Lifehacker has an interesting article that explains one reason Jerry Seinfeld has become such a successful comic.

He said the way to be a better comic was to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes was to write every day.

He goes on to explain how Seinfeld uses a large calendar to make off the days he’d write. I might try this to keep track of my exercise.

1. Fellow travelers who don’t think the carry-on size restrictions apply to them and decide to bring a full-sized piece of luggage on board and then complain when it won’t fit in the overhead. Check the sucker.
2. Travelers taking video of their kids in the security line. I saw a dad videotape his son for at least 20 minutes while standing in line. 15 seconds would have been plenty, this isn’t a playground or piano recital.
3. Having to send my shoes through the x-ray. Is this really necessary? The “shoe bomber” failed miserably and don’t we have technology to solve this?
4. Airport parking at $22/day. What a ripoff.
5. Passengers who think it’s ok to carry-on smelly food like take-out Chinese. Eat before you board or toss it. I don’t want to spell like Kung Pao chicken for the next 3 hours.
6. The safety lecture and emergency row seating requirements. Enough already. Nobody listens or cares that oxygen masks will drop and my seat can be used as a floatation device.
7. Chatty people in the aisles. Can’t it wait till we land? Four rows worth of travelers don’t need to hear about your escapades at the Hard Rock Cafe the night before last.
8. A delayed flight followed by the captain saying we’ll “make up time in the air”. How about leaving on time and getting us to our destination early next time?
9. People who pickup every piece of black luggage as it goes around the carrousel. If you don’t know what your luggage looks like by now, how about putting a big piece of green neon tape on the front so it’s obvious?
10. Airports that got rid of paper towels in the bathroom and replaced them with air blowers. Do these blowers have to sound like a jet engine on take off?
11. Curbside check-in with a required rate per bag. I’ll tip $5 a bag if I’m treated well. But when I have to tip $2 per bag, that’s all I’ll do.

If I traveled more than a couple of times a year I’d probably cough up the 100 clams and do this. As I waited for 30 minutes in the security line in Orlando this morning I noticed the CLEAR line was empty. I saw a number of travelers approach the the CLEAR station but none of them were allowed through.

This just feels wrong though. In fact, the whole airport security system is totally wrong. I saw a young mother with two young kids in hand get stopped as she went through the x-ray. She was pulled aside and her bags opened and manually checked. 

I don’t get it. When is the last time a young mother toting two kids hijacked a plane or flew it into a building? Isn’t there a better way to ensure passengers are not packing guns or other obvious weapons without having to spend hours in the security line? I’m sure the deranged mind of a terrorist can and will easily work around the current restrictions the rest of us are under which makes flying so unpleasant.