Mon, Jan 15 2007 1:44 AM
Erwyn van der Meer
Rebooting your seat
"Please stand by, while we reboot your seat"! We were greeted with this message just before Nortwest Airlines had to reboot their inflight entertainment system due to severe problems on all seats. To our surprise the following screen showed up:
Hmm. What's that ugly looking bird doing there in the top left corner? Oh wait, it's just a crappy unstable system based on Linux!
We just arrived at our hotel in Bellevue after a pretty smooth flight without delays from Amsterdam to Seattle. Smooth, apart from the above mentioned hickup that is. For 9.95$ a day I have wired and wireless Internet access from my hotel room, so I can blog and upload pictures.
I just had to post this before going for dinner at 3:00 AM in Bellevue, WA. 3:00 AM Central European Time that is. Here in Pacific Standard Time, it is now 4:45 PM. So we are going for dinner at 6:00 PM, but it just doesn't feel like it.
It's just below 0 degrees Celcius here and there is still snow from last week's snow fall. Below you can see some snow on the platform of the airport. In the background is Mount Rainier which dominates the skyline at 4,392 m elevation.
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