I hate Southwest Airlines

There are 22 people on the 9am flight to Vegas. I’m booked on the 10:10am flight to Vegas, which is completely full. I asked if I could get on the earlier flight, since there are (see above) 22 people on it.
“Of course you can, sweetie.”
“Great, that’d be wonderful!”
“It’ll be $72.00.”
Blink.
Yup. On Southwest, to standby on [...]



The Top Five Things I Won’t Have Time to See in Vegas This CES…

#5: The Hoover Dam. No matter how many damn times I go to Vegas, I’ve yet to see the damn dam! And I really kinda want to! Dam.
#4: The Desert. Back in 2005, I took my best friend to Vegas for his bachelor party, and we ran around on 4-wheelers in the desert. It’s still a [...]



Thanks, Warner Home Video, for screwing up my Sunday night CES plans…

Stupid Warner Home Video – Choosing to go with Blu-Ray instead of HD… Which of course, in a very tail-between-their-legs type of way, caused the HD DVD consortium to cancel their Sunday night CES party. Which was shaping up to be a good one, and a good way to get into the CES groove.
Letter all [...]