Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
Screen capture from the website (click for actual size):
Update: February 1st, 6:16am: I picked up my luggage from the front desk. The night clerk said it arrived around 2am. So far I haven’t noticed anything missing.
Screen capture from the website (click for actual size):
Update: February 1st, 6:16am: I picked up my luggage from the front desk. The night clerk said it arrived around 2am. So far I haven’t noticed anything missing.
Here are some shoes captured by an Associated Press photographer in Bahrain. Other than the fact that I’ve always been told white socks and black shoes are bad, they look like decent men’s shoes, right?
Check out what they are connected to. Obviously the shoes gave his disguise away.
Cue music: Rocky Mountain High
Northwest Airlines called me to tell me my bag has been found—in Aspen, Colorado! The clerk had no clue how the bag got there. It is to be sent back to Oklahoma City and arrive around 9pm local time.
Update: January 31st, 6:25 am: No bag arrived at the hotel last night.
HT: Newsbusters
“NBC has canceled the ‘West Wing.’ The ‘West Wing’ has been canceled. See that’s when you know things are bad, when even fictional Democrats aren’t doing well.” –Jay Leno
Apparently things are bad for Independents, too. The New York Daily News reports that ‘Commander in Chief’ is being “put on hiatus” for a new comedy. [...]
My luggage has been delayed before, but never more than a day. A projector had disappeared from my luggage once. Perhaps with as much exposure as I’ve had to the luggage systems of various airlines, I was bound to lose an entire bag. I don’t know that the luggage is completely lost yet, but [...]
FOX News reports that four pharmacists fired by Walgreens for refusing to dispense “emergency contraception” are suing Walgreens for illegal firing.
Several thoughts:
First, we have today’s medical science twisting the meaning of words. We understand the meaning of conception to be the joining of the egg and sperm to form the zygote. Contraception, just changing [...]
A Norwegian pops up on the Lutheran Carnival for the first time. Lutheran Carnival XVI is hosted by The Terrible Swede, conferrer of theological Kung Fu degrees.
It looks like I need to resurrect that rule about tight connections, expanding it for all Northwest flights. I had a 45-minute layover in Memphis, and they were announcing last call when I finished walking from Terminal B to Terminal C. My luggage apparently was not as agile in getting to the connecting flight.:roll:
The hotel [...]