Yacht racing
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2007
Here comes the BOOM! this is yacht racing. All of a sudden I have an urge to be a racer. Nathan tells me I can get this sort of action in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Rental car woes
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2007
Bloody hell, I’m being nicked by Alamo for some scratches to my rental car in Amsterdam. I’m screwed on this one, I’m pretty certain the company won’t reimburse me for it. Bank of America says I can try to make a claim to Visa as part of the collision insurance on my credit card, but […]
The rat farm gets tinyier
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2007
Today I’m officially a resident of a cube farm at work. I’m not happy about it at all. Letsee, I’ve gone from running my own show with my own offices, to working for somebody else while working in an office with a window, to working in a dark inner office, to working in a cubicle. […]
Why do passengers take it?
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 19th, 2007
Last week, a JetBlue airplane with passenger was parked on the tarmac for 10 hours because they couldn’t take off or return to their gate because of weather; other planes were in the same situation for 8-9 hours. A few months ago, a plane was parked on the tarmac here at Austin for 8 hours […]
HD TV
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2007
I acquired my new TV yesterday. I had a certain price range in my head that I expected it to be, then was pleasantly surprised to find it was much lower at Fry’s when I was wandering around. I tried to buy it Friday night, but discovered my debit card has a daily spending limit. […]
FU, TSA
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2007
Tuesday I flew to Virginia for work. Snow was dumped all over the northeast so I got diverted to Balitmore. While I was there, we got three inches of snow overnight which promptly froze. Fortunately I got back to BWI without any grief. As I was passing through security at BWI, TSA pulled me aside […]
Nintendo Wii
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2007
So much Zelda. I stood in line Sunday morning at Target to buy a Wii. They had 68 units, at 7:30 AM there were about 35 people in line. I finally gots me one! I also bought Elebits and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (she gets around) while I was there. Every waking hour not […]
I hate Solaris
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2007
After 11 years I finally got around to figuring out en_US.UTF-8 locale on Solaris. Most Linux machines usually have UTF-8 enabled by default, but it took a few minutes of man page reading to get Solaris fixed up. Which means, I can now easily write in different language sets from my shell! よこそう السلام عليك […]
Booted out of Canada
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2007
I have returned from Seattle. IAH->SEA was 5 hours, SEA->IAH was a little over 3 hours, what’s up with that? I would *love* train service between Austin and Houston airports. 15 minutes to board a plane, 30-40 until takeoff, another 30 minutes in the air, another 45 minutes spent taxiing and deboarding. It still beats […]
Consumer rants!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2007
Tonight I’m loaded with consumer-y tips and rants! A while back Alex was telling me a story about how he got carded at a store to verify he was over 21. He hands over his drivers license which clearly has his age, but they refuse to use it because the license was expired. What? So […]
