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Month: September, 2008

dia pikes peak

Groggy and cranky, I wandered around the Pikes Peak long term parking lot today at DIA wondering where the hell my car went. After about 15 minutes of this, a shuttle driver took pity on me and gave me a sweet hint — you can use the callboxes by the shuttle pickup spots to call [...]

illy nilly

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The Lucky Ones movie full
illy nilly
The roast on the left is better.

evites suck

Music and Lyrics move
Evites are one of the suckiest things ever invented.
Ed Wood on dvd The evite sender puts my email address into some 3rd-party website, which I never asked for. They claim they will never sell my email address, but why should I trust them? If I wanted evite to have my [...]

maintaining premiership

Anyone out there wanna take a trip to Hawaii?
I need about 7k more miles this year to maintain my Premier status on United. Turns out round-trip from Denver to Honolulu is just enough.
United has a sale right now so that it’s only $249 each way (or thereabouts). I priced it last night, and cheapest I [...]

random decompression bits

Hotel Babylon parking monkey, Liberec, Czech Republic
I’ve been feeling a little unstuck as of late so it’s good to be home.
An incomplete pastiche of random thoughts…
Small is beautiful. I’m Portland over Seattle; Grenoble over Zurich.
Watching Linus get beat at Wii tennis was insanely amusing.
The Benson Hotel has the best amenity ever: companion fish. They will [...]

dripulous

A Few Good Men the movie

dripping fountain, Pražský hrad, Czech Republic
Pražský hrad (aka the Prague Castle) is worth seeing, even if there are always too many tourists and even though it’s slightly over-commercialized.

um, no thanks?

Oh, of course, let me go immediately do that!
National Treasure: Book of Secrets

leaving liberec

a slide from my SUSE Labs presentation
I’ve been in Liberec, Czech Republic for the past week at the SUSE Labs conference. It’s been great linking names and faces, stuffing ideas into my brain, and enjoying quite a bit of Czech beer as well.
I haven’t seen much of Liberec, mostly being trapped in the crazy hotel [...]

conference forager

College habits die hard.
On the plus side, I no longer am willing to give up all my personal financial information for a free T-shirt.
On the other hand, free food is still really hard to turn down.
At a conference where they’re stuffing you silly pretty much every moment, why on earth would one save a few [...]

prague first impressions

I’d always associated Lufthansa with “luxury”. Now, flying international in economy class sucks on pretty much every airline, but this was my first time in the steerage section of an Airbus 340. From now on, I’m going to fly Boeing equipment as much as possible for the simple fact that each passenger gets that little [...]