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Tis the season to be traveling about to your favorite holiday destinations, so here is another (learned the hard way, offcourse) tip:

Be reasonable with luggage:

• Don’t buy cheap crap that will not last.
• Don’t buy designer luggage unless you fly private, it makes you look like an idiot when you pick that (likely fake) LV suitcase off the carousel next to the duct taped box of belongings of an immigrating family.

I like Delsey luggage for suitcases that have to be checked. The price is reasonable and the durability is most definitely there. Alternatively you can buy Tumi. The Tumi ass sits firmly on both the best in business travel quality and chic design chairs. A really fantastic catchall brand… probably the only luggage brand I know off that is actually worth the price. My Tumi messenger bag lasted 3 years of college abuse (books, laptops, booze, drugs, dead hookers, etc), countless trips abroad (booze, drugs, dead hookers), and is surviving well as an everyday work bag (ninja outfit, sword, shruken, climbing gear, nunchucks, dead hookers).

So after some delays… (whats a few months anyway right?) I am finally posting. Yay.

I will start of with something I will be writing a bunch about, travel. So here is a travel tips (learned the hard way, of course) of the week:

Some airlines give you the gift of electricity in your seat. Some very generous airlines do so in economy class.

Be aware that some of those airlines (I’m looking at you, United) assume that you charge your laptop in your car and thus actually own the proper adapter. If you are a Lenovo user, buy the travel power supply. If you are not, buy a kit and save yourself the cursing, venting, and the eventual $50-$100 “air shop” purchase.