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If you like Hockey, you’ll love Water Polo

If you like hockey, you’ll love water polo. Mike Emrick is broadcasting the play by play for women’s water polo (and men’s?) at the Olympics. As I listen to the game at work I hear his voice and have to be reminded that this is in a pool and not on ice. Especially since there …

Oh Happy Day

Twenty minutes into dinner Gioia pipes up with, “I’ve got some interesting news, I found Black R2D2!” You would have been surprised at the amount of shock on our faces. You see, we have been searching for Black R2D2 (aka. R2-Q5, aka. R2 ‘my brotha’) since December 13th. How do I I know? Because we …

Boarding efficiency.

Clearly I travel a lot. Planes all the time and a wife who needs a camera for Christmas so she can remember what I look like. What gets me (today) is the way airlines in 50 years of aviation history have not figured out how to board planes. Let me help you with my years …

Am I dreaming?

I guess if you fall asleep to Inception the first time you watch it you have to question if you really watched it at all, right? I found it amusing that this morning’s newscasters reported they too had fallen asleep on the plane trying to watch it. Today I try again and managed to stay …

You can’t read this article.

I just read a good article, but you’ll never know.  The problem is it wasn’t online or on the Kindle so while I’d love to share it with you it was in a magazine.  Yep, print, paper, ink and it was still a good story, but how will you ever know?   Contrary to popular …

Pay-per-Loo

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/08/2867806.htm?section=justin Ryanair is now going to charge customers to use the toilet on the plane.  They will take out two toilets and add 6 seats.  That got me thinking: A standard Boeing 737 which Ryan operates each has a capacity of 190 passengers.Add 6 for the new toilets and we get, 196.If each person carries …