Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Up In the Air, Junior Birdmen

The new "jetpack."

Except that it weighs a few hundred pounds (that is why it has its own landing gear), it's not really a "jet," and it's not really a "pack." If you put a seat on it, it'd be sort of a helicopter.

That may be snarkier than I mean it to be. Anyone who has paid any attention to jetpacks since James Bond flew one in "Goldfinger" knows that they have an endurance of only a couple of minutes. This thing is large, ungainly looking and it might just work.

Just don't fly it close to the ground, for if you lose power below the altitude that the parachute will function, you are going to have a really bad day.

2 comments:

deadstick said...

Couple of minutes? More like 20-30 seconds.

Mark said...

This thing apparently has about a half-hour's endurance. That's enough for me to forgive a lot of sins, including it basically being an open-air mini Chinook.

Hundred grand starting price - so it's all headed in the right direction.