Some seriously geeky cyclists painted power-up symbols from Mario Kart onto some of Portland, Oregon’s bike lanes.
The video is hilarious: watch the cyclists do their best to avoid the banana peels. Better still: the newscaster rattling off what each symbol means.
Unfortunately, the bananas, star and speed arrows dont actually confer the same powers they do in the game, but we did smirk to see that all of the bikers do faithfully avoid the banana peel, and hit the rest of the symbols head on.
This macaque has taken it upon itself to look after a cute little kitten.
This doesn’t mean you should go into the jungle and deposit unwanted kittens- our macaque is probably what you’d call an edge case. But still. This is insanely cute.
Hit the link for a monkey-and-cat-as-best-friends photo gallery.
Rolf Potts is going on a round the world trip, and he isn’t checking any luggage. He’s also not putting anything beneath the seat in front of him. Rolf will only have a few items in his pockets, including his own underwear (and, if he gets lucky, someone else’s), as well as a few other items (What Rolf Potts is wearing or carrying). I hope he’s ready for a spike in “random” security checks at the gate.
Rolf’s not doing this to prove he’s cooler than us, though I suppose it’s a possibility. He wants to demonstrate that you can enjoy a trip without packing the kitchen sink- indeed, your journey can improve by your not being saddled with lots of bags.
One caveat: not all of us can afford to buy new stuff everywhere we land- there’s a real-world tradeoff between ultralight and budget-conscious.
In the end, that remember that going without luggage and packing ultra-light need not be an extreme act. It isn’t a contest, or a rite of travel-superiority: It’s just a great way to eliminate distractions and concentrate on the experience of the journey itself.
In other words, you don’t lose Jet Trash street cred if you bring jeans. I’m on the fence about those neck-pillows, though…
What’s cool about Hipmunk (besides the stellar flying-ace chipmunk) is that you can sort your results not only by price, duration and layovers, but also by agony: an amalgamation of duration, layover time and price.
Personally, I don’t find sites like Sidestep all that complicated, but seeing a diagram of just how long I’ll be sitting on my ass, relative to overall travel time, is both bracing and fascinating. Pricewise, I don’t see Hipmunk’s results as being all that different from its competitors, but Hipmunk is extremely basic in its layout, and wisely presumes that the user will ignore the overly-expensive or -complex flight options.
Hipmunk’s best feature, in my opinion: you’re able to keep multiple searches going at once, rather than duplicating it across redundant browser tabs.
Hipmunk: showing you how crazy you are to book long-haul flights.
This is hardly an isolated incident- hundreds of TSA staffers have been fired over the years for their sticky-fingered behavior, and theft of prescription medicine and eyeglasses have spiked since the TSA was founded.
The TSA simply can’t control its staff even if it wants to, and the will doesn’t quite seem to be there in the first place, so it’s best if you travel with carry-on only, or make sure that nothing valuable is packed in your checked luggage.
The 4 Star Cinema is another casual San Francisco landmark: a building that persists through time. Unlike most of America, San Francisco seems to cling to its architectural history on a local level: walking down Clement street, you could be in 1952 or 1975 or, in this case, 2010.
As per tradition, I stop by every time I land at SFO.
On the way to Vesuvio, I snapped this photo outside a bar on Green Street, and the bartender dashed outside to confront me. The though I was “tagging the window”. I most certainly was not. He was apologetic about the misunderstanding. It was all good.
Not a very exciting story, but a stellar stained-glass martini.
Your keychain knife always gets confiscated at the airport. You also never have a pen handy to fill out landing cards. What if your keychain knife were replaced with a keychain pen? Dare to dream!
Well, dream no more. The Penpod has you covered.
I ordered mine from jetpens.com; it only cost a few bucks. Now I won’t have to bug the flight attendants or contort my way under the seat to dig for a pen. Sweet.
Apologies in advance if you haven’t seen Jetpens yet. There goes all your disposable income if you’re into writing implements and journals.
Two men, Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, crossed the big, beautiful USA in order to combat the scourge of typos and misspellings on signage.
I can’t believe they only found 437 typos. The greengrocer’s apostrophe seemed to be a repeat offender. Those things drive me berserk.
Deck carried a variety of Sharpies, of which “the black Sharpie was the most important.” Deck also carried Wite-Out, dry erase markers, chalk, crayons and pens.
