First Segway in Austin
I saw my first Segway "in the flesh" Sunday. We were eating at Milto's when it scooted across the parking lot and up onto the sidewalk.
The Segway in operation is pretty surreal to watch. It moves with no visible means of propulsion or control. Seeing it do a 180 -- not by being lifted or moved in an arc as you would a bicycle but just by turning in place -- looks like magic. What fun!
It reminded me of one other thing: Oat Willie, the underground comic character who rides around in a bucket of oats (and whose namesake headshop was right around the corner). A papier mache bucket on a Segway could make a pretty good Halloween or Mardi Gras costume.
