For the second day in a row I was alarmed to see light planes circling low over the campus.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, though, one was pulling a banner advertisement from an insurance company– never mind which one, but it rhymes with “Beico”.<\/p>\n
This bothered me a bit, and it took me a while to figure out why.<\/p>\n
You often hear that large companies search the likes of Facebook<\/a> and YouTube<\/a> for improprieties committed by potential employees. <\/p>\n “We’re not trying to morally censure the acts themselves,” they say, while an applicant’s grainy Spring Break video featuring an iguana, life-size cardboard cutouts of Britney Spears, Hillary Clinton, and John Glenn, six boxes of Lucky Charms, eyeliner, and a toaster oven rolls in the background, “but rather the person’s bad judgment in allowing the information to become public.”<\/p>\n Turns out that works both ways.<\/p>\n It’s all fun and games until a plane lands on the student union because the pilot was flying over the most densely populated part of the city with neither the airspeed nor altitude required to establish a useful margin for error.<\/p>\n Who would be motivated to buy insurance from a company that engages in such obviously risky behavior– while flying a giant banner bragging that it’s them doing it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the second day in a row I was alarmed to see light planes circling low over the campus. Yesterday, though, one was pulling a banner advertisement from an insurance company– never mind which one, but it rhymes with “Beico”. This bothered me a bit, and it took me a while to figure out why. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}