I'll be home for Christmas

[austin_dern]

It's frightfully early -- early enough that sometimes I go to bed later than this. But I'm woken up, showered, and waiting for the taxi -- and so it's off for home. I think it's home, anyway; it's the place I want to be when I'm not there. Further reports following what I trust will be a safe arrival. I promise to answer all the recent comments when I am safely ensconced on another continent and have, I trust, a little time to write answers.

It's remarkable how the same setting -- same humidity, same traffic noises, same humid night gloom -- can be so different depending on whether I just got up or whether I'm just going to bed, too.

Trivia: The first aerial photograph was taken in 1858 by Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, by tethered balloon. Source: Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society, Norman J.W. Thrower.

Currently Reading: Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race, David Scott, Alexei Leonov, Christine Toomey. Guess whose name isn't on the cover. But it does note, foreward by Neil Armstrong, and introduction by Tom Hanks.

Comments

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

And indeed, the same scene at the same hour can appear so very differently, depending one whether one's regarding it illuminated by the passion of love, or from the pit of its faded embers. (Though it's been some time since I've personally experienced either)

Guess whose name isn't on the cover.

I'm guessing we don't win a package of cookies. ^_^

That was one thing that did rather irk me somewhat in the Enterprise opening titles: virtually no indication of any involvement by any other countries than the US in the progress towards space. I'd expected better from an inherently forward-looking series. Still, that plus the theme music guaranteed I couldn't actually get through to the show itself, despite Scott Bakula. (Has he ever sung on the show, I wonder? I was impressed to note he performed his own singing in Cats Don't Dance)

Anyway! Hope you'll be having, or had, a pleasant flight, with food and movies to enjoy rather than endure. ^_^ (Which airline? Singapore seems to be quite the hub)

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

The lack of notice that non-Americans ever did anything in space has been discussed quite a bit in Trek newsgroups, actually. The discussion inevitably ends up saying either ``you're right, they should have something of other country spaceflights but it's too much money to spend for a doomed show'' or else some variant of ``this is an AMERICAN show, how would it get them a bigger audience to show Soviet propaganda?'' One guy managed to start dismissing all the Soviet Space Firsts as irrelevancies compared to the real accomplishments the United States has made.

I've only seen the first two years of Enterprise, when they couldn't be bothered having anything interesting happen.

I flew United, which I've done often enough now that I almost know the service schedules by heart.

Safe trip

[argon-centaur.livejournal.com]

Yes, hope your trip was safe and not too uncomfortable. And glad you got your computer back. Yay! See you in a couple of... well, see you right now as you read this!

Re: Safe trip

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Thank you, and yes, it was reasonably smooth and as comfortable as coach gets.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Have a great visit back on the coati home turf! *megascritcha*

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Thanks ... I'll see you on at stranger time zones, I'm sure ...