Lets make Friday 'Joke Day'!

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The FAA announced the long term NOTAM system upgrade was the root cause of this morning's significant national airspace disruptions.

To simplify and improve pilot usability, NOTAMS were set to be released in multiple formats, including binary and Morse.

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Unfortunately the third step of translating to wingdings took down the system as the FAA's current instance of DOS 3.1 couldn't handle the planned font.
 
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ElPaso Pilot said:
The FAA announced the long term NOTAM system upgrade was the root cause of this morning's significant national airspace disruptions.

To simplify and improve pilot usability, NOTAMS were set to be released in multiple formats, including binary and Morse.

01010100 01000001 01011000 01001001 01010111 01000001 01011001 00100000 01000011 01001100 01001111 01010011 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000010

—– .—- —– .—- —– .—- —– —– —– .—- —– —– —– —– —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- —– —– —– —– .—- —– —– .—- —– —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- —– .—- .—- .—- —–

Unfortunately the third step of translating to wingdings took down the system as the FAA's current instance of DOS 3.1 couldn't handle the planned font.
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Ah, I see the problem. They needed to upgrade to 3.11 for Workgroups.
 
Sometimes I hate FB, but then it reminds me of old stories I shared 7 years ago and it makes me smile.
Here, a nice antidote to all those fake, feel-good animal posts :). Article pasted below.

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As humans, we are so quick to default to preconceptions, but these mental shortcuts often harm our way of thinking. In many cases, preconceived notions blind us from approaching situations in new ways. To challenge that idea, we put a falcon and a rabbit in the same room. You’re probably thinking, “Oh, the falcon immediately killed the rabbit,” because that’s what you’ve been taught to think.

And in this particular case, yes, that is exactly what happened. Almost instantly. Your preconceptions were 100 percent spot-on.

It’s so beautiful when the animal kingdom surprises us, when predators don’t act like senseless killing machines. Unfortunately, this was not one of those times.

This room was way too small for the bunny to have any chance. It took about an eighth of a second for the falcon to completely disembowel the rabbit and begin feasting on its entrails, as falcons have done billions of times, over and over again, throughout the history of vertebrates. Thinking that this time would be any different is lunacy.

We named the rabbit James, and James was absolutely annihilated in a shower of viscera by the falcon, which loudly slaughtered the rabbit while we were trying to think of a name for it. James didn’t even struggle. James realized that this is simply the way of things.

It just goes to show you that while life may surprise you sometimes, this was definitely not one of those times.
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Link: https://clickhole.com/we-put-a-falcon-and-a-rabbit-in-the-same-room-together-1825121583/
 
Most cultures have superstitions centered on the number thirteen. Let us start with a Greek word, which will impress your friends:

Paraskevidekatriaphobia,

meaning an irrational, even morbid, fear of Friday the 13th. Incidentally, you can trace the synonym friggatriskaidekaphobia to Frigga the goddess of Friday.

The word Paraskevidekatriaphobia was coined by therapist Dr Donald Dossey, in fact he claims whimsically that if you can pronounce the word then you are cured of the dreaded Friday 13th affliction.
 
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