Cheap Talk » travel

Facebook’s business problem is that it is the social network of people you see in real life.  All the really interesting stuff you want to do and say on the internet is stuff you’d rather no...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/10/01/thoughts-left-lying-around-23/

Presh Talwalker tells us about this study of parking strategies: They observed two distinct strategies: “cycling” and “pick a row, closest space.” They compared the results. “What was i...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/09/22/risk-loving-in-the-parking-lot/

Why does it seem like the other queue is more often moving faster than yours?  Here’s MindHacks: So here we have a mechanism which might explain my queuing woes. The other lanes or queues movi...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/09/02/occams-taser/

I just had one of my worst travel experiences. On United. I was flying with my two kids and we got to O’Hare at 9 am in plenty of time for our 10.30 am flight to Seattle. The plane was delayed ...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/07/03/how-to-survive-a-delay-at-the-airport-with-your-kids/

Spouse A (henceforth “she”, the driver) prefers the air inside the vehicle to be a little warmer than the preferred temperature of Spouse B (“he”, the navigator, not because he is a worse...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/04/09/consider-the-equilibrium-21/

And I have been to many very good Chinese restaurants in China, Taiwan, Singapore etc.  This place is called Peter Chang’s China Grill.  Here’s Wikipedia about the chef.  Here are the badl...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/04/08/one-of-the-best-chinese-restaurants-i-have-ever-been-to-is-in-a-charlottesville-va-strip-mall/

It’s called Coffee Places Where You Can Think, and its right there.  A word of caution though.  Ariel is a connoisseur of coffee houses but his preferences are guided mostly by the atmosphere...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/04/01/ariel-rubinsteins-coffee-grid/

The clocks in Grand Central are off by 1 minute: But Grand Central, for years now, has relied on a system meant to mitigate, if not prevent, all the crazy. It is this: The times displayed on Gran...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/02/06/consider-the-equilibrium-20/

Here’s a thought I had over a lunch of Mee Goreng and Rojak.  As the cost of transportation declines there is a non-monotonic effect on migration.  Decreasing transportation costs make it che...

https://cheaptalk.org/2013/02/03/migration-and-the-cost-of-transportation/

From the blog (?) notes.unwieldy.net: The average New York City taxi cab driver makes $90,747 in revenue per year. There are roughly 13,267 cabs in the city. In 2007, NYC forced cab drivers to...

https://cheaptalk.org/2012/12/04/tip-nudge/