The Shape of Days

You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have 747s with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.

All kidding aside, every so often I wake up and think, “Holy cow. I live in the 21st century.” Usually these revelations involve lasers or spaceships or tuna fish that comes in pouches or those little plastic sheet things you put in your mouth that make you go “OW! OW! OW!” and then you have fresh breath all day.

Today is one of those days. Boeing has put a giant laser beam on a 747-400 freighter and turned it into an anti-ballistic-missile weapon.

Now about those sharks …

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