George Bush Senior on Amtrak Acela First Class

Something unexpected happened this past Thursday as a I returned from Baltimore from a day trip to visit some friends.

I'm sitting in my first class seat (only worth it if you have upgrade coupons) as the train pulls into Philadelphia. Facing the only entrance into the car I noticed two huge men in suits with buttons on their lapels board. They looked like security for someone.

Next person who walks on is the former president, George Bush. Then followed by another approximately six secret service people.

At one point I heard one agent ask if there was assigned seating. Guess they never ride Amtrak.

Everyone got off in NYC and as expected there were cops everywhere who kept the path clear as GW walked out to his motorcade.

Imagine being the person he sat next to, that would have to be an interesting ride.

Netbank Closed by the FDIC

Never seen this happen before.

Moving RobDeichert.com to Blogger

Just changed my DNS settings on RobDeichert.com, going forward RD.com will point to my blog.

My Summer of George

I'm on vacation this week, enjoying some new technology and catching up with friends. My latest purchase is the new iPod touch. I picked it up this afternoon at the Apple Store near Central Park. The place was packed, the lines were really long.

Apple had a solution, there was a person just selling touches with a portable credit card machine. Just received the receipt via email.

It's a cool little device, much smaller than my second generation iPod. More to come.

WSJ Geek Squad Video

Check out the first customer in this video. She paid the Geek Squad to call Dell tech support.