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Alaska Air is introducing new planes with luxury lie-flat seats, but also without seatback screens (IFE) for economy seats - aka bring your iPad. This is quite the price segmentation-MAXxing for Alaska!

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If It Fits I Sits - BART edition

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

With gas prices were they are, I wonder if this Car Cruise still happened in San Mateo

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is one of those things that's really noticeable when coming back from trips to Hong Kong.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's probably not a good sign when the flight attendants need to get the automated external defibrillator ready...

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I flew from London to Sydney once 1. Very thankful work paid for business class 2. I enjoyed the brief layover in Bangkok - that was a good break

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I used to work in Downtown San Jose. Here's a photo I took of the Guadalupe River during the 2019 El Nino season. That was a lot of water!

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel bad for the kids who have to walk home after school on this route. That's pretty treacherous. (Taken from my dashcam)

Kid walking home from school around a blind corner with two on-coming cars

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is too real about what happens in authentic old school Hong Kong restaurants. Locals make fun of how rude customer service is. Imagine the Seinfeld Soup Nazi, but more passive aggressive and faster.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The last owners of my house would be in their 100s now. I still get generic addressed mail that's clearly aimed at them. The ones that bug me the most are the ones that look like letters from the government, with fictional Department of titles - and then a tiny disclaimer inside.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some photos I took in November 2001

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

By then I had lived in California for a little over a year, and I remember watching the TV at work: an army of doctors/nurses/students outside a hospital (St. Vincents?) waiting… waiting… waiting for victims to help. But that afternoon wave just never appeared. That image has stayed with me.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In college I took a course on Oceanography. It was surprisingly hard. But the one key memory I'll always have was the day the professor got super emotional when talking about erosion and exclaimed with religious fervor: Don't fight the ocean! You will not win! DON'T! DO! IT!

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s been a busy day so I’m really excited to learn more about why everyone is taking about Apple and Duo because surely this means they brought this back…

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'd been wondering how this America West Airlines dba US Air dba American experiment of not having seatback screens would pan out. I guess this is the conclusion:

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A Cybercab with someone in the driver seat and Texas plates in downtown Palo Alto

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dear Apple: Why doesn't Pixelmator have a Copy Merged choice to copy all layers onto the clipboard? Is the workaround really to export to a file, open the file, and copy from there?

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There's probably an essay to be written about how much of the United's 787 from SFO to LHR is for premium classes vs economy class. In pixels, it's ~937 vs ~359

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As someone born in a hospital in Manhattan, I simply had to stop and grab a copy when I saw it on my way to work in the newspaper box at Palo Alto Caltrain station. My colleagues at Hudson Yards who have visited here thought this was hilarious

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

While this is obviously nostalgia engagement bait (I see similar takes posted frequently), I can think of 3 areas that have gotten worse since I started flying 25 years ago: 1. Domestic business class meals. In the early 00's, I had a lobster tail on AA. Now: thebulkheadseat.com/taste-test-s...

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Taste Test: Sirloin Steak on United Airlines (Not Fit For Human Consumption) - The Bulkhead Seat

I thought United had reached a level of disgusting that I had not seen in a while with its Esquites Salad (review here). That was nothing compared to the horror that is the Sirloin Steak that I was se...

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There was discourse last week about public transit, and my contribution is that whoever keeps wrecking these giant glass walls at @caltrain.com’s Hillsdale Station must be costing Caltrain and us the general public a fortune.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Do families outside the Bay Area also get targeted for Ivy League college coaching mailers for their elementary school kids?

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The other day when I picked up my elementary school kid from group tennis lessons, I heard a kid saying to another kid "SDRAM sticks cost so much more now!!"

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What's kind of funny is that in Hong Kong, I've heard that some older fancy places don't have thermostats - they just leave the AC at 100% all year long. It was a point of pride. This leads to situations where sometimes it's oddly colder inside even when it's not that hot outside.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That's... a lot of design choices.

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Explaincars Drama: this is the first reported in flight capture of a hamster we’ve seen grace our feeds. What a moment. Remember where you were when you saw it so you can tell the grandkids about it one day.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

That was a really good speech - the whole 8 minutes was worth watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciim...

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Watch Mayor Mamdani's full speech at the Knicks championship parade

YouTube video by CBS New York

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20/06/2026

What a gift it is to be brought together by pure unfiltered joy. New York forever.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 18/06/2026

man giving a Lincoln level speech about the Knicks

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"So often, when this city comes together, it is because we are forced to by a moment of tragedy or adversity. What a gift it is to be brought together by pure, unfiltered joy." So spot on.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Wow. Mamdani's speech end-to-end was really something. Great quote to use from Brunson: "You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario, but you’ve got to go out there and do something about it."

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Oh that's pretty cool that they built a replica of the subway entrance as a float.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Someone handed Mamdani a camcorder and he's using it?

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If only I could've been in NY this week! I've waited forever to see this. Congrats Knicks!

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

FYI for Knicks fans who happen to be in San Jose - free mini-cannoli at A Slice of New York if you wear Knicks colors. (And, of course, you should support them by buying pizza!)

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“When the Knicks won the NBA Cup this season, Brunson devised a plan to make sure that the peripheral people in the Knicks organization—medical staff, locker-room attendants, etc.—received a portion of the money that the players get for winning the in-season tournament. This is who Brunson is.” 🎁

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Jalen Brunson, NBA champion and finals MVP, is officially the greatest Knick ever (Gift Article)

Jalen Brunson has placed New York back on top of the basketball world, where it belongs.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Someone asked which muppet is most out of pocket on Sesame Street in the wake of the Knicks win. While there are lots of good answers, we actually have photographic evidence for this one

Instagram screenshot of Cookie Monster trying to eat the NBA championship trophy

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A lot of congratulations are in order for long suffering Knicks fans, but maybe none more than Spike Lee who has been courtside for nearly every Knicks game for the last 41 years

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Patrick Ewing! Finally! Does he get a ring?

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I was on this flight. In the middle of the night the FA asked twice if any medical professionals to assist in the rear of the plane for a situation. I'm not sure that I didn't see anyone cross my row (39).

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NBA @nba.com · 14/06/2026

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 53 YEARS, THE KNICKS ARE NBA CHAMPIONS 🏆 New York defeats San Antonio 4-1 in the NBA Finals, capturing their third championship in franchise history!

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 14/06/2026

Lots of helicopter activity over Manhattan tonight after the New York Knicks win their first NBA championship since 1973. 🏀🏆

Helicopter flight paths over Manhattan tonight, including news and police helicopters.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

My kid was jaw dropped by this stat.

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Dennis Cheung @dtc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

People celebrating the Knicks win in Manhattan!

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