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.
What's a blog?
Grampa [asriddle ARROBA comcast PUNTO net] • 2003.03.26
So did you see him try to weave in and out of pedestrians? Did it look as cool and easy to control as the PR makes it out? Was he totally in love with it?
Would it go up the Spicewood Springs hill?
Would it go up the Spicewood Springs hill?
jeremy [jeremy ARROBA kraybill PUNTO net] • 2003.03.26
You're commenting on it.
omit [tim ARROBA timothompson PUNTO com] • 2003.03.26
Dad, "blog" is short for "weblog", or one of these online journal things like I've been keeping.
Jeremy, the Segway definitely looked as cool as the PR says. I don't know whether it was easy to control as I didn't get to ride it myself, but the guy riding it made it look effortless. I don't know whether it would take a hill like that -- there must be a Segway users' group somewhere where you could find out.
Jeremy, the Segway definitely looked as cool as the PR says. I don't know whether it was easy to control as I didn't get to ride it myself, but the guy riding it made it look effortless. I don't know whether it would take a hill like that -- there must be a Segway users' group somewhere where you could find out.
Prentiss Riddle [riddle ARROBA io PUNTO com] • 2003.03.26
wow!! yay for the segway! soon, very soon, my dears, we will be living in a pollutionless utopia heretofore only dreamed about by the fantasy writers of the deep dark past. Yippee! aldo-- go the the escapist tonight (3/28) for vive la france-- a profrench fete! oui, oui! www.escapistbookstore.com!
Julianne [escape ARROBA escapistbookstore PUNTO com] • 2003.03.28
But Julianne, as I've written before, where do you put a baby carrier on a Segway? Or for that matter, a bumper sticker?
I wonder if anyone would care to bet how long after Segways become common someone will start a Segway Demolition Derby.
Perhaps I'll get a bumper sticker that says, "My Segway can knock over your Segway."
I wonder if anyone would care to bet how long after Segways become common someone will start a Segway Demolition Derby.
Perhaps I'll get a bumper sticker that says, "My Segway can knock over your Segway."
Prentiss Riddle [riddle ARROBA io PUNTO com] • 2003.03.28
Oh gawd, I just noticed the little joke in the URL for the Oat Willie image.
But an aviator cap and a cardboard bucket and you're ready to win hearts and minds next Halloween.
But an aviator cap and a cardboard bucket and you're ready to win hearts and minds next Halloween.
Bill Humphries [whump ARROBA mac PUNTO com] • 2003.03.31
Joke in the URL for the image? Sorry, Bill, you lost me. Please explain.
Oh, and Julianne of Escapist Books replies: that's why the escapist will be the first to offer segway mods! segwaymods.com -- it's ours! we can add a baby seat, a grocery basket, a bumper, a spoiler or a nifty paintjob! and we're sponsoring #23 in the demolition derby. look for it: spraypainted red with silver lightning bolts, nickname: cannonball!
A spoiler? Escapist Bookstore is nothing if not utopian.
Oh, and Julianne of Escapist Books replies: that's why the escapist will be the first to offer segway mods! segwaymods.com -- it's ours! we can add a baby seat, a grocery basket, a bumper, a spoiler or a nifty paintjob! and we're sponsoring #23 in the demolition derby. look for it: spraypainted red with silver lightning bolts, nickname: cannonball!
A spoiler? Escapist Bookstore is nothing if not utopian.
Prentiss Riddle [riddle ARROBA io PUNTO com] • 2003.03.31
The joke, well, I thought it was funny was:
The hostname for the mural of Oat Willie is:
http://www.austintexas420.com/
And the American-Statesman's website is:
http://www.austin360.com/
The hostname for the mural of Oat Willie is:
http://www.austintexas420.com/
And the American-Statesman's website is:
http://www.austin360.com/
Bill Humphries [whump ARROBA mac PUNTO com] • 2003.03.31
Ah, that joke! I get it.
Prentiss Riddle [riddle ARROBA io PUNTO com] • 2003.03.31
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