I love how she was going to ‘call her lawyer’...and if they actually picked up she would then be on the hook for more than the cost of her ticket (or even the cost of a ticket on a far superior airline) in lawyers fees.  

‘The way to help others is to open the door and LEAVE.’ (emphasis mine)

This article got me wondering that very thing.

I don’t think anyone expects you to comb through the wrecked/sinking/burning plane to drag people to safety, but from my experience the verbiage (both in print and stated by the flight attendant) usually includes something along the lines of ‘assist other passengers to exit the plane’. Here’s an excerpt from Alaska…

Yeah...we had a Stanza Wagon that had ‘jump seats’ in the way back...basically just the actual seat part and some weird seatbelt arrangement. Pretty uncomfortable as you leaned the wrong way into the incline of the second row seat...but you’re right, at least that had 6 - 8 real hard points that it locked into. And in…

Indeed...the Jump seats in the bed of my uncles’ Subaru Brat were indeed the preferred spot among us kids to ride to the beach in when he would come to visit every summer, but even back then we only half jokingly called them ‘the ejector seats’...

But you still get the perks...metal detector instead of body scanner (a little bit faster), you can keep your shoes and jacket on typically, and leave your (single) laptop in your bag...usually. I’ve noticed there does seem to be some variance between individual airports, but you frequently do not get most or all of…

Shark Wheel

A gig’s a gig...?

“...if there’s no other choice...”

“...based on a Turing TU117-150 graphics processor and sports 512 CUDA cores.”

Just picked up a Zenbook 14 over Memorial Day for $450. Ryzen 5 5500u (6-core) with Nvidia MX450 discrete gpu (sadly no NVENC). 8GB ram (soldered) and 256GB ssd. An absolute steal at $450. Still available currently on Amazon for $534 which is still pretty good for anything with discrete graphics and and a 6-core cpu...

Jake’s n’avi body was grown by the corporation originally for his brother, but since they were identical twins Jake was apparently compatible with it following his brothers untimely demise. They heavily imply at the end of the first film that Jake was able to successfully transfer his consciousness permanently to the…

I would imagine if there is sufficient demand someone will make a socket compatible heating module that simply includes a relatively small LED for the light as well.

“If you had a big MP3 collection in the late ‘90s and early aughts you were also a devoted Winamp user...”

I suppose it is good to see a major player like Samsung still churning out Android tablets, but I’ve gotta ask/wonder, what are people doing with these gigantic ‘laptop replacement’ tablets that run mobile OS’s (I’m including the iPad Pro in this question) ?