Passionately intense musings
I muat have been lucky. Very lucky in fact. And I had no idea. All of my transatlantic long-haul flights the last few years have been with Northwest/KLM. Most of the time these flights were on A330s, easily my favorite planes solely for legroom and the individual movie screens. Lufthansa delivered a blow from the start by weighing my carry-on […]
» Read moreA group of co-workers went to see Avatar last night as one of our Hong Kong colleagues informed us there was an extreme screen which provided the 3D hit in 4D. We got wet, had bubbles coming out of the ceiling, had fans blowing and had smoke coming out from under the screen. I think they could have taken this […]
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The e-mail count sits at 136. Thankfully I gmail and these have twisted into 2 strings: 100 string max out and a 36 e-mail string and growing. Why? Barbasol. The strings began with my boy SB sending out a link to the youtube’d commercial for Barbasol which played during AFC/NFC champsionship weekend. I’ve watched it once on my blackberry. I […]
» Read moreBefore leaving to live and work in England three years ago, a close friend gave me the book “Losing My Virginity” by Sir Richard Branson. Ever since, I have been inspired, amazed and impressed with the business mogul. Today, I was not surprised, but definitely still impressed to see an article that Branson is developing an underwater plane. Who else […]
» Read moreThe current budget proposal has reached $3.8 trillion. My first reaction was, is that really the government just printing money? Here’s some back of the napkin math… $3.8 trillion budget300,000,000 (or 300 million) Americans This equates to $12,667 per American, not a grossly high number. But let’s chop the Americans total in half to eliminate the elderly/retired and the children… […]
» Read moreAnd give the front row seats back to the Georgetown donors, alumni, students or whoever else you commandeered them from. Seriously, I woke this morning and was appalled to see that President Obama flet that he not only needed to attend the match-up between the Hoyas and Duke Blue Devils but also to slip into the announcer’s seat. Are you […]
» Read moreI habe dropped about 7 calls with Verizon (who I suggest and have used since I was 16) in the last 3 months or so while sitting in my condo. It doesn’t irk me too much but I have found it strange in an area where you can see so many cell towers. Well, I just finished lunch at Fook […]
» Read more– Did anyone know that Webster’s parents were married in real life too? – Or that Emmanuel Lewis played Webster from ages 12 to 16? – Is rewriting the state constitution really what Governor Granholm should be focusing on these days? There are seriously no other big problems? – How much confidence do you have in Austin Jackson taking over […]
» Read moreUpdate Congress with the state of the union. Wouldn’t it be funny if the president just sent each congressman a copy of the USA Today? Or an e-mail with a link to TheLockhart.com? Amazing feed on whitehouse.gov pumped into the conference room in Hong Kong today. Love technology. Watching the speech at 10 am was pretty nice. How did I […]
» Read moreNot many NFL draft prospects, current or past, have had as celebrated of a college career as Tim Tebow. I would venture to say that none, however, played in the Super Bowl before they were drafted. That’s because Tebow is slated to appear in a multi-million dollar ad during the Super Bowl on February 7th. As reported in the articled […]
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