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The title question is what prompted me to post this here for future searchers looking for the answer:

Southwest Airlines informs upon inquiry that they allow carry-on of any “luggable” instrument so long as (a) there is available bin space, and (b) the instrument is in a SOFT PADDED CASE that fits in the overhead bin (SW is flying larger 737-400s these days, and the o’head bins are a lot bigger than they were a few years ago).
If (a) fails to be the case, you may gate-check the instrument (i.e. the flight attendant takes it from you just before you board the aircraft, and returns it to you as you step off at the end of the flight, so the “baggage apes” never get their paws on it.
Anyway, this has been great for carrying my gig-bagged Cort Parlor guitar back and forth between Houston and Tulsa these last couple of weeks.
–found originally here

I’ll see if this answer remains true when I fly on a SWA flight on Thurs with the guitar that my bro gave me.
Greetings from Texas!

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I got a check from Google in the mail for $100.75. I was completely boggled about what it could be about until I saw that it was from my Adsense account. See the little ads on the left side of this page? I put those on here FIVE years ago and forgot about them. Apparently it took that long to generate enough income for the first payment (you must have at least $100 before they cut you a check).
So, here’s the challenge. Google provides these ads for you guys, and if you go check out the websites on the other side of them they reward me financially. So give them a shot and let’s see how long it takes to get the next check

I haven’t updated this blog for a really long time. Largely it’s because I’m just not motivated to think of something interesting and “appropriate” to write here. I spend an exorbitant lot of time on this computer for work and when I’m using it for other purposes I just feel guilty for not working more and doing other things. Also, and this is the most annoying/fascinating/annoying-again part that most of you will probably find hard to believe: there are actually people that read whatever I put up here in hopes that they can use it against me. Sometimes I post stuff here that gets spread around certain internet message boards that then makes its way back to me when I meet people who say “oh, you’re THAT guy” who supposedly said some little thing that someone took wildly out of context and then used it to further their own crazy agenda. Yep, it’s stupid, petty, and annoying but it happens and I’d rather not feed the trolls that try to plague my life. If you are one of those people, I pity you and recommend you take up an actually constructive hobby like bicycling through the woods or learn to play the guitar to impress girls. The only thing dragging other people through the mud does is make people like me less likely to trust you with real info. When I have to watch what I say so I don’t have to spend 10x longer explaining what I really meant because of your personal agenda/vendetta/ego/whatever, it just doesn’t seem worth it to me to even bother when I already have so many things to be doing that no one else is very likely going to do if I don’t.
Now, back to what I was going to write about… dammit. I totally lost my train of thought. I guess I should go back to work anyway. I’ll try to think of something interesting for some of you (read: a very, very small but annoying fraction of a percent of you) to vilify me for.

I have the Google Alerts that email me when certain keywords make their way onto the internet, and below is something that popped up because of “flip top head”: