Class distinctions
While I’m on a roll complaining about airlines this week, I’ll bitch for a moment about the differences between business and coach class. Oh sure, there’s the big seats and the free booze and food, but it seems that business class travellers are also given some special safety exemptions. For example, I’m on a flight [...]
Up and flying
Parts arrived today, and the remote-controlled helicopter is up and flying again, this time in the building gym where there’s high ceilings and no furniture:
links for 2007-05-22
joox.net Streaming or downloadable movies and tv. How can this be legal? As seen on CommandN.tv. (tags: tv)
Car-pole incident cited
It’s funny the way things go around the web sometimes. On May 7th, while at the BEA user conference in Atlanta, I quoted one of the speakers (who is with a utility company) as saying that they refer to a car hitting an electrical pole as a “car-pole incident”. Now it’s being referenced in the [...]
Food in faraway places
For me, much of travel is about food: I love going to other places and eating whatever’s fresh and local, which is often tied up in the cultural aspects of the place. This past week in Nova Scotia was no exception: on Wednesday, I ate a huge lobster that had been caught that day — best [...]
My 15 minutes of fame
After my post on Sunday night about the Air Canada landing incident, I had a call from CBC New Brunswick, since the landing gear collapse was big news with the flight having originated in Moncton. I agreed to a quick interview, which was carried on the local St. John CBC radio station, and is now [...]
Adventures in R/C land
Damir’s birthday was a couple of weeks ago, and I gave him a gift that I felt reflected the gravity of turning 46: a remote-controlled helicopter. Thanks to some advice from the swarm (thanks, Jeff!), I found Hobby Hobby, a store that specializes in remote-controlled everything: planes, helis, cars, and parts for anything that you [...]
Another on-time arrival with Air Canada
The good news: we landed 15 minutes early today on the flight from Moncton to Toronto on Air Canada Jazz. The bad news: we hit hard, bounced high, then hit even harder, collapsing the rear landing gear. Oxygen masks dangling and a slight smell of burning rubber in the cabin, the plane literally dragged its [...]
links for 2007-05-14
globeandmail.com: Number of drug-addicted seniors to surge as boomers retire “Nearly one in three baby boomers has smoked pot at some point in their lives, according to the CCSA survey”. Yeah, and the other two out of three are lying… (tags: offtopic)
Zipcar: a mostly good experience
I recently joined Zipcar for easy access to a car whenever I need it, since Damir needs his car most days and sometimes I need to drive to a client or run some errands. Although I live in Toronto, I did my first Zipcar rental in San Francisco two weeks ago, and will do my [...]
