Especially if the money is $0.
Last night Layla and I went to her division's holiday party in the middle of Seattle. The party was held in the top floor of the Science Fiction Museum (and Hall of Fame) right next to the Experience Music Project and the Space Needle1 and as an added bonus, we could roam freely throughout the museum when we tired of mixing and mingling.
And since we did, we did.
The museum is really damned cool—there's a ton of neat stuff from a bunch of different authors and shows and whatnot and the mix is one that seems to represent all the nutiness inherent in all of science fiction. I particularly liked things like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (with facial control unit) and the DB9-and-DB25-controlled dinosaur from Jurassic Park. They had an entire gallery of weapons from Star {Trek, Wars} and a bunch of sweet Alien(s) props—including a really damned detailed model of the ... whatever the mining ship was, in the first movie2.
Now, since I haven't migrated all the nutty scripts over from the Linux fileserver that make posting images from my gallery a snap, I'll post an image at the top of this post, there3, and let you browse the gallery yourselves. Beware poor lighting and my slowass cable modem.
1 I'm not sure why the space needle has its own domain.
2 It was the Nostromo.
3 Bonus points to whoever can identify what the Mystery Object is in the photo.
I just want to head off at the pass any Perl dorks who think they can make a joke about my "Especially if the money is $0" comment. It's not funny. Nerds.
All that crap, and you couldn't find one thing to foon? WTF?!?
Dude. It's "phoon."
Is it something from the terrible Slaughterhouse 5 movie?
Looks like a hoverboard from back to the future to me kinda. I cant really place it besides that.
Ding ding ding, we have a winner! It's the Pit Bull from Back to the Future: Part II.
Wait, Slaughterhouse Five was made into a film? Gah.