Jason Ishibashi

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"Middletown, PA has received 12.8 inches of rain since Tuesday."

8 September 2011 ·

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Jamie lives in Middletown, PA which sits off the Susquehanna River. Across Central Pennsylvania people have been ordered to leave their homes as the Susquehanna rises above flood stage.

Fortunately, Jamie lives downstream where the Susquehanna becomes nearly one mile wide, and the taller among us can typically walk across the entire waterway without getting their head wet (although such actions are strongly discouraged).

Interesting tidbit: the Susquehanna River System is regarded as the oldest or second oldest major system in the world being far older than the mountain ridges through which it runs. Evidence suggests the ancient Susquehanna predated the Appalachian orogeny meaning the river existed well before Pangaea broke up and formed the Atlantic Ocean.

8 September 2011 ·

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Jamie says Middletown, PA lost power. She and a few others ventured out to take a look around the town and the entire substation for the area where she lives is flooded. She has pictures, but no way to send them at the moment (no power, no Internet).

Since she doesn’t know how long it will take to repair, she is turning off her phone for the time being. More to come.

8 September 2011 ·

Safety Issue or Just Lazy? 1

Safety Issue or Just Lazy?

American Airlines announced it would try to compete with the better of the airlines by offering pajamas and turn-down service in their International First-Class product. It took all of a week before us lazy Americans decided that is a crazy amount of work. Never mind that many leading airlines offer this service.

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) filed a grievance, and because “this is too much work and we’re lazy” isn’t cause for filing a grievance the APFA is conducting a survey asking if the bedding or act of changing into pajamas is a safety hazard on the aircraft. Again, never mind that many leading airlines already offer this service.

The survey, which can be found via the previous link, asks questions like:

“Were there any safety issues with the bedding before landing?”

“Were there any safety issues with the turndown service at all?”

“Were there lines for the lavs when passengers changed into/out of pajamas?”

Service sucks in the USA because we Americans are lazy, and we consistently prove we are unable to provide quality service to our customers.

via One Mile At A Time

6 September 2011 ·

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Small, cheap plastic cup is NOT what you expect from a lounge. LAME. Also notice the space for the pay phone and the “Modem” port in the wall. Update anyone? The lighting is pretty bad too…

6 September 2011 ·

CVG, Delta, ATT, TMobile FAIL. 22

CVG, Delta, ATT, TMobile FAIL.

CVG is on my shit list. No data, voice only. ATT FAIL. Delta SkyClub serving drinks in plastic cups (smaller size means more tips?) And the T-Mobile hosted internet is suuuuuper slow (probably because ATT data is down now).

I have a pic, but I can’t upload it because my phone has no ATT data right now, and for whatever reason the T-Mobile authentication page (SkyClub Membership) will load on my MacBook but not on my iPhone… It’s a cluster-fail.

6 September 2011 ·