86-year old Mr. Van Dam worked for Airbus, but retired before the A380 was released.  The A380 is the world’s largest passenger plane, and Mr. Van Dam has been enamored with it from afar. Our intrepid plane spotter headed out to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in hopes of seeing the A380.  While …

These have been making the rounds on my Facebook.  And while it looks delicious, it is completely inedible. Behold, the Han Solo Pop Tart Art: Part of this balanced breakfast…… Pop-art: Frosted Han Solo coming soon to a galaxy near you. #resin #art #toys #Falcontoys #feedmeresin #StarWars #HanSolo #Poptart A …

A reader passed this article onto me regarding hacked ATMs in Cancun.  At first, I glanced at the article and thought to myself, “well, a lot of ATMs get ‘hacked’ with those devices people attach to the outside of them,” but then realized how systemic it is in Cancun as …

I had the pleasure of meeting the SWDTech Games and playing a demo version of their Pixel Noir game.  They launched a Kickstarter for the game when still relatively unknown and, unfortunately, came up short during funding. After waiting it out and growing their profile a bit, they have launched a new Kickstarter–one …

I was recently contacted to give some tips to USA Today‘s Road Warrior Voices, and found my suggestions among a multitude of great suggestions. The first article was how to avoid fees when flying.  I focused on low-cost carriers, but the other bloggers explored different ways of avoiding fees on …

I was stuck in traffic today.  The person behind me was looking at their phone and nearly ran into the back of my car.  He slammed on the breaks and screeched to a halt pretty suddenly. (I could see him coming in my rear view mirror and was hoping he …

I’ve mentioned before that I like silicon travel bottles because you can actually get everything out of them .  I found them once for $2.99 each (for the small size) and never saw them that cheap again. Amazon has a sale today on Attmu silicon travel bottles.  It is $9.99 …

On my recent trip to San Francisco, I rented from my usual place, Alamo, and drove off.  As I picked up everyone else, I suddenly remembered something.  The Golden Gate Bridge does not take cash and my car didn’t have a Toll Pass. Luckily, there’s a solution for that. You are …

The internet on cruise ships costs a pretty penny.  I just spent more than I want to think about checking work emails while at sea. But the cost makes sense–the cost not only includes the infrastructure to maintain an internet connection at sea, but also ensures too many people aren’t …

One of my favorite iOS games has been Kingdom Rush–a tower defense game where you must protect villages from varying mythical creatures / fantasy characters. What I loved about this game was that the attacking hordes were so varied, you had to constantly think of how to upgrade towers for future types …