Colleen Mondor

Crap - I’m wrong!

I just looked on YouTube and they have some old interviews with him and it is just Trip in the first one I saw.

Take a look and see if there is a consensus.

I believe it was Tripee (short i and long e)

I was really struck by how well the writer handled this one. Johnson was clearly a complicated man and wow - the relationship with his son is just a heartbreaker.

#36: 55 years ago, a former FAA staffer decided to burn it all down When Philip Ryther was forced out of the FAA in 1970, he set out to let everyone know what he thought about how the agency worked.

In 1970, Philip Ryther produced a bombshell report on the FAA that went nowhere no matter how hard he tried to make it public. He was forced to resign and decided to let everyone know what happened. colleenmondor.substack.com/p/36-55-year...

Artwork featuring a view looking down and across a snow covered rural landscape with a tiny human figure in a field

'Way home' by contemporary German artist Katja Lang #WomensArt

They must be really really new if they don't know this about you. 🤭

I've heard it described as an "odd" book, but regardless, I just want to see what this gentleman saw back then. There is so little written about AAS and what went on, especially from the "inside".

Yep - that's me! Thanks for the link!

Thanks for the link - I didn't realize this was up yet.

I'm actually working on a newsletter right now so the timing is great. :)

‘I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Agents pull woman from car in Keys. Feds said she wouldn’t show ID In Key Largo, in front of Pink Plaza at mile marker 103.4, agents stopped a woman driving a white Toyota Corolla and surrounded the vehicle.

"...she refused to hand over her driver’s license, nor roll down her window..."

They pulled her from her car and, after finding her ID in the vehicle & proving she was a US citizen, released her.

Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Every SF reader in the world saw this coming a mile away.

I'm reading it purely for historical purposes - to understand what went right & wrong then with that project just as I want to understand the same things about every other ATC upgrade effort.

But yes, I see how things would be different now. (Other than the political factors which never change.)

Yes, this is worth listening to.

In my very long memory of public affairs, have never heard a public statement by a "president" (a) more alarming in mental health terms, and also (b) more overtly racist and hate-filled.

Watch carefully the sycophants around Trump as he rants. They *all* know...

The Limits of Software For project managers, software engineers and application developers, this book describes software infrastructure and the people who build it. It discusses the a

Just got a copy of this somewhat obscure book about one of the previous attempts to upgrade ATC - the '80s/90s plan called Advanced Automation System. Some unique seasonal reading, right? blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

These are so wonderful- thanks for brightening our timelines by sharing them. 😀

A photo of workers at Individualized Shirts, a shirt factory in New Jersey. Each person has their fist in the air as a sign of solidarity. There's a sign behind them with photos and the words: "Fair Contract Now."

Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵

So did the ghost writer use AI that passed off an Ariana quote as a Cynthia quote?

The Dark Secrets of the Writer Behind ‘Train Dreams’

This a gorgeous review of a new bio of Denis Johnson, plus of his complicated (and sometimes terrible) life.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/m...

Such a great photo!

Until his death, my great uncle Ben owned & operated one of the most beloved and successful teams in minor league baseball: the Pawtucket Red Sox.

Along with my grandfather and all of their siblings. Uncle Ben was born in Quebec.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Secretary of Transportation.

This is the same guy who says ATC will be fully upgraded in 3-4 years.

A color drawing showing the scene for the first experiments with Chicago Pile-1. In the foreground at left, many scientists in suits and ties stand around a table looking at other scientists monitoring equipment showing the status of the reactor. At right, the large pile of graphite bricks (interlaced with uranium fuel rods) forming the rudimentary reactor (with several men standing on a platform watching the scientists). At bottom center, a man in a lab coat inserts (or removes) a control rod to regulate the reactivity of the reactor.

A black and white pencil or charcoal drawing showing the completed Chicago Pile-1 inside the squash court beneath the West Stand of Stagg Field. A large, orderly pile of graphite blocks stands at the right. On the left side of the block, at the bottom, a man inserts (or removes) a control rod to regulate the reactivity of the pile, while another sits monitoring some electronic equipment. At top left, observers stand on a balcony-like structure overlooking the entire room.

A sepia-toned photograph showing the West Stand of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. The corner of the structure closest to the camera features a crenelated brick tower. At top left is a caption, "West Stand Stagg Field, The Unniversity of Chicago."

This afternoon in 1942 at 3:25pm, in an abandoned squash court beneath the West Stand of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by physicist Enrico Fermi used a secretly-built reactor (Chicago Pile-1) to achieve the world’s first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

Oh. My. God.

As the descendant of a long line of poor immigrants (Irish and French Canadian), this lady’s comments make me sick.

“It’s the Christmas season and the Secretary of Defense took a beloved children’s character and depicted him blowing up drug smugglers. You have to look at that and wonder: What the hell is wrong with these people?” — Tom Nichols

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

Statement from Kids Can Press publisher of Franklin the Turtle

🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

FFS

Walk Highlands post describing dangerous advice they caught in moderation but also how they checked to confirm it was likely created by an AI bot

AI attention farming online isn't just annoying slop, it can be actively dangerous. Luckily the lovely humans behind @walkhighlands.co.uk caught this dangerous 'advice' before it was posted

old tweet: Every year, Putting Away the Christmas Decorations Ken makes a series of decisions designed to infuriate Unpacking the Christmas Decorations Ken the following year. It’s a magical holiday tradition.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

Christmas Rocky Road It’s not that I felt my usual Rocky Road Crunch Bars needed any improvement (though fiddling with recipes is one of life’s pleasures) but I thought they would benefit from some seasonal adjustment. S...

And we’re off! The season starts on nigella.com with my Christmas Rocky Road as #RecipeOfTheDay to get you in the mood. It’s fully festive from here on in! www.nigella.com/recipes/chri...