Flying from Seattle to LAX was fine, but the layover was horrible. Some airports are designed with layovers in mind, but not LAX. The place is so barren, and there are hardly any shops you can actually sit down in. I had an 8 hour layover at LAX before flying to Sydney (a 15 hour […]
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One of my current vices is watching a show called How I Met Your Mother. Aside from Neil Patrick Harris (oh yes, NPH would do that), the show also stars Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Alyson Hannigan, and Josh Radnor. The story centers around Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) as he tells his kids the story how […]
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Several months ago I was asked to be a keynote speaker at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society being held at University of Wollongong in Australia. The symposium is part of IEEE’s Society on Social Implications of Technology, and since being asked I have been working on a paper to be reviewed and […]
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This Polaroid was kicking around in a box of photos at my ex-mother-in-law’s house (that’s a lot of dashes!). It shows the Space Needle in the middle of being erected for the 1962 World’s Fair. When I first saw it several years ago, I remember looking at it for a good 15 minutes straight. It’s […]
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Ok, so my last post was apparently very timely. In it, I was bitching about how banks know for a fact that you don’t have enough funds in your account before authorizing a debit card transaction, and they could decline the whole transaction, but they authorize it anyway just so they can charge you an […]
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Almost everyone knows the house always wins in Vegas, but there are a few cases where the house doesn’t win. In some cases, professional gamblers are able to make a very good living by taking the house to the cleaners month after month. I wish there was a way to win with banks, but there […]
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MythBusters recently did a show on pain, and who’s better at dealing with it… men or women. On the show, women won by a narrow margin. I think it had to do with the fact they couldn’t actually hurt anyone for the purposes of the show, so they used a simple ice bath to induce […]
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I’ve been using T-Mobile’s UMA (unlicensed mobile access) service for a while now. It basically allows you to route all communications between phone and carrier over the Internet via an encrypted tunnel. When using the UMA service, you do not use any minutes off your plan because you are not using the cellular radio network. […]
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I normally don’t like publicly flaming companies… there are a multitude of reasons why a transaction might go bad, none of which deserve public ridicule. Usually if one puts in enough effort and explains themselves clearly, things get resolved. I started out my relationship with DocumentIO.com really liking them. They shipped out my order very […]
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