You can hurry through your trip snapping the same pix as everybody else, or you can use the camera as a tool to help you really see and experience your trip. [Laura Malone] www.wired.com/story/why…
Maciej Cegłowski takes readers on a culinary tour of Antarctica.
Cegłowski’s latest essay, “Gluten Free Antarctica,” is part of an occasional series on his adventure cruise to the southernmost continent. It’s brilliant: dryly humorous and insightful, like all of his writing.
Cegłowski is a multiple threat: Talented speaker, writer, software developer and entrepreneur. He developed the social bookmarking service Pinboard.in (motto: “Social Bookmarking for Introverts”). It’s a lean, high-performance clone of the del.icio.us bookmarking site from the 2000s, which was acquired by Yahoo and got bloated and slow. Eventually, Pinboard acquired the Delicious (as it was then called).
I’ve never been a fan of “The Prisoner,” but I’d like to see Portmeiron, the town in Wales where it was filmed.
The Bosnian village of Lukomir, elevation 4,900 feet, is home to 17 families who maintain a medieval lifestyle.. Gorgeous photo gallery on National Geographic.
Playwrite Tom Stoppard carries a half-dozen or dozen books with him when he travels, in a leather-clad, purpose-built red box.
A Little Suspense Travels a Long Way (NYTimes, 2008)
I don’t even know who I am anymore.
Nebraska’s new tourism slogan is “Honestly, it’s not for everyone:” “For the past four years, Nebraska has ranked last when it comes to states that travelers most want to visit, according to research from travel marketing research firm MMGY Global.” (QZ.com)
TMW when you’re struggling to open a bag of airline peanuts and it explodes all over your laptop keyboard. #ThanksObama
Introducing the ridealong suitcase – for adults – Chris Leadbeater, The Telegraph
At $1,095 it’s ridiculously overpriced for a piece of luggage. Seems dangerous if many people get them. Walking through airports is often the only exercise I can work in while traveling.
In other words, it’s very, very wrong. And I want one.
Or you can do like I do: Throw it all in a heap and convince yourself that it’s a fashion statement to look like a crumpled paper bag.
I’m comfortably situated next to a working electrical socket.
My biggest worry is that I might have to get up to pee or get a coffee refill and lose my primo seating. #PrivilegedPeopleProblems
The TSA gambled on millions of wealthy Americans opting out of its pornoscanner-and-shoe-removal process and signing up for its Precheck policy, which allows travellers to pay for the “privilege” of walking through a metal-detector with their shoes on, while their laptops stay in their bags.
It was a gamble that they lost. Americans have stayed away from the process in droves, but the TSA had already committed to cutting staff in anticipation of much lighter queues at their checkpoints. Instead of lightening, the queues have got longer, as the US economy has recovered and low fuel prices have kept the price of plane tickets down.
The TSA is now warning travelers to expect very long security lines this summer (Denver Airport warns that its TSA queues can take three hours to clear), as it scrambles to train more staff. In the meantime, whole airports’ worth of people are missing their flights, sending the airport managers and airlines into rare public displays of temper against the agency, calling the lines “unacceptable” (American Airlines), a “fiasco” (Brent D. Cagle, interim director of aviation for Charlotte Douglas International Airport) and accusing the agency of lying when it cites crowds as the reason for lines (Denver Airport).
Cory also notes that long lines for services used to be the symbol of Soviet oppression.
I quibble with the characterization of Pre customers as “wealthy.” I use Pre. I’m just a middle-class guy who travels a lot on the company dime. I’m only wealthy in the way that middle class Americans are wealthy on the global scale. If I traveled only one or two times a year or less, and had to pay for it myself, I would not buy Pre. Indeed, I suspect business travel is where TSA is getting its Pre revenue.
The quest for the well-labeled inn. [Boing Bong]
I can usually figure out the plumbing fairly quickly. Unlike Cory, virtually all my travel is inside the US, which I expect makes a difference. I’ve never had to deal with a freakshow shower like the one in the photo he posts..
I share Cory’s frustration with lightswitches. I just want to turn out the light and go to bed; I don’t want to go on a goddamn treasure hunt trying to figure out where the switches are.
Not mentioned by Cory: Hotel rooms with inaccessible electrical sockets. This is the 21st Century – we need plenty of electrical sockets to plug in our gadgets, and we need to be able to get at them without moving the furniture. You know what we don’t need? A clock radio. It’s not 1980 anymore. We use our phones to wake us up. If you put in a clock radio, you might as well also include a candlestick phone and Franklin stove.
This could be an expensive article for me.
6 Mobile Computing Tips for Digital Nomads [Mike Elgan – Baseline]
He and his wife are packing up and traveling the world, living and working out of a backpack.
Mike emphasizes this is not an endless vacation. It’s a lifestyle, complete with work.
Have a great time, Elgans!
I’m already enjoying the updates.
[Goodbye, America. I’m becoming a nomad (again)! / Mike Elgan / Computerworld]
How to get the best sleep of your life on an airplane
I’m scheduled to take my first-ever international business trip in a few months. I’m making notes on tips.
I’m nervous about wearing earplugs and a sleep mask, like a gunslinger who won’t sit with his back to a door.
I booked my hotel room for Cisco Live. The hotel is a little expensive, but it’s also inconveniently located, got bad reviews, and the photos on TripAdvisor are uninspiring. So there’s a tradeoff there.
