Son of Randandom

More miscellaneous bits and pieces....

Cold Fury has an entry about the author's visit to an airshow, featuring vintage aircraft such as the Grumman Hellcat and P-51 Mustang. This reminded me of my own childhood fascination with warbirds of the 1930s and 1940s. In the bottom shelf of the bookcase in my old room at home there's a bound black sketchbook, filled with carefully rendered (in colored pencil no less) drawings of planes like the Supermarine Spitfire, the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, and the Messerschmitt BF-109. Not only did I draw the planes, I eagerly devoured the stories of the men who flew them: Douglas Bader, the legless (yes really!) British ace; Erich Hartmann, the top-scoring ace of all time with 352 confirmed kills; and Robert S. Johnson, the second highest-scoring American ace in the ETO. I must have read Johnson's autiobiography Thunderbolt! at least a dozen times - I'd love to get my hands on a copy again.

The Defective Yeti is a very funny guy. Plus, I think maybe we're related:
I'm not exactly what you would call a "handy," unless by "handy" you mean "someone who enjoys drinking beer," in which case I'm a freakin' Bob Villa.
I can relate bro. Totally.

Presenting: the Science Fiction Book Club's Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years. I've read 20 of 'em, which I suppose is a decent geek credential.

And courtesy of Heather at Shards: I give you - the T'inator! Hours of fun! What else could make this page even better? (Helpful hint: click on the links for fun sound files.)