BLuRry wrote:
>> Hey, if you're seated in seat 2E, you'll get special treatment all
>> the way.  ;-)
> 
> Usually -- unless you're flying southwest.  :-D

Ah, Southwest--where you're only assigned A, B, or C.  ;-)

>> And *all* laptops come with bricks on leashes anyway...
> 
> Yes, but significantly lighter and smaller.  Maybe not different
> technologically, but different enough to confuse the intellectuals
> hired by TSA.  You don't want to confuse TSA when you are trying to
> catch a flight in a hurry.

Tell me about it!

Last July I carried a 17-board AppleCrate with me from Seattle to
Kansas City.  There were two problems:

1) The TSA had never seen one (an issue at MCI) and had to have it
    unwrapped (a 10-minute job times 2).

2) The 'Crate was about 1" too thick to fit in an overhead bin, so
    I required an accommodating cabin attendant to place it in the
    closet.  (I was successful on all four flight segments! ;-)

Frankly, the device was sufficiently "technical" (and so was I ;-)
that their viewing of the 'Crate actually seemed more to satisfy
their curiosity (after seeing the radar image) then to investigate
any possible "threat".

-michael

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