Author: Dan Dickinson

Seth Goldberg says that when he opened his suitcase in San Diego after a flight from Seattle this month, the two “No Iraq War” signs he’d picked up at the Pike Place Market were still nestled among his clothes.

But there was a third sign, he said, that shocked him. Tucked in his luggage was a card from the Transportation Security Administration notifying him that his bags had been opened and inspected at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Handwritten on the side of the card was a note, “Don’t appreciate your anti-American attitude!”

Here comes the punchline:

Nico Melendez, western regional spokesman for the TSA, said the note in Goldberg’s luggage will be investigated, but he said there’s no proof that a TSA employee wrote it. “It’s a leap to say it was a TSA screener,” Melendez said.

Link to article [via 8bop and boingboing]

Better Mind Your Manners, or a Web Site Will

Jeez, I hope I’m a civil house guest – I don’t want to wake up on Friday with a zillion cards on me for snorting or talking in my sleep. ;)

So, for the first time since August, I’m heading back to NYC.

Why, you ask? A couple of reasons. Primarily, the machine at Freeverse that truly is my baby (out of all the servers I do work on, I mean) needs some upgrading, and doing a major OS upgrade is not something you want to do remotely in case something blows up.

Also, there’s a big event at the Pokemon Center on Saturday around noon. In the words of Nintendo, “The fun can’t get much more fulfilling then that!”

Also, maybe I can finagle Steve into taking me down to Chinatown and trying once more to find PNM controllers. Maybe I can hit morning2midnight again, too.

In any case, I’ll be gone Thursday through Saturday. I find it somewhat ironic that I had told myself, “Do not go into the city in March” (Ian’s wife, Joanna, is quite pregnant and is due at the end of the month; I keep having these quasi-fears that it’s all going to happen when I show up), and here I am, showing up in March. Oh well.

Speaking of which, if you haven’t seen civilcity.org yet, check it out – a truly interesting movement. I’m running the forums there, too.