{"id":4500,"date":"2011-06-03T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2011-06-03T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T18:52:00","slug":"finishing-out-the-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4500","title":{"rendered":"Finishing Out The Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The remaining lunch-time links don&#8217;t form a unifyable theme, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t worth following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Wither PSA?<\/b> Remember the days when it was cheap to fly? Not so much, anymore. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304563104576359371667910458.html\">The WSJ has an interesting piece on how Southwest&#8217;s prices aren&#8217;t so discount these days<\/a>. Evidently, they are cheap if you by far in advance, but as you get closer to the flight, the price goes up until they sometimes exceed the non-discount carriers, even if you add in baggage fees. In other airline news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/travel\/deals\/la-trb-american-airlines-baby-strollers-20110602,0,1140578.story\">American Airlines has stopped accepting bulky strollers at its gates<\/a>. So evidently, you need to pack your child in your carry-on luggage (actually, you can still use umbrella strollers, just not the really big, over 20 lb ones).\n<li><b>Seeing Red.<\/b> An interesting &#8220;frequent flyer&#8221; story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/31\/business\/31flier.html?_r=1&#038;src=rechp\">an opthamologist who operates a flying eye hospital<\/a>. He flies into poor countries, often on commercial flights, but flies out on the eye hospital. This creates all sorts of security questions. They often don&#8217;t believe there is a flying eye hospital, but there is: a DC-10 jet that\u2019s fully equipped to teach and provide eye care no matter where they are in the world.\n<li><b>Dennys<\/b>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/news\/boys-302917-one-denny.html\">Seven boys from Trabuco High in Orange County have attempted to get into the Guiness Book of World Records by eating Denny&#8217;s pancakes for 24 hours<\/a>! You see, Dennys has an &#8220;all you can eat&#8221; pancake special, and their goal was to to order it for $4 , and then to continue ordering refills &#8212; for 24 hours straight. They ended up consuming 301 pancakes, for an average of 43 hotcakes per person &#8212; or about 7,000 calories per kid for the pancakes alone. To break up the routine, the boys occasionally ordered bacon. They ate so many pancakes that the Denny&#8217;s manager had to run out during the night for more ingredients for batter. One kid vomited in a bush on the patio, and another almost fell asleep on the toilet.  For variety, the boys put hot sauce on the pancakes. One crushed a hotcake into a glass of water to &#8220;eat&#8221; it in a different form. Don&#8217;t feel like pancakes? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/food\/2011-06-02-new-ice-cream-flavors_n.htm\">Dennys&#8217; is offering a sundae made with vanilla ice cream, maple syrup and bacon bits.<\/a>\n<li><b>The End<\/b>. Just because no one has posted it yet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-jack-kevorkian-20110604,0,4504790.story\">Jack Kevorkian has died<\/a>, unassisted. <\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remaining lunch-time links don&#8217;t form a unifyable theme, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they aren&#8217;t worth following: Wither PSA? Remember the days when it was cheap to fly? Not so much, anymore. The WSJ has an interesting piece on how Southwest&#8217;s prices aren&#8217;t so discount these days. 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