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- Captain’s Log — Apparently the Cat Did Not Like Flying
- Get Out of the Hotel and Do Something
- Flying Over Titan
- I Met Him When He Came to the Flightdeck Wanting to Be a Southwest Pilot
- Decades Later, at a Bar, I Met a Stranger. We Talked About Mapping Text Adventures on Graph Paper
- IBM PCjr Flight Simulator is to blame. Or credit.
- ▼October (6)
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Captain’s Log — Apparently the Cat Did Not Like Flying
On my last trip, I came down to the jetway before boarding to meet my new flight attendants. It’s not unusual for us to switch cabin crew throughout…
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Get Out of the Hotel and Do Something
If you fly for a living, you know the drill. The van drops you at the hotel. You drag your bag past the front desk. And suddenly you…
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Flying Over Titan
A nearly full moon above. A layer of clouds below. The Earth looks tucked in, cozy. Goodnight Moon. Goodnight Earth. On nights like this, it looks like we’re…
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I Met Him When He Came to the Flightdeck Wanting to Be a Southwest Pilot
I first met Matt in 2017. He was 18 and a passenger on our flight from Baltimore to Tampa, by way of Birmingham, headed to watch spring training…
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Decades Later, at a Bar, I Met a Stranger. We Talked About Mapping Text Adventures on Graph Paper
CROSSPOST FROM https://stories.retro-exo.com/story/65/ I must have been in seventh or eighth grade. We had an IBM PCjr at home. I know it was bought for me. There was…
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IBM PCjr Flight Simulator is to blame. Or credit.
CROSSPOSTED FROM https://stories.retro-exo.com/story/21/ You know how you can tell the pilot in the room? They will tell you. Not so subtly waves from the corner. I’m 52 and…
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