Monthly Archives: December 2008

Heated Bike Seat

By | December 29, 2008

One of the things I really love about my Audi is that it has heated seats. While the SF Bay area isn’t the coldest place on the planet, it can still get pretty cold. Well, at least for a couple of weeks out of the year. The surface area of a seat on a bike… Read More »

Enjoying the Thermal Baths

By | December 17, 2008

One of the many pleasures of our September trip to Europe was the thermal baths at Szchenyi in Budapest. The building was beautiful and the number of baths was amazing. Hanging out in the enormous outside thermal pool as the steam lifted into the night skies was particularly awesome. Here’s a photo of me enjoying… Read More »

More Proof of Airline Cost Cutting

By | December 1, 2008

Maybe I just haven’t been noticing all along that major US airlines are flying rust buckets, but when I looked out the window of a recent United Airlines flight from Houston to San Francisco, I was pretty amazed to see the sorry state of the wing. A few patches of paint had peeled away to… Read More »