Yeah Melanie is pretty clear early on that her intent is to prove to David that he is not mentally ill, that he just has psychic powers.

I was of the same opinion about him not actually being schizophrenic and it was all just the effect of living with Farouk (shadow king) in his mind feeding off his power and sort of driving him insane. I think the first season makes it pretty clear it was all Farouk’s doing. David could still very well be…

Yeah, that was my take. People thought he was mentally ill and were trying to treat him as such but he never really was.

Belinda Blinked lied about the configuration.

Declan is a dick. I liked your article :)
I also did not know of these areas on planes.

More like a fivehead.

Currently, technology has relegated online interactions in social media to text and photos. When VR becomes more ubiquitous, perhaps vocal and video chat communication will become more common. Perhaps interactions will become more rooted in the way they feel in the real world. I would certainly prefer The Oasis over…

Shame flight staff can’t rent out their sleeping slot to long suffering economy class. I’d pay for the luxury of stretching out on a long haul flight. AirBnB in the air.

I, a car person, did not know of their existence until Ballaban pointed it out today. Figured others might be in the same boat. Kinda neato.

That compartment sleeps twelve! I’m surprised that airlines don’t sell the space for travellers. I know I’d be happy to pay a premium if it meant spending the 17 hour flight peacefully tucked up in bed away from the screaming unwashed masses.

Hi! International flight attendant here.

I know the theory, but I really don’t see how something so big can float up in the air...

And, in the days of the former, if you said a “ship” that size would one day fly you’d be accused of being a witch and burned at the stake; after a sham trial.

Supposedly the human body can sustain more G’s while laying; rather than sitting. Such an arrangement could be made safe if the compartments were properly padded and/or has restraint systems. So it could work. The problem I foresee is that it can be rather painful if you were constrained to any one position for a long…

Amazing to think of how large the A380 is. Although its fuselage is not quite as wide, it’s longer than a ship that would have been used to cross oceans or fight great battles in the age of sail.

Being able to tell people you have a “burner laptop” sounds cooler though.

We are flying ORD->AMS at the end of June. We bought non-stop tickets in December (from the airline) and the price of them doubled not soon after. They haven’t gone down since. Sure, there are still some one stop flights that are a little less expensive (Iceland and Aer Lingus) but non-stop is still twice as much.…

Yep. Pretty sure “cray cray” wasn’t a “thing” in the ‘90s.

Based off the ages of the actresses, the scene probably happened in the first half of the aughts, so it was right when HDTV and 16:9 content was starting to become common. Plus music videos were being shot in widescreen for a cinematic look way before then. It’s firmly in that time period when they were mastering most…

Not even joking, I miss Oklahoma thunderstorms. Moved to the Pacific Northwest, and all I get now is drizzle. There’s something existentially satisfying about a good thunderstorm. I don’t know what it is. I was in a store in Portland once and there was a thunderclap (a thunderclap, as in one, which is about right for…