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It did! My dad worked for United Airlines and was pretty excited about the 747s when they came out. Not long after they came out, we were on vacation in Hawaii and at the Honolulu airport when one lined up to take off. At the time, the terminal there sat about midway along the runway and you...

You were fighting a losing battle. It IS dumb. In a not-quite non sequitur, one of my former PhD students actually grew up in Punxsutawney. He would just roll his eyes if anyone asked about Phil.

Coleslaw must be the new cowbell. I tried Chat GPT, posing a question related to my geological research. It came back with an answer and provided examples, two of which were wrong. When I challenged it on one of the examples, it actually apologized and said I was right and then proceeded to...

I don't feel that's an option because it throws everything else off more than a non-response would.

The one thing I did NOT like--"prefer not to answer" should be an option for yearly income. I almost never complete surveys that do not offer that option.

I am so pleased to see someone recommend this. I was going to if nobody else did. My mom initiated me into the wisdom of John Bogle and it has paid off in spades, as it did for her and Dad. I was able to retire early with a very comfortable income. I am a confirmed Boglehead (yes, that's a...

I'm not sure what "self-actualized" actually means. If it means you took control of your own future, great, but don't we all sort of do that, either passively (i.e., letting others dictate our lives and actions) or actively? I suspect most of us do both. It's hard to have employment if you...

Thank you!

Yeah, that was kind of embarrassing. Even Camilla looked embarrassed. So maybe it really was all the handlers. Judy

I was rather surprised at how Charles has come across in his recent statements. I always thought he was kind of an idiot, but somewhere along the line he seems to have acquired some gravitas, something I never thought could happen. So maybe he'll be OK? Someone joked that the Queen lasted as...

Lentils and garbanzo beans are big here. Don't feel bad, @luvflyin. I never heard the term, either, until I moved here, which was when I was in my early 50s. And I grew up in a ranching family.

I wonder if that's changed, because they're planting more and more canola where I live. When I first moved here 19 years ago, there was none. Now it's all over, displacing wheat and pulses.

The canola hasn't been harvested here yet and it's pretty brown. In my experience that's been fairly typical. It may depend on what it's being grown for, whether for seed or for production. I don't know.

You're getting a lot of advice here, much of it contradictory. Find a good CPA or CFA and work with him/her. Everyone is different, from life expectancy to expenses to availability of Medicare plans (we are eligible for an awesome plan that isn't available to my brother, for example, because...

The link on FlightAware isn't correct. The link is http://www.kathrynsreport.com, just checked. Have to have the "s" in there.

And now I have. But I've never seen it in any kind of FAA publication. OK, now go find some obscure FAA pub where it's used. :rolleyes::D

Obviously.

That's the first I've heard that. One reason for the "K" is that there are VORs with the same three letters but not the "K" (e.g., Palmdale; airport KPMD, VOR PMD). So if one were to give the routing to a controller (as I did, mentioning SUNOL), one would have to include the "K" to refer to...

There is track data available on the C152. One of several analyses that have it:

A thousand times this. I'm really glad you pointed out that when the C340 announced 10 miles he wasn't even over the mountains yet. Here's my take on why the C340 pilot bears the greater blame: First, how fast an airplane coming straight at you is extremely hard to judge. This was brought...