I want this shirt
And yes, in fact, I do still want my flying car:
Occasionally at SF cons I get somebody, at a panel or something, tasking me with the genre’s various failed predictions. “Where’s my flying car?” they ask. And I tell them, “Hey, I’m still waiting too, y’know!”
Actually, I’m quite enamored of many of the shirts at this site. Wish they sold ‘em at cons. A tad pricy at $27 a pop, but they’re definitely nifty designs.
In entirely unrelated news, I note that my birthday’s coming right up here directly. August 3rd. Yes, indeed.
Actually, what I really, really want is one of these:
Almost full size!
They’re even hatched here in Albuquerque!
And, all right, I don’t really expect an Eclipse Concept Jet. For one thing, they won’t be available until 2011. And they cost $1.35M.
I’m saving up.
Update: Recently I blogged about some curious events: shotgun blasts in the night and mysterious smoke pouring into the sky from what I took to be the direction of the RR tracks and Griegos. I said I’d likely never find out the story on either one.
Well, the shots remain mysterious, although a neighbor in the next block up emailed me back that he’d heard them too. But thanks to a tip from that neighbor and local TV station KRQE, I found out the scoop on the fire.
Turns out it took place on the 100 block of Griegos NW, which is about as close as you can get to the tracks without getting whammed by a passing train. Fortunately no one was hurt and relatively little damage was done; I couldn’t see any damage when, curious monkey that I am, I drove by on the way home from my friend Joe’s house a few hours ago. It also turns out that the reason I saw no smoke when I looked out the window again, while I was still writing the post, was that the fire was put out quite quickly, within about 15 minutes according to the article. Which might not be completely unrelated to the fact there’s a fire station on Griegos just the other side of Fourth.
Interestingly, the article mentions - indeed, in the piece’s headline - that neighbors reported hearing “popping noises.” Indeed. (Yes, I like the word. Deal.)
What I heard emphatically wasn’t “popping”; it was two gunshots, heavy duty. The fire took place maybe 1000 feet away, straight-line. Could those shots have been what sounded like popping to people near the fire?
A long shot, I admit. But I still find the coincidence - I start blogging about gunshots that happen right nearby; as I’m writing, a fire breaks out right nearby - peculiar at least.
Tags: conflagrations, cool t-shirts, Current Events, Eclipse Concept Jet, flying car
July 26th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
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