David Gessel
Combinations Coffee at TXL
As airport coffee makers go, this one is mediocre. The milk handling is excellent and it produced light and even froth, but the coffee flavor is weak.
A week of tweets: 2009-12-27
- Golem is quite a show. Klezmer punk, who’da thunk? #
- First bmw rental: 328. Hertz is getting better and better. #
- 2 nights under 2 hours. On my way to PS biz to JFK. Wifi? Hrm, that’s my sleep time! #
- Yesterday’s bb outage didn’t just delay my mail, all data services were out. No bbmail, no gmail, no gmaps, no ubertwitter. 2012 came early! #
- UAL Ps to jfk: free wifi, regular ac outlet: shoulda brought the W700, it’d be like being at the office in the air, but with free drinks. #
- Tweeting from 30,000 feet on ual’s gogo. #
- Gogo detects browsers, charges 7.95 for a blackberry, 12.95 for laptop. 1790 kbps down, 236 kbps up. #
- Great advance: my M70 blows the 110v in seat breaker after a while. That never happened with the 12V DC:DC power. 110 is retarding progress! #
- My first time over the verrazano narrows bridge! #
- Bastards! “Free” boingo Google wifi NOT free on mas day at IAD. #
- Uh reboot the plane! #
- UAL Xmas FAIL: 2:45 in the plane at the gate at IAD to FRA waiting on luggage gymnastics the APU fails and we wait for a new plane. #
- EPIC UAL FAIL waited 90 minutes for our spare plane then the jetway failed! Now a mobile lounge to plane. 7:15 departure my ass! Merry xmas #
- Never boarded a plane from a mobile lounge before. To add to the fun, we rear boarded behind all of economy. #
- We’re moving! #
- Xmas night is over! Spent it IAD. Whoo hoo, but plane is finally moving, 5 hours late. Bring me a drink and dinner! Oh hai, fra. #
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Watching The Clothes Go Round
Oh please Oh Please
A week of tweets: 2009-12-20
- Camary SE? Oh hertz you got me addicted to the mercedi. At least I earned a spot in the pay lot even when full with a friendly smile and tip #
- Also: it ain’t common carriage & they ain’t ur wires thus no privacy: watcha gonna do? vote for civil rights over copyright profits? ROFLMAO #
- New New York Times app for BlackBerry is pretty cool. Works offline. Offline rocks. Get off my lawn. #
- Oh Hai winter. #
- Oops, this is winter. LA isn’t winter.http://yfrog.com/35zltej It’s Tops about 12:45 tonight… #
- Except for an injured FA, I have first to myself this evening. #
- It’s Tops. It is. #
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Retarding Progress for Contributions, Again.
Hey, wow… sure, techdirt isn’t the WSJ, but for a blog it is somewhat authoritative and they’re actually noting that fact that we grant temporary monopolies to creators not as property (or to preserve jobs or to fund private jets for industry execs) but solely to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. Any IP law that retards the progress of science and the useful arts, no matter how many jobs or corporate jets it saves, is unconstitutional. Tell Victoria Espinel that she should be sworn to upholding the constitution, not the corporate profits.
This is relevant now because the press was just kicked out of the anti-“piracy” summit at the white house (by “piracy,” they of course mean vigilante trust busting, not the corporate pirates of the public domain).
A week of tweets: 2009-12-13
- Something you don’t see in sf very often: snow on a car. #
- Snows in Bay Area hills, flight delayed by 2.5 hours. Incoming flight take a few loops for sightseeing? #
- At SFO waiting for UAL 888 to LAX. IF it finally leaves it will be at least 6 hrs from car to rental car: would have been faster to drive. #
- Crap, natural disaster in LA: light rain. Parked at SFO 7 hours ago. #
- RT @sullrich: Google chief: Only miscreants worry about net privacy. http://bit.ly/7mIbRv … This is a bit troubling to say the least. #
- The novel cafe, new ownership. Stylish and comfortable inside, laptop friendly. Good food. Much faster than #
- YAY! Red eye from LAX to BOS. From 50 with wool hats in SM to a balmy 25. But meetings and lectures await. Whee. #
- How to use the toilet on the plane: #
- In my old office for the day. Familiar coffee flavors. #
- BOS-IAD-SFO with @phragments. One night at home then off to LA. #
- Pretty awesome? Especially awesome? follow the link on the foil hat wearing person’s back to bullet 6 #
- Heading back to sfo to go to the office holiday party. Away from the airport for less than 10 hours this brief visit home. #
- LAX RCC toilet closed. Concourse toilets decorated w/ urine and feces. Why pee on the toilet seat? Afraid of being checked out? Wide stance? #
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Nice C300 rental, thx Hertz!
My favorite rental cars so far.
Yay! Poopin’ and Flushin’
How to use the toilet on the plane:
1 poop 2 flush
CCFLs are great but…
CCFLs are a great source of light: more efficient area lights than LEDs and better CRI too and affordable but…
They are not heat lamps.
Note that this CCFL was installed in a hotel bathroom in the heat lamp fixture, operated by the heat lamp timer. You step out of the shower, crank the timer knob and get a nice blast of cool bluish light.
Pretty santa monica sunset
Too bad it took 7 hours of travel to see it.
