Blog from the Loft

Is there such thing as soba noodles,
and pita bread?
What about Singapore fried rice in Singapore?
Where is Chinatown in Hong Kong?
What do you call Mercedes in Germany?

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Fun with public PCs

Most airline lounges now offer PC’s with Internet access,
which is great for me. I can check email, chat, shop, even
code with those while waiting for a plane. But recently
this gets even better for me, definitely more entertaining,
when people using these PCs start to leave personal information
on those machines.

For example, my last trip [...]

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April Fools

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So I made it back home after 3+ weeks. Flying through London to connect back to Boston. I changed my flights around, from an American Airline flight to a British Airlines one. [ A short diversion -- remember B.O.A.C. ? I watched Hitchcock's the Birds on the plane. At the very beginning, during the camera [...]

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A bilingual German co-worker said American have a funny way to measure time. “One second” according to an American would be about 2 minutes. “A minute” would be half an hour. “As soon as possible” probably means “sometimes this year”.

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