This is probably a stock photo, but people really need to be careful about security of their boarding pass. You can read a lot from the bar code.

The best cover of “Africa” I’ve seen or heard:

If you want a really good recommendation from hotel/restaurant staff, find a busboy or dishwasher. They know the cheap places that are decent and are definitely *not* on the tourist route.

http://www.mediahuman.com/youtube-to-mp3-converter/ works great for me. Supports batch, which is nice when you have a load of streams you want to pull.

I have a serious love of bags - my wife says it is a “unhealthy compulsion, bordering on a fetish”, but hey.

I’ve got a serious bag fetish, but I have never understood bags with MOLLE, outside of a very specific niche user group.

Whats wrong with CPAN? Sure, keeping your perl libraries and modules up to date isn’t the most exciting thing in the world, but I doubt that it induces insomnia?

If you want to go to sleep (or just trip out), you cannot beat Ken Nordine’s WordJazz.

A four-minute video to share a 30 second tip.

Yours or theirs?

One of the better features of Google Voice is (was?) known-spam call rejection.

I am on my second remake of the suit I ordered with the last promo. If they don’t get it right this time, I am asking for a refund.

I am on my second remake of the suit I ordered with the last promo. If they don’t get it right this time, I am…

In my experience, “exit interviews” are more focused on HR reminding you of your NDA/non-compete obligations and making it clear that the company will hold you to them. They couldn’t care less about making things better or wanting to dig in to your reasons.

“The pilot, presumably knowing just how dire the situation was, was able to shave ten minutes off of what would normally be a 35-minute flight”

The only choices I would consider when thinking about a bus tour is how I would rather off myself.

The “Golden Hour” concept, as well as the majority of our current EMS knowledge, was a direct result of combat medicine from the Vietnam war (and Korea). The majority of all EMS equipment and methodology can be traced directly back to frontline medics of that era.

“The Uran-9 is not a subtle machine.”

“What can I get you do drink?”

Bob Hoover was The Man. I got to meet him in the early 70s, but I was too young to really comprehend who he was, other than a really good pilot.

When executed properly, a barrel roll won’t spill a drop outta your high-ball glass.