I’m looking for decent bug tracking software. It’s annoyingly hard to find. I thought I’d take a look at a product called “Pesticide 2005” which offers a demo:
Try out the full featured online installation of Pesticide 2005.*
*Note: Certain Functionalities have been deactivated in this demo
Anybody want to tell me the difference between a “feature” and a “functionality” in this context?
When Denver International Airport first opened, my parents and I were delighted to discover a little pretzel shop by gate B-24 called “Auntie Anne’s.” Even today, when I have ready access to Auntie Anne’s throughout the Boston area, I remember the exact gate in DIA where I can find the salty buttery treats.
The second time we walked up to the shop we saw an enormous line snaking across the concourse. More striking than its length, though, was its composition: what looked like the complete flight crews from at least three or four different flights were queued up together to get their fix of Auntie’s delicious snacks before their flights carried them away.
I’d forgotten this until my return trip from Washington yesterday. When I got to the airport I learned the earlier 4:30 flight was canceled, leaving the 5:30 and 6:30 flights inundated with standby passengers. The gate agents were surrounded by a frustrated mob of late check-ins, stand-bys, volunteers who gave up their seats, and general riffraff desperately seeking information (which they gave readily, with great detail and pleasant smiles). Nobody in an Airtran uniform was spared the third degree.
Finally, when the crowd had dissipated – the stand-bys off to the food court with $10 food vouchers, the volunteers off to their homes to wait for the morning’s flights, and the rest of us to our chairs to sit peacefully – a lone flight attendant emerged from the chaos. Looking as if she’d spent her day chasing a particularly energetic child across the country, she asked one last question of the customer service agents, as one would ask water of a merchant in the desert: “Pretzels? Pretzels?”
I thought she must surely have asked for “restrooms” until she reappeared a few minutes later holding an Auntie Anne’s bag. “They’re sending me all over the place today; I don’t know what’s going on. But at least by coming here I get pretzels,” she announced.
A collection of events from Washington DC:
First, a scene at the Lincoln Memorial: A girl sits on the massive steps holding a camera in either hand, with her friend holding a third in front of her face. “What are you talking about? I’m smiling in all of these!” she insists in a thick Brooklyn accent.
Second, a moment at the Air and Space Museum: a man asks someone else in his party, “What’s that?” His companion answers, “I don’t know but it has something to do with Saturn.” This occurs beneath the full-size engine bells from the Saturn S-1C – the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that carried Apollo the moon.
Third, a moment at the Air and Space Museum: a man says, “Hehehehehehehehe!” repeatedly the entire time he explores the Apollo to the Moon exhibit. Wait, that wasn’t overheard; that was me (and I kept it mostly in my head). Besides seeing Columbia itself in the main hall, they have the actual flight checklists from several flights, and all manner of other genuine artificats from the Apollo age.
Plus, in the International Spy Museum I got to crawl through an actual air duct and look down at unsuspecting museum visitors. At the time I was focused on keeping quiet in my role as Peter Wozniak the spy, but in retrospect I should have said, “Come out to the coast! We’ll get together, have a few laughs…”
