Sunday, 28 July 2013

130728 MUC -> AMS DL9491

Trip from Munich to Amsterdam.
Boarding calmly on the plane. The flight attendant receives everybody with a smile
A KLM flight with Delta Airlines code share. It's a small Embraer E190. The cabin is small but spacious. Business class is 3 rows with 4 seats in each row, 2 seats on each side of the aisle. Seating is comfortable.
Planes takes off in a smooth run. Soon we are flying high above the clouds with a amazing blue sky you usually don't see from the ground level. In some hiking trips at the top of some high mountains in a clear day.
We are presented with a beautiful tempo box with breakfast. It reminds me the Japanese boxes with sushi and sashimi, maybe it's because of the smoked salmon and green lettuce within the black box that brings such a nice appeal to it. It tastes good, and with the salmon there is a nice sauce that I am difficulty in identifying, it seems like a fresh taste of a tartar quark with pickles.
Browsing the inflight magazine I come across a picture of the CEO of an Ukraine bank. Stunning resemblance to George Constanza from TV show Seinfeld. I always imagined that if you look like George you don't want your picture used in advertising, much less to bring reputation or a respectable aura to a financial institution to which somebody is going to trust you with your money. If you seen the show, you would that would be a simple NO to that bank. I have now the memories of George at the office when he managed the baseball team. I can't forget all the scenes involving the cashmere with the micro red dot. I haven't decided if it would be better for the bank to have a CEO resembling George or Kramer.
Read an interesting article about big data. Nice info to get into some presentations.
90% of worlds data was produced just in the last 2 years. YouTube users upload 72hours of video per minute. 30 systems used in preventive security predict crime hot spots as aftershocks from other big crimes generating locations of up to 150 m2 precision with person's of interest, all this based on an history of 13 million crimes from the last 80 years. Consumer product distributors can identify pregnant women from recent purchase history, a father of a girl complained to the advertising company for sending coupons for diapers to his daughter, after a while the father said he was sorry. Now to dissimulate, the company sends randomised segment the same advertising including some tractor wheels with the diaper coupons.
Impressive the sky just bellow the clouds, as soon as we move from the clear blue sky through the clouds, we see a dark day with some spots of sun in the dense cloudy sky where the cloud openings are. Those spots look like the light passing through the vitrals in a huge cathedral. That sure is an image of extreme beauty.

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