The Adventures of Recalcitrant Toy

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Thanks, JB :-)

I got this weird egg that I'm confused about that will be fun to hatch, so click it happily please :-) The others are just ever so damn cute.

Your result for The Right Brain vs Left Brain Test...

Center Brained!

Much like Goldilocks, you have gone the middle way.

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By the way, I can haz eggs :-)

I thought I'd put my previous post railing about oil into the wordie thing and see what came out....

Okay, probably not the sort of question this meme is intended to attract, but I've now read conflicting opinions on this and I wondered - what's your take on how the pilot handled it?
Heh...it says ask ANYTHING. Crosswinds, and winds in general, are very tricky things for pilots to handle. It is likely that the pilot was given a wind direction and speed as he was coming in to land. He likely set up his approach to compensate. However, wind can change in an instant, can become stronger or weaker, or simply go away altogether. All of this happens so quickly that once you're committed to land, you try to handle it as best you can until/unless you realize that you can't, then you go around and try it again, hoping the winds are better the next time.

If the wind speed and direction change to the point where the aircraft is no longer capable of doing the compensating necessary to land under those conditions, nothing the pilot does is going to be able to change that. Once the pilot realized that this landing was not going to work, s/he went around and tried again, landing fine on the second try.

Like everything else in aviation, it's a judgement call. I try not to second guess the pilot who was there under those conditions and made the decisions that were made. They say a good landing is any landing you walk away from. A great landing is when you can use the airplane again :-).

How often do you go diving? Where? And describe your favorite place/experience diving, please!
We used to go diving a lot more, but money has become more of an issue, so we only go once a year or so. In general, our favorite place to dive is Bonaire, which is by far our favorite in the Caribbean. There are some photos here and/or search for "ooblick" on YouTube to see our videos. However, the best place I've ever been is the Solomon Islands with beautiful crystal clear warm waters and such color! Amazing place that I would love to go to again. Photos here The best experience was when we were diving in Little Cayman once and on the way to the site the captain of the boat yelled "dolphin" and stopped where we were and we all hopped off the boat to see if the dolphin would come play. He did! This was "Spot" the dolphin who had no pod who loved divers and played with them like they were also dolphins. It was a fantastic opportunity. Photos here.He let us touch him and hug him and swim with him for over an hour.

I also have to mention the most surreal time we had diving. We had a wonderful dive in Bonaire, had dolphins playing in the boat wake, and were all pumped up and excited. When we got back to the dock, however, one of the group who had stayed behind came screaming down the ramp "America is being bombed." It was 9/11/01. We were supposed to go home the next day but didn't get home for 5 days afterwards, when they started letting foreign carriers back into the US. During that time, the Bonairians were the most hospitable people on earth, taking such good care of us and only charging us cost for the rooms and giving us free diving. The manager said, "we will not profit from your misery." I'll never forget that.

So if you wanna ask something go head. It'll be screened.

Because lothie did it and I always do whatever lothie does.....

No, wait...that didn't sound quite right.... anyway, here's the meme:

Go to Wikipedia and click 'Random article'; that is your band's name.
Click 'Random article' again; that is your album name.
Click 'Random article' 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

My New Band: The Secret History of 9/11
Album: Nine Black Alps (now wait a minute...why do we call them albums anymore now that they're on CDs?)

Tracks

Average Margin Per User (it's just an average margin per user, baby...don't take it so personal, k?)

Mid'hat Bey Frashëri (some mornings I feel just like Mid'hat Bey Frashëri, doing the failed diplomat blues)

Un-American (don't wanna be an American Idiot...no wait, that one's been done)

Stereotomy (no shit! I LOVE that song... I guess we'll do a cover)

Beaufort River (Just a sailin down ole Beaufort River, shooting at some kangaroos. Cruising past the lemurs, flinging lots of pooh)

Dave Maurer (I'm just a ballplayer nobody cares about)

Biggs (the Biggs lived next to the Littles and the Middles moved away. I used to live across the street, but not on Saturday)

Birdoswald (Named my kid Birdoswald and he sued me for child abuse)

Nobuteru Maeda (Don't wanna be a Nobuteru Maeda...one nation controlled by.... wait now!)

Rudolf Wall (Rudolf Wall ate his chocolate, just like every other day. Then he published something naughty and they took him clean away)

Sphenomorphus (Called my baby a Sphenomorphus and she clocked me with a fying pan.)

Metius (You made a Metius in my heart, the day you drove my car into the pond)

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Future's Past (I was playing my nintendo when Worf walked upon my bridge)

Percy Pennybacker (It was Percy Pennybacker, man who built my bridge)

Bakel Department (Well I found me in Senegal, no money to my name, so I went to work at Bakel, to find myself some fame. My boss done stole my desk chair, and that was quite all right, cuz I used up all the staples and we got into a fight)