After a year-long protest against air travel, I'm once more going to be going through the cattle line and drop-your-drawers humiliation that is an airport checkpoint. To say I'm obsessing about this is an understatement. Last night I even had a nightmare about it, which actually woke me at 3 in the morning.

I'm planning the tee-shirt that I'm going to wear for the occasion. My initial plan was to have something simple, like:

"TAXPAYING AMERICAN CITIZEN"

But then I started to get more creative, perhaps:

"Thanks for flying the Totalitarian States of America! (Please spread 'em.)"

But most people don't know what the Transportation Security Administration is. I doubt the majority of people in the line would get a sideways reference to the search procedure.

Then Mike discovered results.gov, and the answer came to me in a flash. Why not give everybody the information they need to tell TSA administrator Jim Loy himself exactly how they feel about the process?

And so the back of my shirt was decided:

"Checkpoint troubles? Tell us! Call 571-227-2801."

I am looking for more interesting things to do at the checkpoint, please e-mail me with suggestions.

On a related note, a Canadian citizen on a connecting flight through JFK was recently sent to Syria by the CIA for torture and questioning under suspicion of being linked to terrorist activity. Canada is incensed.

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Stayed late at work to go see Matrix Revolutions with Karl, Dave, Jake Grimshaw and Eric Brundick at the theatre behind Hunt Valley Mall. It was quite an experience. I've never actually had someone searching for my Bluetooth phone before. I told Jake that I may be a dork for naming my phone, but he was ten times worse for actually searching for it.

Eric, of course, geeked out equally well by borrowing my Powerbook in the theatre to log into his Solaris box and brag about being at the debut of Matrix on IRC. Life is good.

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