{"id":133,"date":"2007-04-08T08:21:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=133"},"modified":"2011-10-21T13:34:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:34:41","slug":"duty-now-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/133","title":{"rendered":"Duty now for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of hilarious visions of the future (or the present, depending on how you look at it).<\/p>\n<p>First, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\">MeFi<\/a>, the engineering triumph of the modern age. Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the <a href=\"http:\/\/idlewords.com\/2007\/04\/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm\">Alameda-Weehauken Burrito Tunnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/idlewords.com\/2007\/04\/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/idlewords.com\/images\/burrito\/tunnel_tube.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">*<\/p>\n<p>More practical, and preferable in my book, would be a NYC-Portsmouth (NH) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B%C3%A1nh_m%C3%AC\">B\u00e1nh m\u00ec<\/a> tunnel. All silliness aside, I&#8217;m hoping to spend time visiting Babylon-on-the-Hudson in the near future (more than once, I hope) &#8211; on the gustatory agenda will be B\u00e1nh m\u00ec, Korean-style fried chicken and (mythical?) Cuban-Chinese food.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who have been reading the blog for a while know that Gerry Anderson&#8217;s Supermarionation played a big part in my childhood. From <a href=\"http:\/\/positiveapeindex.blogspot.com\/\">Coop<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/04\/07\/superthunderstingcar.html\">BoingBoing<\/a> we get this Peter Cook\/Dudley Moore sendup of the whole genre: Superthunderstingcar.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OmvrFg-EhmI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">*<\/p>\n<p>The underlying question remains unanswered &#8211; where&#8217;s my dang flying car (I&#8217;d settle for a jet-pack)?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/d\/d4\/Devo-DutyNowUK.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of hilarious visions of the future (or the present, depending on how you look at it). First, via MeFi, the engineering triumph of the modern age. Ladies and Gentleman, I give you the Alameda-Weehauken Burrito Tunnel. &nbsp; * &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-29","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4115,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/4115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}