Where are the dang outlets?

That's the question that power-mad (in the electrical sense) travelers ask when they arrive at an airport with their phones and laptops screaming "battery low."

The search can quickly lead an upstanding citizen down the low road. I'll cop to: scouring every baseboard in a terminal in a mouse-like quest for a power hole; pinching the outlets behind the United check-in desks when nobody is looking; sitting on the floor, Buddha-style, in the middle of a crowded gate so I can draw a few minutes...