Item Two
Microsoft Word in Space
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070408/D8OC5G780.html
Okay, I admit I'm fascinated by Martha Stewart. I wonder if this billionaire inventor of microsoft word is her boyfriend or something. Anyhow, I find the whole episode delightful. One can't help but wonder if space travel will go the way of air travel. You know, it was originally supposed to be luxury in the skies but now you're just packed in like sardines and everyone hates it, even the people who fly first class. (Speaking of which, I once flew first class to London. Empty seat. Guess they got a kick out of offering it to some shabby teenage backpacker. Anyhow, since it was British Airways they didn't card me, the drinking age there being 18. At least, I think that's why. Got a bottle of wine out of the deal and what I considered the best meal the whole trip.)
Still, Martha riding a camel, and then roped off from the plebs n unwashed masses at a separate location to watch the liftoff, her boyfriend, the billionaire inventor of microsoft word, whom no-one had ever even heard of - either in the capacity of software inventor or as Martha's main-squeeze - going out in a cramped little spaceship along with some probably bewildered cosmonaut, and an unknown and you'd imagine silly-looking Hungarian fellow-billionaire, also fond of blowing his money on Things You Mere Millionaires and Non-Multi Billionaires Could Never Afford. And what do they do when they get to the international space-station? Why they dine on duck confit, roasted quail, etc with Menu Prepared by Martha.
And to boot, also the traditional Peeing on the Bus Wheel and this is all taking place in Kahazkhstan, of Borat fame.
The only thing that would be better would be Martha in space herself, doing a live simulcast of her cooking show. Think of how deftly she would handle her wild mushrooms that just floated off. Sangfroid in weightlessness... But alas, one can only dream!
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070408/D8OC5G780.html
Okay, I admit I'm fascinated by Martha Stewart. I wonder if this billionaire inventor of microsoft word is her boyfriend or something. Anyhow, I find the whole episode delightful. One can't help but wonder if space travel will go the way of air travel. You know, it was originally supposed to be luxury in the skies but now you're just packed in like sardines and everyone hates it, even the people who fly first class. (Speaking of which, I once flew first class to London. Empty seat. Guess they got a kick out of offering it to some shabby teenage backpacker. Anyhow, since it was British Airways they didn't card me, the drinking age there being 18. At least, I think that's why. Got a bottle of wine out of the deal and what I considered the best meal the whole trip.)
Still, Martha riding a camel, and then roped off from the plebs n unwashed masses at a separate location to watch the liftoff, her boyfriend, the billionaire inventor of microsoft word, whom no-one had ever even heard of - either in the capacity of software inventor or as Martha's main-squeeze - going out in a cramped little spaceship along with some probably bewildered cosmonaut, and an unknown and you'd imagine silly-looking Hungarian fellow-billionaire, also fond of blowing his money on Things You Mere Millionaires and Non-Multi Billionaires Could Never Afford. And what do they do when they get to the international space-station? Why they dine on duck confit, roasted quail, etc with Menu Prepared by Martha.
And to boot, also the traditional Peeing on the Bus Wheel and this is all taking place in Kahazkhstan, of Borat fame.
The only thing that would be better would be Martha in space herself, doing a live simulcast of her cooking show. Think of how deftly she would handle her wild mushrooms that just floated off. Sangfroid in weightlessness... But alas, one can only dream!