It’s been an interesting couple of two years, but with the time demands that Dex has, and how easy Facebook makes it to share your thoughts, I’ve found myself less and less interested in keeping Tarpification as an on-going concern. I’ll probably go the Herf route and post anything on interest to Tarpify…but thank you to those of you that read me.

You can keep track of my comings and goings at www.facebook.com/tarpy.

Matthew

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I saw a list at the House of Blues this weekend (I was there seeing BTE, who were AWESOME!) entitled “10 commandments for Successful Daily Living” attributed to a B. F. Perkins (who I can’t find on the intertubes).  I’ve rewritten a bit and here is my list:

1. I shall be true, for many trust me
2. I shall be pure for those that care for me
3. I shall be strong; for in strength is wisdom
4. I shall be brave to face life’s many challenges
5. I shall humble myself for I have many weaknesses
6. I shall forgive so that I may be forgiven
7. I shall be a friend to the friendless
8. I shall give for it is in giving I will receive
9. I shall pray for courage and strength
10. I will live and laugh and love for out of life I shall only what I put in it

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As seen today on this Fox News story about AF447:

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I’m just saying! It’s the Kama Sutra of logos!

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Here’s what it looked like when we were sitting on the ramp at RSW:

And here’s 294 as we float in on final:

Can anyone spot the difference?

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Wow, my carbon footprint is OBSCENE!

DAAAAAMN

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Seen down in RSW…have additives put in as you pump…very nice…I like:

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Simple enough question really. Line people up, and let them go at it. Except it’s not. Prior to seeing this page on ways to board airplanes, I really only knew about two types: Back-to-front (how we board on AA) and random (think the Southwest cattle call).

Interestingly enough, there are a couple others. Having watched the demonstrations, I have to say that Reverse Pyramid is just incredible, and to think that US Air (really) is the only one doing it.

The one thing that this doesn’t really take into account is elite-flier pre-boarding in coach. The legacy carriers are going to have a hard time getting rid of that, it’s a perk we all love and cherish. If that could be solved (first and elite-coach board at once), then there’s some stuff that could be done here.

Hey AA, take a look at this…there’s definately somethere here!

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Had to take some online training for work, and they actually brought some snark:

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