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<\/a><\/p>\nIt was pretty much a big advertisement for the Texas Lottery, targeting people who have aspergers AND are bad at math, so I’m not sure who they think their audience is. But they sponsored a chance for people to dress in Star Trek costumes, so you can’t really blame them too much.<\/p>\n
The plan was to make a world record for number of people in costume in one place. It was not beat, but William Shatner did break the record for shortest celebrity appearance, so it goes.<\/p>\n
And dancing did ensue:<\/p>\n
All of my pictures of the event are either lousy or pretty much lousy because the enormous wall of windows made it impossible to focus.<\/p>\n Then we walked around the corner and discovered some incredibly elaborate floor art:<\/p>\n Upon closer inspection, there are all sorts of tiny metal strips and various colors intricately worked in:<\/p>\n These little, seemingly random thingies are spread out at various increasing distances as they get farther away from the above-pictured spiral, even tucked away in corners and behind things.<\/p>\n Some of them of identifiable objects:<\/p>\n And so forth:<\/p>\n We found what appeared to be a key, but could not decipher it:<\/p>\n Even when we found the . . . solar system being eaten by snakes? . . . we were still stumped:<\/p>\n Behind Brent:<\/p>\n Snakes:<\/p>\n This one has a device installed in the ceiling whose sole purpose is to keep a red laser dot on the eye of the snake, and to shift it slightly:<\/p>\n Snake set:<\/p>\n The planets were also highly detailed:<\/p>\n Probably Saturn:<\/p>\n There was geometry everywhere, some of it more obvious than in other places:<\/p>\n Looking it up later online, we were able to verify the year this stuff was done, but no further information about it:<\/p>\n There was a bird pulling a worm through a wormhole:<\/p>\n And a giant mosquito:<\/p>\n Plus the best police badge ever:<\/p>\n A lovely quote:<\/p>\n And some other stuff:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I tried doing various image searches, but Google was no help:<\/p>\n Yes, thank you Google, this is very similar to a scorpion constellation built into a floor:<\/p>\n Our AI has not yet caught up to Max Headroom.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I recently went to a Star Trek convention down the street (with ubiquitous time traveling Steam Punk): It was pretty much a big advertisement for the Texas Lottery, targeting people who have aspergers AND are bad at math, so I’m … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Also, it has the dotted line of a horse head around it.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n