SHARE MY CAB

If information overload troubles you, share my cab. I’ll give you three or four bits of useless information every day. It will be enough to get you through your morning meeting, or your overnight flight or just to tell your partner when you get home. Tip me big!

Today you can brag that New Zealand is 1,400 miles (2,250 km) from Australia (Most people think it’s much closer). You can add that it is a little closer now, about 12 inches, because a recent  earthquake reduced the gape. If you are a math whiz or have a lot of time on your hands, you might want to work out how many earthquakes it would take to join New Zealand and Australia, but not in my cab.

Boeing, which has had trouble getting its big-ass Dreamliner in the air, has found a technical solution to the problem of weakness in an upper wing joint. It is going to add a little reinforcement. If you want to be the first to find out if that worked, book a flight. I’m staying in my cab.

If you’re a former Indian president, you’re supposed to be treated well at Indian airports. That didn’t happen when former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam tried to board a Continental Airlines flight to the US. He was forced to remove his shoes and he was frisked. Now the airline has apologized and added that he has very nice feet. 

Sarah Palin may be ducking out of Alaska just in time. She may have violated state ethics laws by soliciting and accepting private donations to pay $500,000 in legal debts (lawyers eh). The Alaska Fund Trust was set up to help her defend against more than a dozen ethics complaints filed since she became governor. Does she really need the money? Isn’t she a regular on Saturday Night Live? And how about that book deal? Tell you one thing, she can ride in my cab for free. Then again, so can Tina Fey.