Category: Ranting Again

  • The sky is falling, the sky is falling!

    The bits of rock falling from the heavens were cool. Of course, as a lame attempt to stay thematic, the SciFi channel showed the crap movie METEORITES!. Here’s a flaming clue from space … stick with instead of movies that need three little heads in the bottom right corner. Bonus, for anybody that cares ……

  • Return of the Rolling Luggage

    Tuesday … 9:30AM … San Jose Convention Center Yes, you can all relax now. I got my luggage back. My string of bad luggage luck got worked out yesterday. I had to hang out in the San Jose Airport Terminal A luggage claim for an hour, but I was rewarded with the return of my…

  • Black Rolling Bags

    August 26, 2001 … 9:06 PM … San Jose, CA An empty baggage carousel works its way in a counter-clockwise motion. On any other flight, on any other day, my two black rolling bags would be on that carousel. Today they are not.

  • Spammed with Spam

    I was spammed today, using Spam. Since Spam filtering is currently disabled in Excite Inbox (probably due to their 3.0 beta test), I was greeted with this spam … a picture of Spam e-mailed to me. Subtle humor and annoyance, all rolled into one. Thank goodness this didn’t come by standard mail.

  • Up, Up and Away

    Tuesday, August 21. 9:22 PM EST Pecan Delight or Ruffles? After completing what was advertised as a “turkey sandwich”, I contemplate the remainder of my in-flight snack. The Ruffles contain a modest 3% of my federally mandated sodium for the day. However the Pecan Delight mingles chocolate with the subtle flavors of partially hydrogenated cottonseed…

  • No, not Uma Thurmond!

    What has happened to the south? Can Dixie exist without Jesse Helms & Strom Thurmond? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,32625,00.html