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Public Transport – a hit and miss run

Posted by: Samiuela LV Taufa on June 30, 2008 11:54:05 AM

My train ride was on schedule this morning, but the ‘features’ offered by City Rail is beginning to scare me (since I may just not get to work at all one of these days.)

The ride I usually take when working in the city was delayed by 20 ~ 30 minutes, which basically means that the next ride would mean a big adrenaline rush through the system to get from the downtown train station to the workplace in time. Let alone having to go through the “tunnels” and the crush to get on the escalator (note single escalator service.)

Poor work warriors from further North of the city seem to be struggling with this scheduling ‘feature’ for quite some time. At least, they’re always on the news for not making it to work or being stuck somewhere in the Public Transport System for up to 4 hours.

Wow!!! I get to see my first MacBook Pro on the train today (or maybe it’s my 2nd but didn’t really notice the other one?)

Seems to be the latest thing to equip your staff with a notebook, and stick them with a “dongle” USB modem for keeping connected with work.

This we know, this MacBook gal doesn’t do too much of this stuff on this train ride. She’s sitting with the sun glaring at her and has to put her hand up to shade her eyes while she’s trying to do something on her laptop. True warriors already have the seating on the train that doesn’t have glaring sunlight.

Oh, and you have to move around. There’s no perfect spot as this ride winds around and thus the sun comes in differently depending on the part of the track your on.

POSH – Port Out Stubborn Home.

Reminds me of having learned sometime in the past the beginnings of the phrase / word POSH. Posh is often (at least where I was) used to refer to someone or a group of people with some real money.

When I get online, I’ll look it up again. (I’m not crazy enough to pay the rates to get 24/7 access from my laptop, but I know the Bro’ does.)

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