The flight from Hartford to Raleigh is only an hour and twenty minutes long, but as fate would have it, we spent around seven hours trying to get home on our non-stop flight.
Apparently a lot of air traffic from New York was re-routed to Hartford due weather conditions, and if you've ever been to Bradley International Airport in Hartford, CT, you'll know it's not the biggest airport in the world. The influx of aircraft to the small airport forced us little CT folk away from our gates and over to another part of the tarmac while the re-routed planes stopped to refuel. We spent about an hour and a half sitting in the plane, on the tarmac, waiting for these planes with no where else to go to re-fuel and depart before we could even return to our gate and deplane.
After all of the extra planes left Hartford, there was the issue of clearing our flight route to NC, which took some more time. Unfortunately all of the restaurants in the airport were closed by the time we got off the plane (around 7PM), but luckily the airport Sheraton had some food so we were at least satiated by something other than small bags of pretzels. Every other flight from Hartford got their route cleared and was off on their way...except for us. My mom (from Vinney's side), works at AA, so she pulled her magic with getting us booked on a flight tomorrow, but thankfully that wasn't necessary. When all hope was nearing extinction, our gate agent got the call and we boarded the plane destined for NC - about 5 hours later than we did the first time.
All in all I can't really complain, it wasn't that bad, and it was a lot better than driving down I-95 to get down here; it's good to be home. As I mentioned earlier, we've got tons of house related meetings down here. I also have to fix some problems with my parents' computers/network (something always seems to break when I'm not around). The Xbox/PS3 piece is basically done minus some polish and a few pretty pictures, it'll go up tonight so I can finally be done with that.
I'm fairly tired but I've got a bit more work to do before I feel I've earned the right to turn in for the night. Luckily my first meeting isn't until noon tomorrow, so I should be able to get just a lil bit of sleep.
Apparently a lot of air traffic from New York was re-routed to Hartford due weather conditions, and if you've ever been to Bradley International Airport in Hartford, CT, you'll know it's not the biggest airport in the world. The influx of aircraft to the small airport forced us little CT folk away from our gates and over to another part of the tarmac while the re-routed planes stopped to refuel. We spent about an hour and a half sitting in the plane, on the tarmac, waiting for these planes with no where else to go to re-fuel and depart before we could even return to our gate and deplane.
After all of the extra planes left Hartford, there was the issue of clearing our flight route to NC, which took some more time. Unfortunately all of the restaurants in the airport were closed by the time we got off the plane (around 7PM), but luckily the airport Sheraton had some food so we were at least satiated by something other than small bags of pretzels. Every other flight from Hartford got their route cleared and was off on their way...except for us. My mom (from Vinney's side), works at AA, so she pulled her magic with getting us booked on a flight tomorrow, but thankfully that wasn't necessary. When all hope was nearing extinction, our gate agent got the call and we boarded the plane destined for NC - about 5 hours later than we did the first time.
All in all I can't really complain, it wasn't that bad, and it was a lot better than driving down I-95 to get down here; it's good to be home. As I mentioned earlier, we've got tons of house related meetings down here. I also have to fix some problems with my parents' computers/network (something always seems to break when I'm not around). The Xbox/PS3 piece is basically done minus some polish and a few pretty pictures, it'll go up tonight so I can finally be done with that.
I'm fairly tired but I've got a bit more work to do before I feel I've earned the right to turn in for the night. Luckily my first meeting isn't until noon tomorrow, so I should be able to get just a lil bit of sleep.
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Anonymous - Friday, June 24, 2005 - link
Does he live on the west coast of the US? Its Friday morning on the US East.hohoho - Friday, June 24, 2005 - link
tonight's the night, batman. Let's see! :Dit's been a while....
Batman - Thursday, June 23, 2005 - link
bets? anyone?I say xenos + 3 PPC + xna is the real deal.
Anonymous - Thursday, June 23, 2005 - link
So when is this article going up? For those waiting, you could let us know if you have delayed it...Anonymous - Thursday, June 23, 2005 - link
BasicallyBobDaStealer - Thursday, June 23, 2005 - link
ROFL@Darkeye! Don't take Darkeye serious:-P this guy usual hangs around Gamespot System Wars forum talkin bout how PS3 is gonna suck....Houdani - Thursday, June 23, 2005 - link
All I can say about an airport experience which added an extra 5.5 hours to your itinerary...Sucks to be you.
We can probably all sympathize, though. My most memoral traveling experience involved taking a 12 hour flight across the Atlantic (Geneva->Brussels->NYC) then getting stuck on the tarmac in New York for 3 hours which caused me to get into Salt Lake City too late to catch my connecting flight to Boise which happened to be the last flight of the day, prompting me to rent a car and drive to Boise in order to get there early enough to hook up with family and immediately drive another 3.5 hours to the launch point of our week-long river rafting trip down the middle fork of the Salmon river.
Did I mention our raft flipped on the first day and my dry bag wasn't sealed well enough to prevent my sleeping bag from turning into a 100-pound sponge?
Now *that* was a superfantastic way to spend 26 hours, interrupted by a 30 minute nap. :)
TheChefO - Thursday, June 23, 2005 - link
How many devs used both cores on Saturn? Scratch that how many GAMES used both cpu's? ...umm ...ONE!
Virtua Fighter 2 used the other cpu for running the background and combining both images for hi-def 640x480.
How many devs are going to seriously spend time to multithread for BOTH consoles? (games aren't made for one system anymore)...
TheChefO - Thursday, June 23, 2005 - link
The x360 architecture is actually more adaptable and dynamic than the ps3. For any developer to say anything like what is quoted above is a moron.The fact is both of these machines will go untaped unless developers are givin a vastly larger budget than past generation. Matter of fact, I'd be willing to bet that 70-80% of the games for both consoles will be using only ONE core on either ps3 or x360.
So much potential will go untaped but so few people will care because they will be "good enough" for joe gamer.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Anonymous - Thursday, June 23, 2005 - link
Any rumour that one is "way way" more powerful is rubbish anyways.Surely people have more common sense than that.
Same Ram, similar system bandwidths.
X360 has 3 general Purpose cores, PS3 has only 1 general purpose core, but with 7 SPE's.
Graphics cards are currently untested against eachother so we don't know which one will be superior in the end. X360 could very well have a more powerful GPU, or vice versa.
Look at the specs, how close are these systems?? very. "Way, Way" more powerful is such a ridiculous statement I can't even believe they put it in print.