And I surely must have flown in a US carrier, after all what
else is there?
Check your facts. What I said was:
"If your flight was a US carrier... or, it's a US originating flight,
the BusinessWeek's are the domestic edition."
The magazines on an airline are not free -- publisher pay to have their magazines available on aircraft. A Singapore Airlines flight (for example) which originated in the US, would've been serviced in the US. That means it would be replenished with US issues of magazines and dailies. In other words, the Straits Times for Singapore departures, and NYT and the Wall Street Journal for departures out of JFK or Newark. Duh.
So I guess what you're telling us is that your flight didn't originating in the U.S.?
Speaking of BusinessWeek and transference... From BusinessWeek Online:
<http://www.businessweek.com/cgi-bin/bwdailyx?right=dnflash%2Faug1998%2Fnf80831a.htm>
I plugged (the iMac) in and turned it on. And knock me down with a feather --
it worked. The software was a little unfamiliar after more than a decade
of PC use, but it worked. And that meant, so could I. For the first time, I
wouldn't have to lose a week of productivity learning how to use my new
productivity-enhancer.
I took the tutorial and immediately developed a sexual fixation on the
female cartoon figure that dispenses info. Transference, Freud
called it. She kept saying, "Do this," and every time I did what she told me
to do, she purred, "Good!"
More important, however, the reverse is true. When I tell my new computer
to do something, it does it. And I find myself saying something I didn't say
very often to my PC: "Good!"
Ian Bruce
New York, NY |
