Category Archives: WTF?

Airport Food? Just carry Clif bars

It’s hardly original to criticize airline and airport food, but why not add to the voluminous literature on the subject? Well, airline food has pretty much disappeared so that rules out that area.  Except for international flights – but it’s … Continue reading

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Update on iPhone update frustration

I found a very simple solution – do the updates on a computer running Mac OSX.  I’d been running iTunes on my work laptop and avoiding any more updates after the last two “bricking” episodes. But, now on my new … Continue reading

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What an awful place!

I came down to DC for a meeting and stayed north of Dulles in Ashburn, VA.  And as the title says; what an awful place.  Maybe I missed the historic centre of the town, but all I saw was crappily … Continue reading

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Construction work in NYC

I’m a little jet lagged and cranky after getting back from London on Saturday evening.  So I’m waking at 5 or 6am and lying in bed and today I started hearing construction workers cutting metal and drilling into cement or … Continue reading

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You know what I’d like?

I’d like an iPhone update to actually work, rather than bricking my fucking phone and making me spend 2-3 hours searching forums to figure out how to get it to restore. I’d also like AT&T to spend some of the … Continue reading

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Step away from the computer….

On an overcast Sunday I decided to follow up on the news that Outlook Express is going away and download Windows Live Mail.  What a mistake!  First off, why do so many software companies (Google, Sun, Apple, Microsoft, pretty much … Continue reading

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This has bugged me for a while

Mostly because it offends me that airlines think we are so stupid.  It’s the practice of advertising air fares at less than half their true cost with the following disclaimer (from United’s email today, but could be any of the … Continue reading

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Japanese culture

I’ll admit I’m torn on Japanese culture (and I realize how absurd that statement is).  I love to be in Tokyo and hope to visit the rest of Japan some time – particularly Hokkaido – and I love Japanese art … Continue reading

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Just gets better

So I finally got to the hotel around 930pm (rather than 7pm as planned) – cranky, tired, low blood sugar, etc. etc. This morning I get a call saying that the meeting I came down for is cancelled.  Oh well, … Continue reading

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Dimitri (Raven) Ravinoff

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances, he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. … Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In … Continue reading

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