Please turn off all portable electronic devices when reading this post

Well, it's rainy and ugly in Boston. Probably because we don't have Cornell Days. Although apparently it's ugly in Ithaca too, so...

My flights went pretty well, thanks for asking. I had my iPod and book to keep me company. Unfortunate, as usual, I had to turn off my music and phone during take off. I'm used to it by now, but it's rather annoying. But you know what's more annoying?

The number of bad
Jokes about turning off when
Taking off is high

Really. If I had a nickel for every time I've read "the plane is taking off. powering off my iPod now so that it doesn't crash" on Twitter, I'd have enough nickels to really annoy a McDonald's worker. I would have made a joke like that, but really, they're overdone. It makes sense for people to question the practices of turning off an iPod which in no way will interfere with navigational devices. I do have an explanation though- it's so... damnit, I've got nothing.

On a slightly different note, I feel sorry for people with e-readers- can't read a book for practically half of the flight (though I suppose it depends on the length of your flight). I have a cure for that: It's called bringing a book- they're programmed to not be electronic or interfere with aircraft operations.