seven-league boots

[egypturnash]

Today, I went out to Harvard Squid to send another Tarot deck on its merry way. I also did lunch with Rik and Bill. Bill has a new toy to show off: his electrified bike.

I got a chance to play with it before he went back to work. The sensation when the electric motor kicks in and assists your pedaling is really strange; the thought that immediately came to mind was "I know what seven-league boots feel like now".

I have a pile of sketchbook scans to post, now that my brain has decided to remember how to draw again. Gotta finish processing them.

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[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Harvard Squid?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

So: beetiger was visiting Boston, with her son Rhys in tow. Now, Rhys is five years old or thereabouts, so he's still learning the wonders of the world. He is currently fascinated with squid - or at least he was when he was visiting; he's fiveish, this may have changed. There are a lot of "squares" around Boston; Intertate roadsigns abbreviate "square" as "Sq.". Rhys saw this on a sign and tried to expand it as "squid".

I thought this was pretty cool, because squid are awesome to my thirtysomething self, so I say 'squid' instead of 'square' now and then. Honestly, if you look at a map, 'squid' is more appropriate than 'square' anyway.

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice. I kind of do the same thing with a lot of type-of-place-or-road abbreviations meanwhile. I've yet to come up with anything for blvd.

[zeeth_kyrah]

"believed"

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

I've always wanted a pair of jump-boots. My self-as-character in City of Heroes has 'em. I fantasise about it: walking normally without any noticeable difference, running with notable assistance so I don't tire, and then the best part... switching them all-on, crouching a bit, and j-u-m-p-i-n-g a hundred metres at a time. Ballistic arcs through the atmosphere. Woo!

Maybe I should try riding a motor-assisted bike....

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a motor-assisted bike is a low-end version of that sort of thing. It moves when you move. You're still doing it but you're not providing all the power.