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Don’t go to Burning Man.
It’s an addiction.
Next chance to get my fix: PDF.
Fri May 22, 17:49: US 3409, YUL-PHL, arr 19:35
Mon May 25, 20:45: US 3906, PHL-YUL, arr 22:23
For some reason, I thought Monday was a holiday in Canada as well but it’s the Monday before. So I’m just going to drive to PHL fairly early and work from the lounge…
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Trip planning continues…
November 24, 2009 - 21:41
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Booked:
Fri Feb 26, 17:50: UA 875, NRT-SIN, arr 0:20 Feb 27 (with Robin)
I’ve also summarized a lot of my ideas so far on their own page. And yes I’ll be blogging on my website, which also shows up as a note on Facebook.
…and so it begins.
November 2, 2009 - 19:07
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The difference between dreams and plans is when you book a ticket I’m traveling in Asia next year!
Air travel booked so far:
Thu Dec 24, 20:50: AC 632, YUL-YYT, arr 0:47 Dec 25. With Robin and Aslan.
Wed Dec 30, 7:00: AC 1197, YYT-YYZ, arr 9:15. Robin’s heading [...]
Boulder + BM
July 22, 2009 - 13:37
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Boulder for work (and hopefully climbing):
Sun Jul 26, 19:00: QK 7694, YUL-IAD, arr 20:44
Sun Jul 26, 21:55: UA 933, IAD-DEN, arr 23:41
Mon Aug 3, 11:05: AC 1072, DEN-YUL, arr 16:37
Burning man!!!
Tue Aug 25, 9:45: AC 761, YUL-SFO, arr 12:52
Wed Sep 9, 13:15: AC 587, SFO-YYC, arr 16:49
Wed Sep 9, 17:50: [...]
April 26, 2009 - 19:13
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Wed Apr 29, 16:45: AC 8981, YUL-YOW, arr 17:24
Wed Apr 29, 18:40: AC 888, YOW-LHR, arr 6:25 Apr 30
Thu Apr 30, 8:50: BD 82, LHR-BHD, arr 10:10
Friday: Grandma’s funeral. Died suddenly on Caturday.
Sun May 3, 8:50: BD 83, BHD-LHR, arr 10:15
Sun May 3, 15:30: AC [...]
The return of Ceiling Cat
April 12, 2009 - 20:01
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Ceiling Cat finally made it to Montréal from California on Caturday, December 20. I got up on Sunday the 21st and needed something to do as a distraction from the rest of my life. Then I spotted Him, still packed flat and wrapped up in an old bedsheet. There was to be [...]
Toronto itinerary
April 1, 2009 - 17:52
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Fri Apr 17, 15:40: Via 65, Montréal-Toronto, arr 20:24
Sun Apr 19, 17:00: Via 66, Toronto-Montréal, arr 21:33
As I mentioned here before, I’m doing the CN Tower Climb, and you can still sponsor me if you like.
Bouldering in Boulder
February 5, 2009 - 14:47
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Sun Feb 8, 17:35: AC 8657, YUL-ORD, arr 19:04
Sun Feb 8, 20:08: UA 959, ORD-DEN, arr 21:49
Mon Feb 16, 11:25: AC 1072, DEN-YUL, arr 16:53
I don’t actually mind Boulder anymore because I have a friend there who climbs and skis, and they have the best climbing gym I’ve ever seen.
YAY!
January 5, 2009 - 13:45
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I don’t have time to post the full itinerary, but I randomly flew to SFO on Sunday and I’m heading back to Montréal on Tuesday on the same overnight flights as obskura.
Sometimes I travel for fun
October 17, 2008 - 17:33
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Fri Oct 24: driving to New York City
Attending NYC Decom
Mon Oct 27: driving back to Montréal
Fri Nov 14, 11:45: Via 61, Montréal-Toronto, arr 16:42
Attending T-comp
Sun Nov 16, 18:35: Via 668, Toronto-Montréal, arr 00:18
Dec 22, 20:30: AC 632, YUL-YYT, arr 00:27 Dec 23
Dec 26, 14:20: AC 653, YYT-YHZ, arr 15:40
Dec 26, 16:10: AC [...]
Church of Ceiling Cat photos & words
October 3, 2008 - 18:01
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Here are all the Church of Ceiling Cat photos I know of. I was planning to take more on Sunday night, but we ended up taking everything down on Sunday morning.
grimmwire : final assembly, more assembly, night view.
Heather: Ceiling Cat in his Ceiling
obskura : Kitteh
Dome by day by Bill
My original idea was to produce [...]
May 8, 2009 - 22:23
THat was the flight that really buggered me last night. Philly is the worst airport ever.
May 8, 2009 - 22:24
Worse than LHR?
May 9, 2009 - 12:30
LHR is a good airport, just big.
PHL is a stupid inefficient airport that has weather phobias. And it’s Big.
BOS is a stupid airport, too political and bad fog.
YYZ is full of stupid people, too political, run by Canadians and is too big.
May 9, 2009 - 18:18
No way. LHR is the worst airport in the civilized world, and several 3rd world airports beat it hands down.
It’s been over capacity for about 30 years with no plans to expand. There are now 5 terminals, and you have to take buses between them, so connections take forever. They’ve set it up so you have to rescreen when changing terminals too, so forget about keeping that bottle of water you bought before your first flight.
They have a terrible baggage system that seems to lose more bags than most, and when you do lose a bag it goes into “the system”, where it will emerge 5 days later if you’re lucky.
Most of the concourses are loud, obnoxious, crowded shopping malls with no quiet places to sit (thankfully I usually have lounge access.)
The gates are weird, and you generally don’t know your gate until 10 minutes before boarding starts for international. For domestic, you can go to the gate, but there are no screens telling you if you’re in the right place or even people you can talk to (the boarding desk is behind a door that they don’t open until boarding starts.)
WiFi is inconsistent and costly (when it exists.)
Driving there requires navigating a confusing nightmare of tunnels and poorly-labeled roads (until you’re actually on BAA property, you have no idea which road leads to which terminal, and even then it’s sketchy.)
All in all, FAIL.
May 11, 2009 - 14:46
And there’s only 2 runways. Not nearly enough for an airport that big. As soon as you miss your takeoff slot, you’re playing timetable roulette. Could be waiting ten minutes, could be waiting two hours.