Le Chic Geek

I wrote about a cryptic message that FourSquare posted a few weeks ago that suggested they were bringing back the things we loved about FourSquare before they Swarmed it up. They said gamification was coming back but they didn’t say in what form.  I was hoping for the old style …

Surely you can’t be serious. I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley. According to USA Today’s Kim Wendel: A Jet Airways flight from Bangkok to Delhi had to make an emergency landing after the captain fell ill and, as a doctor was tending to him, another passenger was helping …

Ryanair passengers encountered a crappy situation when they realized something important was missing off their Murcia-London–toilet paper. According to MyFoxNY: The flight took off before cabin crew admitted to the passengers that the handling agents had failed restock the bathrooms. The warning provoked a mild panic throughout the airborne plane. …

Want access to Disney Parks products at home, including their limited edition pins? We’ve seen beauty boxes, food boxes, and clothing boxes.  But I think we’ve pretty much seen everything now. From WDW News Today: The first edition being released, called Trading Edition, will go on sale May 14th through …

A woman was flying to Rochester through JFK from Oakland, but instead ended up on a direct flight to Barbados from Oakland–with no passport or boarding pass. From Road Warrior Voices:  Hussainzada had been visiting her daughter in Oakland, Calif. and was scheduled to fly home to Rochester after a …

Google has been working on driver-less cars for a while, with a pretty good success rate. Now they’ve set their sights on flights. According to Bloomberg:  The chief of Google Inc.’s experimental cargo-drone program wants to see automated flight go beyond pilotless planes and extend to commercial air travel. Just …

After my brand new computer died a fiery pretty non-eventful death, I decided to invest in a cheap Chromebook just in case.  One thing about Chromebooks is you rely heavily on SD cards for storage, so I was poking around Amazon looking for cards.  Then saw a set significantly less than …

On a 3-week trip to Europe in 2007 we accidentally left our camera in a cab and didn’t have a camera for the rest of the trip. Back in November while traveling in Japan, I accidentally left our camera and my phone on the Bullet Train in Kyoto. Luckily this …

A friend and I were just out to drinks and confessed we always try to snag happy hour at our favorite restaurants. This made me think about my favorite app.  Happy Hour by GoTime. Available on both Droid and Apple The app will look around you and tell you where all the cheap drinks …

When traveling with my friend to Seattle for the Star Wars exhibit, we were talking about the various devices we carry to keep our phones charged. When I was traveling through Frankfurt security, I was asked if I was going to the Australian Outback or something.  The security person couldn’t …