There's something very wrong with the world when you can buy sushi at the gas station convenience store.

Want to know the secret to the rich, full-bodied flavour of Terrabucks fine coffees? Maybe you should take a look behind the door in the back...



It looks like a washroom... like any other. But behind the door is the terrible secret. The genetic experiment gone HORRIBLY WRONG!



Merge the DNA of an ordinary penguin with the DNA of a coffee bean, and you get.. the COFFEE PENGUINS OF COSTA RICA!!! They are raised inland, in the best coffee-growing regions. Then they are captured and shipped north to the major metropolitan areas of North America, where they are tapped for their rich fluids.

The truth is out there.

Well I can only build so many ornithopters, balloons, parachutes, and other flying whatnots before I go completely loopy. So I've taken some time off from the vehicle-building to construct the latest Terrabucks location at Abbotts Aerodrome.



The sofas are in, the menu is up, and I'm just waiting on some custom-made equipment before Terrabucks opens for business. I fully expect the café au cancrelat to be a real hit!

Here's my latest toy... the Terra Sport Chute.

click to see catalog listing

Gotta love the 70s styling. Looks like it came right out of Delta Force or A-Team. With this one, I wanted to take the "E-Chute" and add all the sport skydiving features that SLers have come to expect and more. Just strap it on and click it for a menu of options. If you forget to set your auto-deploy altimeter -- no problem. Just press Page Up in freefall to pull the ripcord and glide safely to the ground.

Features:

* Permissions: Can modify the parachute (but not scripts), can copy it, but no "resell/give away" permissions.

* Click the pack for the menu. Also allows chat commands, if that's what you prefer.

* Set the auto-deploy altimeter to open the chute at any altitude you choose.

* Heads-up display shows altitude, speed, and auto-deploy status.

* The parachute is modifyable, so you can edit the pack and canopy to any color you want.

* Includes helmet.

Discovery has always had the best educational content. Today, for example, watched a show where they looked at video of a V-shaped arrangment of lights flying across the night sky near Pheonix, Arizona. Rather than assume that it was a formation of military planes, an "expert" theorized that it was a giant black triangular spacecraft. He had "artists conceptions" to prove it too!