Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago

Thanks to this conference's theme band, Soul Coughing!

Saskatoon is in the room
Pyongyang is in the room...
Is Chicago
Is not Chicago

"Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago" -- Soul Coughing

Midway through my flight to Baltimore and I'm in Chicago, listening to periodic announcements that the Threat Advisory Level is Orange. The wifi here isn't working for me (associates fine but no address by DHCP), so I'm sititng at my gate, with two hours 'til I leave, wondering if any of the people around me are going to LISA as well.

The airport here has this amazing tunnel that goes between two concourses. Again, it made me think I was in Logan's Run and it was only the thought of being arrested that kept me from running down the moving sidewalk, shouting "Carousel is a LIE!"

Departure was entirely uneventful; I didn't even get pulled over for extra questions. One odd thing was that (like O'Hare) the customs section of YVR was quite warm, and each of the customs officers had identical clip-on fans placed above them. The cords curled down out of site, and the reflection in the cubicle glass reminded me of spines; I kept thinking they were skeleton decorations for Hallowe'en.