Break's over, back to life

[zorb]

And I'm back in California.  *pets her stuff*  In the past few days, I...

...watched several full or partial movies (full: BSG miniseries, V for Vendetta; partial: March of the Penguins, Boa vs. Python, White Christmas...saw the wide range of television available beyond my usual narrow rotation

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[luinthoron]

It was like an expanded detector, except it shuts you inside (!), blasts air at you, waits to do whatever it's doing, and then opens the doors to let you out. It's quite mysterious and also freaky.

Ah, I might be wrong, but this might be the one that looks for traces of explosives...

[smilie117]

ETA: I forgot to mention the crazy new technology at the Houston airport. Rather than just your standard metal detector to walk through, they had this new contraption you had to go through first. It was like an expanded detector, except it shuts you inside (!), blasts air at you, waits to do whatever it's doing, and then opens the doors to let you out. It's quite mysterious and also freaky.

---They have that at BWI Airport - except it doesn't shut you inside (!) but rather you walk and step on two footprints in the middle of this thing and then it puffs air at you from all sides (rather nerve-wracking when you didn't know it was going to puff air at you in the first place) and then you walk on through. I've only had that happen to me once so far

[misscake]

Oh! Pardon my work geekiness, but yes, those *are* chemical detectors (they test all sorts of chemicals not just explosives). I saw those in development last year at your Technical Center. How cool that they are now in use. *goes back to spending your tax dollars*

[zorb]

Hehe, good to know from the source! It would've been nice if they indicated that *at* the airport, too.