(long) Quote of the Day...<< Drobo changes the way you think about storage | Main | nutSie brings iTunes to your cell phone today >> Michael Gartenberg | June 05, 2007, 07:51 AM Bruce Tognazzini on Subjective Time - "Consider a cross-country flight on American. You arrive at the airport two hours early. You open up your laptop to find they want $6.50 to let you log into the network. Two hours for $6.50 is the equivalent of $2,340.00 per month. Kind of steep. You instead decide to read the leftover paper lying on the table. Of course, the original owner took all but the Real Estate section with him. Boring! You get aboard the flight and strap into a seat from the famous Spanish designer, Torquemada. For the next hour there's nothing to do but buy overpriced products you'll never use, or, alternatively, you can read up on "The Wombat Problem in Perth" in the airline's own hip, slick and cool magazine. Then the "entertainment" starts: Thinly-disguised video press-releases featuring MBAs pushing services, punctuated with more traditional commercials. Boring! Finally, we get to the movie which is either something you don't want to see or something you really, really do want to see, but not on a lousy faded 15 inch screen twelve feet away while listening to sound reminiscent of a crystal radio. I guess it's time to read up on that Atomic-Powered Nose Hair Clipper again. Boring! They then show that episode of "I Love Lucy" that everyone so much enjoyed back in the early 1800s followed by...nothing! We'll be landing in a hour or so, so it's time to shut off the entertainment system completely. Boring! A six-hour flight on American feels like a 12 hour flight." Actually it feels like that on Continental as well :) |
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