Today must be “free deal” day!  I’d make it official if it didn’t sound so lame. I already own Titanfall, but you can get it for Xbox One technically for free, as long as you remember to mail in the rebate. The details on how to get the deal are here. …

You’re at the end of one business trip and headed to another one immediately after.  You calculate you can get five hours of sleep on the airplane in your business class seat.  You lean back, close your eyes, and then are startled by the crying of a toddler. Should that …

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A reminder that the contest to win free in-flight internet is still going on. This post is completely unrelated to my Gogo gear tweets today (and neither are sponsored by Gogo itself, though I am a huge fan of Gogo!) Entry form is below. ——————————————————- Internet on airplanes is proof …

Amazon offers a new-ish product on their site called Amazon Home Services.  It connects customers to service providers who can do a variety of tasks at their home–air duct cleaning, home cleaning, HVAC tune ups, and more.  This also includes things such as in-home guitar lessons. From Amazon’s website, all …

A Qantas pilot made all of his in-flight announcements on the air traffic control line by mistake.  Since he went through all the announcements without taking a break, he clogged up the entire ATC line. In addition to interrupting the conversation on the ATC line, he didn’t take enough of a …

Two years ago, Belguim was building a beer pipeline.  I thought that was pretty awesome.  But then I came across something even more awesome, but it was unfortunately shut down. Authorities shut down a vodka pipeline in 2013 after they discovered it through a routine inspection. From Slate: Kyrgyz customs officials have …

One time I got caught in a crosswind while landing.  We ended up landing so hard, we needed a tow to the gate. Even the most seasoned pilot can struggle in a crosswind.  They can suddenly happen and make landing a lot more difficult. From the Wikipedia article on it: …

When I first moved to the DC are, my friends knew they could come to me to know about any happy hour in the area.  Virginia has weird rules about advertising happy hours, so it made this knowledge even more valuable. Now they don’t need me.  And when I go …

Internet on airplanes is proof that the future is now.  (Well, okay, flying cars would have been, but it’s still pretty awesome). I’ve been able to fly more because of airplane wifi.  I can take a five hour flight and get massive amounts of work done, all while staying in …