I haven’t been paying much attention to the "neat stuff" topic category. I think it’s because I spend too much time eating weird things that it overwhelms the merely non-edible weirdness in my life.
Down by Ladybird Lake, right in front of City Hall, the fence is covered in vintage Historical Society photos of catastrophic flooding in the Austin area. In the left photo you can see a house washing over a dam. In the right photo, rooftops of the stores lining South Congress Avenue barely peak above the flood waters.
Is it just me, or is it a bit morbid to put these right next to the lake?
Here’s a photo I found of Alice in Dairland 1951 buttering Miss Iowa’s cob.
Thank goodness this photo was taken before the invention of sexual innuendo.
They’ve put up the schedules for the trains we don’t have.
The trains we don’t have are only going to run for a couple hours during the morning rush hour, and a couple of hours in the evening rush hour.
Oh, and it takes 45 minutes to get to Leander by these imaginary Austin commuter trains.
And the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of the original Apollo landing sites. (photo credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University)
You can see the shadows of the landers and tracks left in the lunar dust. Eat that, nutjobs!