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• Humor, Travel

  And you think you had a bad day…

  05.07.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on And you think you had a bad day…

  I’m guessing this must have happened on a Monday…..kind of looks like that sort of event. Not quite taking out the Bay Bridge approach with your fuel truck, but still impressive.

• Travel

  First-class, business-class, coach, and wheel well?

  01.29.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on First-class, business-class, coach, and wheel well?

  Unfortunately for the traveler, this story does not have a good ending. Apparently a stowaway intended to make the trip to Los Angeles in the wheel well of a British Airways 747 from London’s Heathrow. That’s a terribly long trip in the cabin, let alone in a cramped, cold, depressurized, virtually no oxygen environment. Unsurprisingly, […]

• Business, Energy, Travel

  Atlanta, Geothermal project financing, and travel tips

  11.15.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Atlanta, Geothermal project financing, and travel tips

  We interrupt Ohio State/Michigan week for this special travel bulletin…I write this entry from a relatively empty gate (with power!) at Atlanta Hartfield airport. After leaving Baltimore early this morning and spending an hour on the ramp waiting for weather to pass I arrived at ATL having missed my connecting flight back to SJC. Oh […]

• Innovation, Travel

  Location matters

  09.26.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Location matters

  Global positioning systems have really come a long way in terms of what’s available commercially and who can get benefit from the technology. For those of you who are not familiar with GPS, the system is simple in concept though difficult to implement in practice. It works like this: a constellation of (at least) 24 […]

• Commentary, Travel

  Isn’t it nice to be home again?

  09.25.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Rolled in yesterday from Vegas, 9 hours including stops for the trip covering some 570 miles. Uneventful day from a travel perspective though the massive solar array at the intersection of CA58 and US395 was interesting to see as was the growth in the wind farm (nearly 5,000 turbines now) at Tehachapi. Amazing how powerful […]

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