Category Archives: travel

Going to Hokkaido (北海道へ行っています) part 1

June 18, 2009 – 10:54 am

I went to Hokkaido (北海道) over Golden Week, which takes place over the end of April and the beginning of May.
In this first installment I want to talk about getting there.
I took the long route. Also know as the ferry. I left from Fukushima City (福島市) to sendai (仙台) and from Sendai I took [...]

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Travel Cheap (great ticket prices)

October 25, 2007 – 7:46 am

I’m heading to Japan for a year to teach conversational English and I needed a plane ticket to Tokyo one-way. And my ticket wasn’t even a deal by their standards, on the site they are currently advertising a flight from NY to London for less than $200 round trip, it used to cost me about twice that for a ticket from Seattle to New Hampshire.

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Anyone Know How Orbitz Decides on Airplane Ticket Prices

August 2, 2007 – 9:05 am

Using Safari (browser on left in image below) I wasn’t given the same price for what appears to be the same ticket found in Firefox (browser on right in image below). Not only were the prices different, but I wasn’t even given the same options of airlines and configurations.

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Evil Can Still be Kind of Funny

May 31, 2007 – 11:55 pm

Ignoring the arguments about whether Google is as good as they claim to be, one has to admit that they have a sense of humor. My brother showed me a couple of other cases of slightly evil and very evil being kind of funny.

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