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This Year’s Model

by $8 blue check mistermix|  May 12, 20119:17 am| 27 Comments

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This airport from a gigantic model of a city is just crazy. Here’s your open thread.

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  1. 1.

    sb

    May 12, 2011 at 9:26 am

    Crazy… how?

  2. 2.

    Tim O

    May 12, 2011 at 9:32 am

    It’s a work in progress. They’re working on miniature baggage handlers that abuse your luggage and rifle through your wife’s lingerie.

  3. 3.

    jeffreyw

    May 12, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Yesterday’s ribs.

  4. 4.

    eric

    May 12, 2011 at 9:34 am

    do they have invasive body searches? realness indeed

  5. 5.

    Nemesis

    May 12, 2011 at 9:36 am

    Start out yer day with a laugh…this is most awesome…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UAeSsvHhTg

    Yes, its suitable for work also, too.

  6. 6.

    mistermix

    May 12, 2011 at 9:38 am

    @eric: Not yet, but if you look closely at one of the pictures, you’ll see a crying beauty pageant contestant. (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110427/15195914059/tsa-molests-miss-usa-makes-her-cry-your-safety.shtml)

  7. 7.

    The Moar You Know

    May 12, 2011 at 9:41 am

    That might be the most awesome model I’ve ever seen, and I actively look for that kind of stuff. I can’t get over the aircraft landing and taking off – they nailed the speeds for the scale, which is not an easy thing to do.

  8. 8.

    djork

    May 12, 2011 at 9:43 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZlih4DDNg&feature=player_embedded

    It’s the Vegan Black Metal Chef. Watch the whole thing, as you’ll learn who really cooks the food.

  9. 9.

    Culture of Truth

    May 12, 2011 at 9:44 am

    I for one welcome our new liliputian overlords

  10. 10.

    geg6

    May 12, 2011 at 9:46 am

    I’m excited for my guy. After almost three years of a very difficult market for business/marketing consulting, with clients few and far between, he has been contacted by a former client company about a vice president position. It would probably entail him commuting to Springfield, MA during the week (he’d probably try to get some sort of cheap apartment/efficiency there), but if the money is right, that is fine. It’s been a tough slog for him through this downturn and he’s toughed it out with the few projects he’s gotten, but the idea of a steady job is sounding very good to him right about now.

  11. 11.

    R-Jud

    May 12, 2011 at 9:46 am

    I enjoyed this:

    CORUSCANT — Obi-Wan Kenobi, the mastermind of some of the most devastating attacks on the Galactic Empire and the most hunted man in the galaxy, was killed in a firefight with Imperial forces near Alderaan, Darth Vader announced on Sunday.

  12. 12.

    PurpleGirl

    May 12, 2011 at 9:47 am

    @Nemesis: As soon as she said “the Illuminati” I stopped the video. It’s just too easy to blame things on the Illuminati. (I liked her necklace — nice large piece of bling, there.)

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack

    May 12, 2011 at 9:54 am

    @geg6:

    Fingers crossed for job success.

  14. 14.

    Paul in KY

    May 12, 2011 at 9:58 am

    @The Moar You Know: Typical Teutonic thouroughness ;-)

  15. 15.

    geg6

    May 12, 2011 at 9:58 am

    @Steeplejack:

    Thanks. Let’s hope it works out, money-wise. That’s the big question right now. He can’t move and I can’t move, so he will have to be able to afford the commute in order to take the job.

  16. 16.

    Amanda in the South Bay

    May 12, 2011 at 10:02 am

    Well, the judge denied my request for a fee waiver, and I cannot afford 395 dollars for the gender change court order.
    I’m pretty pissed, mostly at the judge and our legal system.

  17. 17.

    Poopyman

    May 12, 2011 at 10:08 am

    Heh! Boehner’s got trouble with the Catholics. And for good reason.

  18. 18.

    Chris

    May 12, 2011 at 10:24 am

    @Poopyman:

    The Church’s teachings are well to the left of the spectrum on a ton of issues – arguably most anything that isn’t abortion and gay marriage. Nice to see someone finally standing up for the rest of those beliefs.

  19. 19.

    Culture of Truth

    May 12, 2011 at 10:29 am

    When do we begin a national debate on whether Boehner should be denied communion?

    Oh right, he’s GOP

  20. 20.

    Amir_Khalid

    May 12, 2011 at 10:32 am

    @Amanda in the South Bay: That’s a shame. Is there anywhere you can turn to for assistance?

  21. 21.

    Triassic Sands

    May 12, 2011 at 10:53 am

    @Nemesis:

    Now I understand everything.

    (Interesting choice of wardrobe for her appearance.)

    But right now I have to go eat…I have a Pleiadian baking in the oven and I don’t want it to burn.

  22. 22.

    Amanda in the South Bay

    May 12, 2011 at 11:21 am

    @Amir_Khalid:
    Not really, I’m just sorta fucked. I guess I can request a hearing before the judge, but the clerk who talked to me over the phone said that was just for making an installment plan, which…I certainly don’t need anymore of.

    I guess…only in Santa Clara County do college students who work part time are expected to pay the full cost of filing court documents?

  23. 23.

    Davis X. Machina

    May 12, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    Late to the game, but being able to see that model in action is all by itself sufficient reason for there to be an internet.

    Scale models in motion are incredibly hard — and when it doesn’t work, it’s spectacularly bad. Never got into slot cars because of it.

    But those planes….

  24. 24.

    celticdragonchick

    May 12, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    @Amanda in the South Bay:

    Damn. I’m sorry, hon :(

  25. 25.

    celticdragonchick

    May 12, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    Anybody here willing to kick a bit in for Amanda? I’m good for twenty to help her out. I know all too well how important this is.
    email me at [email protected]

  26. 26.

    Onihanzo

    May 12, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    That video very much reminds me of James May’s Toy Stories.

  27. 27.

    Mart

    May 12, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    The miniature museum is in Hamburg, Germany, a big city in the north with few ugly American tourists or businessmen. Kind of strange to be in a major German city and there are virtually no English language harbor boat tours, city center tours, etc. Hamburg has a wonderful history as a port to the North Sea and now has a huge industrial base. The allies bombed the living shit out of it in WWII. When they dig foundations today, they have to hand dig in case they find a live bomb or bones. The city has a long history as having the best prostitutes, but I have no experience with that. (Other than being asked by lovely young east European women who were suddenly hanging on my arms if I was Scottish or English.) I have been to the museum, and it is amazing. That was before the mini airport opened. Also too, a theater version of Disney’s Lion King has been playing to large crowds there forever. Not sure what that is all about.

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