I’ve finished reading Phil Jackson’s The Last Season, and Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. I’ve also finished a bunch of Sudoku puzzles in Brain Age. I haven’t used my MP3 player yet, but I have been keeping up on the day’s news with my phone. The question now is: Charles Petzold’s Code or Nick Hornby’s …
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Greetings from NC
I’m currently sitting in the food court here at the Charlotte airport. It gets high marks from me for having a wide variety of choices and great service. The flight here, however, was extremely uncomfortable because I was stuck in between the stereotypical two obese dudes. Unpleasant. Thank heavens the flight was only a little …
And now, the waiting begins…
I’m currently sitting in a random departure lounge at Baltimore Washington International Airport, staring down a four and a half hour wait before my next flight. I am somewhat tempted to see if I can hop on an earlier flight, but I worry that doing so would mess up my carefully calculated mileage run. Oh …
The City of Brotherly Love
So I’m here in Philadelphia after the redeye flight from Las Vegas. I was surprised — the flight looked to be completely full. I wonder how many people are headed straight to work after a 4-day weekend in Vegas… BTW, final tally from Vegas is a $2 loss from playing Deuces Wild video poker. I …
Welcome to Las Vegas
I’m on the ground here in Las Vegas. No surprises here, since I’ve been here several times before. I’ve always come at peak times, though — it’s pretty quiet here now, which seems strange to me. Anyway, what I wanted to comment on about SNA was that it was extremely hot in the terminal, even …
Unpleasant surprise
Opera Mobile doesn’t want to submit my post! I’m writing this from Internet Explorer, which has its own issues. I am at SNA now…I will try to catch up on blogging when I get to LAS…
My day of travel begins!
So I’m just about to head out to the airport to catch my first flight of my mileage run. I’ve got lots of entertainment packed with me, including my DS, my phone, my MP3 player, and books. I’ve already checked in online, and thankfully I was able to get aisle seats for most of my …
Reading is fundamental
I have recently been reading a few books on business and entrepreneurship, with the goal of trying to determine if starting a business is something I’d be interested in exploring. In the past, I’ve browsed through various business books at the bookstore, but never really committed to reading one all the way through. Part of …
Eventually I get it…
It has taken 17 years for me to think about the game again, but yesterday I finally realized that the “sodoff” (sawed-off shotgun) in Bad Blood is a play on the British piece of slang, “sod off.” Kind of appropriate — I remember the sodoff being a pretty effective weapon in that game.
When Good Captions Go Bad
There’s a BBC News story up about a contest-fixing scandal at the BBC. One of the contests whose results were changed regarded naming a cat who would be joining the cast of a children’s show. Vox populi demanded Cookie — they got Socks instead. The kids who voted for Cookie got a life lesson in …