Archive for March, 2007

Just another reason United Airlines sucks

First their automated baggage handler was a piece of shit, now their fully automated jetways are fucking up. Throw in the fact that I missed my connecting flight to Amsterdam because we had two separate airplanes with “mechanical” issues (see: Mechanic Slowdown?) and finally got into Chicago on a third plane about 6 hours late. [...]

I already feel bad for my first child

Looking through Old Testament names, I came across this one. I apologize to my child in advance.

Overheard at lunch

Some people who work in an ad agency right near the brewery (we have 4 of those antiquated mega-agencies within a block of us) were eating lunch next to me. Large Agency Guy 1: You know the paper they print dollar bills on? Large Agency Guy 2: Yeah. Large Agency Guy 1: It’s really durable. [...]

I like looking through Flickr photos!

Randomness is great, especially when you have over 437 million photos to pick from. Okay, I think that number is considerably lower, given the (probable) huge number of private photos. Actually, I wonder what percentage of photos on flickr are private? Think there’s a way to look at a few million of them to get [...]