I'm not sure what this has to do with computers, but steam power is neat nonetheless. Here are some photos from our visit to the National Railway Museum in York, England and what happened afterwards.
As soon as we arrived at the museum, I started to feel a bit dizzy...
Space Odyssey 1801
... and then things got weird.
Rather strange.
After that the camera would only take pictures in sepia.
Full power!
There was a train waiting at the station, just for us.
Flying Scotsman.
The train took us to a giant steam engine.
An engine the size to a building.
We had to adjust the pressure to repair space-time.
But which valve should we use?
The pressure gauges were off the scale.
The machine had a hunger.
Actually this is from the same trip, but earlier. It's a pressure/temperature molecular reactor at the London Science Museum.
The boiler demanded the limbs of ancient trees.
Bloody boiler room.
We both turned and ran for the door.
There was an emblem on the door.
In that instant, we were back on the streets of York.
York Minster
We found the nearest pub.
Guy Fawkes Inn.
Thus a happy ending to a mostly true story.
I've got a lot of these mostly true travel stories. If you liked this one, let me know and I'll tell you another.
Epilogue... It was a long zeppelin journey back to San Francisco. Along the way we had to battle Nazis from the moon, go back in time to kill Hitler and most importantly, teach a computer to love. That was all a different timeline though.
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