Always expect a train ... yet again

[kinzel]

Hey gang, let's outrun a train ... on our bike!
http://www.metrowestfyi.com/story_display.php?sid=10537

Meanwhile, we finally found a video card that should boost Rolanni's old "media center" box to modern Second Life standards ... the problem is that that 250 watt power supply is rather tiny for today's graphic cards...
we shall see: it is on the way.

The more that didn't get to yesterday's post was about visiting a potential office space. I did. Decision pending. Where the heck is that flipping coin?

Comments

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Forty miles an hour? Surprising he wasn't killed.

[adamek.livejournal.com]

When my Dad was in high school he and some friends decided to hike through the Hoosic Tunnel. They'd studied the schedule and thought they were safe from any trains, but partway in they were surprised by a special. Yes, the light at the end of the tunnel was an oncoming train. Fastest they ever ran in their life. The last kid made it out by seconds.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I think Heinlein covered that in one of his books ... was it Starman Jones where the kid just misses being blasted away by a magnetic or whatever flying "train" ... ?