down the rabbit hole

New part of New Hampshire.  Have zero cell service.  Can’t even get a single bar by wandering around in the parking lot.

Damnit, At&t - this more bars in more places obviously this does not apply in New Hampshire.

- Flight out of SLC had free wifi coupons.  Man in row in front of me watched porn until being told by the flight attendant to shut it down or they’d turn the plane around.

- Flight was super full, so they offered us drink coupons to check our bags at the gate.  Yes, I did take them up on that offer, and the bloody mary was awesome.

- I will never ever understand the people who wear pjs and look like they just rolled out of bed to travel.  I understand the need to be comfortable on the plane, but really - would it kill you to brush your hair and put on deodorant before you left the house?

- When airporting, I try to find the worst-named place to eat.  Often times it turns out better than expected.  Slapshotz Grill in Detroit was okay.

- Did get a giaaaaant gin and tonic at their bar though, which was delish.  The man by me at the bar looked exactly like David Wallace from The Office.  I wanted to ask him what he thought of Michael Scott, but decided against it.

- Saw a grown woman sit down in the middle of the airport and refuse to move until her husband gave her the boarding passes, because as she screamed, “he wasn’t smart enough to use them right”.

- Flight to Manchester - window seat in a row of three.  This awful woman who must have weighed 500 pounds sat next to me in the other two seats.  She took up two whole fucking seats.  And wore a leopard print snuggie the whole flight.  I was scared to ask her to move so I could pee.  Longest. Hour. Flight. EVER.

More adventures to come.

robot-heart-politics:

needtherapy:

Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad. - Boing Boing

I’m trying to reserve judgment, but I’m not sure how this is defensible.

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says:

• That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn’t infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.
• That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet — and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living — if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.
• That the whole world must adopt US-style “notice-and-takedown” rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused — again, without evidence or trial — of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.
• Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)