Flying from SFO-(AA)-ORD-(AA)-LHR-(bus)-LGW-(BA)-FAO. That's Faro, Portugal, where my parents are waiting, having arrived on a separate nonstop flight from Toronto. (Multiple Canadian tourists had been killed in Mexico in separate incidents that year, and tour operators had found the Algarve as a destination with…

So, my travel time ended up being 29 hours to get from Little Rock to New Orleans. It would have been a 7 hour drive. This story brought to you by United. They know you have a choice when it comes to flying and they wonder why you choose them."

RE paragraph 2: If I get to work early, it will be easier for me to find a parking space. Therefore, if everybody gets to work early, it will be easier for everybody to find parking spaces.

Any color that is not available on the base trim but is available at a higher trim level. For example, on the Kia Soul, Blue. (Weirdly, there are colors available on the middle trim level that aren't available on the top trim level. What's wrong with you, Kia?)

Idea for an Achievement: "Backlog". Unlocked automatically when you buy the game, then locked forever the first time you play it.

He will eat you if you are wrong.

Unfortunately the car rental place was at the top of a hill.

No love for Ahoy Ahoy?

At least 38 people died constructing this road. They call it Ceausescu's folly, one of the most absurd highways in the world, and according to Top Gear, the greatest driving road there is. It's Romania's Transfagaran Highway.

Are Oyster cards commonly usable to pay for things other than transit the way Octopus cards are in HK?

Nice airspace you got there. Shame if anything were to happen in it.

Use a GM screen. It's ok if the evening ends in a Total Party Kill because the heroes were relentlessly stupid, but it's not ok if it ends that way because you didn't realize how tough these monsters were. Fudge the die rolls to correct your mistakes, not theirs.

Any other Canadians remember the Mega Maze at Ontario Place? I think it had 6 segments that were different kinds of mazes, and you had a swipe card that you swiped at the end of each section so you could compare split times. Some of the sections maybe weren't strict mazes in that there weren't dead ends, but I think…

3. Marketing: Let Nintendo have the kids. Kalinske wanted everyone else, and he aimed to let them know they were wanted. Sega needed to redefine itself as hip, cool, and in-your-face. Doing so would not only speak to older generations but present video games as a mainstream form of entertainment, no different from…

I think the Summer Olympics should move all the indoor sports to the Winter Olympics so they can make room for Figure Skateboarding.

This is good, not just from a don't-kill-myself perspective, but also to try and get a better feel for drag racing. I still found it to be incredibly challenging in ways I never previously would have expected. It's still that unique combination of precision, timing, and raw power that doesn't really exist in any other…

I bought a Matrox G400 because it had hardware EMBM support. That support made Drakan, the game I primarily wanted to play, crash. Then the original GeForce came out and non-programmable pipelines were dead.

Not really, no. They're sort of like the Coke Vs. Pepsi of video games. That comparison is all the more relevant considering that some of their other competitors, like Intel, have captured a much larger portion of the overall graphics market by appealing to PC users who don't need to play serious games and thus don't…

Too much to hope for a Planar Birth reprint to go with this?

I totally want a new F-Zero game, but the thing I want most of all is a racing game with Nintendo's standards for production quality where drifting is as unwise as it is in real racing. You know, a racing game where you have to use the brakes multiple times per lap. A racing game where you want to go forward, not on a…