Category Archives: Too good to miss

On Barbara, her rhubarb flan, 3 bearded barbarians and a beer drinking barber

Posted on 17 December, 2013 by jb

Only one category fits…

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Signing off

Posted on 11 December, 2013 by jb

Appears that the official signer was a tad challenged in his skill set. Someone wrote: This is obviously bad and shocking and terrible, but hilarious in its complete crap-ness. Maybe he was doing it in dialect? Or txting, even

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Back to the drawing board….

Posted on 10 December, 2013 by jb

  Oh. It appears that the speed was..er.. terminal…

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Turkish Airlines rewrites history. Fail…..

Posted on 9 December, 2013 by jb

First colonial settlements? 1788, 10 years later and a year after James Cook’s death. Captain Cook? Discovered Australia in 1770. Murdered by Hawaiians in 1779. Captain Cook advised that all convicts be deported? His influence on judicial policy in England … Continue reading →

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Mona Lisa. 480 pixels.

Posted on 5 December, 2013 by jb
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Gender Benders

Posted on 5 December, 2013 by jb

Paul, proprietor of the excellent Kaffeekommune zwei, pointed me to this. I have no idea why. I could be his grandfather. More here

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Keeping it simple

Posted on 28 November, 2013 by jb

  HT BoingBoing

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Revenue Management

Posted on 20 November, 2013 by jb

A practitioner writes: I was also a one-man pioneer of yield management. When the transatlantic APEX fares came in, much lower than anything that had gone before, one of my jobs was to decide what the allocation of APEX seats … Continue reading →

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Like a Rolling Stone

Posted on 20 November, 2013 by jb

Jason Kottke points me to some terrific stuff This for example: http://video.bobdylan.com/desktop.html

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Better coffee. Better people. Better view.

Posted on 5 November, 2013 by jb

Appleshed, Mapua wharf

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