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Last month, an angry man chose to chug his liter of vodka, rather than to surrender it to airport security officials. Although this man made a hilarious—but unwise—decision, it seems as though he started a revolution for liquor connoisseurs. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford recently forgot a 375 milliliter bottle of Krohn port in his bag. Instead of making him throw it out, a screener said Morford could enjoy it before passing back through the checkpoint. The lucky traveler even shared his coveted liquid with another passenger. Who knew passing through security could be so—hiccup—delightful?

I'm not all that surprised by these developments--flying out of Madrid two years ago, I arrived to board my flight to JFK and was then told I could not bring my water and the small bottle of Glenfiddich I'd bought to help pass the delay onto my flight (apparently somebody had tried to blow-up a plane in Heathrow a couple weeks earlier). The screeners were reluctant to try any, but the gentleman whose very nice looking writing pen was ordered not to board felt as if he would share a nip, leaving the rest of the bottle to me.

Unfortunately, with my water also exhausted prior to boarding, it was a dehydrating flight.

(unrelated, our company's list is the first item on the page)

1-17-98 it's been a day that I've come to hate.
As I walked into the video store
there she stood as my jaw fell to the floor.
Tapping her toe, waiting in line, with a movie
and another guy
Why did I bother? Why did I care?
About this girl named Kristina Behr?

I was curious who Kristina actually was.

I miss my calculator; trusty old Texas Instruments calculators. Starting with the TI-85 and moving on to the TI-89 when the former no longer suited my needs*. More recently I've replaced it again with a Nintendo DS which surprisingly serves much the same purpose as the calculator had in high school.

Like those calculators, it's approaching the time when I'll finally abandon this web log and a few other features I've hacked into my site over the last seven years of being on an Apache/PHP system. Most of these have been rewritten and will hopefully be better.

I'm setting a hopefully conservative date of March** when the wiki and web log are retired and I won't be maintaining them any longer. At that point I'll see about redirecting the ATOM and RSS feeds, but it's probably a better idea to just keep watch and update them yourself.

I have a feeling this site might look much more minimal in a year's time.





*It "vanished" one day after a classmate borrowed it. Probably sacrificed to the elusive Rudy, eh?

**Assuming my laptop's power cable doesn't light my laptop on fire like it did in Italy.

I was walking around the mall today , and glanced at the back of a CD case which contained the text http://www.sony.com.

Seeing text of the form "www.example.com" is readily recognized as supposing to be a web URL although technically it's only the hostname portion of a URL. What it's missing are the scheme and path portions; most web browsers will automatically assume reasonable defaults for these, such as the "http://" that appeared on the Columbia produced CD, and a path of "/".

So why bother using space for the scheme, and not adding the one extra character to make it a valid URL--and also balancing the string and improve the aesthetics at the same time?

Dear Alpine Skiers and Snowboarders,

This is particularly aimed at snowboarders. When you get off of the lift, move the hell out of the way. If you're the first ones off, move a good distance away so that the next group right behind you can also move out of the mouth of the lift. You don't need your foot in your binding to glide at least 8 meters away. Skiers, you have no excuses--you're just inconsiderate if you don't get the hell out of the way.

Part the second: See that sudden dip? Yeah, don't stand just beyond it--definitely don't sit or lay down just below it. What are you, a moron?

Finally, if you need to take a break, move to the side of the trail. Don't form a line across the entire breadth of the slope preventing a back-up of people who really don't want to be forced to stop on a flat trail. Corollary: Never try skiing < http://wawa.wachusett.com/ > during the daytime, especially a weekend.

I recognize you need to fix your bindings, put your gloves on, or take a break in the middle of a run--but I don't really enjoy being forced to run over inconsiderate ASSes.

Thanks.