If you’re a frequent flyer junkie, now is a good time to check your status and find out if you’re close to bumping up an elite status level. Local travel startup, Flyspy, can help you find round-trips that rack up the miles. Check out their need miles page for the cheapest available NWA flights that [...]
This is a ChargeCarte by SmarteCarte in the Cincinnati airport that lets travelers pay to top of the batteries on their mobile devices and laptops: This is the power outlet that’s no longer available to business travelers because SmarteCarte controls it: I wrote about this in Feb 2007 when this first came out and suggested [...]
Photo by Alan Wyman of Lonely Northrop Auditorium Phonebooks at the U of MN My phone book industry friend, Ken Clark, tries to educate people – via the web – about how valuable print phone books are. See the irony in that? People have to be explained, via the web, that the books left at [...]
Photo by Telstar Logistics The most successful 30-day challenge we ran at the Kohler household in 2008 was to unsubscribe from the dozens of print catalogs that were clogging our mailbox. I buy a lot of things for our household online because it’s very convenient and often cheaper. However, one side effect of this over [...]
This, my friends, is the biggest TP disaster I’ve ever encountered. Not only is the TP not folded, but the roll is put in backwards so it rolls off the bottom rather than the top. It makes me wonder whether the housekeeper ever used TP before.
I’m not sure if this is a case of poor creasing or if they’re trying a new style. Kind of a TP bouffant.
Yahoo put out a rosy headline about their new data retention policy that limits the time they store data such as search logs, page views, and ad views, titled, “Yahoo! Sets New Industry Privacy Standard with Data Retention Policy.“ Great spin, but I don’t think that’s really why they did what they did. My guess [...]
Wouldn’t it be sweet to be not just figuratively but literally happier than a pig in shit? Well, it turns out that, thanks to George W Bush, it looks like we’ll soon have that opportunity: Bush’s Final F.U. : Rolling Stone Circumventing the Clean Water Act, the administration has approved last-minute regulations that will allow [...]
Wisconsin seems to lead the nation in matching couples fashion trend. Traditionally, this applies to choices in snowmobile branded winter wear such as Arctic Cat or Polaris. Couples dress in his and hers outfits. But now I’m seeing it apply to business clothes as well, such as the matching Re/Max real estate agents from Phillips, [...]
I was on a US Airways plane last week that was held together by Band-Aids. Literally. The flight safely transported me to my destination for the cheapest available flight. Mission accomplished. This reminded me of a column by Sharon Schmickle on MinnPost earlier this month where she complained about the condition of the plane that [...]
