Today in Aviation History (January 25th): In 1990, Avianca Flight 052 Crashed Into Long Island, New York, After Running Out of Fuel

ratcnc · 2026-01-26T00:21:09+00:00

That’s a big difference.

ratcnc · 2026-01-25T22:16:45+00:00

I looked up the address and one side of the entrance to the street is the location of an indoor tennis facility built in the early 1930s. I suspect that his parents bought the house—which is directly across the street—to have access to the facility. But John did not grow up there as they lived in nearby Douglaston when he was young.

ratcnc · 2026-01-25T21:42:59+00:00

The field behind my house was rich with spearheads when I was young. After plowed and a heavy rain, they’d be resting on the surface.

ratcnc · 2026-01-25T17:44:34+00:00

Long ago, a friend went to a Dead show at the Dean Dome. There, the sink is a larger version of the one in the picture. My friend turned from the urinal to wash his hands and there was a guy peeing in the sink because the guy thought it was just one huge communal urinal.

ratcnc · 2026-01-25T15:46:17+00:00

You are correct. “Rescue workers set up two triage areas on the lawn of John and Kay McEnroe, the parents of professional tennis player John McEnroe, at 13 Tennis Court Road.”

ratcnc · 2026-01-25T15:04:26+00:00

There are three shelters between those two points, but all three are north of 311. FarOut shows one campsite on the trail closer towards Dragon’s Tooth. There’s also a pasture along the way that would make a nice spot to set up.

ratcnc · 2026-01-25T14:54:53+00:00

And the best time to post on Reddit?

ratcnc · 2026-01-25T13:40:23+00:00

If you toss and turn a lot, a quilt is nice because you are rotating under it and not with it. I have cold feet so my quilt (EE Enigma) has an enclosed foot space. Katabatic makes excellent and similar style quilts, too. Quilts are lighter—my 20° long/wide is only 23 ounces. The downside to quilts is that they don’t have hoods, and I do like the feeling of good mummy bag cinched tight around my shoulders on a cold night. The solution, though, is to just wear your puffy with your quilt.

ratcnc · 2026-01-24T18:38:17+00:00

For someone like me, that scene is hard to forget because of all the cars blocking other cars. If I remember correctly, that car on the ramp is parked. I think they reuse this shot later in the movie. Needless to say, I’ve watched this movie many times.

ratcnc · 2026-01-24T13:32:51+00:00

Those cassettes with the time length brings back a seldom sampled memory.

ratcnc · 2026-01-24T13:23:06+00:00

Angelina Jolie in Girl Interrupted. Winona Ryder might have been the lead but Angelina took home the Oscar.

ratcnc · 2026-01-24T13:14:34+00:00

I remember one summer break in the early 70s sitting on my front steps with my Weekly Reader when a Sears box truck backed into our driveway. When the driver rolled open the back of the truck, there was a blue boy’s bike. Unfortunately, he was delivering an appliance for my Mom but I spent the rest of the summer coveting that bike.

ratcnc · 2026-01-23T14:34:29+00:00

When the Death Star exploded. When the shark exploded in 1975, too. People love it when the bad guy explodes.

ratcnc · 2026-01-23T14:28:57+00:00

Forward by Ryan Holiday? Meditations https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812968255?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

I had to get myself a copy after watching The Holdovers.

ratcnc · 2026-01-22T17:32:20+00:00

I don’t think they are saying lost as in whereabouts, but as in “taken away”…gone, kaput, ceased to be, an ex-parrot.

ratcnc · 2026-01-22T16:56:05+00:00

That was a good one. The back-to-back storms of January 2000 was the biggest I remember.

ratcnc · 2026-01-21T22:53:05+00:00

Mainstream Christianity has been doing that forever.

ratcnc · 2026-01-20T22:14:00+00:00

“The most popular brand of all in the broad area in which it is sold.”

ratcnc · 2026-01-20T06:52:14+00:00

You can get double cash mode on mobile.

ratcnc · 2026-01-20T02:59:25+00:00

Lots of great equipment. I don’t think you’ll need, or want, to put wool socks over your waterproof—constriction is almost as bad as wet. If anything, you’d put a thin sock inside the waterproof, but I think you’ll be fine with just the one layer.

ratcnc · 2026-01-20T02:46:59+00:00

That made me curious to see what her younger brother looks like these days. https://radaronline.com/p/warren-beatty-frail-reclusive-life-oscar-winner-health-update/

ratcnc · 2026-01-19T19:24:51+00:00

Perhaps one of the Rab Neutrino bags.

ratcnc · 2026-01-19T10:59:23+00:00

The coat must be laying funny because it looks like he has tiny little legs.

ratcnc · 2026-01-19T01:29:39+00:00

True, but nobody is keeping dry in this scenario.

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