Going to Seattle or, the Apple Commercial

Feb 04, 2009 07:02

Yeah, so, on the second leg of my flight. I'm the first one in on my row, which works out cause I'm the window seat. I sit down and pull out my ipod shuffle. The guy with the middle seat arrives, stows his bag and pulls out a standard ipod. Then the guy on the aisle gets there and pulls out an iphone. We say haha isn't this funny, it's like a commercial.

About halfway through the flight, I have a brilliant idea, so I pull out my macbook and start sorting through the data. 10 minutes later, the guy on the aisle gets bored with his magazine and pulls out his macbook. The guy in the middle looks at me, looks at the other guy, and says, 'oh man, we all have macs too.'

The first flight was almost stranger. I got on the bus to the airport at CMU, along with someone who I thought was a Brit and a person who appeared to be his host. I get off the bus and walk up to the counter to check in, and he walks up behind me. When I get onto the plane, he's in the seat next to me. We engage in the normal airplane chitchat, and it turns out he works for the New Zealand commissioner of privacy. I point to the journal article I'm reading, written by one of my advisors, and say you know he's really big into that, you should talk with him. Turns out that my advisor was one of the people he'd been meeting with in Pittsburgh. my mind is blown.
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