United Points: Spend ‘em If You Got ‘em…Quick!
Posted on January 25, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
I have a gazillion (or maybe half that) frequent flier points on United, a carrier that I have attempted to avoid over the past few years because of some REALLY BAD EXPERIENCES, like not being given a boarding pass because the airline was holding out for people on an overbooked flight that paid more than [...]
Read More..>>Review: Nikon D80 Digital SLR
Posted on January 24, 2007 - Filed Under Gadgets & Cameras, Photography | Leave a Comment
I have a deep satisfaction when a mechanical device does what it is supposed to do, when all of the buttons are labeled correctly, in the correct place, reachable by the correct finger or opposing thumb. I found that in the Nikon D80, my first digital single lens reflex camera. I was a holdout, suffering [...]
Read More..>>The Chelsea Hotel: Topsy Turvy in New York City
Posted on January 23, 2007 - Filed Under Video, New York | Leave a Comment
Sometimes I just like to go sit on a stump. Sometimes in a wild place, watching lines of ants queued up, like Pharaohs’ slaves, delivering boulder-sized breadcrumbs to some fat-bustled queen. Often it is in some city square, like old Jerusalem, where I once sat a spell observing the haggling of a marketplace only to [...]
MIT Media Lab Demo – AudioPint
Posted on January 17, 2007 - Filed Under Video, Gadgets & Cameras, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
You can’t really travel with this (it would, among other things, drive your seatmate nuts) but it is pretty neat, especially for those of us who have delusions of talent. Imagine singing every part in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir…or at least singing barbershop with yourself, as David Merrill of MIT’s Media Lab showed me. Something [...]
MIT Media Lab Demo -AudioPint [ 5:05 ]Gear & Gloating in Las Vegas
Posted on January 17, 2007 - Filed Under Video, Gadgets & Cameras, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
OK, I just took down the Christmas tree, stashed the snowglobes, set the Roomba to the task of sweeping up the detritus of Christmas last. Been away in Las Vegas for the monster Consumer Electronics Show, where the gloat sweeps across the desert like a storm of flying lizards. I do a little tech TV [...]
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