Virtual Residency Day Thirty-Seven, Paul Challacombe Continues

I must confess that after 40 days of concentration, I am thrilled to ahnd over the bully pulpit. Paul writes in response to yesterday:

"hat's a provocative notion. People on a jet airplane might want to crawl into a tech-free womb for a few hours. There's an old joke about grandma; she refuses to get on a plane because she wasn't born with wings, so she's content to stay home and watch TV like the good lord intended her to.

Nope, the flaw seems to be in finding the threshold people will pay for. The Internet brings out frugality among those who consume luxury elsewhere. Or it could be that snakes on a plane want free amenities. I don't know. A business class ticket should probably include the connectivity. The surcharge was a bad business model, should have hidden it.

But then I've always been bemused by how many different prices can be charged amongst a crowd of sardines flying point to point in same aluminum tube.

Then finally, who are you going to e-mail on the plane, the person you're going through all this hassle and expense to see (rather than just e-mail?) "