Category: People are Crazy…

The First Officer’s Lament Part 3: The Captain has Gone Rogue

Shoot! The Holidays have passed and I haven’t even finished the First Officers Lament! It’s been over two weeks since I last posted. My first New Year’s resolution is to have something up at least once a week! And not to make it too long! And not to always be drunk when I am writing! …

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The Best Part of Sanf Francisco is…

San Francisco, is one of my favorite cities to visit. Whether you like it or not, you can’t deny it is at least interesting. This news clip kind of sums it up: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2012/11/06/dnt-ca-proposed-nudist-ban.kgo. Basically the city is fighting a group of people who feel it is their inalienable right to hang out naked, in the middle of …

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Man Caught Smoking On Airplane…My Airplane!

  Oh man people do crazy things. So I am excited to report that on Monday, a particularly stormy day in Chicago, I got to witness someone doing something crazy. First I must pontificate a little: There are crazy people that do crazy things all the time. Then there are rational people, when under stressful circumstances, have …

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The Best Hand Dryer in the World (at least in the continental U.S.)

Hand dryers are something that you probably don’t give a lot of thought to. Not in the same way you worry about the coming global financial collapse or “What’s for dinner…tomorrow?” But nothing, speaking for myself, causes as much of a panic with soaking hands as an old-fashioned hand dryer. Especially if it is one of …

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