{"id":10824,"date":"2007-06-22T07:34:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/06\/22\/potpourri-for-a-friday-on-vacation.html"},"modified":"2007-06-22T07:34:57","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T14:34:57","slug":"potpourri_for_a_friday_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/22\/potpourri_for_a_friday_on.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for a Friday on Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robo-Dave suggests:<\/p>\n

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  1. FAA Flight Delays<\/a>, with links to Security Check-In Delays<\/a>.  The site is nearly inoperable in Firefox, alas; use IE. (via Ginny)<\/small><\/li>\n
  2. Unk,Tantor! <\/em> A Tarzan dictionary<\/a>. (via Randy)<\/small> <\/li>\n
  3. Flags as pie charts<\/a>. Very pretty. (via kottke)<\/small><\/li>\n
  4. Color photos from Imperial Russia<\/a>. Wow. (via Scott)<\/small><\/li>\n
  5. And, whilst on the subject of travel … there really is a Platform 9-3\/4 at Kings Cross Station<\/a>. Now I want to go see it myself.<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Robo-Dave suggests: FAA Flight Delays, with links to Security Check-In Delays.  The site is nearly inoperable in Firefox, alas; use IE. (via Ginny) Unk,Tantor!  A Tarzan dictionary. (via Randy) …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,22,17,16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books","category-gaming","category-homeland-security","category-potpourri","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23632,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/sittin-on-the-tarmac-watchin-all-the-other-planes-go-by.html","url_meta":{"origin":10824,"position":0},"title":"Sittin' on the tarmac, watchin' all the (other) planes go by","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Nov-11 12:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Denver is, alas, the 9th worst airport in the US for flight delays - 20.2% of flights delayed, esp. in the 4-9pm window. 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