An Exercise in Avoiding Boredom

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In business class, all stewardesses are blond and beautiful.

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Today’s travel story (sorry, can’t help it) is about the cab driver who took me from my home to the airport. First of all, he was late, and then he couldn’t find my home address. In this day and age a cab driver without a navi is surprising, but he didn’t have one. In any [...]

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This morning’s coffee (from yesterday) came with a meaty surprise, as the photo below shows.

Regrettably, it was too late for the poor sucker as I had already microwaved the coffee.

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I’ve found another good reason to avoid the food they offer you on air planes. According to a BBC News health story, humans can combat jet lag by forcing themselves into the food rhythm of their destination timezone. Quotes from the doctor who did the research:
If, for example, you are travelling from the US [...]

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Sometimes, the email spam I get is quite funny. For example, one “Adam Logan” writes me:
Check out the latest research in anti-education! Go to syllable-dessert.com!

One can only wonder whether a syllable dessert can really be anti-educational. Wouldn’t such a dish improve language skills in any case? I have a hunch that I may be interpreting [...]

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The conference I attended in Leipzig, Germany, overlapped with the world-wide gathering of Goth people. Some were quite beautiful, actually, and certainly elaborate, as the photo below shows (courtesy of Wilhelm Schäfer).

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Amazingly enough, sarcasm helped. Or, I just got lucky, as there were no further complications.

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After arriving in Vancouver from San Francisco, I found this greeting from the Transport Security Administration (TSA) in my luggage.

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Fan-subs used to say in the opening of an episode:
“Not for sale, rent, or auction.”
These days, it has become:
“Not for sale, rent, auction, or online streaming.”
I guess that’s to prevent services like YouTube and crappy roll from benefiting from fan-subs and hurting the community.

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