Category: Misc
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Rome
From Florence I took a high speed train to Rome in late June. I stayed at a small Airbnb loft near Palatine Hill, the Colosseum, Circus Maximus, and many other historic locations. Since I was a kid I’d been fascinated by Rome, a small city that somehow became a vast empire through technological superiority and…
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Florence
After my stay in Venice I jumped on a high speed train — the trains in Venice leave directly from the main islands via a bridge — over to Florence. Or as the Italians call the city, Firenze. I stayed at Hotel Axial, a relatively no-frills hotel that occupies a single floor of a building…
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Barcelona
In the very first post in this blog, I justified its creation by stating that I had some things to talk about, or “In other words, no vacation slides” as I said at the time. Realistically I wanted to start a blog to talk about my fascination with a local immersive art installation known as…
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Eurotrip 2017: Itinerary and transportation costs
In a previous post about my trip to the Mediterranean earlier this summer, I broke down how I decided to take a month long vacation on a whim after finding out about a cheap flight directly from Oakland to Barcelona. Here, I’m going to explain where I went and how much the transportation cost at…
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I took that crazy cheap flight to Barcelona
Recently a new airline called Level introduced a crazy cheap nonstop flight from Oakland to Barcelona. I immediately decided to take the plunge and book a trip. If that sounds insane, keep in mind Level is from the same company as British Airways and Iberia, so it’s not just some random startup with an airplane…
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The guy who teleported to Mars with Obama is running for president
Back in 2012, I covered the story of Andrew Basiago, a man who claims he teleported to Mars with Barack Obama. This even made it into Fox News. When they covered an unrelated story on my blog, they described MrEricSir.com as so: The sign was first reported by the MrEricSir blog, whose other topics of…
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My homemade pipe stool
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about design, and specifically how the environments we encounter can suggest that one take a certain course of action. By keeping my shoes near the door to my apartment for my own convenience I’d accidentally created a bad design — a situation that subtly suggested one should remove one’s…
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ClickHole’s obsession with firetrucks
The Onion has always had long-running gags to tickle the minds of their most astute readers. For example, does the name Don Turnbee ring a bell? If you’re an Onion fan, it should: he’s a recurring Onion character who loves food. To expand their coverage beyond news and into the exciting world of clickbait internet…
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Surge resurges in 2014
Before Red Bull reached American shores in 1997, there were no “energy drinks” on our store shelves. Not knowing what we were missing, we went about our daily lives content with plain old coffee, tea, and soda. Hard to imagine that only 17 years ago, your local liquor store didn’t have an entire shelf dedicated…
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