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Technology still blows me away.

I’m on my way to my Doctor in Gates on Thursday, and I hear on the radio something about a plane crashing in the Hudson River. I come out from the Doctor’s office 15 minutes later and they’re trying to interview people who’d just been rescued. They talked to a guy who’d seen the whole thing from the 35th floor of his office building, and he and his coworkers were sure it was a giant seaplane landing. Sully did the smoothest possible splash landing and made it look like business as usual.

So anyway, it’s about 8:30, and I’m logging onto Facebook when I get the brilliant idea of making a Sully Fan Club. QoMU suggested I check to see if anyone else had done it. Less than five hours after he planes the plane on the freezing Hudson, Sully has no less than 18 fan pages, including the one I joined after 860 other people. Score one for social networking.

We need Sully right now. He’s the anti-Joe the Plumber. While Joe is a bumbling dumbass milking his fifteen minutes of Warholian fame for all it’s worth, Sully is an everyday hero we can all look up to. Dude has flown just about every type of plane possible, trains other people in the art of ditching airliners, and saved 153 lives as a result of his expertise.

So where do I get a Sully T-shirt.

Oh, and this is for Joe the Plumber.

Filed under: General Observations on January 19th, 2009