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| Monday, August 21, 2006 |
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What's next, no windows at all? 
| | Is this view going to be a thing of the past? |
| | On my recent trip back from India on British Airways, I was inspired by Julieanne Kost's recent book, Window Seat (not to be confused with another book of the same title by Dicum) to snap some landscape photos at 35000 feet. I think we were over Iran at the time. After taking several shots, imagine my surprise when one of the BA attendants closed the window shade and informed me that it was against British Airways policy for passengers to take such photos for security reasons. I thought she was kidding, but the head attendant confirmed what I had been told. And that it had nothing to do with where we were flying. |
| | I wonder if this is a new thing, or an old thing that's selectively enforced, or a case of randomly tightening sphincters, or what. Anybody know? |
| | It's bad enough that they tell us window-sitters to close our window shades to help less privileged passengers enjoy blurry, sanitized, stale movies on bad monitors with bad sound. |
| | Shooting pictures out windows and sharing them with the rest of ya'll is, frankly, far more enjoyable than 97% of of the rest of the stuff I still blog about. If the airlines start cracking down on that too, I'll ... well, I have to keep flying. But United's skies will be a lot less friendly. At least for me and the rest of these people. I mean, dig this. And all these. Sad to see it end. Or even slow down. |
Assembling understanding
Blogging in the shaft lane
| | Just checked in with Tony Pierce and found that Sploid has gone under. Sploid was the brainzine of Ken Layne, the killer writer and musician who gave us that "we can fact-check your ass" line, among many other things. Among the best was a killer eponymous blog, which now (far as I know) persists only in the WaybackMachine. Guess you'd better hurry up and read the Sploid remnants before they meet the same fate. |
| | I promise good reading. And lessons, at least for some of us. |
| | Meanwhile, Tony is still kickin' at LAist, where in his latest he fisks a film and its favorite critic in one move. |
Looking up
| | Catch your next geomagnetic storm here. |
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