I wrote this post last week, more on my Vancouver experiences soon!
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I’m currently on the plane to Seattle, the first stop on my February/March adventure! After spending about a day in Seattle with friends, I will be heading up to Vancouver to partake in Olympic madness for about ten days.
A friend of a friend was nice enough to sublet me his furnished condo really close to the venue, and many of my friends will be staying in various places around vancouver, going to a bunch of different events. So far, I have tickets to ski cross, a few quarter-final hockey games, curling, and the closing ceremonies. I’m going to try my best to get tickets for the semi-final hockey match but currently they’re going for a few thousand dollars a piece on craigslist, so I’m not holding my breath. I think it will be a lot of fun to watch the Gold Medal game in the public broadcast centre; if Canada makes it, I’d be surprised if most of the city isn’t out somewhere watching the game! A victory would lead to partying the likes of which man has rarely seen! I’ll most certainly post more info and pictures when I get to Vancouver!
The preponderance of WiFi on airplanes, though incredibly useful in abstract, is probably a net negative for me. I used to look at pan-continental flight as one of the few places devoid of the time-wasting temptations of the Internet. If I’m lucky enough to be sitting in a seat with power, I often think of the 5+ distraction-free hours as some of my most productive! I’ve written a few papers, an entire web application, planned out large changes in my life, and read some pretty interesting books on these long flights.
Luckily, this time, I was able to resist the temptation of WiFi, and instead fixed a bunch of bugs in some code I was writing, start work on an additional module for an application I’ve been writing for Acumen Fund (more on this later!), write this blog entry, and listen to a few more lectures from this Intro to Philiosphy class I found on iTunes edu.
Looks like we’ll be landing in Seattle soon (only 2 hours late, way to go Delta!) so I guess that’s it for my blog entry! Stay tuned for more!
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