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  • American Airlines just doesn’t get it

    American Airlines just doesn’t get it

    Seriously, I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. So just for a quick recap, I’ve been an American Airlines AAdvantage member at Platinum status for years. Years. On my most recent flight there was some kind of confusion where I was getting different...

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  • I’ve had it with American Airlines

    I’ve had it with American Airlines

    I’ve been flying American Airlines for many years, and have maintained AAdvantage Platinum status for several years due to how often I travel. The service on AA which used to be great has been steadily declining over the last year and it’s been most obvious...

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  • Review: Streamlight MicroStream LED Flashight

    Review: Streamlight MicroStream LED Flashight

    I’ve got a thing for flashlights and over the last 5 years or so have probably spent way too much money on them. Next to a good pocket knife they are easily the most useful thing I carry around with me and I’m constantly amazed...

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  • Traveling to the coffee wastelands

    Traveling to the coffee wastelands

    [bubblicious photo by tonx] Singapore and France. These are not countries known for their great coffee, but they are cities I’ll be spending a big chunk of the next 3 or 4 months in. You might be thinking “WTF you dumb ass, there is amazing...

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  • Toy Cameras & The Photographic Image

    Toy Cameras & The Photographic Image

    “Despite all signs to the contrary, it was not the original goal of Mr. Lee… [inventor of the Holga] to make toys, but rather to ensure that people were fascinated and interested in creative film photography.” My recent photography obsession isn’t limited to just taking...

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  • Spreadshirt is missing the point

    Spreadshirt is missing the point

    Yesterday I announced the launch of R3515T.com which is largely powered by Spreadshirt. In my announcement post about it I explained that I’ve printed and sold t-shirts via different companies for most of my life but only now had print on demand services, like Spreadshirt...

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  • Hi Hollywood

    Hi Hollywood

    I just published my second book. Woot! This book is about the magic of movies. About reaching to a higher standard. About daring to dream. About making movies awesome again. We dare you to read any one of the potential oscar winners presented here in...

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  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

    Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

    I just wrote about NeighborGoods over on LA Metblogs so I won’t repeat myself here other than to say I’m so incredibly proud of my friend Micki for making this idea a reality and expect super amazing things to come from it. If you don’t...

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  • Travel iPhone Apps

    Travel iPhone Apps

    I travel a lot. I have an iPhone. I have an international data plan. The combo of these things gives me the opportunity to try out lots of travel apps and find ones that are useful or more likely ones that are steamy piles of...

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  • TYSON

    TYSON

    I saw the posters for Tyson all over Toronto last weekend and thought to myself that I should check it out but after I talked to Glen the other day I ran out and saw it immediately. He wrote up a post advising everyone to...

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  • The Annihilator

    The Annihilator

    Tonight was the first of many CERT classes I’ll be taking over the next few weeks. I’ll be writing more about it on other sites in the near future but it’s awesome so far and just what I was hoping for. In tonight’s class we...

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  • Messing around with an Amazon Store

    Messing around with an Amazon Store

    In efforts to both save myself the trouble of recommending the same things over and over again, as well as make truckloads of cash doing absolutely nothing, I’ve gone ahead and set up an Amazon store. I honestly have no idea if something like this...

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