Aman_Fasil

About the guy who died......don't worry man, we won't say shit.

Love you on Twitter sir!! My favorite movie of yours, despite there being so many choices, is still The Name of the Rose. Any particularly cool memories of making that one? Keep doing what you're doing man!

My best friend growing up is now in the FBI. He broke off all contact with pretty much everyone when he started there and moved away. Since then, the only word I've heard out of him has been thru a mutual high school friend who is a naval officer and got in touch with him thru some channel she had access to. He has virtually no web presence at all. I google him once in a while and all I've ever found is his office contact info and one picture where he received a commendation for busting some corrupt local government official. My question is: what's a good way to get in touch with him? I don't think sending a note to his FBI e-mail account would be very smart, and I don't want to end up on some watch list. Or am I just watching too much tv and it's a normal e-mail situation?

I went to France for work. On the flight back across the Atlantic, they fed us a meal and there was also a snack. The snack came with one of those teensy bottles of water, it's like half the size of a normal bottle. I already had a drink in front of me, so I didn't need it, but I didn't wanna waste it so I just stashed it in the top of my backpack.

We get to Philadelphia airport and get off the plane, go down the jetway, into the customs area, pick up our checked bags, go thru customs and then there's immediately a counter in the same room where they take your checked bags back for the domestic flight home. We go up some stairs and there's another TSA checkpoint. At no point did I leave the secure side of the airport or was there even the possibility of interacting with anyone from the other side. The escalator from Customs literally dumps you off inside the ropes for TSA.

So I go thru, half asleep, and they pull me and the woman gets really pissy with me asking why I'm trying to sneak a bottle of water thru TSA. Initially I said "What are you talking about?' and then she grabs my backpack and says there's a bottle of water in here. Then I remembered and I'm like.....I literally was given that ON A PLANE. How could it possibly be bad if they gave it to me on the plane??? I never got an answer, she just started lecturing me on trying to sneak things thru, which I never had any intention of doing. I finally was like, hey, are you gonna just take the bottle or what? And they let me go.

What the hell is up with that??

Seriously tho, in the age of Google and SEO, do you have any discussions around the fact that your name is the same as a company with a large web presence that's completely unrelated and off-topic? Was there ever a consideration of changing the name?