Oct 28th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Dallas FTW!
I’m going to be traveling today, heading out to California for a speaking engagement tomorrow at Claremont-McKenna’s Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum and then Thursday at UCLA’s Burkle Center. I’m sitting at the airport right now and there’s a flight listed as bound for “Dallas-FTW” illustrating that someone at American Airlines is not aware of all internet traditions.
Anyways, there should be content throughout the day but at a reduced pace, etc.
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October 28th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that Fort Worth had its airport code before Gore invented the internet.
October 28th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Or maybe somebody is just very enthusiastic about the Cowboys, despite their recent shortcomings.
October 28th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Obviously, American’s representative didn’t realize that the airport’s abbreviation is known as DFW!
I get spelling out Dallas, but why not write Fort Worth as FW?
Beware of DFW, by the way. It is confusing. It doesn’t look like you are going there, but if you do, prepare to scratch your head and panic if you are cutting a connection too close, like I was this weekend.
October 28th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Or you could imagine every time you fly to DFW that you’re going to visit the late David Foster Wallace. (Who after all did teach at the Claremont colleges.)
October 28th, 2008 at 9:46 am
So why didn’t “FTB” ever catch on?
October 28th, 2008 at 10:36 am
the three letter code FTW is Fort Worth Meacham airport (which no longer has commercial operations but still has a cool old passenger terminal with some nifty American Airlines knick knacks here and there — airport is now mostly corporate and private aviation, with a nice little area carved out for the Bass Brothers operations), three letter code DAL is Dallas Love, home of Southwest Airlines, and DFW is Dallas Fort Worth.
Here’s a generally but not always true print media tradition, especially post spellcheck: in any document that mentions Fort Worth several times, there will be at least one occurrence of Forth Worth.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:42 am
McCain just denounced the “old boy network”
Too bad his staff can’t tell him not to say
things like that.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Claremont McKenna. No hyphen. Have fun at the Ath and save room for dessert!
October 28th, 2008 at 10:51 am
If you look to your left as you go into the Athenaeum, you might be able to see my old dorm! Ah, Clark I, such fond memories.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Have fun at my school. I’m studying in DC this semester so I’m really disappointed in having missed you. (I would have signed up for the head table in a heartbeat.) Hopefully, you’ll plan on stopping by again when you are speaking in Southern California.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:28 am
That was mean. I recently had to relocate to Dallas and for a split second I thought someone interesting (not from Texas) might be coming here. Alas, it is not the case.
Anyhoo. Only a couple months before W. moves here. Sigh.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Oh, man, the Ath. The only good meal I had at the Claremont Colleges was there.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:40 am
On airline cluelessness: It still amuses the hell out of me that Northwest Airlines rebranded itself NWA a few years back. Did they really not know that acronym was taken?
October 28th, 2008 at 11:46 am
FWIW (no airport), my sister lives in Dallas. Sometimes her laughter can be heard all the way to the airport.
October 28th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Despite some serious left-wing grassroots goings-on in Dallas, I’m afraid I will have to conclude Texas as a whole is still full of fail.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
“the only good meal I had at the Claremont Colleges was there.”
You certainly weren’t going to get good eats at Pomona. Though you did have the somewhat dubious benefit of looking up at a 10 foot long giant stylized penis fresco.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
prepare to scratch your head and panic if you are cutting a connection too close, like I was this weekend.
Yes, I once learned that connections are closer than they appear…especially if you have to take the tram (or trAAm?) to another terminal.
October 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
This is certainly an easier drive than when MattY went to OC. If MattY would like me to stop by and ask him a stumper of a question about imm. matters, he should signify so by writing a post containing a fallacious argument and misleading statements.
October 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
burritoboy: We had that weird landscape at Platt, the one with the hillocks that looked like tacos. We also had chicketti.
Oh, God. The pain. The chicketti.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
What better place to open the NBA season than LA, the home of the 2008-09 NBA champions?
October 28th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
ah the Ath. enjoy your multiple-course meal and having a table full of eager, politically engaged undergrads talking your ear off while you’re trying to eat and gather your thoughts before your speech!
it’s been 6 years since i graduated, and i still dream of the desserts i had there.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
“We had that weird landscape at Platt, the one with the hillocks that looked like tacos. We also had chicketti.
Oh, God. The pain. The chicketti.”
Yes, I don’t hesitate to praise Pomona’s architecture and landscaping (even with the towering naked man fresco in the dining hall) over the strangeness of what Edward Durrell Stone did to Harvey Mudd (or to be honest, the general abysmal mediocrity of the architecture at Pitzer and Claremont McKenna). Though, of course, everyone must admit that Gordon Kauffman’s designs at Scripps are simply nonpareil.
You didn’t actually EAT the chicketti, did you? You couldn’t repair to the ever-present sandwich bars? Which, while mediocre, wouldn’t generally kill you.
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