Giving Wings to Grandma: An Interview With Joe Sutter, The Father of the Boeing 747
Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under Audio, Tech & Science, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Joseph Sutter- Photo© 2005 Russell Johnson Airlines come and go. But one airplane, put in service in 1970 by Pan Am and designed and built by Boeing is still flying, still being manufactured and, like Swiss Cheese or a Brooks Brothers suit, still looks the same. It is that ubiquitous, bulbous Cyrano of the skies, [...]
High Definition Video: Learn Travel and Tourism
Posted on December 11, 2008 - Filed Under Video, Sustainable Tourism, Travel Biz | 1 Comment
I wish I could say that I made a living as a blogger, but I do put wine in the flagon by producing projects such as Travel and Tourism: Opening Doors for Your Future, an interactive introductory course in Travel and Tourism, which we have just released. It is the successor to “World of Many [...]
Feed the Tiger: The Future of Las Vegas
Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under Hotels & Resorts, Las Vegas, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Traffic at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (c) Russell Johnson Feed the Tiger: The Future of Las Vegas When will it end? Why as our salaries shrink, our expectations dwindle, our house values plummet, our IRAs squeal like piggies being led to slaughter, does that supersize-me oasis of bare buns, aged [...]
Read More..>>Democracy and Debauchery
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Misc., News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Oh, we Americans are a wild and crazy bunch: toiling hard and productively, spreading democracy by day…partying hard by night. Or is it partying day and night? According to a new report on travel trends, we Yanks are binge drinking, G-string snapping “debaucherists,” longing for the eternal spring break. This report, put out by the [...]
2007:A Baggage Odyssey
Posted on February 9, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, Audio, News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
It is one of the best uses of music in a movie ever. In Stanley Kubrik’s classic “2001: A Space Odyssey, a bunch of crunky old rocket ships drift around space waltzing to the Blue Danube. Why does that make me think of airline baggage: “Look, there’s a flaming chunk of Samsonite reentering the atmosphere… [...]
