I always have San Diego set on the weather and to compare it to Minneapolis, where my friend Jeremy lives, University Park, Pennsylvania, where my sister is, and home. And it's always just nice and refreshing to see 55 when most everyone else is in single digits. Brrrrrrr!
Friday, December 11, 2009
Again, why I love San Diego..
I always have San Diego set on the weather and to compare it to Minneapolis, where my friend Jeremy lives, University Park, Pennsylvania, where my sister is, and home. And it's always just nice and refreshing to see 55 when most everyone else is in single digits. Brrrrrrr!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
CNN/YouTube Live Debate on Climate Change
CNN and YouTube are teaming up to present another live YouTube debate like they did for the Elections. This time around they will be focusing on the topic of climate change in honor of the COP15 conference, the United Nations Climate Change Conference going from Dec 7 to Dec 18 this month.
YouTube has created a channel page for the COP15 conference where you can submit your own questions for the chance to have them aired during the debate on December 15. According to the site, during the debate "leaders and activists at COP15 will come together to answer your top-ranked questions."
http://www.youtube.com/Cop15
Possible topics range from the "economics of climate change" to "personal responsibility." You can submit video questions and vote for your favorites between now and December 14.
YouTube has created a channel page for the COP15 conference where you can submit your own questions for the chance to have them aired during the debate on December 15. According to the site, during the debate "leaders and activists at COP15 will come together to answer your top-ranked questions."
http://www.youtube.com/Cop15
Possible topics range from the "economics of climate change" to "personal responsibility." You can submit video questions and vote for your favorites between now and December 14.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
El Paso Texas Trip
Ok so it's been far too long since I've written on here, most likely due to my crazy schedule lately! In just the past 30 days I've been to Kansas City, Baton Rouge/New Orleans, Minneapolis, Austin, and El Paso. And now I'm FINALLY home! Needless to say I've tallied up some frequent flier miles, and had some great times! Even including El Paso, which was primarily work related, but still made a good time out of it.
So since I haven't received photo's from Thanksgiving in Austin Texas yet, I'm going to start with my experience in El Paso Texas.
Initially as a Training trip, it turned more into a internet troubleshooting and maintenance trip, with some training inter mixed in. I flew out of Austin Texas, toward El Paso Monday November 30th, short little flight, on Southwest. They give us the standard, we will be making our initial decent into El Paso yadda yadda. Little bit later we're heading down, and I'm looking out the window seeing snow! Snow, in El Paso Texas, thinking wow, this can't happen to often. So we start descending for landing, wheels tap the ground, and then we lift back off! So we start to make a loop around for another take at the landing, come down some more then go back up! Captain comes over the PA system and says I apologize, couldn't see the runway that time, we're going to take another loop around. Finally, third time around, we land safely and softly. Everyone starts giving a standing ovation after we finally stuck the landing. It was pretty crazy. Needless to say, I feel like Southwest pilots, or at least the ones doing the Austin to El Paso route, most likely aren't too familiar with snow, so it was pretty frightening. Loved the hotel and the people in El Paso, really had a great time, got some things straightened up for them, and left them with a working internet, which seemed to make them pretty happy. All-in-all it was a pretty good trip, short, and lots of work, and the inital entry was crazy, but had fun!
So since I haven't received photo's from Thanksgiving in Austin Texas yet, I'm going to start with my experience in El Paso Texas.Initially as a Training trip, it turned more into a internet troubleshooting and maintenance trip, with some training inter mixed in. I flew out of Austin Texas, toward El Paso Monday November 30th, short little flight, on Southwest. They give us the standard, we will be making our initial decent into El Paso yadda yadda. Little bit later we're heading down, and I'm looking out the window seeing snow! Snow, in El Paso Texas, thinking wow, this can't happen to often. So we start descending for landing, wheels tap the ground, and then we lift back off! So we start to make a loop around for another take at the landing, come down some more then go back up! Captain comes over the PA system and says I apologize, couldn't see the runway that time, we're going to take another loop around. Finally, third time around, we land safely and softly. Everyone starts giving a standing ovation after we finally stuck the landing. It was pretty crazy. Needless to say, I feel like Southwest pilots, or at least the ones doing the Austin to El Paso route, most likely aren't too familiar with snow, so it was pretty frightening. Loved the hotel and the people in El Paso, really had a great time, got some things straightened up for them, and left them with a working internet, which seemed to make them pretty happy. All-in-all it was a pretty good trip, short, and lots of work, and the inital entry was crazy, but had fun!
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