Year: 2002

An absolutely wonderful day. Made waffles for everyone (my wife and two sons, and my in-laws are in town) to start the day, then spent all morning and early afternoon cooking with my wife. Butternut squash soup (from scratch), followed by turkey (which had brined for 9 hours, then air dryed for 12) that was…

Dry Ice in the Toilet. What happens when you put dry ice into an airplane toilet at 33,000 feet? One unfortunate pilot found out, and the story is priceless. He turns and looks at the toilet. But it has, for all practical purposes, disappeared, and where it once rested he now finds what he will…

Check this bit out from yesterday’s All Things Considered: John Freyer decided he had too much “stuff” in his life, so he decided to have a virtual yard sale on the Web. He wound up selling everything, including odd items like leftover pork rinds, a set of old false teeth and his own eye glasses.…

Nothing like flying 4000 miles, arriving late and having to go directly to your day-long meeting without so much as a swing by the hotel to take a shower! We were almost two hours late leaving O’Hare last night, arrived close to an hour late in London. Then the fun started – Heathrow Express took…

From Jeff’s Radio Weblog: Congratulations to Rick Klau who recently passed me on the all-time most-read list: 78. The Fat Guy30,374  79. tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog29,594  80. Jeff’s Radio Weblog29,590  81. Jeroen Bekkers’ Groove Weblog28,669  82. The .NET Guy28,660     6:10:05 PM  Link  Google It!Thanks, Jeff! And according to SiteMeter, I’m about to have my 20,000th visitor to the site (probably within the hour). Including page views from…

Here’s a trivia nugget for you: my alma mater plays tomorrow in the most played rivalry in college football. Do you know who is playing? (Hint: tomorrow will mark the 138th meeting of the two teams, 36 more meetings than Army-Navy and 20 more than Harvard-Yale.)

For sheer excitement, I can’t imagine that anything on TV is better than 24 this season. I love that even though I’ve been traveling most of the last two weeks, I was able to get caught up on the last two episodes of 24 last night by watching Tivo. That it was Nina who helped…

Travel schedule has been nuts. Boston, Phoenix, Philadelphia and New York last week. I’m in London now (and will be back again for a day and a half next week). I keep telling myself that the whole family is going to Florida for a week for free thanks to this insane travel schedule. Posts will…

From Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, an opinion piece by Jeffery Sonnenfeld, the associate dean at Yale School of Management. Titled “Three Cheers for Charisma”, it’s an attempt at resstablishing the need for charisma in the senior executive post. The article is motivated in part on some recent academic studies (he doesn’t name which ones) trying…

I’ve flown close to 100,000 miles this year, and am alarmed at a trend that I’ve witnessed in dozens of airports: men talking on cell phones while in the bathroom. Do women do this too? It’s bad enough that you have to hear their conversation echoing throughout the walls of the bathroom – but I…