Archive for August, 2006

This Woods kid just might have a future in golf….

Posted by Barry on August 28th, 2006

Wins the World Golf Championship after winning the PGA, which makes it 4 in a row and 6 this year out of 13 played. 10 years on tour, 12 majors, second all time. 52 tournament wins, tied for 5th ALL TIME. After only 10 years. Holds the scoring record for all 4 majors. And he’s WON 26% of the PGA tournaments he’s started. That’s insane.

Dept of “How the Hell did THAT happen?”

Posted by Barry on August 28th, 2006

my daughter just started school today. Suddenly she’s 6 and we’ve been in Vermont 7+ years.

Great TV show

Posted by Barry on August 22nd, 2006

It still escapes me how Sportsnight didn’t do better during it’s two year run on network tv. Great stuff. Currently in reruns on Comedy Central. Check it out.

The King’s Rules for Air Travel

Posted by Barry on August 21st, 2006

If you’re not smart enough to figure out row numbers
and that A is the window seat and C is the aisle seat,
then you’re not smart enough to be travelling by airplane.

When they say preboarding, it means preboarding. Group 1 means Group 1.
Anyone boarding out of order / cutting WILL be bumped to the next flight.
And anyone pretending they don’t speak English and don’t understand when they were clearly speaking English to someone else a few minutes ago will also be bumped.

I understand competition, supply and demand. But it’s just wrong that it costs me $100 more to fly to my in-laws in Austin Texas than it would to fly to Bermuda or the Bahamas….

And while I’m not a HUGE numbers guy, I do know that when you are selling every single seat on the vast majority of your flights and all your customers are crammed in like sardines and miserable, yet your airline is still losing money…then YOU’RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.

Kudos to my new friends at JetBlue. Fantastic customer service, friendly flight attendants and gate personnel, enough legroom on the planes, and individual tv monitors at each seat. Nice to see a company that is at least trying to improve air travel.

Great Band Names

Posted by Barry on August 21st, 2006

I Killed The Prom Queen
Lez Zeppelin (all girl Zeppelin tribute band)
Half Shaved Yak

SUCCESS! He traded a paperclip for a house….

Posted by Barry on August 4th, 2006

The crazy Canadian pulled it off

The kid with who started with one red paperclip has managed to barter his way thru a bunch of trades all the way up to a FREE HOUSE. The greatness of the internet.


What the Hell were you thinking FLOYD LANDIS?

Posted by Barry on August 2nd, 2006