These thoughts are things that occurred to me during my travels home from Scottish Ruby Conference. They haven’t been checked for accuracy.

  • So I noticed that Weird Twitter really picks up at about midnight in California. Is that when the Burger Kings that weird twitter work at all close?
  • It sucks when you get on a plane after running your out-of-shape ass and a bunch of luggage through Heathrow and can’t get water right away.
  • It doesn’t suck when airline and airport staff have procedures to get you to your flight even when your inbound connection is delayed an hour.
  • In Time tries really really hard to be preachy but it’s still a watchable action movie.
  • Curry shrimp is not my first choice for airplane food. It was tasty though.
  • It’s weird as hell how much you miss your cat after a week.
  • Shoulda set up ACE editor when I had an internet connection. Can’t build it without having pre-downloaded a bunch of stuff ‘cause it doesn’t look like I can just cat some files together by hand.
  • The Rockwell Collins in-flight moving map could stand to be as good as the iPhone’s map interface from 2007. A higher resolution and the ability to show both
  • this movie about bikes is cool
  • well it was until main character skidded over a set of skid marks obviously from a previous take
  • Sipping single-malt whisky while crossing the Atlantic is almost as cool as sipping it while hanging out with @tef and @ryanstenhouse.
  • I wonder if my luggage is on board? The agents at LHR said it wasn’t, but who knows?
  • Wine and cheese. Yes.
  • Does Daniel Craig’s James Bond live in a world where no James Bond movies exist? Or where previous James Bonds didn’t exist? I bet he’d really like some kind of suitcase helicopter during the intro to Skyfall but those don’t exist in our world and obviously don’t exist in his.
  • “This is 40” has one of the funnier pre-title-sequence openings I’ve seen this flight.
  • This really could be “Thoughts from 40,000 feet” because I just noticed that on the Rockwell Collins in-flight moving map on the big screen for the cabin.
  • Just “got” a joke about gout.
  • Nothing like a well-timed fart joke.
  • When did Judd Apatow become a good director? I’m thinking “Pineapple Express.”
  • How the hell did this become such a romantic movie?
  • Never mind.