That's ok Stickers, you can take... Bessie.
Saw the most amazing thing yesterday on the way back from the grocery store (which, at 10 miles away, is the nearest one we've seen where you don't have to pay for parking). The police had closed off one side of the road (all lanes) on long stretch of 124th Avenue NE in Bellevue for repaving. An enormous machine, one lane wide with tracks fore and aft, was cruising down said closed lanes at maybe three miles per hour, surrounded in a huge cloud of dust. As I got closer, I realized that the machine was basically a giant belt sander, grinding off the asphalt surface of the road. It was grinding 6 inches deep, in asphalt, in a single pass, and moving faster than a person walks. Holy cow! Almost makes me wish I had stuck with mechanical engineering instead of CS.
P.S. Bonus points to any non-parent who gets the reference in the title.
Tags: seattle july 11th 2008 engineering awesome road sander