Tiger Truck

While walking around the neighborhood, I happened to see a tiger truck.
Lots of nice shady seating. 

The symbol on the hood caught my eye.

Are we getting glare?

And since you asked, here is another look at that car with the flames

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My Whatsit

During my travels around the neighborhood, there have been a few things laying around to be found, such as pennies or lead weights or

                                              headphones or a handy (cell) phone.

In each case I was able to identify the item as being a penny or lead weight or set of headphones or a handy (cell) phone. This time I have found something and I have absolutely no idea of what it could be.

A closer look shows a solid cylinder inside of a transparent cylinder, with some space in-between.

There appears to be some type of liquid sealed inside. The large end is hollow and there appears to be something, perhaps plastic tubing, broken off inside.

The small end has a lot of details.

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My Color Balance

It has been said that these pictures in Blogger come out a little dark.  The sun was setting while these pictures were being made,  and the background light was going away.  Here is the same picture again, after the task of color-balancing has been achieved.

The same scene as shown from across the street.

                                                                      POV Axe Cop !

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My Neighborhood Train Crossing

June 6, 2013 6:20 PM A train has struck the crossing arm in my neighborhood.

 The crossing arm is supposed to swing on a breakaway hinge. Instead, the U-Bolts have slid around, as if someone had struck the stanchion itself, rather than the arm

The crossing arm is supposed to pivot on this hinge.

The southbound crossing arm still works. Those alarm bells are still ringing and this will probably go on all night.

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Steam Train

S.T.E.A.M.
   Science
   Technology
   Engineering
   Art
   Math

And steam!

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My Wondercon 2013 part 2

                  Here are some more pictures of Wondercon 2013 presented without further comment.

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My Wondercon 2013

Yup, I was at Wondercon today, Friday March 29 2013. There are bunches of Star trek panels this year so it seems that Star trek is back again. Also back again is Geek and Sundry, exemplified by this Codex costume which I though was great, but the actress wearing it pointed out that it was missing some red jewels on the shoes; Don't sweat the small stuff, that was a tremendous costume.

There was some sort of spaceship on the trading floor.

                         The cockpit resembles the cockpit of the

Rotary_Rocket.

The cockpit resembles a transparent submarine that was almost eaten by Sharkzilla.

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