BOOOOOOOO NBC!

From Variety today:
NBC has greenlit a spinoff of “The Office” that will debut after the Super Bowl, and will put “Saturday Night Live” in primetime for four weeks next fall.

SPINOFF??!?!?!?! ARGH!

Other interesting tidbits from the NBC lineup announcement. I’ve bolded things for emphasis:
* NBC has acquired a series take on the Camelot legend called [...]

All this travel got me to thinking

“What happens when a plane is struck by lightning?” is what ran thru my head as we flew next to a storm on Thursday. I wasn’t all that worried about it, but curious, since you don’t hear about it happening in the news. Did some googling and found this, from Scientific American:
HIGH-VOLTAGE LABORATORY TEST [...]