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I was sitting on the jumpseat in the cockpit, while the pilots were inputting mysterious things into the Flight Management Computer, when I laughed out loud at the plotting chart.


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I like these two pictures my friend Abhi took of me at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.


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March 15, 2008:


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Here are some pictures of Sydney from a couple of weeks ago.


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I've decided Australia is just too nice. What do you think about all day when life is this good?


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I see the "strangler fig" tree in every park I visit in Australia. It doesn't grow from the ground up; rather, a seed dropped high in a host tree by an animal grows into a seedling that sends its roots down the host tree toward the soil. The roots wrap around the host tree as the strangler fig reaches higher, competing with the host for light and ( Read more... )

From January 31 until February 5, I took a trip to Melbourne, Christchurch, and Melbourne again. Despite the entire crew having the plague (write our names on the defects log), it was a great trip.


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