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I dug me a hole

Few things:

  • There are multiple vendors of train simulators.
  • You know how you can buy semirealistic controls that clip on your desk for flying flight simulators? Well, train simulator enthusiasts don’t have to feel left out.
  • You know how sometimes you see on Slashdot or wherever a post about some guy who has recreated a 747 cockpit in his basement for a flight simulator? Well, train simulator enthusiasts don’t have to feel left out.
  • Have any of you tried a train simulator? I can’t imagine. It’s bad enough knowing that some people fly autopilot-navigated cross-Atlantic flights in flight simulators.
  • What’s dorkier than a train simulator? Backhoe simulator! (Requires Shockwave Player. Don’t try that link if you need your other browser windows/tabs; it works about 75% of the time for me, and crashes the browser 25%.)
  • Uncle Mark’s Gift Guide and Almanac (PDF linked from that page; obviously it was really important for him to have exactly that font) is quite possibly the best example of MIT Syndrome that I have ever seen.
  • Tim Hortons is now advertising “Hot Smoothees” [sic]. I can’t figure out exactly what’s in them and I’m kind of glad.

Comments 7

  1. asciident wrote:

    That PDF is …

    …

    Well, something else, that’s for sure.

    Posted 28 Oct 2005 at 8:59 pm
  2. thedeli wrote:

    You totally beat me to the “hot smoothie” story.
    I don’t usually report on beverages I don’t drink, but…. hot smoothie?

    Posted 28 Oct 2005 at 9:28 pm
  3. Rich wrote:

    Hot Smoothee! I don’t think I could bring myself to drink them. I figure at best they’re to a Creme Frappucino as a Tim Horton’s spray-cappucino is to a real one.

    Posted 28 Oct 2005 at 9:42 pm
  4. fweebles wrote:

    Waterloo is totally the equivalent of MIT Syndrome, I shit you not.

    Posted 28 Oct 2005 at 10:54 pm
  5. thedeli wrote:

    “Ee!” looks about right.

    Posted 28 Oct 2005 at 11:15 pm
  6. dagbrown wrote:

    Thank God that guy was there to tell me how to walk. Otherwise I don’t know what I would have been able to do.

    Also, I’m a great fan of his “keep an umbrella handy in case it rains” advice. Bravo!

    Posted 29 Oct 2005 at 12:27 am
  7. Rich wrote:

    Oh yeah, I can imagine. McGill wasn’t exactly devoid of it either, though.

    Posted 29 Oct 2005 at 12:28 am