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The triumph last week of the Bic pen over expensive, state-of-the-art steel locks has panicked the bicycling community, and churned Internet rumor mills about how much the lock manufacturer knew and when the company knew it.
Low tech workarounds to high tech obstacles always amuse me. Reminds me of the guy who found out he could disable anti-copying encoding on CDs with a black maker.
Semi-related--a quote from West Wing
President Bartlett: The U.S. spent millions of dollars developing a pen that would work in the weightlessness of outer space. Do you know what the Russians did?
Leo McGarry: Used a pencil?
President Bartlett: They used a pencil.
I hope Rossinante is safe.
I recall actually hearing this back in the early '80's, when still at school...
Syzygy
I graduated from Western High School in Las Vegas, NV in 1965. Paul Fisher (from Boulder City, NV) came to one of the functions associated with graduation, and passed out "Space Pens" to all and sundry. I have his autograph in my yearbook.
The pens were (and probably still are) mostly crap. As a legend, they're actually pure gold....
[Edit for typos *sigh*]
