During my flight to WWDC this year I could not really sleep, and the 12 hour flight was the source of memorable tweets that will never make it to Twitter. Because of timing and context, and also because of the inexcusable lack of wifi network in some major airlines.
Anyway.
I used Pages during the flight to keep track of all those insomniac, bilingual tweets, while the plane was a going through the Atlantic and Canada towards San Francisco. Some are about the flight itself, others about the Argentine film “El Secreto de sus Ojos”, and finally some about the Football World Cup. Project yourself in the situation, and enjoy the rants. I certainly did :)
During and about the flight
- The iPad is the perfect onboard entertainment system. Pages as an offline Twitter client, Kindle and iBooks as ebook readers, some movies, and lots of music. 57% battery after 12 hours.
- As the stewards would say: “brace, brace”; lots of tweets coming.
- Outlook is a city in Saskatchewan, not far from Saskatoon and Moose Jaw. After this revelation to remember the next time you play Trivial Pursuit, you can resume your normal activities.
- Saskatoon officially gets the 2010 akosma award for the best city name ever.
- As you could imagine, the only interesting thing in this inflight entertainment thingy is the 3D map indicating our current position. #fascinating #boring
- I forgot to mention that my seat’s sound system is broken. I could watch any movie I want but my lip reading skills are not that good.
- The names of the cities in northern Canada are just amazing. Can’t remember any of them tho. Are they Innuit names?
- Our vision of the world is as distorted as a map of Novaja Zemlya in Mercator projection after the explosion of the Tsar bomba.
- Why do they still print the “smoke” section in boarding passes? Is there any airline out there still offering smoking seats?
- Given that most airplane tickets are electronic, why aren’t boarding passes? #iphoneappidea
- Let’s calculate the CO2 emissions caused by airlines still printing the word “smoke” in boarding passes. No, let’s better not.
- The keyboard of the iPad has this character: â‚© (tap and hold the dollar sign). What currency is it? Korea’s won? If Korea won, then the pun is intended.
- On the plane with @mediaatelier and @dcondrau, probably even more Swiss devs, but without wifi and Twitter, difficult to know.
- There were fewer devs using Xcode on this Swiss flight than in last year’s Lufthansa flight. I will leave the elaboration of any conclusion thereof to my dear followers.
- Why do flight attendants akways decide to serve beverages at precisely the same moment when planes go through turbulences? #complot #midwest #twister
- Now I understand why Swiss is Lufthansa’s cash cow: pricier tickets and crappier service. Only selling point: the nonstop ZRH -> SFO flight. #swissairwherearethou
- I remember when they added phones to Swissair airplanes, back in 1996; calls used to cost 10 dollars per minute. Now, in 2010, in Swiss… they cost the same. #WTF
- In the airport of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) there was free, fast, open wifi in 2006. Most airports in the northern hemisphere, in 2010, charge a lot for a crappy connection. #WTF
- And still, no wifi in planes. #WTF
- No, I haven’t been involved in Nazi activities during from 1933 to 1945. Thanks for asking. #visawaiver
- Swiss people not traveling often outside of Switzerland are easy to spot. I let you imagine the rest of this tweet.
- The Swiss version of Homer Simpson is sitting beside me, and is kinda fascinated with my iPad. Yeah, I’m talking about you, moron.
- Oh no my dear Homer, the armrest between us is mine for the rest of the flight. See? I don’t push my elbow on your side. Wasn’t that hard, now was it?
- The “Skytrain” in ZRH airport, is a subway, actually. You can hear yodel and cows and other Swiss sounds inside while you go from terminal to terminal. #typisch
- Whoever said that the iPad is a consumption-only device should have stop consuming some substances before writing nonsense.
Sobre la pelicula “El Secreto de sus Ojos”
- El otro día fui a ver “El Secreto de sus Ojos” con Clau, y me quedaron, obviamente, muchas cosas picando, pensaturrias.
- Me imagino la Argentina de mis padres como un lugar con una dosis mayor de inocencia de la actual. Debe haber haber sido un lindo lugar.
- Vivir en la Argentina de los 80 no estuvo mal. Aparte de las hiperinflaciones y crisis crónicas, yo tengo lindos recuerdos de aquella época.
Sobre el mundial
- Si Drogba se fracturo y quedo afuera del mundial, entonces se queda con las Ghana. Y el resto del tweet es superfluo. #mundial
- Si te fracbturas, necesitas una drogba para conbtener el dbolor. #mundial
- Primero Beckham, después Rooney, ahora Drogba… que otros jugadores se quedaron afuera? #mundial
- Atacante norcoreano inscripto como arquero… te imaginas? El técnico lo tendría que probar al arco, por ahí después se lo recordaría como el Higuita coreano. #escorpión #taekwondo #mundial
- El conocido árbitro paraguayo Carlos Amarilla no participará en el mundial. Tampoco asistirán el reconocido juez de línea francés Marcel Orsay ni el legendario hincha de Camerún. #burumbumbúm #mundial
- Burumbumberia, burumbumberia, yo soy el hincha, de Nigeria. #mundial
- Burumbumbana, burumbumbana, yo soy el hincha, de Ghana. #mundial
- Burumbumbafrica, burumbumbumbafrica, yo soy el hincha, de Sudafrica. #mundial
- Burumbumbar, burumbumbar, yo soy el hincha, de Madagascar (las hinchadas de Zanzibar y Escobar cantan similares canciones) #mundial
- Burumbumbique, burumbumbique, yo soy el hincha, de Mozambique. #mundial
- Burumbumipto, burumbumipto, yo soy el hincha, de ………………. (enviar respuesta correcta en un reply) #mundial
- Burumbumbina, burumbumbina, yo soy el hincha, de Argentina (el que diga “efedrina” es boleta). #mundial
- Burumbumbal, burumbumbal, yo soy el hincha, de Codesal (cantito alemán) #mundial
- Burumbumbola, burumbumbola, yo soy el hincha, de Angola. #mundial
- Burumbumbasta, burumbasta, yo creo… que ya basta.
- El otro día dieron en la TV Suiza (en italiano) la película de Kusturica sobre Maradona. Muy buena.