Posts Tagged ‘USA’

TSA Agents to stare at your naked body? NO.

Posted: 17th November 2010 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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All I’ve heard in the last few days is the whole TSA thing regarding searches at the airport. While I’ve luckily have not been subject to this search YET, I’m flying back home next Tuesday so it may be time. So for now, my “non-victim” take on this: They are NOT trying to photograph you [...]

Back in the states last week, among some of the commercials I saw were a few annoying ones from a company advertising freecreditreport.com. The songs were dumb, and the commercials were on so often during daytime television that those loser-esque tunes would soon stick in your head for days to come if you didn’t weed [...]

Back in the US again

Posted: 16th March 2009 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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Despite the circumstances around my return, it’s good to get back to Warren. So far, only did a bit of shopping to restock on deodorant (just can’t get decent sticks of deodorant in Shanghai) and a few decent shirts for work. This morning, I figure it’s time I get caught up in American news.

Bad Luck…

Posted: 25th October 2007 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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The song, Lightning Crashes, as sung by Live, has always been known as the Bad Luck song by myself & Ben, my friend back home. Every time we heard this song randomly, something bad would happen. It didn’t work if we specifically played it. But if it happened to come on the radio (in heavy [...]

Dear Eric, I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change–the world’s pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis–a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for [...]

Three Days in San Diego

Posted: 31st July 2007 by Eric D in SinoPenn
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San Diego, California. My first real experience in California. Before this, I’d often joked that California was simply another country, and instead claimed Canada as a state instead. I was certainly wrong about that. We cut our trip to Warren short so Grace could visit WD-40‘s home office. Grace & I spent 3 days in [...]