Posts Tagged ‘Flying’

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Sticky Pants

by Seraphine Khorana on March 27th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Sticky Pants

I’ve been flying by the seat of my pants. It has been a month since I’ve been told my department will be shutting down in six to twelve months, so time is precious. I’ve decided to take the Series 66 Registered Investment Advisor examination. I don’t know if that’s really what I want to do, but it gives me another option to pursue careerwise. And that means my updates to Encore Seraphine (and my time online) will be less frequent for a few weeks to a month.
Yes, I’m doing this on purpose. I love you all, and thank you for understanding.

Happy were she could finish forth her fate
In some unhaunted desert, where, obscure
From all society, from love and hate
Of worldly folk; then might she sleep secure.
Poem from Robert Devereux, A Passion of my Lord of Essex

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Attention Penguin Employees: Kekeke Kaka

by Seraphine Khorana on October 5th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Attention Penguin Employees: Kekeke Kaka

As Anheuser-Busch InBev prepares to possibly sell its SeaWorld theme parks to Blackstone Group, PETA is suggesting that SeaWorld orca whales and dolphins be released (after rehabilitation) back into nature. They propose replacing the real animals with bionic “animatronics” and virtual-reality exhibits. “This could be the end of injustice at SeaWorld, where orcas and other dolphins are imprisoned in tiny tanks and forced to do silly tricks,” said PETA Director Debbie Leahy.

PETA Donor Offers to Buy SeaWorld From New Owner–To Set the Animals Free (PETA.com) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

The autonomous Festo AirPenguins do more than just fly (Mechanical Engineering) Three flying [autonomous robot] penguins interacted with one another in tight airspace above Festo’s booth.

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Costa Rica, Part Three: Am I allowed to bring Carrion On Board?

by Seraphine Khorana on January 18th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Costa Rica, Part Three: Am I allowed to bring Carrion On Board?

Now that airlines are charging for checked baggage, everyone is trying to store their luggage in the overhead bins. I liked the airlines better when they were regulated.

Since passenger deregulation in 1978, airline prices have fallen 44.9 percent in real terms according to the Air Transport Association.
Quotation from the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.
Quotation from Keith Henson

I don’t visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won’t wait in the yard while I run in.
Quotation from Margaret Smith

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Costa Rica, Part Two: Kiss It Goodbye

by Seraphine Khorana on January 17th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Costa Rica, Part Two: Kiss It Goodbye

I’m ok with flying. It’s the “unscheduled landings” that make me nervous. My attitude is don’t worry too much about what could happen, because most of the time there isn’t anything you can do but pray and try to survive.

I had this dream that I was on
An airplane afraid to fly
So I tipped my head to the side and I
Whispered to this man that was in the aisle.
I said, “Do you know how long it takes before we Die?”
Lyrics from A Rocket To The Moon, Fear Of Flying

A lot of people in San Francisco tonight are going to be tied up, and thousands over the next month or so, and very few of them are going to end up in the emergency room or dead.
Quotation from “Sparky” in SFWeekly.com

Never let someone tie you up in your home on the first date.
Quotation from “Master J” in SFWeekly.com

Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know erelong,
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Light of Stars in Knickerbocker

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