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Freeway Excursion by zer0gee
July 14th, 2008 12:28 PMThe Russell Military Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin had a special event weekend this past Saturday and Sunday. The festivities included Sherman tanks driving over cars, tank rides (I did this also!), and helicopter rides. The route the helicopter took went directly across the freeway, so I knew this was the perfect time to complete this task. And helicopter rides are AWESOME, of course! I took one over the Grand Canyon with my family when I was a kid, but that was a long time ago and I was ready for another. It was pretty windy, but I'm not afraid of flying or of heights, so I was really excited. Thwip, thwip, thwip, thwip! :)
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Dela Dejavoo
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Dax Tran-Caffee
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Sparrows Fall
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Rainy
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Ayma Mack
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Optical Dave
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Not Here No More
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teucer
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Amby D
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Tøm
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Augustus deCorbeau
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Jellybean of Thark
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susy derkins
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LittleMonk
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Myrna Minx
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teh Lolbrarian
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Terpsichore
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Adam
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Kassitastrophe
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Garret Sollinger
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surpraxis10 comment(s)
Any task that involves someone commandeering a helicopter gets a vote.
Yeah, I think this might also be the first helicopter completion of a task.
That looks awesome.
Unfortunately, I don't think this counts -- helicopters are vehicles powered by their own motor, and fall into the same broad class of "automobiles" as if you had used a motorcycle, truck, atv, or even an internal combustion shoe.
To be fair, I'll contradict my own rules naziing, and say that if a freeway were submerged in a flood and you took a motorboat over the freeway, I would definitely vote. I'm happy to bend an interpretation, and I even would if you had said on the route "hey, could you fly over that freeway for me?", but this doesn't quite feel like a task to me.
Add in some footage of cars crushed by a sherman tank, or sell me on the effort you put into finding out such a helicopter flight was available and then getting there to do it, and you've got yourself a task I'm eager to vote on.
I agree Waldo. I wasn't going to say anything. I was just going to not vote. When I read this I thought to myself "Self, every time I fly home from wherever I am, I fly right over the 405 freeway. I mean right over it. I mean less than a hundred feet. I never even imagined that I came close to completing this task. It's just a happy accident." I agree with Waldo as well, that if I booked a flight for no other reason than to fly over that freeway, like I wasn't going anywhere to do anything other than get on and off planes just so that I could fly over that freeway. There's something to be said for intent. Like if you spent the night in a teddy bear store and played Goldilocks (even though you worked there and it was relatively easy) the intent to complete a task is there. This here doesn't show that kind of intent. This feels like an accident. I want to see intent.
I disagree about the definition of automobile as intended in this task. As it's a freeway excursion, I believe the "automobile" was specifically such. But, of course, we're all allowed to interpret tasks as we see fit, and to vote or not to vote also as we see fit.
From your own task, Lincoln: "You know how sometimes you spend a lot of time planning and working and toiling over a task? Then sometimes a task just happens because you're out there living and doing things and you think, hey, I could totally do ____ task right here under these conditions! Well, that later thing happened to me the other day."
There are tasks we set out to complete, and tasking that simply finds us. I am happy to accept serendipitous tasks when they are presented to me. My intent is to task whenever possible, to live in the tasking moment. As this is a 15 point task, I feel I've completed it in an appropriate manner, had a great time doing it, and am excited to share it with the rest of you here.
I was lying down in my extremely comfortable St. Louis hotel room after writing this last night, when a wonderful new word came to me.
"Surpraxis."
That's what happens when a beautiful little praxis pops up on you out of nowhere, like an unexpected gift.
May your lives be full of surpraxes. :)
pew pew pew! Hee!