Travel Argh

[dagibbs]

I had a 4-hour stopover in Newark to catch my Mumbai flight, but it wasn't enough. The Continental service guy was very helpful, and found me a routing through Heathrow that would get me there -- Continental's automatic rebooking had me going out on Tueaday evening (that is a 4-day delay in Newark), which would have made the trip entirely pointless.

Then, I had to deal with the rest... cause I wasn't really flying to Mumbai, I had a seperate ticket on to Goa the next day. I had to get that rebooked, and that took a while, too.

Now, I just have to let everyone on the business side of things know.

I really didn't need this.

Am I dreaming to much to hope that my luggage gets to India with me? The Continental guy assured me it would, and he seemed quite nice.

Comments

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

The wonder of computer programs, hope the rest of the trip is going well.

[theobviousname.livejournal.com]

Makes you wish that telepresence (in a useful form) wasn't still basically a pipe-dream... Then you'd just have to deal with the time change (probably much easier to handle without the rest of the jet-lag effects).

So they've been promising us that for what, 10 years now already?

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've done telepresence teaching, actually. To India, in fact. It didn't work all that well. Not too bad, but not great.

I don't actually want telepresence, though. I want teleportation. :)

[theobviousname.livejournal.com]

Controlled by a computer running Windows? :)

I'm discovering that's an interesting way of thinking about potential uses of technology. Compare "It'd be really cool to have a flying car!" and "It'd be really cool to have a flying car controlled by a computer running Windows."

So, magical teleportation - maybe; technological teleportation... I'm not so sure. :)

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'd be ok if it was controlled by QNX.

[theobviousname.livejournal.com]

Well, perhaps, but that wasn't the question, was it? :) In response to all your - very good - arguments why QNX would be a much better platform, I have only one response: "Windows for Warships." :)