1 Jun
2002
1 Jun
'02
5:54 p.m.
On Saturday, June 1, 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
I've [flown with an old computer] twice since
September 11: once on
November 6 (to Austria) and last on April 25 (to Munich), both times
schlepping scheisse for Hans. I always expect a good cavity check every
time I fly now since I'm Arabic.
I subscribed to the magazine PC/Computing <ducks> back in my larval stage,
and for a time they had Penn Jillette writing extremely hilarious back-page
funnies. One time, he actually suggested that people write scripts to
display text like this
ARMING . . .
ARMED
0:17:00 UNTIL DETONATION
for the security people to see when laptops were turned on at airports. For
all our supposed freedom of speech, an article like that could never be
published in a major magazine today. The article is here:
http://www.sincity.com/penn-n-teller/pcc/security.html
It passes the 10-year rule.
--
Jeffrey Sharp
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