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Better being the remote than the antenna. :D

Weekend is swiftly approaching. Bummed I can't join the F run down, let alone the first evening drinks, but work has me tied. Now everyone arriving in can exercise their knowledge of a great way of getting from Tullamarine to the CBD. (The F run people have it easy - car pool anything except a...

Mini bottles of stuff are sold quite widely now. Used to be the exclusive domain of chemists (especially those at airports, of course), but supermarkets also have travel sizes of stuff now. Naturally not the best unit prices, but so there. If you are checking bags in and don't mind, just get...

The thing that befuddles me is that if this is "braised beef", braising cuts are tough by nature but when you cook them slowly over a long time (or under pressure for slightly shorter times), they eventually pull apart quite readily and shouldn't be tough at all.

Yeah I don't bet the house on any broccoli being cooked well on an aircraft so it isn't overcooked and soggy, unless it is fresh in a salad (i.e. no cooking). Broccolini at least has a better chance of remaining quite crisp and not soggy.

Same braised beef? Any better? Notice a heck of a lot of broccoli in use. I'm surprised the assembled makes a huge deal about pumpkin but find broccoli oddly acceptable (nothing wrong as such with broccoli, but IME it's not everyone's cup of tea sitting somewhat underneath the likes of Brussel...

With twice as many sheep compared to people, you'd think catering ex-New Zealand couldn't possibly undercater lamb....

If I had to guess, it looks like either Indian or Moroccan influenced - the chickpeas are swaying my judgement - either a curry or tagine. Also can't see any mash, unless the rice was severely overcooked 🥲 Not having much luck with the braises or stews so far, eh?

According to the schedules, you'll have a smidge over 90 minutes of connection in SIN. You can depart the gate area; in fact, when you arrive in SIN, you'll be deposited in the normal departure flow outside the gate area. To get back in the gate area and board BA16 to LHR, you'll have to pass...

I'm currently in hospital due to an accident while playing Peek-a-boo. I'm in the ICU.

I was about to propose to my girlfriend when my roommate Joseph barged into the room out of nowhere, tripped, and fell over, breaking a glass table with his face. Totally ruined the mood. Now I don't know Joseph THAT well, don't even remember where he was from, but let's say I put my plans on...

Well, it is (or rather, it maybe) for now. It is the only Australia to Europe non-stop flight for the moment, even if connecting via PER was required. People predict that landscape will shift once Project Sunrise comes into service, but I think it won't disappear quickly since the idea of...

I thought the Perthites may have a lot to say if you take away PER/LHR. Sure, the economics of sustaining the route purely on the dreams of Western Australia and associated tourism (or business/industry) is arguably marginal.....

Tough as a rubber hot pot mat and tasted just like one?

The other main complaint with QF4 is that you essentially eat three breakfasts 🙂 A continuous flight would manage that better (well, no, it could be better managed now, but ah well). That will be interesting. There aren't a huge number of Y seats on the Sunrise aircraft, but if anything it...

I'm sort of more surprised that there is flying still proceeding for that matter. I suppose not every ATC is just walking off the job, even if they could. Maybe some think that they will be sacked if they did, or even worse, a la the great ATC strike from many decades ago.

That's an interesting thought. So instead of having to do the whole process of getting ready to land at a stop, disembark, go through security again (after doing all your transit stuff like lounge or use the bathroom), re-embark, wait for cruise and then resume as before, you can dispense all...

All of USA except Montana is at-will employment. Basically you can get sacked for any reason, even if your boss doesn't like you're breathing today. There are only a few exceptions for at-will dismissal (e.g. discrimination, retaliation, etc.) or where legally bound by an employment contract...

Part of the irony of some of the stops of the days of old was that, on some of them, disembarkation was not required (or didn't happen). I thought I remember taking a TPAC flight on QF one time and we made a stop in NAN, before reaching HNL (before then going onto SFO). I can't remember it...