I am sooooo ready for this plane trip to be over. But enough of that (I’m writing this offline, waaaay up in the air, traveling at almost 600 miles per hour).

I’ve just finished watching most of the first season of the new Doctor Who. Which, believe it or not, I hadn’t watched before. I did watch the first couple of episodes, but I wasn’t too impressed. Thats changed. Its a powerfully good show, and I do believe that I just got hooked. It might even be better than the original Doctor Who – well, most episodes. It is certainly not as good as the Talons of Weng Chiang though. Ten hours of airplane flight will let you catch up on this sort of thing.

I didn’t bring the DVD’s with me. Christmas eve, on a whim, I used the mac program ripit to copy the dvds to my hard drive, and ran them from there. Now, it doesn’t do compression (which Handbrake, which is free) will do, but its dirt simple to use, and its like using a DVD. Which has advantages, and drawbacks. The program gets a big plus from me, though.

Speaking of which – fat guy with a large gut in coach, with even a small laptop (13.3 inch) isn’t very useable. If you have to fly coach a lot, and your a big person, I can really see the attraction of a netbook. (A netbook doesn’t have a dvd drive, has a small screen, and is pathetically underpowered – but those are advantages under certain conditions).

Man, I do miss my parrots though.