The Bat Mobile

"Well, that's the last straw, Robin.  I'm going to have to let you go this time.  Just for the record, when I tell you to warm up the batmobile …"

Maddie's Day

You've Got a Friend

First Shot

Torpedo away…

What I did in the cold war.  I think the theory was to take young, impressionable kids off the farms, teach them to fly reasonably well and then give them each a nuclear rocket* to play around with.  The 'Roosskies' were not about to invade us while a fleet of somewhat goofy, nuclear-armed lieutenants awaited them with open 'arms'.  I think it was just crazy enough to work.  Only one of these rockets was ever tested with a live warhead; mostly to prove that it could be exploded over friendly territory without significant levels of fallout below.  I fired an inert one over the Gulf of Mexico once.  Mostly all I saw was a lot of white smoke.  The accuracy of it was sometimes described as tying a string onto the trigger of a Sharps Rifle, tossing it up in the air and pulling the string.  But then it was roughly about 1/10th the size of the first nuclear weapons used during WWII in 1945 so it didn't have to be too precise to bring down a Soviet Bear, or seriously demoralize the crew.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIR-2_Genie

Hmmm … I see I have a 'follower'.  Oh, bother.  Now I will have to pay more attention to what I'm doing on here.  As all anthropologists know, there's nothing that will change behavior faster than someone observing it.

This blog was begun simply as a web site from which to post images onto other web sites.  For some reason you cannot simply upload any old image into a blog but must transfer it from another web location.  How Kafkaesque.

Anyway, the blog is a work in progress and, with the help of a new camera in the works, may turn into something more than what it is someday.  Or not.