Overheard at the coffee shop: “Sean Penn became his Team America puppet at the Oscars!”
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Month: March 2005
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Jet
Funny airplane moment: just after boarding the flight to Boston, a girl
in the row behind me asked her father: “Where’d they get this tiny
little plane, Dad? eBay?”
Since I fly to Boston to see Wendy about once every six weeks (she does
the same, and overlapping our flights lets us see each other every
three weeks), I try and find the least expensive flight possible, which
is usually American Eagle, the wing of American Airlines that provides regional services. This past weekend’s flight, before taxes, was CDN$179 (CDN$279 after taxes).
American Eagle uses ERJ jets, manufactured by Brazil’s Embraer. I’m always kind of disappointed that Embraer Jets don’t automatically play Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66’s Mais Que Nada [Windows Media sample / RealPlayer sample] when you board, but that’s like wishing that Seattle-based Boeing’s jets played Seattle-based Sir Mixx-a-Lott’s Baby Got Back [Windows Media sample / RealPlayer sample] or Airbuses played Plastic Bertrand’s Ca Plane Pour Moi [Windows Media sample / RealPlayer sample].
(Get it? “Ca plane”? On a plane? Oh, never mind.)
This is actually a US Airways regional jet, but I
believe it’s an Embraer Regional Jet. I took this photo while flying to
DC in 2000.
[via Geeks, Guitars and Guinness] Metroblogging has added the city of my birth, Manila, to its roster. Go on and read about that wonderful, chaotic, glorious mess that is my hometown.
(A pity it’s not hosted on Blogware, but some other, lesser blogging tool.)
You can find more on Manila in its Wikipedia entry and the Philippines in its Wikipedia entry and its CIA World Factbook entry.