Things get weird at SXSW: Lady Gaga, sausages and vomit..

And as you can see from above: Someone needs attention… following Gaga’s vomit performance, she posted photos of herself naked in a bathtub..

A better version of today’s My Daily Doodle

Unfair requirements kept me from some recent daily doodles. I come back with this.. He appeared in my dream last night. I think he was the soul of a coal miner ..

Asteroid to dim a bright star for some in Northeast

Weather permitting, millions of people in the northeastern USA could witness a rare and eerie sight next week: a space rock blotting out one of the brightest stars in the sky.

The year the sky takes over..

Asteroid to dim a bright star for some in Northeast

Officials now saying it is 'conclusive' that Flight 370 was hijacked

Seven days after the vanishing act of MH370, we are now seeing reports that the airliner was hijacked by someone with ‘experience’ and that authorities are zeroing in on two possible routes that the flight took.. Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib said Saturday that this was a ‘deliberate action.’ 

Najib also said investigators are now trying to trace the airplane across two possible “corridors” — a northern corridor from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand, and a southern corridor from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.

That surprisingly conclusive information comes after days of mystery—searches in vast portions of oceans and spy satellites searching land masses for wreckage. Now the Indian Ocean is in play..

This has been the most bizarre and surreal series of events that I have ever witnessed in connection with a plane crash.. And to call it a plane crash at this is not even accurate. We frankly don’t.. Even if the hijacking  story works out, the fact remains: We don’t know where Flight 370 is.

Officials now saying it is 'conclusive' that Flight 370 was hijacked

This may seem like a delusional Friday night thought—and with hours of travel today and three days away my mind may be in a bizarre state of mind.  But here goes anyway..

As I sat in a very lonely hotel bar room, sipping a club soda and lime (after a beer or two of course) I got into a conversation with someone who slipped into a stupor long before I ended up with my non alcoholic  beverage. There was a muted TV playing coverage of the news, that night, that they thought they found wreckage from Flight 370. That turned out to be untrue of course, but during our short bar talk, he told me that he thought aliens abducted the passengers and threw the plane into the ocean.

I laughed at that thought but immediately remembered reading the Langoliers by Stephen King. I also recall, quite well, seeing the made for TV movie starring Baulky from PERFECT STRANGERS. The movie was just awful as far as graphics and acting.. but the concept from King was marvelous: The Langoliers are creatures that eat time. And a red eye flight gets caught up in a time slip .. the passengers have to figure it out. And before you know it, they encounter 20th century computer graphics that eat their time out from under them, and around them.

Interesting concept.

And some have compared the Langoliers to today’s new mystery.

You’d need to suspend logic for a while.. what better time to do it than at a lonely cold bar room in the central part of Pennsylvania. I did.. and I wondered if these passengers were battling time demons in a galaxy close by.. 

Of course, reality may end up with a tragic result in this matter. A crash site.. or something worse.. 

The Langoliers would be bad, too. Especially if they are as graphically challenged as the 1995 version of creatures that eat time..

Report: Radar Shows Plane Deliberately Flew Toward Indian Ocean

It’s been one week since this mess started. And we are no closer to solving the mystery that is Flight 370.

But it captivated my attention all week and continue to do so.

Report: Radar Shows Plane Deliberately Flew Toward Indian Ocean

U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet

This may not seem it.. but it’s a pretty big issue

U.S. to relinquish remaining control over the Internet

A new 'time distortion' pill can make a prisoner feel like 8 hours is 1,000 years

So.. I ask: is it ethical, moral, and just to use punishment in pills like that?
It’s the future. Actually the present.. And science fiction is fast becoming reality..

A new 'time distortion' pill can make a prisoner feel like 8 hours is 1,000 years

As opposed to….?

Search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane expands to Indian Ocean

Search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane expands to Indian Ocean

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A cold view

Signals on Radar Puzzle Officials in Hunt for Malaysian Jet

Take this information for what it’s worth:

NYT: After four days of reticence and evasive answers, the Malaysian military acknowledged on Wednesday that it had recorded, but initially ignored, radar signals that could have prompted a mission to intercept and track a missing jetliner — data that vastly expands the area where the plane might have traveled.

Signals on Radar Puzzle Officials in Hunt for Malaysian Jet

I’m away on a three day conference. I miss my wife and son. But getting a picture from home like this gives me a smile.

Meteors and mysteries

Read this 1997 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN article on what would happen if meteors struck passenger airliners ..

I offer it up to argue the case that this could have been what happened to flight 370—could have.

So far, anyone I spoke of this theory to laughed at me to my face..

I don’t think it’s a tin foil hat concept like others think..

And with the lack of any answers, shouldn’t we consider any possibility ?

Hijacked and hidden? US counter-terror officials fear plane could have been captured after debris spotted by Chinese is ruled out and new data reveals it was airborne FOUR hours after vanishing

This report is being downplayed to some degree by officials in Malaysia.. However it certainly adds yet more mystery and intrigue to the missing flight..
Regardless, families must be emotionally wrecked at this point, and I cannot fathom what that feels like..

Hijacked and hidden? US counter-terror officials fear plane could have been captured after debris spotted by Chinese is ruled out and new data reveals it was airborne FOUR hours after vanishing

The night the lights went out in DC..

A late winter wind storm caused the blackout in Washington, D.C. And lots of other places..

NSA Impersonated Facebook to Spread Malware, Snowden Docs Show

Interesting.
Really Facebook is the ultimate reservoir of gossip and relationship issues. I frankly would highly doubt most people would express interest in their crimes through public or private posts.. Although I’m sure the NSA got good tracking services out of their sneaky plan..

Snowden documents are the gift that keep in given like the jelly of the month club from Christmas Vacation..

NSA Impersonated Facebook to Spread Malware, Snowden Docs Show

Officials Deny Engine Data Report From Missing MH370

Very odd news yet again.. More reports of reports of reports being denied .. Was the plane in the air? Not?
The meteor theory continues to look better and better to me as days go by without any evidence of a plane..

Officials Deny Engine Data Report From Missing MH370