snarky?

I just sent a letter to the editor to Newsday (it's the paper I read), pointing out Bloomberg's hypocrisy in saying that he's in favor of same-sex marriage, but is appealing against the ruling requiring the city to allow it.

The snarky part is that I didn't just point out that allowing same-sex marriages isn't only a matter of justice: in the short term, it's also a nice boost to tourism. I ended by asking, if he thinks the city can't handle that many visitors, how does he think we can handle the Olympics?

I have no idea if they'll print it: I've had a few letters printed there before, but I expect they'll get a lot of mail on this one.

snarky?

I just sent a letter to the editor to Newsday (it's the paper I read), pointing out Bloomberg's hypocrisy in saying that he's in favor of same-sex marriage, but is appealing against the ruling requiring the city to allow it.

The snarky part is that I didn't just point out that allowing same-sex marriages isn't only a matter of justice: in the short term, it's also a nice boost to tourism. I ended by asking, if he thinks the city can't handle that many visitors, how does he think we can handle the Olympics?

I have no idea if they'll print it: I've had a few letters printed there before, but I expect they'll get a lot of mail on this one.

Geography randomness

In the course of collecting maps for someone at work, I discovered that apparently the consensus on the border between Asia and Australia/Oceania is not entirely underwater: it runs down the middle of New Guinea.

From an article in Air and Space, I learned that airport directions are explicitly aligned to magnetic north rather than the Earth's rotational axis. Runways are numbered by their compass orientation (rounded to the nearest ten degrees, and with the final zero dropped, so one pointing due east is 9, not 90). As the magnetic north pole wanders around Ellesmere Island, runways are periodically renumbered. This simultaneously makes sense--airplanes have carried magnetic compasses for a long time--and feels deeply weird. I want "due north" to be constant. [Yes, there's some vague thought that there might have been episodes of "true polar wander" in the very deep geologic past, but most of what was thought to be polar wander turned out to have been misinterpreted plate tectonics.]

Geography randomness

In the course of collecting maps for someone at work, I discovered that apparently the consensus on the border between Asia and Australia/Oceania is not entirely underwater: it runs down the middle of New Guinea.

From an article in Air and Space, I learned that airport directions are explicitly aligned to magnetic north rather than the Earth's rotational axis. Runways are numbered by their compass orientation (rounded to the nearest ten degrees, and with the final zero dropped, so one pointing due east is 9, not 90). As the magnetic north pole wanders around Ellesmere Island, runways are periodically renumbered. This simultaneously makes sense--airplanes have carried magnetic compasses for a long time--and feels deeply weird. I want "due north" to be constant. [Yes, there's some vague thought that there might have been episodes of "true polar wander" in the very deep geologic past, but most of what was thought to be polar wander turned out to have been misinterpreted plate tectonics.]

I was talking about tea, really

Does it count as a double entendre if it was accidental?

I was talking about tea, really

Does it count as a double entendre if it was accidental?