Tag Archives: TSA

TSA Gestures

September 29, 2008 – 8:10 pm

Via Makezine, this report of a MAKEr who is working on a metal plate that you insert into your carry on luggage. The plate is cut out in a judicious fashion, with a witty saying or an image of some type. The theory is that the x-ray machine will make this cut out message visible [...]

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Old Men and the TSA, volume 2

June 1, 2008 – 4:59 pm

We left LA last Wednesday morning; I think I mentioned previously that the TSA managed to push my buttons on our departure from El Lay.
This time, lines were short, there was signage advising us that our shoes, even plastic Crocs, must make the journey through the X-ray machine. We were greeted [...]

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The No-Fly Streak is About Over

May 10, 2008 – 2:25 pm

I’m proud that, for 3 years or more, I’ve been able to avoid the cluster-eff that air travel in America has become. I don’t fear crashing planes, terrorists on planes, or anything remotely similar. I don’t fear, but resent with every fiber in my body, the feeble ministrations of the TSA [...]

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SimpliFLY

November 20, 2007 – 10:34 pm

The ever-vigilant ones at the Transportation Security Administration have prepared a video which instructs holiday travelers on how to pack their carry-ons to expedite the screening process. The suggestions will probably not even be known by the majority of the traveling public, and doubtless administered inconsistently, according to the whim of TSA officers on duty [...]

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