CQD Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport Lost & Found

Almost a week ago Sunday, I travelled through the Minneapolis St. Paul airport on my way to a wedding. When I got back to California, I realized that my iPad was missing. I'm not sure how that happened, but it did. I promptly filed a missing item report with the airport, and have updated it with the model and serial number. I also alerted Apple that it was lost and turned on the GPS tracking. Nothing happened for a couple days. On Wednesday, I got an alert from Apple that my iPad had been found -- the location showing terminal 1 near concourse F (see the screen shot below).

That screen shot says "6 hours ago," but that was last Wednesday. Later that day, the trail went cold and the device tracker says that the device was "off."  I updated my online claim at the airport with this new info. It is still off. I'm thinking that someone found it and deliberately disabled it. I'm going to check with Apple to see that means exactly. Remember that the GPS tracking only came on briefly.

Anyways, I cannot get through to a human being at the MSP airport. I do not believe that a human being has even read my claim. MSP says that after 30 days, my claim will be closed. This feels like a racket.

If anyone out there reading this knows anyone at the MSP airport who can help connect the dots and get me my iPad back, I would appreciate it and try to make it worth your while.

"Lobster Festival Forced to Eat Hotdogs"

"After Air Canada Loses Lobsters."

An Alberta woman tried to share some Newfoundland lobster with her friends and family, but Air Canada got in the way.

Jackie Panuisiak hosts the annual Northern Alberta Lobster Festival in the community of Cotillion. She had ordered some 145 pounds of live lobster to be shipped from this province to Alberta. The problem is that the lobsters didn't arrive.

When Panuisiak's sister talked to Air Canada about what happened, she says they were rude and unhelpful. She says they were passed off to Air Canada's Cargo Relations and were met with more unhelpful behaviour. She says they did not admit any fault in the matter.

It turns out the lobsters were in Toronto, but Air Canada's tracking system said they had arrived. Panuisiak says it raises concerns about the reliability of Air Canada's tracking system.

In the meantime, the Lobster Festival was forced to eat hot dogs instead of lobster.

"Study Finds Where You Lost Your Train of Thought"

"An unexpected event appears to clear out what you were thinking," said Adam Aron, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, who led the research.

"The radically new idea is that just as the brain's stopping mechanism is involved in stopping what we're doing with our bodies it might also be responsible for interrupting and flushing out our thoughts," Aron said.

"We are providing a neural mechanism by which that happens," he added. "The same stopping system that gives you that kind of jolt when you are getting out of the elevator, and someone else is in your way and you have to stop, that same stopping system is stopping your train of thought."...

"We've shown that unexpected, or surprising, events recruit the same brain system we use to actively stop our actions, which, in turn, appears to influence the degree to which such surprising events affect our ongoing trains of thought," said cognitive neurologist Jan Wessel, who worked on the study and who is now at the University of Iowa. (read the whole article?)

"A diamond in the rough"

"Sergio Garcia’s drive on the par-4 third hole at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Sunday landed in the gallery. More specifically, it landed directly on a woman’s diamond ring. The impact of the ball dislodged the diamond from the ring, and the stone was temporarily lost in the rough. Garcia gave the woman a signed golf ball and asked for her information to replace the ring."

Sergio Garcia knocks diamond out of a fan's ring

 

"Garcia looked through the grass for a few moments after he hit his shot. Fortunately for the woman, the diamond was found."

"Lost "Monty Python" skit found"

Lileks Tweets, "Lost Monty Python skit found! Sort of."

Whenever someone says “lost,” they usually mean “laying around plain sight until someone pointed it out.” It’s more like early Python, which wasn’t Python at the time. They hadn’t quite gotten the rhythm down yet; it drags. But you cna see what’s they’re starting to assemble.

How To Irritate People - The Car Salesman

Eventually this morphed into the Dead Parrot sketch; details on that process here.

Lileks , StarTribune