We are in the hotel, which has free internet in the rooms! I plugged it up and away I went. Here are the entries from the plane:

This is my 5th flight in 5 weeks (counting a round trip as 2), an all time record for flight density for me. My security checkpoint experiment is completd. I had no optional metal of any kind on me, having put my keys, watch, change, Handspring, cellphone and wallet in my laptop bag. I still set off the metal detector and had to get the extra special screening. Exactly two things set off the wand: my wedding ring and the button on my jeans. I contend that this is ridiculously senstive. When ones clothes set the thing off its gone too far.

Still on the plane, but the batteries on the laptop are waning. I stupidly missed something when setting up to play with the SDL libraries. I downloaded some gcc stuff, the Ming port, but I don't have the Cygwin development tools on this laptop. Shite. I'll have to download those once I get to SF, either from the hotel or from the Moscone or other wifi hotspot.

It looks like we at least have one other grad student willing to do one of our activities, attending the stage play version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I loved the movie and the music, so I'm interested in seeing the play.

I'm continuing the practice of listening to saved WREK programs on the plane. I just heard the Johnny Cash version of Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt", which was quite good.