last edited on 06 Mar 2010 at 06:18:56

Luckily, these borders are just .png files inside the Dock.app resources, so I’ve sharpened the appearance of the dock by thinning the border and squaring the corners, like so:

modified dock

and to make it easier to do the mod every time i re-install mac os, I’ve put it all in a script:

download: dock-mod.zip

here is the audio clip

man, now that i am reminded of it again, it’s driving me crazy!

hotel refuses to take me to the airport earlier than 500a for a 630a flight. austin is laid back, smooth, and quick, they say. you should have no problems.

515a arrival to AUS, check in. where’s the boarding pass for my 2nd leg? oh, frontier doesn’t do that. over to us airways counter. oh no, this says its a us airways flight, but its actually “physically” on a united flight, so we can’t check you in. united line is prohibitively long, since hotel had convinced me to cut it pretty close. i guess it’s up to luck in denver.

security check point. ridiculous line. tsa agents standing around shooting the shit looking smug, let’s say 1/3 of the security lines are in operation.

flag down idle tsa agents to inquire regarding concerns of a flight that’s leaving; preempted by said agent “i know i know, flight’s about to leave right? i can’t move people”. fuck you.

40 minutes later finally on the plane at about departure time. delayed due to more people being stuck at security. about 95 degrees and humid. sitting next to bitch who through a shit fit when flight attendant touched her bag in overhead compartment.

in the air, cold as balls, stuck in the middle seat, miserable. but i guess that’s all flights.

denver. at least the flight attendants asked denver-bound folks to stay seated while people with connecting flights got off, since we are late.

deplaned, asked the connection liaison about the us-airways/united flight to minneapolis. she asks “us airways or united?” hey lady, you tell me. i say both. whatever, they tell me to go to concourse C. you have to take a train. I don’t believe her, but concourse A doesn’t seem to list departure gates not at A. brilliant, denver-ites.

concourse C, finally a comprehensive list of departures. the flight leaves from concourse B.

back on the train, 10 minutes to departure.

concourse B. gate 58 is at the end of the concourse. huff and puff. still haven’t checked in, so waiting for the plane to board. someone else shows up needing to check in. you come in from austin? yea. they took me to C. yea, they did that to me too.

IDs? Here. You’re not even in the system, and there are only 2 seats. Really? Really. Do you have your reference number? Let me dig it out. The other guy had his, and she let another lady on. uh oh. no dice. neither of us were “in the system”. i have my reference number…no, sirs, all i can tell you is that you have to go to customer service near B-84.

great…at the very tippy tip of the concourse.

ID? Here. Did you just miss your flight? No, i was there, they just told me to come here, and the plane left. CS: Is the plane still here? Me: …no, i think it just left (at least surely in the time that it took me to walk here). CS: because you’re right here in the system. did they leave? Me: yes…

At least they put me on another flight to minneapolis leaving 2 hours later. ok. gate B-21. Holy god, on the opposite end of B concourse.

Finally made it to B-21. flight delayed. Yesssss. (but inexplicably now scheduled to land earlier due to “airport operations scheduling change”).