Comments on: Through a Scanner, Lightheartedly http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:16:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: wordnerd http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8311 wordnerd Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:13:06 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8311 We here in Boston have many lines which don't even come close to Manhattan.... We here in Boston have many lines which don’t even come close to Manhattan….

]]> By: dc http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8294 dc Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:32:56 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8294 The G train was great---I think it gets a bad rap just because it's the only line which doesn't touch Manhattan. Typical Manhattan-centrism! The G train was great—I think it gets a bad rap just because it’s the only line which doesn’t touch Manhattan. Typical Manhattan-centrism!

]]> By: Maura http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8241 Maura Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:07:49 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8241 Hey Dave! So wonderful to see you today. It's been way too long. Thanks for braving the dreaded G train to make it out. Loved your blog post. Did you see Jon Stewart's moment of zen from a while back? It's here: http://bit.ly/7RRCE0 Hope we'll get to see you again soon! Hey Dave! So wonderful to see you today. It’s been way too long. Thanks for braving the dreaded G train to make it out.

Loved your blog post. Did you see Jon Stewart’s moment of zen from a while back? It’s here: http://bit.ly/7RRCE0

Hope we’ll get to see you again soon!

]]> By: unique distance from isolation http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8225 unique distance from isolation Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:28:47 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8225 Yes, the security theater is infuriating. At the school I teach at, the administration bowed to pressure (from the local police force's Homeland Security liaison, among others) and instituted a "lockdown drill" procedure. When they introduced it to the staff and students they referred to "intruders" and, once, to "a shooter". Now twice a year we do the drill, which involves a scary alarm, green or red cards posted in the classroom window, and huddling all the students in a corner of the room away from the doors and windows. I hate it, obviously, and regard it as a form of government terrorism. Something else I hate is the idiocy of Joel Kotkin. Can't he go fall off of one of his edges so I never have to hear his name again? And he can take his soulmate David Brooks with him. Yes, the security theater is infuriating. At the school I teach at, the administration bowed to pressure (from the local police force’s Homeland Security liaison, among others) and instituted a “lockdown drill” procedure. When they introduced it to the staff and students they referred to “intruders” and, once, to “a shooter”. Now twice a year we do the drill, which involves a scary alarm, green or red cards posted in the classroom window, and huddling all the students in a corner of the room away from the doors and windows. I hate it, obviously, and regard it as a form of government terrorism.

Something else I hate is the idiocy of Joel Kotkin. Can’t he go fall off of one of his edges so I never have to hear his name again? And he can take his soulmate David Brooks with him.

]]> By: Carol http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8149 Carol Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:53:21 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8149 I'm so relieved to learn that you're not taking your laptop with you (at least that's how I'm interpreting your reply to Andy). Have a good time, wherever you go. I’m so relieved to learn that you’re not taking your laptop with you (at least that’s how I’m interpreting your reply to Andy). Have a good time, wherever you go.

]]> By: dc http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8088 dc Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:01:08 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8088 Andy: I tend to agree with you, but I decided to mostly skirt the issue in this post since I didn't think I could do justice to a touchy subject like that while using a cell phone keyboard four inches long. A topic for another post some other time, perhaps. I may be less bothered by the security theater in part because I don't travel by plane more than a few times a year. (I don't like flying for other reasons, so I try to avoid it whenever possible.) Andy: I tend to agree with you, but I decided to mostly skirt the issue in this post since I didn’t think I could do justice to a touchy subject like that while using a cell phone keyboard four inches long. A topic for another post some other time, perhaps. I may be less bothered by the security theater in part because I don’t travel by plane more than a few times a year. (I don’t like flying for other reasons, so I try to avoid it whenever possible.)

]]> By: Andy K http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8074 Andy K Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:46:22 +0000 http://www.fragmentaryevidence.com/2010/01/29/through-a-scanner-lightheartedly/#comment-8074 I personally totally despise all this security theater. It sucks, costs $$$, and provides little benefit. You are more likely to get hit by a meteorite than die in a terrorist attack on an airplane in the USA. It is total BS. Check out this Salon article for a frame of reference: http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2010/01/21/american_hysteria/index.html Every time I hear people talk about how with train travel you don't have to go through this type of security check, I shutter. It is only a matter of time before we do. My rant aside, have a great flight. I personally totally despise all this security theater. It sucks, costs $$$, and provides little benefit. You are more likely to get hit by a meteorite than die in a terrorist attack on an airplane in the USA. It is total BS.

Check out this Salon article for a frame of reference:

http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2010/01/21/american_hysteria/index.html

Every time I hear people talk about how with train travel you don’t have to go through this type of security check, I shutter. It is only a matter of time before we do.

My rant aside, have a great flight.

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