I watched a lot of TV on the 6 hour (plus 1/2 an hour at JFK – can someone explain to me again why the planes can’t just be scheduled to board at a time closer to their actual takeoff?) flight last night, and a lot of it was good. Besides the obvious Daily Show (although Bill Gates got to use all the same canned stuff he used on the Today show – is Jon Stewart that much of a shill?) and Colbert and My Super Sweet 16 and 24, there was also Engineering an Empire (which I can’t link to directly because apparently the history channel doesn’t understand this whole hyperlink/Internet thing). Engineering an Empire is history the way I’d like to learn it, with the occasional mention of wars and politicians as background to various feats of engineering. Dimitri Martin. Person. also rocked. Yay JetBlue!