This is a little weird (only a little, you say?).  ”Music to watch a plane crash by”.  Indeed.

It seems that sometime (possibly in 1998), NASA did a CFIT (that’s Controlled Flight Into Terrain, aero-speak for “a good and working plane bumping into the earth for reasons other than safe landing”) test using what looks to my untrained eye to be a large commercial airliner (knowing that doesn’t take training, know what kind it is does).  They later posted video footage they took on the Web, as a series of snippets with a voice-over explaining the footage.  This NASA footage can be found here.

(While I know that this was done for legitimate purposes, I can’t help but think how cool it must be to be able to blow stuff up at work.)

Coudal Partners (who? dunno) sponsored a contest to set this footage to music, attracting several entrants.  The winning entry can be found here.

Well not really, but how many reasons would they have to take a cat and toss it around in one of their zero-G experimentation platforms (colloquially known as “vomit comets”)?

Not 24 hours after creating the “Stranger than Fiction” topic here and wondering if I’d ever find anything to post in it, I stumble over this.  Look here for the post on Boing Boing, or go straight to the video here (if it hasn’t been removed yet!).

I can’t promise you bleeding-edge updates from the LKML, but if I hear about something funky you’ll see it here soon afterward.

Undaunted by previous false-starts, I’m making another attempt at this weblog doo-dad.

A lot has gone on in my life of late; this is fairly common knowledge.  I am finding it necessary to keep better track of what goes on, not just in working life but also at home.  So, I’m making yet another attempt at a chronicle on the web.
I should add that I am being spurred on in no small part by the effort of a colleague, whose witty blogging style I can but wish to aspire toward.  Check out his work at http://www.cswilliams.org.