Archive for March, 2007
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. [...]
March 30th, 2007 | Posted in Clowns, Travel, Waste of Time | View Comments
Looking through Old Testament names, I came across this one. I apologize to my child in advance.
March 30th, 2007 | Posted in Names, Social Issues | View Comments
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. [...]
March 28th, 2007 | Posted in Cash Money | View Comments
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 [...]
March 27th, 2007 | Posted in Flickr | View Comments
Well, I’m getting my first ad on the back cover of a real live, glossy magazine (Draft Magazine). I’ll let you guys know when it’s out so you can go buy a copy, or at least look at one at the Tattered Cover. That’s pretty exciting to me. I also got my first mousepad design! [...]
March 27th, 2007 | Posted in Graphic Design | View Comments
im at the blackhawks/flames game right now, here in chi-town during my 6 hour layover. got “scalped” (read: 5th row seats after game started for cheap) and it’s not bad. so im back stateside. the trip was fun with some serious melancholy thrown in to ground me. was it relaxing? in some ways but the [...]
March 25th, 2007 | Posted in Hockey | View Comments
March 19th, 2007 | Posted in Therapists, Weird Fruit | View Comments
wow. lots of traveling. 2 planes broke in denver. we ended up getting into chicago at 10pm on friday night. 90 minutes of line at customer service. angry travelers. some bad customer service people. but one spectacular woman. she got me and adam onto a saturday afternoon flight to amsterdam. we pretty much lucked out [...]
March 18th, 2007 | Posted in Amsterdam, Travel | View Comments
my flight to chicago has been mega-delayed. missing my connecting flight to amsterdam. going to cry.
March 16th, 2007 | Posted in Travel, sucks | View Comments