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The AP photo

Saturday, January 31st, 2004

I don’t know Wesley Clark, Democratic hopeful, but I do know the other two guys (Leonard Richardson and Dave Mason) in a "top story" photo from the Associated Press. Small world, huh?

Plane crazy

Friday, January 30th, 2004

Pictured above is the plane in which we were passengers, snapshotted shortly after it nearly crashed while landing (with us in it).

Smart bird

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

BBC News has a nice little story about a smart parrot. It sound almost like a movie plot.

Public service announcement on spam

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Quote: "I’m begging you, before I have to delete another thousand (yes, thousand) bogus emails — please either update your antivirus and Windows systems, or stop running Windows, or get off the internet. For the good of the internet, before we have to change email so much that it doesn’t work anymore, please fix this [...]

Slip and slide, airline edition

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Brent, Tammy, and I flew back Monday after two previous flight cancellations. The flight was plagued with turbulence most of the way back, especially once we were nearing Raleigh. We also couldn’t see anything for much of the duration in the air as we were traveling in clouds most of the way. Our landing, however, [...]

Flight or frightful weather?

Monday, January 26th, 2004

We were rebooked for the 1:30 pm plane leaving today. It was also canceled. We have rescheduled for a later plane, but it looks as though there’s a strong likelihood that it too will be canceled as well, which would mean that we would have to be here another night. There is a chance that [...]

Stuck in New York

Sunday, January 25th, 2004

A large ice storm moved in to the Raleigh area, so the airport is closed until further notice. This leaves a few of us who planned on leaving tonight (Sunday) stranded in New York city. The weather is supposed to continue for the next couple days and move up here to New York. When it [...]


Stop SOPA