Archive for April 8th, 2008

First Weekend in San Francisco

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

The Aer Lingus plane had seat-back entertainment with on-demand films, TV, and music, and even thought it was glitchy and had to be rebooted a few times by the air hostess (is it ok to call them that?), it worked well enough in the end. They were all running Linux, by the way. I arrived in San Francisco Airport and found where the shuttle vans were. I found the SuperShuttle people but they couldn’t find my booking in their computer, even though I’d paid $18 online through my credit card, and after spending ages sitting in the van waiting for more customers to come, I eventually just gave up and got a taxi for $42 from the airport to the house.
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