Monday, February 07, 2005

Working With A Bunch Of Monkeys I didn't watch the Super Bowl last night.  With the time difference, that would have meant staying up well into the wee hours of the night/morning.  Just not worth it to me, though apparently it was worth it to a couple of my students. Not only did I miss the game, but I also missed the ads (how incredibly superficial am I?).  But thanks to the power of the internet, I am able to browse those costly commercials at my leisure.  The best of the bunch seem to be the Career Builder ads featuring a guy stuck in an office with a bunch of chimpanzees.  Pretty good, but not exactly as good as years past.  Then again, cat herding only comes along once a generation or so. Here are some links to help you get your capitalist fix: Scoring the Super Bowl ads 2005:  Other opinions Superbowl-ads.com:  The past and the present IFilm:  Super Bowl ads:  I detest IFilm, but they've cornered this market AdCritic:  Reviews of lots of the ads 6:37:22 PM     |

Terminally Sleeping Now I'll admit that I don't have much experience sleeping in airports.  Normally I'm not stuck in an airport long enough to need that.  I'll usually crack open a book or pop a dvd in the laptop and kill time that way. This past Christmas, though, I did get stuck in the Frankfurt airport from 3am until around 10am.  That was a long, sleepy stretch, and I wasn't really prepared for how hard it would be to find a good spot to crash. Little did I know that this website existed:  The Budget Traveller's Guide to Sleeping in Airports.  It's got the sleeping skinny on over two thousand locations around the world. After skimming through the thirty-six posts for the Frankfurt airport, I saw that an "insider" who works at the place recommends the exact spot I found:  under the stairs in Hall C.  He's right -- it was dark and pretty quiet. Wow.  I'm proud of myself. Next time, though, I'll find an even better spot.  I'll make it my mission in life.  But wait -- I promised myself I'd never do that again.  Scratch that. 5:59:58 PM     |

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