It has been two years since I've been on a proper vacation without any obligations. Just fun and sun and relaxation. Do not weep for the spoiled brat. I realize that there are starving people in the world and that I should just devote myself to some worthy causes like knitting for cancer or collecting eyeglasses to mail off to Africa. Yes, I know! I am a bad person.
Now that is out of the way, let me share what I began to daydream at about 3pm today. If I had a million dollars, a lot of luck, and believed in magic. . .
The fantasy begins with a spontaneous decision to hail a cab. Once inside, I surprise even myself by telling the driver, "head for the closest airport!" There, my credit card would allow me to purchase the first available international ticket and I would jet out of New York within the hour (okay or 2). The staff decides to give me an upgrade to first class and seat me next to Daniel Craig and across from Madonna. After a few hours of chit-chat, some transatlantic cocktails, and finally a heart-to-heart with Madonna (who would turn out to be oh so lovely), I would wake up gorgeous and refreshed. Daniel Craig would invite me to an early lunch at his apartment but somehow my husband, a telepath, has read my mind and took care to call a limo to meet me at the airport. The car takes me to a secluded 5 star hotel with a lovely garden and pool and surrounded by enormous dunes for sand surfing. Both my husband and Daniel Craig want to take me out for dinner. . .
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Six-sided Storm on Saturn
I don't have anything witty to say about this image. It's just very cool. This "feature" is located over the north pole of Saturn and it was recently photographed by the Cassini-Huygens mission in 2006. Voyager observed the same pattern back in the early 1980s. (Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)For any "Battlestar Galactica" viewers, this looks more like the mystical mandala than that crazy storm from the Maelstrom episode.
Yes, I know that "Lost" is supposed to be the greatest television show but I just can't get into it. Is it sci-fi? Soap opera? Satire?
Friday, March 23, 2007
Murky Waters of the Persian Gulf
Whoops! British sailors were captured by the Iranian military in disputed waters. Was it Iraqi waters or Iranian? I have no idea. Apparently, the military was investigating a boat for potential car smuggling. No joke:
"The men were seized at 1030 local time when they boarded a boat in the Gulf, off the coast of Iraq, which they suspected was smuggling cars."- BBC News
Call me crazy but does it sound like we're getting the whole truth here? Cars? Is this how the British Navy spends its time at war? How about weapons smuggling? Can't they do something about that little problem? Something is fishy and it isn't just the fish. Things are getting hairy in the region and the trigger happy powers-that-be seem ready to take this relationship to the next level while the rest of us are ready for a much needed break.
*Update: All of the sailors were released after 13 days of captivity in Iran. Ahmadinejad, a.k.a. Holocaust denying Pres. of Iran declared the release an "Easter gift" to the British. What about Passover? Or how about a "happy un-birthday?" An Iranian diplomat who disappeared in Iraq two months ago just happened to find his way back home prior to the release of the British captives. Hmm...
"The men were seized at 1030 local time when they boarded a boat in the Gulf, off the coast of Iraq, which they suspected was smuggling cars."- BBC News
Call me crazy but does it sound like we're getting the whole truth here? Cars? Is this how the British Navy spends its time at war? How about weapons smuggling? Can't they do something about that little problem? Something is fishy and it isn't just the fish. Things are getting hairy in the region and the trigger happy powers-that-be seem ready to take this relationship to the next level while the rest of us are ready for a much needed break.
*Update: All of the sailors were released after 13 days of captivity in Iran. Ahmadinejad, a.k.a. Holocaust denying Pres. of Iran declared the release an "Easter gift" to the British. What about Passover? Or how about a "happy un-birthday?" An Iranian diplomat who disappeared in Iraq two months ago just happened to find his way back home prior to the release of the British captives. Hmm...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Skywalk Peaks Over Grand Canyon
Okay, so when I read the headlines about this amazing glass "skywalk" over the Grand Canyon, I was excited. I went so far as to debate with myself about whether or not I would take a leap of faith and put my weight on top of some type of glass bridge just to walk across one of the natural wonders of the world. Imagine the last scenes in the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and you will understand the mental picture that formed in my head.
Alas, much like the castle at Disney World and the replica Eiffel tower at Epcot Center, this too was a disappointment. It isn't a bridge at all! The skywalk is more of a jug handle (Jersey slang) than a bridge and juts out 70 feet out from the canyon ridge before looping back to the cliff. However, as you walk along, you can see through the floor to the very bottom of the canyon, some 4000 feet below.
For those of us who occasionally feel the real or imagined effects of vertigo, I would pass on this glass horseshoe walk over the Grand Canyon. But for anyone with $25 and the carefree nature of a child, go for it. After all, when Hualapai tribe member Charlie Vaughn said, "I can hear the glass cracking!" he was only being playful.
Alas, much like the castle at Disney World and the replica Eiffel tower at Epcot Center, this too was a disappointment. It isn't a bridge at all! The skywalk is more of a jug handle (Jersey slang) than a bridge and juts out 70 feet out from the canyon ridge before looping back to the cliff. However, as you walk along, you can see through the floor to the very bottom of the canyon, some 4000 feet below.
For those of us who occasionally feel the real or imagined effects of vertigo, I would pass on this glass horseshoe walk over the Grand Canyon. But for anyone with $25 and the carefree nature of a child, go for it. After all, when Hualapai tribe member Charlie Vaughn said, "I can hear the glass cracking!" he was only being playful.
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