[ale] [OFF TOPIC] (You've been warned) TSA wants your fingerprints

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri May 29 08:09:25 EDT 2009


Just carry your laptop in this:
http://www.stylefeeder.com/i/v1wdmdr9/Exposed-Cosmetic-Bag

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Mike Harrison<meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2009, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>
>> Super Glue and razor blades 2 days before your flight.
>
> Laughing.. that'll get you the first class treatment for sure.
>
> I've been travelling a lot to odd (non-touristy) places with a lot of
> strange gear, I now just tell them up front, with a big grin:
> You'll want to inspect those.
>
> Best response at Hartsfield: The pelican case full of gear that looks like
> a bomb from a dia-hard movie: complete with a big round electric meter
> with an LCD display, odd wiring, industrial cases - hits the X-Ray
> machine. Somewhere a button is pressed because two big guys step up behind
> me, a smaller guy grabs the case and carefully moved it to the inspection
> table. I'm grinning and laughing a little. He opens it up, looks inside,
> doesn't touch a thing and says: "I have no idea what I am looking at"
> closes up the case and says "Have a nice trip".
>
> Makes me feel safer.. :)
>
> Best security yet: Dominica  (not Dominican Republic).
> They pass the bags through the x-ray machine.. on the other side, two nice
> guys (but serious looking) open up the bags, run their hands through
> everything, ask a lot of friendly conversational questions, put everything
> back...this took 5+ minutes.  and as I glimpsed around the corner, I
> -think- the x-ray machine screens showed nothing as bags were being
> passed through it. - I think it was the best bag/passenger check I'd ever
> have.
>
> Now if only I had the guts to make the Grub Boot Loader timer
> show up in really large block letters....
>
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