The word “humblebrag” has been around long enough that even I have heard of it. (Is that a humblebrag?) A collection of examples has been collected in a book that I have not yet read, entitled, “Humblebrag.” The word is common enough that it is even in the Oxford Dictionary, at least in the online edition.
For some reason, I only recently learned the term and, egomaniac that I am, I thought that I had come up with the concept years ago. I certainly had not.
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One of my talents is breaking things. (I have others; they just have not yet been revealed to me.) I am not a physically strong individual. I just use what strength I possess ineptly.
Now, I know that anyone can break anything with enough gumption and/or strength. Give a man a big enough lever, and he can move the world, said Archimedes. Teach a man to swim and he can fish for a bicycle, said no one.
At best, this talent is an inadvertent one; at worst, it portends possible certain probable doom for the planet.
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The first interstate airmail-delivery-by-rocket-powered-airplane-flight took place 80 years ago today from Greenwood Lake, NY, into New Jersey. Two unmanned, single-wing planes were launched straight up into the air and crashed soon after and not many yards away. Five years ago, a writer for NorthJersey.com described the experiment as “quite possibly the most spectacularly unsuccessful delivery in the history of post.”
The United States was lagging in rocket development, and other countries were investing time and effort in sussing out what needs in society rockets could meet. Austria had flung mail from one city to another by rocket in 1931 and rumors of efforts in other countries followed.
An article in Popular Mechanics (the photo above is the cover) described the Greenwood Lake experiment as being “as significant as that first historic flight of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk.”
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