On Safari with Oldupai George

Waiting for delayed departure of flight to SFO today (high winds down there have them down to one runway)…

• The entire North Satellite terminal smells like bacon, which is making me very hungry - but not for crappy airport bacon. Now Les Halles‘ bacon, that’s a whole other story.
• Someone got paged to “call 911 on any courtesy phone to reach airport police”. That can’t possibly be good.
• There’s a very sweet looking teenage boy with a guitar (he was playing earlier) and his little MacBook writing music while he waits. Maybe he’s the next (fill-in-with-teen-singer-songwriter-heartthrob-du-jour)
• Landing in high winds ought to be fun
• As of now, we’re scheduled to depart at the exact time my original flight was supposed to (I came early in anticipation of delays to try to catch earlier, less-delayed flight) which means that I got up early for a good reason, for once.
• I know everyone bitches about this, but there really should be a law constraining what is and is not acceptable as a ringtone. Also the Cingular/AT&T people should stop making that damn default ringtone the default on their phones.
• Just learned via Elaine that Ralph Nader announced his candidacy. Oy vey. I mean, yes, Al Gore should have won regardless of Nader in 2000 but I have little patience for someone who can’t see the entire picture and acknowledge that he might have played a role and inability to grasp (or if he can grasp it, acknowledge) political reality. Statements like “if the dems can’t win in a landslide this year, they should just pack up and go home” are either intellectually dishonest or evidence of a gross lack of paying attention. At this point, he just sounds cranky, and diminishing of his own legacy. Not that I’m annoyed, or anything.

From the air… still no f’in pretzels on United.