Russell recently wrote a piece on how customisation of cars is not encouraged and i fully agree (having recently purchased a blackgeneric mass market commuting vehicle)
the one exception to this rule seems to be Smart cars which are very cool and very customisable, even without fancy paint jobs. if it wasn’t for the motorway parts of my journey i would have considered getting one myself.
could you imagine me in a little funkypancake car on the way to work ?
i travelled to athens with Olympic Airways. The plane was quite grubby and old and i don’t think i’d use them again.
A good indicator of their quality was their toilet which was piled up with toilet paper on a shelf.
and on the way back they had a whole wall of various papers
although they obviously were trying to bring some order to the situation
another thing about olmpic airlines was their life-jackets, which i couldn’t work out at all from their demonstration. it had extra straps all over the place.
but how about this curiousity. definately one to click for largeness.
the captain looks pleased with himself as he has worked out how to put his jacket on, whilst the lady on the top left can’t find her jacket. meanwhile the plane itself has crashed in to the sea and a fireball is floating away (actually, the fireball looked more like the last supper when you could see it in more detail)
we can only guess what the picture on the bottom left of this is
today is turning in to a bit of a rant – sorry about that.
this is a weird plane we saw flying over our heads by the thames path. any idea what it is ?
update: thanks to phil, it turns out this was a U2 spy plane ! i love you guys. whether it’s insects or military aircraft you sort me out each time !
how does an ambulance bike work ? if you are well enough to ride on the back of this bike (or perhaps as a ‘croggy’) then you probably don’t really need a bike
does anyone else use the word croggy ?
we got stuck in a massive queue on the motorway yesterday heading for the Thames Path.
interestingly they had some fancy signs up showing mathematical symbols. i asked jane about it and she said it was probably a formula for the queue length which i thought was inspired.
so what is ‘pi’ multiplied by ‘ l’ ? pi is obviously this, but what is the symbol ‘l’ representing in this formula ?
i wondered if the formula was a way of calculating the time (in minutes) it will take to get through the queue: ie it’s 3.14 times the length (‘l’) of the queue in miles.
that would be about right as the queue was about 10 miles long and it took us over half an hour to get through it.
any other ideas ?
this plane simulator is near the gates in luxembourg airport so pilots can get any last minute training.
