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Saturday, 22 April 2006
Security theater ::
At the SFO airport at 6 am Wednesday morning, I was looking for the shortest security line and one screener caught my eye and motioned me down. He had a fun new apparatus for me to walk through; you walk into an sealed chamber, air is blown up from the floor and apparently collected and analyzed for traces of explosives. Whee! I felt like I was in a sci-fi movie, being checked for biological contaminants before being admitted through an airlock into a space station. I bet they’re careful about who they put through it; I could see how many people would get uncomfortably claustrophobic. ...