Passenger trains yield to to freight trains. Timeliness probably varies according to how much you have to yield.

I saw something once that compared train schedules from the forties to current ones, and all the passenger trains were faster then. The article said that it was because the rules about passenger trains yielding to freight trains were different then, I think.

Oh, my god, dude. Me, the editor. ME. Not you. ME.

No trains from Provo/Salt Lake to Vegas. That's about the only travel I forsee.

Making seats a few inches bigger (and the rows a few inches further apart) will lead to price increases. It seems like the most reasonable solution

See, I think if you end the sentence right there you have the answer. But I don't fly very often, so its easier for me to say its going to cost me more when I do.

See, I think if you end the sentence right there you have the answer. But I don't fly very often, so its easier for me to say its going to cost me more when I do.

American Airlines tried that, and not enough people were willing to pay for the extra space.

I did! But I guess my one flight every six months or so isn't going to save the airline industry.

I am honestly defeated by the idea of spending $1200 at the very cheapest every time I want my family to visit my relatives (who all live in the same city.) But it's a 19 hour drive. What the hell are we supposed to do?

I will say that although most flights I have been on these last 6 years have been cramped, and I often end up shoulder to shoulder with a stranger (I always get broad-shouldered men - I don't sit next to mr. flea because we usually are 2 and 2, one each with a kid.) But surprisingly I almost always get very friendly people, and when it's men, they are almost always parents of small children themselves, so are extra solicitous about helping with drinks and snacks and potty trips. For all that airlines suck, the world has some really nice people in it. Or possibly I sacrificed a goat to the elder gods of air travel.

I had no idea American Airlines was doing that. I've had airlines try and convince me to spend more money for more legroom upon checkin, but that's not really a problem I have.

And I admit it seems weird to pay to keep someone else out of my seat area.

Seems I have whinged enough to get a coworker from across the building to bring me Thai candy to my desk whenever he comes over this way. I was really just teasing him about it. But it is good candy. And where he sits is the boonies now that we've moved seats.

Data integrity issues make no sense. I was hoping to be able to reverse engineer what she did to give me the data I got, but for the life of me I cannot make head or tails of it.

So I lapse into quoting TV shows at myself and enhancing my doodles. Brain melty.

Skiing looks like fun. I'm not sure how I'd do at it, though -- I've only tried it once, when I was about ten.