Category Archives: travel

According to Foursquare, I’ve been to more airports than bars.

By Dave | Published: October 11, 2011

According to Foursquare, as far as the last 6 months are concerned, I’ve been to more unique airports (11!) than bars (10). And even more unique coffee shops (13) + cafés (11). Is this what being a grownup is like?

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The final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

By Dave | Published: May 1, 2011

STS-134 NASA Tweetup and the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour On April 28th and April 29th, 2011, I was fortunate enough to participate in the NASA Tweetup for STS-134. It was to be the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the second to last mission in the Space Shuttle program. I [...]

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California, I’m coming home.

By Dave | Published: April 30, 2011

Of course, I have my Rdio playlist ready to listen to on the flight home.

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Take me home!

By Dave | Published: April 30, 2011

Taken at Orlando International Airport (MCO) Posted via email from Dave Schumaker’s Posterous

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Hello from KSC.

By Dave | Published: April 28, 2011

Taken at NASA Tweetup Tent Posted via email from Dave Schumaker’s Posterous

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Some things are better left unsaid

By Dave | Published: April 26, 2011

(I’m currently on a plane, en route to Florida for the STS-134 NASA Tweetup.) A British couple behind me are looking out the window and ask a flight attendant if that’s the Grand Canyon below us and to our left. She says yes, so I look out and see that it’s actually Valley of the [...]

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Christchurch – Then and Now

By Dave | Published: February 21, 2011

EDIT: The Big Picture is featuring powerful and scary photos of the damage. We’re just starting to find out how bad today’s M6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand was. A former professor of ours when we were in New Zealand in 2006 dropped us an email this evening and let us know that it was [...]

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Choo choo!

By Dave | Published: November 23, 2010

We were supposed to take the Amtrak Coast Starlight train down to Southern California, but it was severely delayed due to bad weather in Oregon and Washington. Changed trains, taking San Joaquin to Bakersfield and then a bus to Los Angeles. Here we go! Man, wouldn’t it be nice to have a high speed rail [...]

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TSA Checkpoint Sign

By Dave | Published: November 22, 2010

Oleg Volk created this TSA checkpoint sign in 2008, which is now getting attention due to recent abuses by the organization. Interestingly enough, the social location service Loopt is offering 10 iPod touches to people who check in to an airport using the app on November 24th, and tweet about being pat down by the [...]

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Another TSA problem? Data collection

By Dave | Published: November 21, 2010

Another problem with the TSA? Lack of data collection. A former assistant police chief writes on the potential for passive discrimination, due to the TSA’s lack of data collection: Over the last fifteen years or so, many police agencies started capturing data on police interactions. The primary purpose was to document what had historically been [...]

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