eleven #442: Yeah...flying cars would be the worst thing ever.
Like giving monkeys flamethrowers.

Yeah, but flying cars with flamethrowers, that would be great.

Did not read the whole thing because, do not care to load my brain up with all the details on lib rail fail.

Sat down with our daughter -- 4yo? -- to watch Mr Rogers. Turned on tv & there was Dan Rather looking serious, with a model of the rocket on his desk.

* Dives in before Ace is up *

Someone discussing automated automobiles again? Can't resist that dangling hook...

Driving home, two-lane, coming up the hill, glare of oncoming car's headlights, there was something I didn't see on the road. But I heard it as we ran over it.

* furiously copying notes in case I should, for some strange reason, find myself in Las Vegas again *

An online encounter this weekend reminded me of the one and only time, many years ago, that I had a serious road rage encounter.

BTW, the poster I linked to earlier, No One Predicts the Future, was one page out of a month-long series I did as part of my Daily Doodles series (which lasted a year).

Vic: 6 trucks and a car doesn't sound like a hunting accident. Dad's story is not plausible.

"The name doesn't ring many bells."

Geez, Krak. Way to honor the man with a big downer article. What is this, Monday?

Morning, glorious Earthlings!

Glad I lived long enough to see astronaut Chris Hadfield doing his version of Space Oddity ... in space. Kinda brought things full circle... or full orbit, or something.

Back from checking out the morning thread. Meh. No Vic News for Christmas Eve. Guess that's okay. He had to anniversarize, after all.

♥

Who could ever have guessed that a thread about space travel on an AoSHQ thread would devolve into discussions about zero-G sex?

I did not see that coming.

Observations from the road

#2 - We noted as we traveled that they just aren't making the old single-floor drive-up-to-your-room motels anymore. They're building hotels.