Brian Danger Hicks

@ckape.bsky.social

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Music, movies, microcode (software), and high-speed pizza delivery. Time Magazine 2006 Person of the Year and 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile In Courage Award winner I can also be found on Mastodon https://teh.entar.net/@ckape

A metal bowl next to a chalk sign that reads "Water for dogs or short people with low standards. We don't judge!"
Three model railroad freight cars including a long articulated hopper car made up of 13 segments.
A shallow double arch bridge over a highway, except the outside ends of the arches are floating in the air supported by cable stays.
The front end of an HO scale model of DME 5000, a rebuilt SD45 with the nose replaced with an angular full-width one.
An unpainted in-progress model of a MLW S-11 end-cab switcher locomotive. The doors on the side of the hood have been replaced, and the cab has a brass sheet as the roof. The underframe and fuel tank has been painted black.
The sunset lining up perfectly with University Avenue as the light rail pulls away.
A NEw Jersey Transit GP40FH-2 rebuilt locomotive, with the body of a full width locomotive and the nose and cab of a narrow hood locomotive. It is gray with black roof and underbody, and orange, magenta, and blue stripes.
Too much haze to see any buildings except for barely a few lights, with the Mississippi River and the I-94 bridge in the foreground.
Stupid sexy Flanders shaking his ass at Homer Simpson while wearing a skintight skiing outfit, captioned "Feels like I'm waving nothing at all."
Benjamin Button flexing in the mirror as a young teen who looks like a decrepit old man.
Two Tg500 sports cars going around a corner. They are narrow cars based on the Messerschmit Kabinenroller, with two seats one on front of the other, except with four wheels instead of a single rear wheel. The leading car is white with no roof, and the trailing car is red with a bubble cockpit.
The Estes Robert Goddard rocket and retail box, which resembles Robert Goddard's original rocket, except the rocket motor and fins are at the rear of the rocket and the engines and frame of the original rocket are just cosmetic.
Abraham Simpson shrugging and saying, "A little from column 'A', a little from column 'B'."
Wikipedia snippet from Balloonfest '86 Organized by: United Way of Cleveland Outcome: World record for simultaneous release of balloons Injuries: Multiple horses Property damage: Multiple traffic collisions Litigation: 2 lawsuits
A few dozen Canada geese floating past in the rain.
Minneapolis viewed from the East, near the level of the river. Many buildings are partially or fully obscured by the rain.
Many points of light in a gas cloud in space that might be god captioned "You were doing well until everyone died."
A glass door with both an automatic door sticker and a sign telling customers it's a fire door only.
The Mississippi River headwaters at Lake Itasca. A small river with a walkway of loose stones across it and a sign carved into a trunk saying "Here 1475 feet above the ocean, the mighty Mississippi begins to flow on its winding way 2552 miles to the Gulf of Mexico"
Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice in Dick Tracy (1990). He has an exaggerated prosthetic chin and hair slicked to the side and is wearing a red striped suit with large shoulderpads.
An electronic message sign over a highway saying, "You are not a firework don't drive lit"
Ted Danson as Michael from the Good Place saying "It's a human insult. It's devastating. You're devastated right now."
DM&IR W56, a wooden bodied streetcar that has been converted to onboard diesel power. There is an exhaust pipe running from below the body up the side to the middle of the roof, and a steam bell has been added. There are windows all the way around the body, and the doors are not visible on this side.
An eggliner, a short oval model train vehicle made of two observation passenger car ends stuck together. It is painted with a Santa Fe warbonnet paint scheme.
A TI-86 graphing calculator running a VT100 emulator logged into a Linux machine, although due to the low resolution the text is cut off.
A PCI Express hardcard made by mating a 2.5" hard disk drive with a PCIe 1x to SATA adapter meant for mounting 2.5" SSDs.
The front end of a red Edsel with a sign in the license plate holder reading "When America needs a better idea Ford puts it on wheels".
A Nash Metropolitan, a small car from the 1950s, painted all red and sitting very low to the ground. There is a gap at the front of the door where it is slightly ajar.
A mobile personnel lift with four speakers mounted on the corners. The speakers are covered in sacks.
A Ford F-6 cab over engine dump truck, with a high cab and a short bulbous nose. It is painted blue with a bald eagle head painted on the side of the bed.
The New York Knicks logo except it says Minneapolis Lakers.
People walking through the entrance to the Stone Arch Bridge. From this angle you only see the walkway with very little stone and no arch visible.
The "This is the one thing we didn't want to happen" animated text from the Brass Eye Paedogeddon special.
A print ad for Too Something, with the stars lounging on lawn chairs on a two-lane road in the prairie with the New York City skyline in the distance. The copy read "Two guys pursuing their dreams, and having way too much fun doing it."
A Fiskars hobby knife. It is a metal handle with an angled #11 hobby blade attached. It is thicker than a standard Xacto and has an orange rubber grip.
Regina George in a santa cap captioned "Stop trying to make KOSA happen"
Bart Simpson, wearing a black wig and fake scar, revealing that he has actually graffitied "Springfield rules suckers!" instead of the "Springfield sucks" that he was instructed to write.
A quadrillion dollars in Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar banknotes.
Vintage odds at The Mirage casino for who shot Mr. Burns Homer Simpson 2/1 Waylon Smithers 5/2 Krusty the Clown 3/1 Bart Simpson 4/1 Barney Gumbel 5/1 Hans Moleman 7/1 Moe the Bartender 8/1 Abraham "Grampa" Simpson 10/1 Mayor "Diamond Joe" Quimby 12/1 Apu Nahasapeenspetilan 15/1 Lisa Simpson 20/1 "Snake" (aka Jailbird) 25/1 Principal Seymour Skinner 30/1 Sideshow Mel 40/1 Groundskeeper Willie 40/1 The Old Sea Captain 50/1 Nelson Muntz 60/1 Maggie Simpson 70/1
A German Inter City Express 3 (ICE 3) high speed train, painted all white except for a rainbow stripe where the red stripe would normally be. We are looking at the tail end, where it is coupled to a regular ICE train with a red stripe.
A trailer selling cheese curd tacos.
An all-way stop sign modified with a sticker into an all-way stop ICE sign.
Jed Clampett talking on an old-timey party line phone while Granny leans in, despite living in Beverly Hills in 1966.
A railroad rotary snow plow, except the front end is more like a snow blower with large tines mounted to a rotating shaft horizontally perpendicular to the track. The snow blower portion is painted yellow and the main body is painted brown and lettered RRVW 113.
TCWR 302, a CF7 locomotive. It is a small hood unit with a bulky cab, painted brown.
The flag of Rochester, Minnesota. A circular image of the Mayo Clinic and Plummer buildings with geese flying over a lake. The image is surrounded by the words "Rochester Minn." written resembling the MICR font used for routing numbers on checks, and the whole thing is on a blue field.
A drawing for a Shay/Williamette style geared steam locomotive with two trucks attached to a crankshaft driven by three pistons. The trucks have three axles, with the outer axle being hinged in relation to the inner two.
Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters from Weekend at Party Pier.
Marty McFly says, "Gimme a Tab" The soda jerk replies, "Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something"
Homer Simpson kneeling down to Bart and saying, "The worst approval rating so far."
The Minnesota Commercial Railway's Midway Yard, taken from a low angle.
A large mural with a woman reading a book. The text describing what the mural is for has been mostly removed.
Street view of intersection from October 2023 showing a left turn lane but no left turn signal.
A gas station price sign showing $4.359 for unleaded, $5.199 for diesel, and $1.009 for Speedy Freeze.
A small asphalt driveway has been added between a building and a railroad track to meet up with a loading dock sticking out of the building. The driveway simply crosses the track with a plain asphalt grade crossing.
Title card for Star Trek episode "I Will Face God and Walk Backwards Into Hell".
The salvaged observation ends from two Skytop railroad passenger cars. They are made up of many oddly shaped windows in three tiers that allow the end to be rounded vertically and horizontally.
Title card for the Star Trek episode "By Grabthar's Hammer".