A middle-aged man in a Ford Explorer Sport Trac (the four-door Explorer with a pickup bed) was backing into the baggage dropoff lane in front of me at the airport this morning.
His truck looked perfectly normal, except for the huge sticker across the back window:
Mr. Fusion was the white food-processor-looking device which powered the time-traveling DeLorean automobile in the "Back To The Future" movies, generating the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity needed to power the flux capacitor, which is the device which moved the vehicle through time.
It was nice to see a fellow nerd so prominently displaying his nerdy plumage. I prefer to blend in without advertising my nerdiness, and then surprise people later, when it's far too late for them to disavow my friendship. ;-)
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2008-06-16
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That's awesome! I love nerdyness though, so I'd probably get a crush on the driver of that vehicle when I saw it...
That is so cool! I'd love to have that! I spent about two weeks searching for the wings logo from Cast-Away to no avail. I swore I had seen it on a car - but I must have been mistaken.
I totally agree! Mystery and surprise are essential elements in friendship.
Um. I thought that was called the "Flux Capacitor"? But, I'm not a nerd, so what do I know?!! :)
That guy is my hero! I, too, try to keep my nerdiness under wraps but it's hard when I have a new cell phone ever other week. HA
Okay, so let me ask you a question about this "nerdiness" you speak of...
Last week as I was walking down the street I heard a car lean on the horn and looked up to see a sky blue, 4 door Ford Tempo stopped in the middle of the busy intersection with a young man hanging out the window attempting to garner the attention of what I can only assume was some sort of friend in another car.
The other car stopped as well, thus holding up traffic, while Dude #1 craned his neck out of the window and said:
Dude! I finally got 'em!
Dude #2 said: Dude! No way!
Dude #1 said: Yeah, check 'em out, dude!
Wherein Dude #1 then pushed some magic button, which miraculously revealed two Back to the Future DeLorean doors attached to the front two doors of said Ford Tempo. He opened them both up in the middle of the intersection as if he were The Doc himself.
Now I realize you're probably thinking, no jenji, it must have been a Ford Focus, not a Tempo, as the owner of the Tempo would never seek to supe out their ride so outrageously. I mean, it's a Tempo, you know?
I'm telling you it was a Tempo.
So onto my question:
Would this individual qualify as a nerd wherein he has paid tribute through his supe'iness to an all time great film (although I doubt he was around during the original release), or would this individual be considered an imposter, as his motivation for said doors is probably anything other than dedicational in nature?
I mean, it's just hard to say, b/c I didn't see any sign that this young man was being pursued by any sort of Libyans in a VW bus.
I mean, I'm not a nerd either, I'm just wondering.
great blog site.
be well,
jenji
Myssa: LOL! He was fiftyish and married. But handsome in a grey way.
Daisy: I saw Castaway but I don't know that logo. I thought Wilson should have gotten an Oscar for his role in that film.
Ruby: True, surprise is fun, but I think dependability and rock-solid support go further in a friendship. With the occasional surprise to keep it light.
Fashion: The Flux Capacitor is that Y-shaped light thingy behind the driver's seat in the DeLorean. It lights up when they time-travel. Mr. Fusion is the white nozzle on top that Doc comes back with at the end of the movie, and he dumps trash into it to power the car for his next trip. Very cool. No more plutonium!
Corrina: I hope to achieve your cellphone nirvana someday. ;-)
Jenji: Thanks for stopping by! I hope you come back. That's a great story - I think Dude #1 was insane, personally. But, if you're going to do crazy things to a car's body, you might as well work with a cheap, disposable canvas - like a Tempo. LOL!
Yeah well, I like my men older anyway - but of course the married part would deter me -- however, I still would probably have crushed. It's ok to crush on married men, just not acting on it! :)
Myssa: That's funny, I like my women older! Up until I got married (and stopped looking), women my age were painfully trite. I needed someone with more depth and intelligence, so the only way to go was "up" in age. MDW is 15 years older than I am. She was concerned about it at first, but I wasn't. ;-)
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