It’s a glamorous world in the travel biz. So far today a gentleman yelled at one of the agents here because his flight was cancelled due to weather. He apparently expected her to re-open the flight, de-ice all the equipment, and clear the runways for him, personally… a rather Godlike task, and unlikely to be accomplished anytime this milennium.

What’s going on in my corner of the globe today? Let’s go see:

ATCSCC Airport Status – North Central States

The green dots mean “no problems.” I think of them as “Thunderbirds are go” green or “Corbin my man, Corbin my man” green.

There are no “slow children playing” yellow or “pulled an all nighter screwing around with the blog” red dots today. Yay!

I wonder why there are no checkered flag dots?
As in “you got to your destination, you win!” dots?

No weather problems to speak of in the Chicago area at this exact moment, but the dynamic radar animation is fun to look at anyway.

The epicenter is probably the location that the loveable BFG’s of The Amazing Race

Aw, man, I love these guys. Their Q&A still cracks my shit up. They’re still hanging around answering questions and handing out gigs to those who dare to (affectionately) disrespect their authoritah on Television Without Pity.

And that’s “n. gig: A military demerit” and tr. v. “gig, gigged, gigs: to give a military demerit to.”

In other words, they’re still kicking ass, taking names, and cracking everybody else’s shit up over there.