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INDIANAPOLIS — I originally planned to post this later in the day. But, hey, what the hell? I don’t know when that’ll be thanks to the idiots at American Airlines.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Quality. Consistency. Punctual. Professional.

These are all words I would never use to describe American Airlines after my early-morning fiasco.

In my last post, I mentioned a “leak” on the airplane keeping us from boarding on time. The leak ultimately lead to the cancellation of the flight, which in turn screwed up my entire initerary.

So I went from sitting at the gate to waiting more than a half an hour to reclaim my baggage so I could recheck it. Make any sense? I didn’t to me.

Then came my favorite part of the airport experience: security.

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INDIANAPOLIS — I thought I’d throw a few departing thoughts at you while I’m waiting for American Airlines to fix “a leak” on my first flight to Chicago.

1. I hate airports
– I came to this realization moments ago when I went through security and had to yet again take my shoes off. If I could drive to Maui, I would. At least I could keep my shoes on.

2. Maui > Indiana
– According to weather.com, it’s supposed to rain for most of my stay in Maui, but I don’t care because 80 degrees with rain beats 23 degrees with snow any day.

3. Ready for some basketball
– I’m stoked to cover the tournament and, assuming the “leak” doesn’t delay or cancel my flight, I’ll get to start working tomorrow night at the EA SPORTS players party.

4. New Indy airport is amazing
– This place is wicked cool. It really reminds me of a few German airports … minus the cigarette smoke.

That’s all. I’ll probably fire this thing back up again assuming I my flight doesn’t get cancelled. I have a three-hour layover in Honolulu before I catch my flight to Maui. It’ll be the perfect opportunity for some power Facebooking.

I will be traveling to Lahaina, Hawaii on Friday to cover the Indiana University men’s basketball team during the EA Sports Maui Invitational for the Indiana Daily Student.

The IU men’s basketball team is one of eight teams playing in the tournament. The team will be joined by host school Chaminade, North Carolina, Texas, Notre Dame, Alabama, Oregon and Saint Joseph’s.

The Hoosiers are 2-0 heading into the tournament after a close 60-57 win over IU-Purdue University Indianapolis on Tuesday night in Bloomington, Ind. The first game will be against Notre Dame at 7:30 a.m. Monday (12:30 p.m. EDT). You can also follow our coverage on the IDS Basketblog.

As always for these sorts of things, I will be blogging a bit about my experiences as a photographer covering the event.

I’m flying in on Friday night. The first event is on Saturday evening, which is early Sunday morning on the east coast. Depending on the internet access, I’ll try to post a couple shots from the official tournament events and the games

Google launched a photo gallery Tuesday displaying millions of high-quality images from the Life magazine archives.

The gallery, a partnership between Google and Life, is said to feature millions of photos never before seen by the public. About 97 percent of the photos were never published, according to Life.

“Only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints,” Paco Galanes, a Google software engineer, wrote Tuesday on the Google Blog.

“We’re digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time.”

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