February 11th, 2011

After I finish (or give up on) the crossword puzzle in the in-flight magazine, I sometimes like to peruse the SkyMall catalog.  Is there any other publication that can instill an intense pride in American capitalism, while simultaneously making you fear for the future of mankind? I love the SkyMall catalog, and here are some [...]

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Southwest’s Business Select tickets are a huge ripoff.  Don’t buy them. On this sample flight from Oakland to Seattle, Business Select tickets are $242, compared with $72 for the “Wanna Get Away” tickets.  That’s 236% more, or $340 more than the cheap ‘web-only” roundtrip fare.  And let’s keep in mind that there is no such [...]

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January 5th, 2011

As a tourist destination, I think San Diego is best known for it’s zoo.  We like zoos and seem to have a fun time every time we go and have been to several, including the hometown Woodland Park Zoo, Northwest Trek, Animal Kingdom in Disneyworld, the Atlanta Zoo, the Phoenix Zoo, and shoot we even [...]

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November 29th, 2010

(Not about my wife.) 1.  Giraffes only sleep 2 hours a day. We went to Safari West in Santa Rosa.  Probably not as cool as a real safari but much easier and less expensive to get to than Africa.  It was pretty awesome.  We also learned that lemurs hate water, rhinos like to be scratched [...]

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November 24th, 2010

None of these were taken by me, I just wanted to share some of our friends’ cool photos from the wedding weekend. Best Costco Run picture (Bruce).  Just like Costco in America, Costco in Mexico is not stingy with the samples.  Only we were shopping in the liquor section, so we got shots of tequila [...]

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November 16th, 2010

One of our initial ideas was that it would be awesome to have everyone down to a giant MTV-Cribs-style villa for an extended bachelor/bachelorette-party, maybe with a quick wedding ceremony thrown in there somewhere.  We found some super sweet places like these 10 and 12 bedroom mansions in Cabo. We reasoned we already had a [...]

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