Le Chic Geek

I have a large collection of apps I love to use in the air–both ones that require wi-fi and those that don’t. I ran into an interesting problem on a flight yesterday.  I brought my iPad with me and booted up my favorite apps. And whoops. It appears that May …

When we moved to our current house, a bunch of friends brought houseplants as housewarming gifts.  Including a plant that’s “impossible to kill.” Yup, I killed it. I had a bunch of travel immediately after that and despite my efforts to water in between, the plants eventually drooped over and …

LUSH is a company that sells body products that is focused on being green.  So much so, they try to put as many of their products in “naked” packaging. That is, they want as many of their products to not need a container at all. In furtherance of this, they’ve …

I’m here at Delta, seconds from pulling this plane. Other teams have really gotten into this.   But what we lack in t-shirts, we make up for in heart. Though I did wear my Sharknado shirt. You can find our team fundraising page here. Pizza in Motion was matching donations …

Plus a picture of Seth. Here’s all my live-tweeting from the evening:   [View the story “The Freddie Awards” on Storify]

On a Phoenix to Tuscon flight, half the plane started cracking up when the flight attendant announced, “In the unlikely event of a water landing…”  The flight attendant protested that he had to say that, by law and he knows it is completely ridiculous to say. This video from College Humor …

Pizza in Motion asked me to be on his team and pull an airplane tomorrow.  Yes, a literal airplane. Read his post for more context. But in this case, I don’t think he’d mind me copying and pasting some of it, since it’s for charity. The donations to the American …

I’ve written about DuoLingo before, the free game-ified way of learning languages that I prefer to Rosetta Stone.  Here’s why I prefer it to Rosetta Stone. They just announced that they are releasing new languages. In addition to Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Irish, Swedish, Dutch, and Danish, you can now learn: Turkish Esperanto Norwegian Ukrainian Hungarian Klingon …

I’d never really been an American Airlines flyer before the merger.  So it surprised me the first time I went into an American Admiral’s club and could order some food off a menu. For a cost, of course. Today, I am flying a couple of short flights that only qualify as …

Back before electronics were allowed during take off and landing, there were a lot of jokes about the damage an iPad or Kindle could do for your flight. (Language warning) But iPads delayed or sent planes back to the gate after the software pilots use crashed. According to re/code: Pilots …