i'm in an airport

DB should have arrived in NYC by now.

At least the wireless is free.

Have a good time in NYC, Elvis.

Going to NYC to see JBR, take more of my stuff out in advance of the October move, and to go see Devo & the Yeah Yeah Yeahs(as mentioned on this thread)

Anyway, getting on the plane now

(Wish I'd actually thought to look for this thread on Thursday, when I was actually in an airport.

what magazine(s) should i get? what's out now? is there a new vanity fair?

xp the new Vanity Fair is the one with Jennifer Anniston on it.

xp get Wired. Wired's the quintessential airport magazine.

xp yes

R.U. Sirius is podcasting now

hey strongstein whaddya expect when you click on a thread called "i'm in an airport"?

xp: i take it back!

i watched "fever pitch" on the plane last night

I'll be in an airport tomorrow!

I'm not in an airport.

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mark: i'll be at the you-know-what for the you-know-what-international-you-know-what-festival as of next week, for about 10 days!

My head kinda hurts, and the bitches are charging me for this wifi connection.

so much random hottness wanders thru an airport

I'm not itchy yet

and i'm at an airport!! at the same place as last november when i answered hari's question as to whether or not i was at covent garden a weekend before.

and i think i have talked myself to getting an exit row seat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sweet ass.

-- s1ocki (slytus...), August 25th, 2005 6:04 PM. (slutsky)

almost a year to the day!

-- s1ocki (slytus...), February 15th, 2005 3:38 AM. (slutsky)

cigarette memories!

-took a photo of the "jetblue airways wireless hotspot free!" sign and the outlet right next to it (but my usb cable is in the bag i checked so i can't upload and be fully technonomadic) (thank god)
-drank one vitamin water ("revive")
-ate one banana

also, dude, try google one (1) time:

**Smoking is prohibited in all public areas inside the passenger terminals at Newark Liberty International Airport.

-- acid waffle house (wt...), January 12th, 2007 10:22 PM. (dubplatestyle) (later)

haha! hey did you know that the QUEBEC version of the office premiered last night? may the lord have mercy on us all.

i think the show was either
"made in canada"
or
"the newsroom"

1) bought a breakfast bagel and coffee
2) watched CNN coverage of state of the union
3) fell asleep waiting for my flight to board
4) woke up about two minutes two late to still board.
5) got a boarding pass for the next flight (in two hours)
6) chugged some Air-Borne

The ZRH terminal's color scheme is blue-grey and slate with a touch of red from the Swiss souvenir shop. I have an unconscious feeling that background music is playing somewhere but in true Enoian spirit I can't discern it. Large windows face the main runway and taxiways and there's just enough sunlight filtering through the clouds to vaguely color everything outside. With the exception of some ugly Americans (the ugliest being a loud guy in a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt who was berating a Swiss shopclerk because he couldn't take a liquid-filled snowglobe on a plane) most everyone here is pretty well dressed - businessmen taking one of the many outgoing flights to France, Germany, and Dubai.

Overall, I feel like I'm in a photo shoot for Nokia advertisments.

It sure is pretty though.

and the chocolate/sweet shop was great.

i can has airport?

SONGS THAT ARE ALWAYS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD WHEN I'M AT AN AIRPORT:

"Just A Song Before I Go" by CS&N
"One Wink At A Time" by The Replacements
"Flying Into Los Angeles" by Arlo Guthrie

i'm in miami! i feel like david caruso. YYYYEAAAAH! (this airport is horrible btw.)

I so did not think much of Miami's airport the one time I was there, the exception being the Cuban sandwiches (which I'm sure are much better in town and all but compared to most airport food in general are manna from heaven).

Most beautiful airport (for real): Ushuaia in southern Argentina. Small, modern, all wood, huge ceilings.

the food options in american airlines terminal d are the pits. orange chicken is dodgy as a general rule, but this was a whole new level of bad.

"One Wink At A Time" by The Replacements

not "waitress in the sky"?

It should, but instead I get "Wink" going just by seeing the words BAGGAGE CLAIM up on the sign.

Been here since 445. It is so early! I am so tired! 3 hours of sleep owww.

Now I am at destination airport waiting for ride. Most efficient flight evar.

Where did you come fro mand where are you going?

Are you REDNEX in disguise?

lol

(sorry, should just have excelsiored that, see my "people who talk without having anything to say" grievance on other thread)

Now I go home (I hope?) from buffalo to NYC but flight is scheduled to leave in 10 min and does not appear to be here yet.

Vancouver airport has free wireless. Hurray!

It's the strangest airport I've been to on my 10 week trip. It has a tiny waterfall and native art dotted around the place. More airports should be like this...

What is everybody's nomination for best airport food? I haven't been in many, and haven't hung around to eat in the all the ones I've been in, but Detroit had a long concourse with a bunch of decent looking eats, and I was able to get sushi during a short layover.

i bought a banana with a credit card in frankfurt airport once

tell a friend.

THEY ALREADY KNOW

What is everybody's nomination for best airport food?

Figs at Laguardia

there's a place at SFO with decent sushi and sake that you can bring onboard with you

i bought a banana with a credit card in frankfurt airport once

this line is poetry

Any good eating at Schipol (Amsterdam)?

I've had above average food at PIT, ZRH, and TUC

ah the lovely cities of Pit, Zoreh and Turoc.

i had KFC in prague airport

there's a place at SFO with decent sushi and sake that you can bring onboard with you

I should have sought out this one the last time I was there. I had an hour to kill since after loading everyone on the plane and having us fasten the seat belts, they figured out there was a "loose piece of metal" on the bottom of the plane and we'd have to switch planes.

The Anchor Steam Brew Pub in the airport made a nice tuna sandwich that my expense account paid for, though.

i am in an airport

this thread is for fucking amateurs

that is the sound of one hand slapping you upside the head, grasshopper

i just drove across country! to get to an airport!

exactly!

:-/

now i am in a different airport

IN YR AREA, TOMBOT

i'm on a train

-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 12:56 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
and it is harry belafonte's 80th birthday

-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 12:56 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
which i found out because i was listening to "...at carnegie hall" and i had this weird hunch it was harry belafonte's birthday so i looked it up

-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 12:57 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
oh god delay from hell

-- s1ocki, Friday, March 2, 2007 2:43 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

true story!

i was in an airport in PEI this morning. very early this morning.

Hello from Dubai. Only two hours to go before my connecting flight, but fortunately I have an excellent buffet not ten yards from my chair. I have been at the mini pittas and halloumi. But my body clock is fucked.

back in an airport

I am in an airport as well. JFK. It is well air conditioned in here. Thank you for the internet, JetBlue, it seems helpy.

phoenix, i bought a gq and the cologne ads were killing me. being the worst smelling thing on a plane is quite an achievement.

i'm in an airport

and i'm headachey

lax, frontier airlines, sleepy

I miss the days of being able to just wander around an airport. Each time I go through LAX, I get "locked" inside the international terminal which is basically just one long hallway with a newstand, a duty-free shop, and a Burger King.

Hi, JBR!

LAX does have some of those caged in smoking areas that you can access even after you have been locked down. which is better then most

hi laurel! i'm sitting in a corner of the terminal and a couple of cute australian kids are playing with matchbox cars in front of me.

St Louis has smoking fishbowls, too! They're actually better than usual, b/c they're not completely enclosed so the 4th side is open to the terminal, they must just have really efficient ventilation systems (b/c you can't smell any smoke outside 'em).

The best is still Minneapolis, though -- the smoking section is attached to a honest-to-god BAR, and it's just around the corner and down the hall from the best used bookstore I have ever been in.

I liked Minneapolis with their tiny little escalators.

memphis has a bar you can still smoke in. in terminal c i think, i know it's not in the same terminal as american airlines.

Nice BBQ place, too.

I will be in two airports today. Except they're Orange County's and Oakland's, and therefore there is nothing to say about them.

I am eating bbq in a terminal.

I'm not in an airport, tho.

I remember standing outside Oakland's airport, trying to work the machine that gives you a bus ticket to the BART station at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. It ate all my quarters and I just stood there wondering what I was going to do when the bus came. (It finally spit out a ticket saying that I still owed a dollar.)

I got on the bus and sort of spazzed out trying to explain to the driver that I had put in the full fare into the machine, but it had short-changed me.

She responded by saying "It's cool! Relax, man. Have a seat." That was the moment that California won me over.

ill be in little rock airport today but not going anywhere. just dropping off.

anchorage airport is pretty sweet at midnight in december.

where is jbr going?

my favorite airport in the LA area has got to be Long Beach. that place is great

Little Rock's cool since they added the video screen showing weary passengers stomping up the departure corridor.

oh that is awesome!

I walk like a monkey, staring straight into the camera, when I'm walking through there.

my favorite airport in the LA area has got to be Long Beach. that place is great

long beach is awesome, burbank also awesome. lax = not awesome, except for the encounter.

where is jbr going?

jbr -> nyc

I almost just asked where your layovers were before remembering that those some cities have direct flights to places.

my layover was in denver (frontier's hub). it was fine; i was able to get some edible food at a sitdown "bistro."

See any Masonic wonders?

i dropped off a friend at the Little Rock airport last night. it looked pretty cool. i didn't get to see the aforementioned screen though.

It's in the new waiting area since you can't go into the actual terminals anymore.

Another Little Rocker?

nah. I was over there for work for the last couple of weeks. Little Rock is OK! I'd never spent any time there, other than passing through going to TX. Perhaps a little on the sleepy side, but they seem to have done a lot of things right that Mem got wrong.

Tomorrow I go from SNA to SEA. The best thing about SNA = the "FAA approved" takeoffs for reduced noise. Basically wind the plane up hard on the tarmac, release the brakes, zoom sharply up to a couple thousand feet, then cut the engines and coast out over the ocean. Eventually the engines get kicked back in and away you go.

LR copied Memphis and put a damn trolley downtown that nobody ever rides.

We also have a submarine that the mayor desperately wants everyone to see. Maybe when Raggett comes to town.

LR copied Memphis and put a damn trolley downtown that nobody ever rides.

yeah it's dumber than shit (as is ours), but at least it's more or less confined to Markham(?) in the downtown mall area. they extended ours (which is embarrassingly empty) off of Main, through the medical district where it finally peters out in Midtown, for no other apparent reason than to completely muck up the traffic flow on Madison. The way I go to work. Brilliant.

i am not in an airport yet, but will be soon. i just checked and my flight appears to be delayed approximately an hour. should i go later than i planned, or just sit through the delay in case it somehow ends up leaving earlier?

My dad recommended I go on time. Now it's even more delayed and I'm drinking a pint glass sized gin and tonic at the airport chilis oh my

that's like 100% of the fun of getting delayed

I love giant fuckoff adult beverages at airports

I am getting drunk and watching people get wanded cause this place is right by security

Hey guy in flight crew uniform: are you about to order booze then fly a plane? I'm watching u!

Hispanic waitress calling me mami and singing rockin' around the christmas tree: you are quite a lady

Ok the novelty's worn off. I just want to leave now ugh.

i'm in an airport.

and i'm stranded.

at least you have internet. what airport?

o'hare.

never ever try traveling on two separate airlines in the same day. especially around the holidays. if one fucks you over the other couldn't care less.

i honestly might be here for a day or two.

:( good luck

i'm camped out next to some payphones because its the only electrical outlet i could find. one of the payphones was ringing so i picked it up and said "hello?" a woman on the other end asked if Drea was there and i told her no Drea had left.

fuck i am bored.

oh grady :(

go to bar! seriously, it helped me for about an hour. maybe they are closed now though? i was about to murder people by the time my plane finally boarded.

i once did 2 different airlines for international travel: super bad idea.

the thing is that i cant get through security until i'm signed up for standby and i cant do that for another 5 hours.

there is this hilton right across from where the taxis pick you up. i suppose i could get a drink there.

DO IT.
Stay out of security as long as you can... once you're on the other side, it's soooo hellish.

a guy just came looking to plug his phone in but i'm using the only two outlets. i offered to unplug my computer for a while but he said nevermind and walked away.

don't eat sbarro

but that's general airport advice

solitaire

vegas style

no nevermind drink at the hilton

i am going to eat the shit out of a Great American Bagel® breakfast bagel as soon as i can get on the other side of security. best food in o'hare.

EAT AT SBARRO ROMANTING CURTAINS PARMAZING CHEESE DISPENDER!!!!

no, don't. it's awful and scary.

yes otm. always eat there @ st. louis airport

about great american bagel that is

dude on payphones is fucking pissed because whoever was coming to pick him up (in the cold, in the middle of the night, from Gary, IN) got a flat tire and the spare was flat to begin with and they have no money for a tow truck.

well that's what they get for living in Gary, IN!

gr80 needs to attend the el tomboto airport party clinic
I can hang out in an airport for hours and hours and not get bored

some kids just asked me what time it is.

Damn, gr8080. :-( Sucks and a half.

this is because every time I enter an airport I am already psychologically prepared to die and spend eternity in hell

it is kind of a viking mindset

I can hang out in an airport for hours and hours and not get bored

i can too usually, but not on this side of security. actually since i have wifi i'm not really too bored. just kind of crushed.

people with children eating fast food and talking on cell phones about nothing but very loudly in close proximity for all eternity

hey i just remembered i have a mini-bottle of cuervo in my bag that the barbershop in the east village gave me as a holiday present.

all the bars in o'hare are on the other side of security?
and you can't get on standby for five hours?

that's pretty extraordinary circumstances

i am an extraordinary traveler.

i don't mind being in airports forever

good to read stuff and if there is wireless available i could deal

i would get tired of the seats tho

seriously: hilton

but first milk that shot of cuervo

hiltooooon

drinking and layovers were made for each other

drinking and _____ were made for each other

travelling without drinking? I'd rather listen to jamiroquai

btw: that pint of gin&tonic ended up costing me $12. at least it was tanqueray and not well.

the only thing on this side of security is a starbucks and i think its closed now. i "landed" and got my luggage on airline A, but 12 hours late to catch my flight on airline B. Airline B's ticket desk isn't open till 5:30 AM, and even though they were there when i first got there, they couldn't get me standby for friday travel until friday.

airline A is the one that fucked up, but basically i fucked myself by trying to think this would work.

also, airline B is the expensive flight that work paid for and airline A was the cheap one i bought on my own.

jesus christ.
well, you live and learn, I suppose. I have had similarly extra-long standby layovers but never overnight.

I will use MINDWAVES to send you some MINDWINE

RED OR WHITE

i'd take a MINDBOARDINGPASS over mindwine.

tomboto are you extracting the mindwine from your very own mindgrape?

zing?

lol no 30 rock ref idk if tombot watches it tho

gr80 does o'hare have free wireless?

yeah i'd probably take having a seat over both alcohol and not listening to jamiroquai, but the important thing is once you have a seat you can do both of those

the worst is trying to stake out a spot for leg-resting and maybe lying down... hopefully you don't have to deal with tvs tuned to cnn every twenty feet since you're not past security? then again it's probably linoleum instead of carpet, yikes.

yeah i am sitting on the ground at the bottom of the escalators that people arriving come down to the baggage claim area on.

wifi is $6/24hrs which i figure is worth it in this circumstance.

i think i might pack up computer and try and sleep for a little bit.

now my phone's fully charged again so i can move to a more comfortable spot, too.

I don't watch 30 rock but I am sad that MINDWINE is not my og idea

grady in your situation I would consider hitting up some free online games

doukutsu is pretty good

also the demo for weird world return to infinite space

also N

seriously just google search for the letter N

where you at gr8ee, newark?

i'm at o'hare, max.

my ipod is charged now too. i think i'm gonna try and find a safer/more comfortable spot to curl up for a few hours.

future tip for all fliers: if youre somewhere around a continental "president's lounge" you can get free wireless just by parking near there

i got about 3.5 hours of sleep on a wooden bench.

the ticket desk that wasn't supposed to be open till 5:30 was open at 4:00. its a good thing too, because my situation required i get in a separate line being serviced by only two ticket agents. when i got in line there were only three or four people ahead of me but by the time i was at the front, there was a good 40 people in line behind me. apparently an entire flight to orlando got cancelled.

but i got on standby for the same flight i missed yesterday, and as of 30 mins ago i was the only one on the standby list.

i just had a breakfast bagel and i think i'm going back for another.

also, i'm at a little desk with a stool that looks like it used to have payphones at it as i type this. not slouched on the floor somewhere. life is so much better this side of security!

i just had a breakfast bagel and i think i'm going to have another.

Is that 2 or 3?

wow bagels are making my morning apparently.

ha

ed when do you get to chicago again?

Tomorrow, I will be able to check in in 5 minutes, hopefully scoring my favorite seat on the plane.

I am celebrating going to america by spelling the american way

if all goes well i wont be here anymore, but can't say for sure yet.

Checked in, I shall be at the airport tomorrow. Heathrow T4 seems to have the worst bars even of the shit selection at Heathrow. They seem to franchise them out to the worst chain pubs and restaurants in Britain. At least in T1 they have a giraffe franchise and you can get an acceptable bloody mary. T4 has weatherspoons, EST EST EST and Garfunkles.

Will of course be hell tomorrow as half of Britain will be attempting to leave through Heathrow.

Wildcat cabin crew strikes/walkouts notwithstanding.

Indeed. Also, I was dismayed to see that my plane was over two hours late yesterday.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/931354.jpg

My goodness, haven't you people heard of Eurostar!

Carbon neutral and running into Europe at 186 mph!

Not to chicago it isn't

I am a climate criminal, I know this.

Grady, you still in Chicago?

yes.

on standby for a flight that leaves in 90 mins.

if i dont make this flight it probably wont be till tomorrow morning that i get out of here.

Good luck with that.

If not then you better plan some good eating to get you through the night. I recommend Tony Lao's down in china town. Get and order of Tony Lao's Chicken. It rocks.

Being on standby is the crappiest thing ever. Be thankful you aren't doing it at Gatwick which has the worst security queues ever when they check you onto your flight with 30 minutes to go until the plane pushes back off stance and there's still a two-hour security queue to get through when you're in a party of five, one of whom is elderly and cannot rush anywhere terribly effectively.

When we came back from Tampa earlier this year, there were the five of us on standby and only four standby places left on the plane, so my brother got left there for 24 hours while we just headed on home without him. He then got the only place on the next flight or would have been there for a further 24 hours. Your pain is being felt, gr8080.

(disclaimer: I have no idea what the security queues are like at O'Hare, but they can't be as bad as Gatwick where all domestic and international passengers get herded through the same bottleneck)

O'Hare can be pretty horrific, at least in the international Terminal. However the bar is right by the security queue and you can sit and drink until it dwindles or your flight gets so close that they start pulling people out of the queue.

http://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gifBOARDING PASShttp://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gif

WOOOOOO!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ed, we will have to meet another time.

Indeed we shall. Find your local TV station and tell them to buy some software from me, then I can come and install it in Honolulu.

My brother just approached a friendly looking queue-monitoring dude at the barriers and waved boarding passes at him and explained and the guy said he'd let us through. So my brother waved at me, I gathered up the parents and husband, and we walked down and the guy let us in, one at a time, into the front of different queues. Unfortunately (for them) the people behind us (queuing for a flight due to leave in about three hours or so) thought they'd got in on our wee game of queue-jumping and followed us down only to be told to get back in the queue upon production of their not-terribly-urgent boarding passes. The queue in which they'd now lost their places.

by the way in case anyone is wondering, the current terror alert level is:

ORANGE

xposts

Can you just pretend you've not heard the call though, sit and drink, then go "whoops, silly me" and get let into the front of the queue though? We only did it because the silly mare on the BA check-in desk wouldn't check us in on standby seats until the check-in closed even though there were stacks of empty seats on the flight.

also yay for gr8080's boarding pass

Indeed, this has been by strategy. xpost

That's a brilliant strategy, and one I may try in future, to the wrath of everyone else in the queue. There is nothing more embarrassing than being the last person on a plane when everyone else is settled though, and everyone glaring at you because they know fine well they'd have got an early take-off slot if you hadn't been fannying around elsewhere.

so jetlagged

I'm in an airport, waiting for the Delta Shuttle, and there's this weird lounge filled with Apple computers and no one is in here and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be in here.

I'm not in an airport, I am in a tent just outside and airport waiting to get let into an airport.

An hour and a half to drop bags and then a last minute gate change from one end of the airport to the other. We'll be at least an hour late departing and there is no catering within quater of a mile of this gate, bah.

i'm in an airport

how's that itch?

I'm on year airplane, preparing fr takeoffs

how's that itch?

-- omar little, Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

ehh.

HI DERE.

Chilling at LAX. No earlier OC flight home than 6:11 pm, so I'm considering Encounter for a bit.

isn't encounter like a spiderwork of iron death right now?

what the hell is encounter??

LAX's semi-esteemed ca. 1970s Jetsons-inspired eatery/bar

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-11/33744084.jpg

there were eleven types of scaffolding up around the pylons i flew out on the 17th

encounter looks cool!

Encounter is very very cool. (Ended up not going, but while the outside's still being redone, the bar itself is open again.)

the name is so... touchy-feely.

I wouldn't go that far.

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/c/images/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-4.jpg

i'm going to be in an airport tomorrow, but not to fly.

http://www.jfkiat.com/header/header_7.jpg

I like the open-air building style of OGG (plus the fact that the airport code is OGG)

Checked out Encounter a couple weeks ago and am glad to see that it's back in business (and that the food has improved too!)

i'm at laguardia. and it sux. but i won't be here for long.

i'm in an airport

i had a breakfast burrito and O.J.

then i bought vitamin water and some ricola because i think i'm getting sick.

i'm in an airport.

i'm drinking bourbon.

i'm about to ride a prop plane for my first time.

where u go?

lanai! the smallest island you can actually visit.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/bar.jpg

in hawaii do they give u bourbon w/ an umbrella?

if you request it.

pronounced [lɑːnɑʔi]) is the sixth-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is also known as the Pineapple Island because of its past as an island-wide pineapple plantation. The only town is Lānaʻi City, a small settlement. The island is somewhat comma-shaped, with a width of 18 miles in the longest direction. The land area is 140.5 square miles (364 km²), making it the 42nd largest island in the United States.[3] It is separated from the island of Molokaʻi by the Kalohi Channel to the north, and from Maui by the ʻAuʻau Channel to the east. The United States Census Bureau defines Lānaʻi as Census Tract 316 of Maui County. Its total population was 3,193 as of the 2000 census.[4]. Many of the island's landmarks and sites are located off of dirt roads where four wheel drive is required.

Sky Harbor arrivals. Doing tree pose. Just thinking baout things.

Are they going to drop you into the middle of the Island of Ferocious Man-Hungry Bikini Chix?

i was in sky harbor last month.

You mean Hohokam? Yep. :)

also ive been to truck stops bigger than the Lana'i airport. :)

On the jetway in Bubank with an entire high school girls water polo team in uniform.

that's where i am.

i mean, refer to thread title. i wish i was with an entire high school girls water polo team in uniform.

At the K-10 bar at O'Hare. Drinking an Old Style Light watching the Cubs. ("Your team. Your beer.")

My dog is stoned on puppy tranquilizers.

ayo

at kci until flight leaves at 2:15 then onto nashville where i have a 3 hr layover >:[
pretty good airport here, free wireless but it's kinda fucking slow. would rather pay $10 for it to be fast
about to smash a wolfgang puck sandwich i think cuz that's all they got inside the gate. is remoulade sauce any good? i rly just want a piece of pizza >_<

lost ipod= WORST FLIGHTS EVER
http://photos.ivillage.com/images/photos/resize/pp_Baby%20Photo%20Gallery_1152305917514_431365D.jpg

sitting across from a dude who's a dead ringer for curtis

slow ass internet won't even load the new ep of the office on hulu

kci is a good airport for beginning or ending at, not so much for sitting around since there's not much inside security :-/

yeah my flight got delayed an hour and it's real fucking boring here

has anyone been to an airport where they make you pay to use outlets? they make you at dfw, so at least kci's got fucking free power going for it

Ouch that is harsh never seen that before. Of course a lot of airports don't have outlets and you have to search around for the ones the cleaners use.

in nashville for 2 hours now

basically got a high-quality mini-mall/food court in the terminal here and the internet is quick and @ $9.99 for 2 hours it's pretty worth it

they also have country singers that say shit over the PA like "hello, this is X from sugarland. remember, if you see any suspicious baggage throughout the terminal, please immediately notify the appropriate authorities," which is pretty rad

deborah allen says to visit "flynashville.com"

i grew up in nashville! i love that airport!!

do they still have that smoking room?>

it's like glass and smoky

i'm sure they do, most airports do, but i haven't seen it

are you gonna get a drink?

oh wait you're little are you legal?

yeah im only 20, so no

riiight.

i love airpots tho. are you gonna get anything to eat?

lol ya they got a rly nice food court. probably gonna get some some pizza from this place that looks like a nicer sbarro. maybe quiznos

Ahh, the Nashville airport. I love that smoking room. It almost makes me want to quit.

hahaha

i love that you know it! there's something extra smokey about that one in particular.

mmm sbarro.

I lived in Nashville for four years, so I'm pretty familiar with it.

It's kind of like an observation chamber from Silence of the Lambs.

omgosh i know. where did you live?

I lived east of the airport, on Bell Rd (worked in Mt. Juliet).

so sad you are underage. airport drinking is the best.

the most interesting characters choose to spend layover time in airport bars. can you go there and order coke?

i agree -- i also just recently discovered plane drinking. not bad at all.

i flew on my 21st birthday and got all kinds of free drinks from flight attendants and ppl sitting by me and never even told anyone it was my 21st. totally cosmic.

My turn now. London city, the bar here is very dissapointing, however great to go through somewhere small enough that train-security-bar takes 5 minutes.

that is great

Why do bars in british airports suck so much. I would like a pint of say gin and grapefruit juice (preferably a dutch oude jenever but that is pushing it). Est Est Est, garfunkels and wetherspoons are not coming up with the goods.

You have got to be kidding. Dunno where you are, but Chavwick is even worse than that. You will be lucky to get lime in your G&T and the gin will be Gordon's.

BTW massive IKEA hassle, 15 minute fight with Computer Says D'oh type first thing this morning. Will mail ya later.

I've always wanted to post on this thread.

I'm in an airport - Philadelphia. Soon I'll be in Denver (ANOTHER AIRPORT!) and then Boulder.

Damn, I wish I could join the Drinking at the Airport gang. But it's 9am.

nothing is stopping you

I've never flown Continental before so this is my first experience with LAX's Terminal 6. Not squalid but pretty worn down. On my way to SDF via Houston.

IAH is tremendously ugly. Terminals and passageways shoved together out of necessity with no regard to passenger traffic flow. Grafting TSA security checkpoints only magnifies things. Insult to injury: the first thing I see getting off the plane is the Fox News Store followed by a statue of George H W Bush.

On the plus side the breakfast plate special at Harlon's BBQ (eggs, bacon, grits, & biscuits/gravy) was outstanding and cost less than a single beer at LAX.

Further insult to injury: the Chautauqua (much-maligned CO feeder carrier) TundraJet you'll be on IAH-SDF.

i will be flying through phoenix on my way to maui in a few weeks... how's that airport?

Tiny. It's fine though. What airline are you flying that puts you through PHX and not LAX to Maui?

I'm in Cleveland! But soon I won't be.

i'm in an airport

a House of Rep member from my state (actually hometown) is sitting right next to me. no chance of being airborn for at least 2 more hrs. good times

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Chris_Murphy_official_photo.jpg/160px-Chris_Murphy_official_photo.jpg

I will be in Cleveland in 2 days! another Raggett near-miss.

felicity, i'm flying us air

It's supposed to be rainy as heck here all week, Morbius. We had a hailstorm yesterday. A HAILSTORM.

We're supposed to have hail in NY perhaps too. Weather.com describes upcoming CLE storms as "scattered."

As long as they get the Sabathia game in Friday night! (of course I might spontaneously go Thursday night too if Fri looks bad.)

i'm in an airport.

there are slot machines everywhere.

but it's okay, i have a sandwich.

Yeah, I lucked out with good weather for my flights today but the Ohio and Cuyahoga Valleys' weather in general has been, how you say, flaky...

Anyway I am now not in an airport and won't be for eight days. Hurrah for Charleston. Train stations, another matter...

Friday, Schmiday. I've got tix for Saturday's game, so I'm holding out for sunshine.

SFO. On the jetway, was in Admirals Club with comp vouchers. It seems like such a ripoff. Who pays for that? Although the bartender did fill up my outside Diet Coke for me.

I am on an air train. Flight leaves in 50 min. Will I make it? Probably, but I wish it was faster to get here.

JFK airtarain, hell yeah. EWR airtrain, start praying.

JFK. On the plane now! Fuck a window seat for a 5.5 hour flight tho! Claustrophobia ahoy!

take some tylenol PM

like six of them

A window is far superior, fuck having people climb over you for 5 and a half hours.

A small price to pay, really.

There must be a poll in this.

no no...no people climbing over

Guys I was stuck with this dude who did not understand seat/space boundaries and also was asleep most of the time then there was turbulence with mandatory seatbelt time and I couldn't get up to pee for like 2 hours and now I'm in phx and it's a pretty shitty. airport. Ticket sez next leg is aisle heaven!

now I'm in phx and it's a pretty shitty airport

AT LEAST IT'S NOT BARCADE

Lol tru but I almost went postal on the dude selling credit cards that wouldn't stop harassing me every time I walked by and then giggling about it with his coworker. Very professional. Joke's on you dude, I'm going to. Hawaii and you're in an airport selling credit cards.

i have 8 hours in the reykjavik airport! it is a decent airport, but not big. i ended up taking a really long walk around the parking lot in circles, pushing my luggage trolley and talking to myself while staring at a weird sculpture on top of a pile of rocks). then i discovered the free wireless. probably could've gone into the city and stored my stuff at the bus station, but i'm preparing for a summer of physical labor with EXTREME SLOTH.

8 hour layover in reijavik airport = trip to the blue lagoon, natural hot springs about half way to the town. You can rent everything, towels etc.

i heard that but i have nowhere to put my luggage, would have to unpack a 21-kilo backpack to find my swimsuit, and don't know where this blue lagoon IS. also, i'm really lazy, and haven't read my archaeological field manual like a good dig volunteer.

go ask someone what it took to get all that wood in the reykjavik airport!

i'm in an airport

and i'm headache-y

Not again.

Lol tru but I almost went postal on the dude selling credit cards that wouldn't stop harassing me every time I walked by and then giggling about it with his coworker.

Dealt with someone similar in Denver. A tool, of course.

I was in Phx's airport two days after tehresa, and yet it was not that bad. Wasn't GREAT but wasn't bad.

i am really trying to enjoy this internet access cuz it cost way too much

i'm just... bathing in it

let it calm you with its soothing sounds

internet has a sound?

sshhh
listen

http://www.foi.se/upload/framsyn/05/nr1-05-internet-iceberg.jpg

http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl0/0/3987/14_2008/300.jpg

i'm in a karlovy vary.

Phx again. They just boarded is and then came on with an announcement that our departure has been pushed back an hour. Can I pls to go back to Hawaii now? :(

i knew it would be you!! are you all sunned out?

Lol lots of peeling going on! I am scared to return to the city.

PHX airport is tiny; it does have einstein bros. bagels tho... mmmm bagel und hummus

i spent 7 hours at Pisa airport in crazy heat. that was a lowlight.

If you traveled on BA on Virgin, long haul, between 2004 and 2006 you may be eligible for a partial refund:

https://www.airpassengerrefund.co.uk/

Oh shit I was not in bagel terminal :( I would have stocked up for flight. Not ready for foods yet after red eye.

12 hrs in narita is a freakin nightmare

I can think of worse places, surely there are great japanese foods?

Today, Gatwick North, watching the planes taxi by in the rain.

i'm in a prague

Well bugger me, it's Johnny Lydon sitting down over there with a bloody mary.

Reading the Daily Mail.

Awash in Wasted Cash
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By Bruce Schneier · May 2008
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Draconian obsession with travel security still part of flight

http://www.secprodonline.com/articles/61585/

Column from one of the industry mags sent to my company. Coins an interesting term: "security theater."

revive

stuck in Dublin airport for three hours.....

anyone got any suggestions of things to do? I could liveblog descriptions everyone who is waiting for this flight.

hmmm

ya ok do that!

make up back stories!

Zurich today. Rather suspicious swiss hip hop on the TVs in the bar here.

I'm in terminal three of Heathrow, waiting to fly to Addis Ababa. Excitement.

For a megasprawl, DEN is pretty nice. There was a bickering couple in the security line who were co-workers it seemed like. Everything they did was augmented with complaints, meeting unpreparedness, misplaced documents, etc. I wanted to shout "would you guys hurry up and have sex already!" at them.

I'm going to be in an airport on Saturday night/Sunday morning, so if as many of you as possible can please also sit in an airport at the same time, I would appreciate it.

i'm in hong kong airport.a plane with 'NWA' written on the side just took off.i'm so tired.

OK, here is the plan for tonight. I have been informed that I probably would have gotten a better flight from an alley bum, but hey, it was (relatively) cheap.

Denver to Las Vegas
9:20pm-10:15pm

Las Vegas to Philadelphia
10:55pm-7:30am

Philadelphia to Ithaca
9:30am-11:15am

I'm going to play $1.50 worth of slots in Las Vegas.