May 7th, 2006
I don't like talking to other people on airplanes. When I get on a plane for a long flight (say, more than three hours), I have bunker mentality. I have my electronic devices, my books, water and food, and I just want to zone out for the next x number of hours.
So, it irritates the heck out of me when some eager traveller in the next seat wants to chit chat. Thanks to Gadling, here's an ABC News article discussing how to avoid the long haul talk:
After some 78 years of commercial airline flying, you'd think that someone would have published by now a guide to the fine etiquette of airborne verbal exchanges, highlighting the good, the bad and the crashing bore. But, in fact, few have ever really given it much thought, and what we learned in kindergarten about basic courtesy was probably enough for most of us.
They also cover loud-talkers from other rows in the plane. They're a nasty scourge as well, and harder to deal with.
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May 5th, 2006
Who doesn't love maps? Via Gadling, here's the first blog I've ever seen dedicated entirely to the cartographic world:
The Map Room is all about finding maps, map collections, map-related resources, and material about maps on the web. Anything that fits under that rubric, from medieval mappæ mundi to satellite imagery, and from topo maps to Tolkien, is fair game.
The site does have the puzzling URL of http://www.mcwetboy.net/maproom/, but we'll let that pass. They linked to the second blog I've ever seen concerning maps, where there's a cool entry about map tattoos.
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May 2nd, 2006
Via Musings of a Global Traveller, here's an interesting if overly-long article on the 25th anniversary of the frequent flyer program. Things have changed a bit over the last quarter-century:
The group went on to define the rules and the rewards, the lowest award being a free upgrade from any fare. Its "cost" was pegged at 11,000 miles, because American's longest city pair at that time was Boston to Los Angeles, and they didn't want travelers to be able to get a free upgrade after only two transcontinental roundtrips (10,444 miles). They also offered discounts from any fare at levels of 25,000, 30,000, and 40,000.
To be honest, I don't pay much attention to my frequent flyer accounts. I suppose I ought to, but I guess I've got the impression that the rewards are pretty minimal.
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