Trying to balance your iPad on your tray table in coach is like trying to clean food off a little kids face when they are still running around. The iPad cover I got for my iPad collapses in turbulence and when the person in front of me adjusts his/her seat. …
Read More »Try the World Review: Not Super Impressed
Once Try the World came out, I saw a lot of positive reviews for the concept of it. And the concept is cool.  Every other month, you receive a box of 6-7 delicacies from a country of the month. All for $39. I signed up for a few months to check …
Read More »Unopened Soda Cans Are Potential Weapons in Flight, But Beer Isn’t?
There was a bit of controversy for United this past week over a soda can and a beer can. Apparently, a woman on a flight was denied a can of unopened soda because she could use it as a weapon, but the man next to her was give an unopened …
Read More »All United Airlines Flights Grounded in US Over Potential Flight Plan Issues
United grounded all its flights for about an hour this morning. According to Wired, United hasn’t given specific reasons, but people have been tweeting information as they hear it. Though United hasn’t indicated the cause for the grounding, tweets from onboard passengers and a news report have indicated various possible …
Read More »Don’t (Manic) Panic! ThinkGeek Deal with Hot Topic is Off
Sometimes you think you’ve found the one. That’s what ThinkGeek thought when it met Hot Topic.  Edgy, unnatural colored hair and full of deep thoughts written in cursive strewn across t-shirts bearing unicorns. And then it met GameStop. It’s not that it doesn’t like Hot Topic anymore.  It just doesn’t like like Hot Topic anymore. …
Read More »30 Years of the Super Mario Brothers
Mario, of Nintendo fame, is celebrating his 30th birthday. Wait, since I played Super Mario Brothers as I kid this would mean I’m–let’s forget about the age thing. But Nintendo has released a fun website celebrating Mario’s birthday milestone. If you go to the history tab, there are cute highlights …
Read More »TSA Let Weapons Through Security in 19 out of 20 Times in Tests
Aka the TSA let 95% of weapons through security during tests.  Sorry, percentages seem to break things on WordPress. According to an ABC exclusive: An internal investigation of the Transportation Security Administration revealed security failures at dozens of the nation’s busiest airports, where undercover investigators were able to smuggle mock …
Read More »How Points Made a Last Minute Lunch Date in Another State Possible
I’m a impulsive flexible person.  So as long as I have nothing else planned, I’m up for almost anything last second. For reasons too complicated to go into, lunch plans I had tentatively been  making with my mother and sister suddenly had to happen right away or never at all.  In …
Read More »Embracing the Wearing-Yoga-Pants-While-Traveling Trend
Betabrand, inventor of the controversial work-yoga-pants, has developed a pair of yoga pants intended for travel. Betabrand’s whole shtick is that it creates yoga pants that look more like dress pants. The public disagrees over whether or not it accomplishes “looking like real pants,” but it at least looks like …
Read More »Google’s New Photo App Makes Organizing Travel Pics So Much Easier
I’ve been a fan of what Google Plus photos has done in the past (previously confusingly called Google Photos in app version–which is a totally different product). It has created literal road maps of where I’ve gone and taken photos. Â It has also smartly figured out when my trips have …
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