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The $29 Million Canvas for my Wittiness

Joe
Monday
9:36 pm

I’m not the snowiest bunny in the world, but if I was privy to $29 million, I would gobble up this little resort in no time.  It’s not like it would be that fun trying to compete with ski mountains that are actually convenient to airports and population centers, but how rad would it be to get to name 53 ski runs, 9 lifts and some lodges based on whatever criteria you feel like?  Back when The Canyons (a third-fiddle resort near Park City) was named Wolf Mountain, all the runs adhered to an animal theme.  You could have a lot of fun assigning monikers to the trails, such ..read more

How Korea does America’s Pastime

Joe
Sunday
2:56 pm

Baseball in Korea isn’t as much a game as it is an unscripted rock concert.  The unwavering emotion shown throughout the game, no matter what the circumstance, by the crowd doesn’t come off as contrived, but rather shows genuine passion for the sport itself.  Spectators reward the act of playing, not just success.

On this particular day we went to Seoul’s Jamsil Stadium, home to two of the three teams in the city.  As it turns out, the two were playing each other, making for a rivalry atmosphere.  The Doosan Bears are the big-name team in Korea.  But our hosts were LG Twins fans, so we adopted the underdogs as our ..read more

A Geek in Yellowstone

Blain
Friday
2:18 pm

Last week, the wife and I took a few days off and journeyed to Yellowstone. Even though it was my first time there, I pretty much figured I would see some really awesome wonders of nature. But what I didn’t expect to see was some great geeky ..read more

Seoul Searching: Part 1

Joe
Monday
10:37 am

As GeekSix expands its domination universally, we must not lose sight of first making sure we conquer on a global level.  Therefore, I recently went on a fact-finding journey to Korea to load up on geekiness and other random Asian goodness.  Here are the first fruits of that ..read more

The six most mismatched Vegas shows

Joe
Friday
11:14 am

All the Strip hotels try to take their theme to the max, in order to stand out as THE premier French/Arabian/Desert Oasis etc. resort destination.  But sometimes they say “to hell with it” and stick a totally out-of-place show in their nightly lineup.  It’s one thing to have a celebrity come in for two shows, but another to permanently feature some buffoon/troupe of buffoons who don’t fit your motif at all.

The six worst current offenders:

6. Frank Caliendo: Monte Carlo

Even if you think his impressions are funny, does Frank really fit in alongside James Bond at the Monaco-themed resort?  The panache of tuxedoed croupiers is the thematic vinegar to a ..read more

Windows 787 is quite the upgrade

Joe
Thursday
11:25 pm

Boeing’s oft-delayed new jet, the 787,  has many useful attributes.  Like it is really light, so it saves on fuel.

I don’t care about ..read more

Six Web resources for the air travel geek

Joe
Friday
4:30 pm

When someone tells me they just got back from a fabulous vacation abroad I don’t start off with “Tell me about what you saw.”  I begin with “What airline did you fly?”

If you can read the above without your eyes rolling out of your head, then the following links are for you:

1. Seat Guru

On multiple occasions I’ve annoyed travel partners by insisting (for instance) that we take the 2 p.m. flight instead of the noon flight because Delta’s 757-200s only

have power ports in the first ten rows as opposed to the 737-800s which have them throughout the plane.  But who wants their laptop to die midflight?  Also, especially for ..read more