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blame teh itch, slocki

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 14 June 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

it was rockin'!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i had a layover in Dallas. they have the fucking coolest thing. the Aqua-Massager,. you lay in this waterproof sleeping bag type thing with all your clothes on in the middle of the airport and get pelted with hard streams of water while everyone can watch. very weird. had it been a little more private, i woulda thought it was kinda cool

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I'm currently in front of gate 210 in ONT waiting on JetBlue to take me to JFK.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The ONT terminal is nice in a late-90s shopping mall sort of way, but the layout is horrible with one long linear line of gates so you have to walk miles. Additionally, there are no electrical power outlets near the seating, you have to sit on the floor in the middle of the walkway.

At least the wireless is free.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, there's an ant problem here too.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell yes, it's ant season. Mine's coming for a stay next week.

Have a good time in NYC, Elvis.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 23 July 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a LOT of ants here. If this was anything smaller than a giant airport terminal building we'd be re-enacting Phase IV here.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

What kind of ants and what's the nature of your trip?

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Standard-sized house ants.

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)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I also win because I was able to score an exit row seat at the last minute. Hooray for extra leg room!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Leg room is a big plus So's the Devo date. Exactly when are they playig?

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Friday night in Central Park with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. There's an ILM thread about it.

Anyway, getting on the plane now

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy landings!

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.timshell.com/blog/images/sign-devo.jpg

― Nick Apollo Forte (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 23 July 2004 09:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Make that 100, and you'd be right.

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

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 24 July 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

i'm in an airport.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 3 February 2005 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 February 2005 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm jet-lagged and smoking a camel, not in an airport.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

i'm in an airport.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

hi!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

i'm drinking a glass of white wine!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

i ate a "wrap." it was "pink."

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

this has been a really weird week!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

i'm holding it down though. soon i'll be in another airport, and i'll have like 4 hours to kill!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I'll be in two airports next week. One in Canada! Calgary! I've never been to Canada before. I'll be there for all of an hour!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

actually, three airports.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

what's your second airport?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

there's another airport thread on ILE.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

toronto!!

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

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

i started this thread though!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

AND I'M GONNA END IT (ominous music)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know where Calgary is!

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

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

i could get TIME CANADA with kanye west on the cover ("hip hop's class act")

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

oh that J-AN VF looks thick and JUICY!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

oh no, I wasn't suggesting that this thread isn't valid, just noting the confluence.

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

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

eww!! i don't think i've ever bought an issue of wired!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I LIKE wired!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

really? is it good? i guess i've read some wired articles online... but BUYING a magazine about the internet always seems like a waste of money!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

it's not about the internet, it's about science! and they have one or two really good writers (and some terrible ones).

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

can i buy an issue of mondo 2000 instead?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I mean, it IS kind of embarassing, but I enjoy it.

xp yes

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

well i'll totally buy it if the VF isn't there. also the entertainment weekly this week looks boring!! it's like a summer wrap-up issue, fuck that, i don't wanna read past tense versions of the articles they've been writing since may!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

what about a foreign newspaper?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

or a good mystery?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Toblerone?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Remember s1ocki, it's the end of winter down there. But don't be surprised to see lots of long stockinged legs even with the winter coats.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

that was a good concert

― and I can walk out into the world, singing with my people (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

can i buy an issue of mondo 2000 instead?

R.U. Sirius is podcasting now

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

I misread the thread title as I AM AN AIRPORT, so I was hoping it would be full of things like I AM AN AIRPORT COME AND LOOK AT TEH AIRPLANES TALKING OFF FROM ME.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 25 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

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maybe it had fallen off the previous car to pass through and you were the first person to have the opportunity to clear it

― bae (sic), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 02:04 (one year ago)

Probably lucky it wasn't landing gear or some other important part of a Boeing plane.

― Jaq, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 02:07 (one year ago)

I'm going with the more likely explanation that there was an accident that occurred there a while ago

Xpost yeah ain't nobody wanna be Donnie Darkoed

― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 02:08 (one year ago)

In any case I couldn't see what it was until I had already swerved out of its way. Due to lack of lighting

― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 02:09 (one year ago)

I was in the Austin airport last week and it wasn't bad except for having to walk almost a mile outside in 100 F heat to get to the taxi/rideshare pickup location.

― Jaq, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 02:10 (one year ago)

Oi that's brutal

― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 02:16 (one year ago)

free bumper, dude
when I was in Austin they had an entire section of the lower parking garage set up for uber/whatever that was attached to the airport but warm. did they move it?

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 03:56 (one year ago)

I say warm as a pejorative here because the air wasn’t moving and it was just a bit toasty

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 03:57 (one year ago)

Maybe it was the gates I flew into but yeah had to walk through a section of parking garage then go up a floor then walk some more to the pickup zone

― Jaq, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 04:25 (one year ago)

no good!

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 04:34 (one year ago)

one month passes...

Last night I spent 3 hours by the baggage carousels at lga. That was fun. I had a coffee but then had to stop using my phone to conserve battery. Watched a slightly provocative ad for the broadway show Chicago on the ubiquitous monitors at least 20 times

― calstars, Thursday, 18 July 2024 22:01 (one year ago)

is there a thread for this yet?

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/g-s1-12222/microsoft-outage-banks-airlines-broadcasters

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 19 July 2024 22:54 (one year ago)

oh it's on the "Windows gripes" thread, carry on

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 19 July 2024 22:56 (one year ago)

Little late to the news today aren’t we sleeve?

― calstars, Friday, 19 July 2024 22:58 (one year ago)

hey, I was busy fucking around and jamming Tom Petty

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 19 July 2024 23:02 (one year ago)

So far flying from DC to Minneapolis/Saint Paul, connection in Chicago Midway, only seen two other people masked other than my wife and me.

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 24 July 2024 15:31 (one year ago)

three weeks pass...

was heading to montreal via detroit, but when I woke up I found out the detroit->montreal leg was canceled and they’d auto-rebooked me to do minneapolis->montreal instead.

so instead of arriving at noon, I arrive at 5pm which is nbd. won’t have to kill any time before hotel check-in. just lounging in a near-empty part of the terminal. construction going on opposite some recently-constructed wall sounded like Colin Stetson playing saxophone for a moment, appropriate since I should be seeing him tomorrow evening

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 20 August 2024 15:30 (one year ago)

oh, for other travelers: the MSP airport has better toilet paper than nearly every other airport I’ve ever been to

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 20 August 2024 15:55 (one year ago)

I remember a time when this thread premise felt novel. Posting on ILX somewhere other than your home or workplace? But how?!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 20 August 2024 15:57 (one year ago)

I remember thinking “oh no” when it was bumped a few years ago!

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 20 August 2024 16:46 (one year ago)

MSP used to have these excellent plastic bags for when you came back through Customs. People at work would beg people to bring them back a few.

― Jaq, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 00:54 (one year ago)

one month passes...

a bunch of Swedish transport police are deporting two people. not as exciting as it sounds.

― brimstead, Thursday, 10 October 2024 07:16 (one year ago)

two weeks pass...

Hopefully someone can help me out with an airline question (and if there’s another thread for this, let me know) -

I’m about to book a round trip flight for someone through Southwest. (They will be coming to me from another state.) It’s the first time I’ve ever done this. Is there any trick or pitfall to this that I should be ready for?

This is probably just paranoia on my part but it’s weird that the site doesn’t have a FAQ section specifically for this, so wanted to see if anyone else had done this, or had problems with it.

― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 21:24 (one year ago)

You just need the passenger's legal name & DOB (and their Redress & KT# if they have TSA PRE/Global Entry).

You fill out your details on the billing portion.

No need to stress, this is a very common practice especially for biz travelers...

...unless the passenger is your mistress/mister/someone who you don't want to be tracked back to you?

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 21:37 (one year ago)

lol

No, just my son!

Thanks man

― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 21:55 (one year ago)

no worries then, easy peasy.

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 30 October 2024 22:59 (one year ago)

eleven months pass...

Any non-citizens flown into internationally into the US this year? Got a couple of family members planning to fly into Chicago soon. One was antsy about it and is now blasé, the other was blasé and is now antsy

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Sunday, 12 October 2025 09:34 (seven months ago)

seven months pass...

Cheese ttebokki in Incheon

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 22 May 2026 11:59 (two weeks ago)

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