Tue, 05 Jul 2005

[DebConf] What a country!

Been in the supermarket. They have at least 18 million different types of milk there. At not a single milk carton had a printing which looked a bit familiar... so I bought the one with the nicest cow picture on it. Bad luck! I didn't even know, that you can buy milk, which got all it's lactose removed, to be sweetened again. Double sweetened to be correct. Bah!

postet at 21:38 into [Debian/events/DebConf-5] permanent link

Just learned...

... that the primary function of the screensaver "phosphor" is not to show fortunes, but - if net is available - to show entries from planet. Nice feature!

PS: Yes, the primary function of this blog entry is to boost the likelihood to see my very own blog entry on my screen.

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[DebConf] I hate planes!

If it wasn't the fastest way to get from point A (e.g. Frankfurt) to point B (e.g. Helsinki), I wouldn't fly. I don't like it at all.

Being a bit larger than the average makes it even worse, since I find normal economy seats quite uncomfortable. So I thought I would be smarter this time, and take the earliest flight of the day, which should be fairly empty.

Good strategy, my neighbour place was indeed empty - there weren't many people on this 7:30 flight... of course the airline noticed that as well. So they used a quite small plane on my flight. Actually it was the smallest plane I ever flew with. Some kind of Canadian CRS 700 or something like that.

So my strategy worked well, since I had plenty of space for my legs, toes and other vital parts of my body, but failed nonetheless completely: They didn't had any distraction on that plane! No movie, no cartoons, no music. Not even one of those progress maps showing you, that you are only two pixels away from your target, so you can hope, that you will make it there alive.

And: Only four columns of seats. Wherever you take place - you can see out of the window. Usually I like to sit in the middle of the plane - far way from any windows, so it is kind of being in a loud bus. But that's impossible in such small planes... and to make it even worse, I had of course something important forgotten: Something to read. Luckily the flight just took 2 hours, but flying 2 hours through turbulence didn't made my trip any better...

Well, I finally arrived. In one piece. Alive. Good. I just hope, the flight back will be in a bigger plane...

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[DebConf] Please?

At 6:45 am My prefered coffee bar at Frankfurt airport is closed while the toy store (A toy store at an airport?) is open? Sure, I bet there are many passengers which prefer to play with their new Lego toy instead of getting a fresh coffe...

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