What I did for my Labor Day vacation: got dusty.

I've put up a whole raft of photos of our recent Burning Man trip, over at flickr. They're on the second or third page of my photostream at this point. I only wish that the slideshows there came in a bigger size.  Anyway, the photos themselves are full size, if you want to click in and see all the gory details (i.e. the alkali dust of an ancient lakebed, ground by the millenia into the consistency of chalk dust . . . into my hair).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandover/

When you mention Burning Man to people, many of them still go blank. Burning What? Well, OK, it's this, and this, and this, and this.  I wrote an article about it here, but jeez, people, Bruce Sterling blew the lid off with a WiReD cover story back in 1996.  Hello!  Happy Burn.

 


 

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here's a small sample of the photos from my travels in portugal and morocco http://photography.rayidghani.com/porto http://photography.rayidghani.com/casablanca http://photography.rayidghani.com/marrakech

1 cent plane ticket

Before I continue, I have to say this is being written under duress :) (and also to save the lives of many photos that would otherwise be destroyed). But given that I am writing this, I thought I might as well make it interesting (us in research have had a lot of practice with this type of activity lately :) Have you ever wondered how an airline flight that cost 1 cent (+ taxes of course) would look and feel like? Well, wonder no more. I’ve flown low-cost European airlines before but this Ryanair London to Porto flight takes the prize - 1 cent! I asked around 15 people on the flight how much they paid and everyone said 1 cent!!! Ryanair does make some money by advertising on and in the airplane but can it be enough? There are several nice articles online that describe their business model (similar to southwest) and it seems that they have found countless ways to be extremely efficient, cut costs and make money off partner deals and advertising. ok, off to explore porto. By the way, where do the british think willie wonka’s chocolate factory is?