If you fly American Airlines, you get to read their SkyMall magazine. It’s far more interesting than the actual American Airlines magazine also found in your seat pocket. You’ve got a lot of time in the air to ponder why people would want to buy some of this stuff. For example:
“Bigfoot, the Garden Yeti” statue
Who [...]
I recently received an email from my employer’s security office advising me that a set of master keys which opened every building on campus had been stolen. Apparently:
Yesterday evening one of our Wilson guards on Swanston St was robbed of his key set which contained the master keys for all the buildings on main campus. [...]
I returned from several weeks travelling to find a series of puzzling voicemail messages on my mobile phone. The people leaving messages often sounded confused and tentative, with several referring to rescuing cats. Huh? I assumed there was a miscommunication somewhere and my phone number had been given out in error - there were too [...]
I’m currently sitting in McCarran airport in Las Vegas and thought I’d grab a quick bite to eat before we fly to Los Angeles. Unfortunately some SPOTD in the Burger King management has failed to grasp the concept of the market they’re serving.
At 6pm on a Friday night, they’ve closed for the evening.
WTF?
There is a [...]
The Gaylord Palms Hotel Resort and Convention Centre is just a little bit odd when it comes to decor.
I had not heard of Polish airline LOT before we started planning our travels. The error was all mine, it seems because the experience was a delight!
Expecting a tin-pot little airline we were pleasantly surprised to find a spacious, comfortable cabin where economy standard was actually better than business class domestic on Qantas. [...]
Todays SPOTD is truly a MooQuack SPOTD.
Upon logging in to check my email, I found I was redirected to the index page of the website except now it featured advertisements and was apparently under control of someone else. I was baffled – I had my domain name set up to auto-renew, I believed, so [...]
We connected again with our Austrian friends in Werfen today. As we had headed down to Wolfsberg and back up to Werfen via Moosheim, they had driven across from Vienna.
Our bed for the night was in Pension Weisses Rossl with a very friendly host named Doris. The pension had a view of the [...]
Ah, the joys of driving on the other side of the road…
After a couple of hours being numbed by the incredibly dull Austrian highway system (possible motto: “we like to put up high fences to hide any view of Austria”), we finally arrived at Wolfsberg in the southern part of the country. As we pulled [...]
We hired a car from Europcar Vienna and when we booked it, decided not to book a GPS device to assist with navigation since we had intended to purchase the Austrian map for the GPS in our mobile phone. Since we can use GPS without the need for an active SIM card, it seemed the [...]
