Smelly Capsules and Hacking on the Plane

Hey guys. Sorry the last few posts have been slow coming. I came home and hit the ground running on the job search. Here will follow the posts for my visit to Maui with Kristen, and my final words on my favorite and least favorite... everything. So lets start with Maui!

Scratch that! Let's start with the Capsule Hotel! GROSS! This was a mistake. I guess it all worked out in the end, because it helped me sleep on the flights from Tokyo to Maui, but it is not ideal. The Capsule hotel was in the red light district of Tokyo. Now I've said before that Tokyo is the cleanest city I've ever visited. The red light district is no different. Very clean, and I felt pretty safe there. But still, they can pack a lot of casinos and strip clubs into a square block. About a block away was my capsule hotel. The Capsule part was cool. Had a TV and was pretty big so you could sit up and spread out on the bed. You have a little wooden blind covering your feet, so I didn't really feel claustrophobic. The bigger problem was that every place besides the capsules was smoking. I mean EVERYPLACE, restaurant, spa, sitting area. I reeked by the time I left. And all the girls offering massages gets a little creepy. Especially since I was the only guest there under 35. Anyway, I've had the experience. Never again.

The flights over were great. Korean Airlines. My path was Tokyo->Seol->Honolulu->Maui. We had awesome entertainment systems. It seemed set up like a full computer, complete with a USB port on the side. I'm betting if you can force a full reboot you could plug in a bootable USB drive and have your own computer for the flight. I tried to at least do the reboot (had no bootable drive), but I couldn't do it. I managed to force a crash on the system, but it seems like it had another layer to prevent the system from doing a full reboot. Maybe the entertainment software is sitting on top of the OS, in which case you'd have to crash the OS. Anyway enough nerd talk. Brian, Wes, Tommy, Funk, or Jeff. If any of you are listening, this is your hacker mission, should you choose to accept it.

I slept through half the Seol to Honolulu, and all of Honolulu to Maui. Finally back on US SOIL!! I grabbed my rental car, drove about 35-40 minutes to my hotel, and crashed! Pillow. Face. Sleep. For one hour, then I had to go back and pickup a very pretty lady at the airport who was coming from the other direction. Then it was hotel, pillow, face, sleep again. More on Maui after the break!