Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/“Who is to blame if an airline that’s comfortable and treats passengers well fails, while a carrier that annoys and nickel-and-dimes customers at every turn is a run-away success? We all are.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://business.time.com/author/bradtuttle/" rel="author" title="Posts by Brad Tuttle">Brad Tuttle</a>: <a href="http://business.time.com/2012/10/25/why-an-airline-that-travelers-love-is-failing/">Why an Airline That Travelers Love Is Failing</a>, at Time. Virgin America is losing out to Spirit, a Ryanair-alike that charges passengers for every little thing.</p> <p>File under: “consumers are stupid”.</p></em>http://notes.husk.org/post/34708864342http://notes.husk.org/post/34708864342Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:28:39 +0000quotevirgin americatransporttravelairlinesflightair travel<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzwdjtYQvM1qzk7t0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thingsmagazine.tumblr.com/post/18185129289/b-o-a-c-advert-from-the-official-festival-of">thingsmagazine</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.thingsmagazine.net/projects/099/004.htm">B.O.A.C advert</a>, from the official <a href="http://www.thingsmagazine.net/projects/099/index.htm">Festival of Britain</a> programme, 1951</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>[this is good]</strong></p>http://notes.husk.org/post/18195915171http://notes.husk.org/post/18195915171Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:59:28 +0000imagereblogboacbeavintage1950sfestival of britainposterdesignair travelbritish isles“I don’t think I am alone in joking that San Francisco and New York have, effectively, become neighbourhoods to one another. This is especially true if you take a red-eye between the two cities and manage to sleep during the flight only to wake up on the subway inbound to Manhattan. Given how awful the buses are in San Francisco it feels easier, conceptually (or emotionally) at least, to leave the Mission and go for breakfast in Brooklyn than it does to travel to the Marina for dinner.”<br/><br/> - <em>Aaron Straup Cope, in <a href="http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2011/04/02/status/#airportcity">(Dog-Eared) Airport Cities</a>. (I was going to post a shorter version of this quote, but <a href="http://blog.joshuanguyen.com/">joshuanguyen</a> got there first, so I’ll just reblog his.)</em>http://notes.husk.org/post/5137274593http://notes.husk.org/post/5137274593Mon, 02 May 2011 19:45:56 +0100quotereblognew york citysan franciscoaerotropolisair travelflight