Archive for March 14, 2006

Soon, standing room only

“Bankrupt Northwest [Airlines] this week unveiled a program called Coach Choice in which the carrier will save some preferred coach seating on the aisle or emergency-exit rows until check-in. Passengers can pay $15 per flight to sit in those seats, which may offer more room.”

Reuters.com

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Not exactly John Hancock himself

The Smoking Gun has a copy of a court order directing attorneys to sign documents legibly. Go see the document.

Well, I guess we’ve all been there

“A Mexican couple were recovering separately after a marital spat got out of control and saw them firing guns, throwing knives and hurling homemade bombs, Mexican daily Milenio said on Monday.

“In scenes taken straight out of hit romantic comedy ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith,’ starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Juan Espinosa and Irma Contreras fought until their house blew up in a homemade gasoline bomb explosion, Milenio said.”

Yahoo! News

Classy brackets

Microsoft has a number of printable Sports Templates for Office (Excel mostly) including those for the 2006 Men’s and Women’s NCAA basketball championship. Scroll down.

Our heroes

A couple of blogging heroes — together: Jason Kottke (kottke.org) and Heather Armstrong (dooce).

Kottke has been at this eight years!

Pajama day

Mack, official oldest grandchild of NewMexiKen, was nervous. According to his mother, it was “pajama day” at Little Lambs pre-school. That meant that all the five-year-olds were supposed to wear a favorite pair of pajamas to school. In his pajamas in the car on the way however, it felt a little uncertain.

To alleviate the uncertainty — which by then had started to settle into her own mind — his mom began to suggest other “clothing days” there might be. In the joking that followed, Mack suggested — as 5-year-old boys will — “underpants day.”

His mother assured him there would be no day when the kids just wore underpants to class — at least not until college.