They're so retarded with the confiscations. Blistex! Tweezers! SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE?!?!?!

In other news about how hard my life is, I'm really severely limited in my usual jaunts around the internets today due to not having seen Project Runway yet. Hmph.

terrorism /= teh funny.

We need to tell my semi-concious brain that. Because it was linking it to Bill Murray.

Then it may depend on the airport security and/or TSA in that area.

It sounds stupid to take away blistex but the explosives were disguised as beverages and other "common products" with dentonators disguised as common electronics.

The thinking is overkill when it comes to banning stuff is better than under doing it and possibly allowing explosives on board a plane.

Honestly, employees at the airport (local police, security, TSA) aren't doing this because it's fun for them. This isn't being done to pick on passengers, it's being done for security and the decisions that are made at the top have to be followed. If the Airport decides lipstick can't be carried on then employees don't have a say in that and are just doing their job. Or employees are erring on the side of caution rather than being too lax (and getting in trouble).

Then it may depend on the airport security and/or TSA in that area.

That's the problem, the regulations are being enforced unevenly (or just plain made up) We went through all of this effort to have a national organization, why is there not consistency in policy/interpretation?

If there was even consistency on the policy level, my bras would be banned from flying in the cabin. Which is another reason I get very eyerolly.

Man, I'm glad I'm not flying (it gives me migraines, so doubly glad) any time soon. I need stuff to moisturise my lips and hands during the flight. I mean, I guess I could just not wash my hands, but fear that I might just have to go to the bathroom. I mean, it hurts if my hands or lips get too dry.

Ah, well. Merely theoretical.

Just sent off the work from home note (I have two meetings this afternoon that I just can't budge). Back to bed--the handful of pills and the biofeedback seem to have worked, but like the airport people, best be overcautious right now.

I guess I could just not wash my hands, but fear that I might just have to go to the bathroom.

Nah -- with no liquid around to be consumed, you won't need to pee.

Unca Sam was a little too eager...

You have no idea. We get recruiting abuses in the military law office all the everloving time.

Just imagine how fun the flights from Heathrow today will be. Full of cranky, flaky, itchy, dehydrated and deathly bored people.

The Japanese obsession with robots: [link]

If she were anything other than a robot, Saya, the receptionist at the Science University of Tokyo, would have a very strong lawsuit against her employers. On a hot summer day last week, engineering students peered into her lifeless skull while her blouse was wide open, revealing—strangely enough for a robot—a brassiere. Which raises an important question: why do robots need underwear? “There are actually speakers in her chest. Using a brassiere was a cheap way to achieve the feminine shape,” says Dr. Hiroshi Kobayashi, the mechanical engineering professor who created Saya with his (all male) students.

Saya uses a few hundred phrases to converse with the university’s visitors and has six facial expressions at her disposal: surprise, fear, anger, revulsion, happiness and sadness. Most also inadvertently convey the illusion of digestive trouble.