In Metroblogging NYC, Dana Bushman has a blog entry about flying on Continental Airlines from Amsterdam to Newark, a tale of delays, bad service and bathrooms leaking bilge into the cabin:
On Wednesday June 13th at around 2:00 pm my boyfriend and I boarded Continental flight 71 from Amsterdam to Newark along [...]
Although I generally prefer taking Air Canada on my Toronto-Boston flights (my reasons being that the jets are more roomy and Air Canada flies out of sparkly Terminal 1), I sometimes take American Eagle when they’re offering a better rate. Hence my concern at the big news here in Boston today about the [...]
Click the photo to see the article in the Toronto Star.Click here to read my account of the wedding.
Today’s Toronto Star has a story about Julie’s and Amanda’s wedding. I should run over to the corner store and pick up a few copies for the ol’ scrapbook (and to send to Julie and [...]
Our wedding gets mentioned in an article in today’s Wall Street Journal Online titled The Minutes of Our Lives, which looks at the growing phenomenon of liveblogging — that is, blogging about an event while at that event. It’s no longer unusual to see people liveblogging at tech conferences or events on live television, but [...]
If you’re not in the general vicinity of Ontario and Quebec, you’re probably not aware of the gasoline shortage here. The shortage is caused by these factors acting in combination:
A fire at Imperial Oil’s refinery in Nanticoke has reduced its production capacity to half. It’s not expected to get back to full capacity for at [...]
[via Reddit]
You’d think that after all the huffing and puffing they’d been doing about the “War on Christmas” that Fox News would actually do as they said…
Torontoist has posted Marc Lostracco’s photos of Sassafraz, the day after the fire, and you can find more photos on Flickr.
(For more on Sassafraz, see today’s earlier entry titled Sassafraz and Schadenfreude.)
Texas Monthly, “The National Magazine of Texas”, runs its annual “Bum Steers Awards” every January. This coming January, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney gets a place both in the awards and on the cover:
The fine print on the cover reads:
* Yes, this is a photo illustration. If we don’t say so, Dick Cheney will shoot [...]
Sassafraz
Photo by David Topping. Click to see the original on its page.
For those of you not familiar with Accordion City, Sassafraz was a restaurant in the tony boutique area of town known as Yorkville. The place had a reputation for so-so food at ridiculous prices (I’ve had brunch and lunch there, and yeah, you can [...]
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
