Live from PRSA Miami, where I just arrived, I offer this fun little story: Every once in a while, you get shocked. Continental Airlines has a new system where if you go to a link on your Blackberry, the TSA can scan the screen and you don’t have to print out the boarding pass. I obviously knew I HAD to do it this morning and have hilarity ensue as I stood at security when they wouldn’t accept it, as I waited for 50 agents plus 12 supervisors plus the mayor of Newark and the President of Continental to show up, all while being strip-searched. And it was 4:45am. But I did it anyway, because hey, I’m like a human version [...]

This is what happens when ADHD gets the best of you when you’re on line at LAX and there’s no First Class lane, no CLEAR lane, and only two lanes of six open. Oh, and when it’s 4:30am in the morning, and I haven’t had enough coffee. And by “enough,” I mean “any.” It occurs to you that it might be fun to see what the inside of the TSA X-Ray machine looks like. Barring me actually going in said machine, I did the next best thing, and sent my brand new Flip TV digital video camera through, turned on. It’s things like this that reaffirm my decision not to take Adderal. Hee. :) Starting the trek back to NYC… [...]

Arriving at Orlando International Airport this morning, I finally got around to getting my biometrics done for CLEAR. Ironic, considering what happened right after. Hopefully, when I get the card in the mail, this idiocy won’t happen again. Getting on line to go through security, there are two lines. I pick one at random, which winds up wrapping around a pole, then joining the other line. In essence, the barricade separating the two lines is pointless. I point this out very nicely to a TSA drone, who I’d late find out was named JD. "So, um, both of these go to the same place, right? Why have the barrier, then?" "Sir, it just is that way. Please hand me your [...]