Daily Archives: August 3, 2009

Forklift fail or forklift win?

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Every time I pass this forklift at Honda Plus, located on Airport Road, I have to chuckle at the ingenuity of people. Not only does this counterweight serve an important purpose, it also shows that you CAN make Toyota and Nissan parts compatible…somewhat.

One of my favorite “daily visit” sites is failblog.org. It took off from the FAIL meme: You take an image of someone doing something dumb, making a hilarious mistake, or just generally failing at something. Paste the word FAIL on it in an Impact style font. Post and share the hilarity.

An alternate of it is WIN. While I question the means of attachment of this weight to the forklift, I have to admit it displays a certain innovation. While it would probably qualify for failblog.org, I wouldn’t put this in the “dumb” category. Thus I couldn’t decide if this was a FAIL or WIN, so I thought I’d make my own failblog.com-worthy image and let you be the judge:

Giant piece of metal strapped to a piece of heavy equipment: check. Toyota counterweight attached to Nissan forklift: check. FAIL text in proper font (Impact): check. All that’s left is to see if it’s a FAIL or a WIN. I may even decide to post it to failblog.org sometime, or you can if you’d like.

Capitol A’fair and a new perspective on a familiar subject

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We visited the Capitol A’fair this weekend for some sunshine, kettlecorn, and frisbee in the grass this Saturday. My two year old is getting pretty good with a frisbee! He also found some other little kids to play with. It seemed there were fewer participants on the exhibitor side of things, but there were plenty of visitors enjoying the day.

I took some photos of my family on the front steps, then saw this angle on the building after following one of my boys to the top of the steps. As many times as I’ve photographed the capitol building, I don’t think I’ve ever tried this one! I guess there’s always a new perspective available.

I also managed to spend ten hours on the road this weekend, go underground into a Minuteman missile launch control facility down in South Dakota, visit the emergency room back here at home, and spend Sunday sedated. There’s never a dull moment around here, it seems…