If you're checking luggage, you might need 2 hours.
I am not checking luggage. All I have to do is go through security and to the gate.
Eh. It's not a huge problem for me to get there early, I'll just be cranky as my travel time is doubled.
That's insane troll logic!
Xander ,'Showtime'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Sep 01, 2005 10:09:44 am PDT #3665 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hayden - Sep 01, 2005 10:10:54 am PDT #3666 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Fats Domino? The pool player?
Piano, ya kook. He did "Ain't That A Shame" and "Blueberry Hill."
But Corwood, cocaine is so passé!
I just figured that you hire a fisherman to fish, y'know, so let the man do what he's best at.
Damn job, making me all x-posty.
Jessica - Sep 01, 2005 10:11:38 am PDT #3667 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Which airport? I was sitting on my ass at LGA for 90 minutes last weekend because the cab ride was much less traffic-y than I'd expected. But that was before the hurricane -- I don't know if/how much that's changed things for NYC airports or not.
lori - Sep 01, 2005 10:13:02 am PDT #3668 of 10002
Meanwhile, on another planet: [link] Spirit Rover has an awesome view from the top of a really big hill.
t eta I especially like the top image here: [link] . You can see the rover's robotic arm in the foreground.
Nutty - Sep 01, 2005 10:13:17 am PDT #3669 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
a nervous tic or something
Note to world: you're not "folksy" if you have to rehearse it.
I think it is a nervous tic; we saw it in the 2004 debates, when he was clearly floundering for safe ground. Even knowing it's probably unconscious, it's still pretty irritating, as personal habits go.
Gudanov - Sep 01, 2005 10:14:30 am PDT #3670 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Oh man.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued "a desperate SOS" for the thousands of people stranded in an around the city's convention center with no food or water and fading hope.
CNN's Chris Lawrence described "many, many" bodies, inside and outside the facility on New Orleans' Riverwalk. (Watch report on the desperate conditions at the convention center -- 4:36 )
The alert comes as violence and lawlessness disrupted efforts to get help to people around the city.
Charity Hospital has halted patient evacuations because it has come under sniper fire, according to Dr. Tyler Curiel, who witnessed the incident.
"There are multiple people dying at the convention center," Lawrence said. "There was an old woman, dead in a wheelchair with a blanket draped over her, pushed up against a wall. Horrible, horrible conditions.
"We saw a man who went into a seizure, literally dying right in front of us."
In a statement Thursday, Nagin said that "currently the convention center is unsanitary and unsafe and we are running out of supplies for (15,000 to 20,000) people."
He said the city would allow people to march up the Crescent City Connection to the Westbank Expressway.
People were "being forced to live like animals," Lawrence said, surrounded by piles of trash and feces.
He said thousands of people were just laying in the ground outside the building -- many old, or sick, or caring for infants and small children.
Video from the scene showed a group chanting 'we want help, we want help,' as mothers tried to console their tired and hungry children.
Just no words
JenP - Sep 01, 2005 10:14:54 am PDT #3671 of 10002
Edit: OK that just didn't belong right after the previous post.
DXMachina - Sep 01, 2005 10:18:51 am PDT #3672 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Fats Domino? The pool player?
The blues artist, sweetie. You're thinking of Minnesota Fats.
Wow, I didn't think it took me that long to reply...
tommyrot - Sep 01, 2005 10:20:16 am PDT #3673 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Does Chubby Checker play pool?
Volans - Sep 01, 2005 10:20:54 am PDT #3674 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Maybe Bush Sr could use his CIA connections to raise some cash from a Middle Eastern theocracy and a war-torn Central American country. If only there were some precedent...
Despite the fact that the CIA is named for him now, I don't think they are any too happy with this administration, and will probably be a little opposed to doing such favors.