Home again
Jun. 9th, 2007 08:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsActually, I got home last night -- but had a wonderful evening catching up with gabriel_le, and was tired enough that I forgot all about posting. So... delayed "I'm home" post.
Got to fly home business class -- business class actually makes air travel humane, almost civilised.
I, unfortunately, didn't take enough books with me. Partially this was caused by one book I took being a lot shorter than expected -- far larger print, and wider margins than "normal". So, on the way back I was looking for stuff to read. I ended up reading the latest editions of Newsweek and Time, and of course mentally comparing them to my regular newsweekly, The Economist. And, they both came up short. They were, literally, quite a bit shorter/thinner -- though they probably cost less as well. But, they were also lighter/fluffier, for example one of them had a comparison of Harry Potter and the Sopranos, the other had a couple pages of interviews with a tv show cast. And, of course, there was a more distinctly American bias/cant to the news, and far weaker international coverage relatively. I also like The Economist sectioning, the collection of the news by category and area, and neither seemed to have that.
To come: books read and pictures of climbing on the Swabian Alb.
Got to fly home business class -- business class actually makes air travel humane, almost civilised.
I, unfortunately, didn't take enough books with me. Partially this was caused by one book I took being a lot shorter than expected -- far larger print, and wider margins than "normal". So, on the way back I was looking for stuff to read. I ended up reading the latest editions of Newsweek and Time, and of course mentally comparing them to my regular newsweekly, The Economist. And, they both came up short. They were, literally, quite a bit shorter/thinner -- though they probably cost less as well. But, they were also lighter/fluffier, for example one of them had a comparison of Harry Potter and the Sopranos, the other had a couple pages of interviews with a tv show cast. And, of course, there was a more distinctly American bias/cant to the news, and far weaker international coverage relatively. I also like The Economist sectioning, the collection of the news by category and area, and neither seemed to have that.
To come: books read and pictures of climbing on the Swabian Alb.
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