Macho!

I had an incredibly manly time at Mach 2004. The Mach is short for machine, not macho, although it was hard to tell most of the time. I forgot that these events feature scantily clad women, who stand glumly next to Derek from sales as he demonstrates the new features on the ED-209 sliding headstock mill-turning lathe with twin turrets and an important button that goes ping! Anyway said women all had improbable tans and looked thoroughly hacked off with spending the week being ogled by engineers.

The show newspaper has articles called 'Come and see the saws!' and 'Win a machine! Any machine!! We love Machines!!!!' Actually I made that up. Mostly.

But there were fabulous robots! Really really fabulous assembly line robots that looked like they were performing an elegant ballet with a bit of car space frame as a partner. I watched them for quite a long time.

And the train home was enlivened by a small lonely child who nearly made it into the overhead luggage rack.

Eeeee! My portal tells me it's afrai's birthday. Happy birthday to you!