - Author Unknown


How interesting.  WR104 is planted right at Earth.  And its going to spew out gamma-rays and destroy our pitiful planet some day.  Hopefully not anytime soon.  I'm watching the show Sci-Fi Science, and he's talking about ways of making something equivalent to a "Death Star."  And he (the scientist guy) just happened to mention that there is one of these dying stars that will someday shoot off a gamma ray burst and destroy anything in its path.  And coincidentally, it just happens to be pointed at us.  Boy, that's be an interesting way to go.  But with any luck, it won't happen in my far out great-great-great grandchildren's lifetimes.  Here's hoping.


The parting comment:

Source: Lol Snaps.com
Women.  They're much more dangerous to the human race than gamma ray-burster stars, in my opinion.

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