Flight to Amsterdam

(Sorry about the tense of this post, it was half written at the time, half a couple days later)

Here I am, on a nice new Airbus A330-200:



This plane is such a dream compared to the DC10 nightmare that has been making this run for the last 30 years.

There’s something amusing about watching the opening segment of LOST on an airplane. It reminds me of how on Airplane! they were watching FAA crash test footage as the in-flight movie.

Also, these wonderful in-seat entertainment systems are wonderful little loonix boxes. And when I say wonderful, I mean the I know that they run linux because they crash a whole lot.



I just realized that the main screens at the front of the bulkhead are locked up too.

I just hope these Tylenol PMs kick in soon…

No such luck. I got about an hour of sleep (missing the last half of the first episode of LOST in the process). It was dark when I woke up, but about 7 hours into the flight the sun started coming up:



Hour and a half to go: