One of my favorite movies EVER is Alien. I love everything about it. I’m also a moderate fan of most of the sequels, but there’s a scene in the first sequel, Aliens, in which they introduce the power loader. When I first saw this machine, I told myself that I must live long enough to see this technology come to be.
So imagine the needle dancing on my geek-meter early this afternoon when I saw this rolling around in the street in front of my house:
All right, it’s not quite the power loader, but it was really cool the way this guy worked the hydraulic levers to lift the pod off the truck and manipulate it up into the driveway. There are more pictures in my flickr stream.
We couldn’t get the pod as far up into the drive as I’d’ve liked because of a nearby tree, but it’s not blocking the sidewalk, so I think we’re going to be all right. Tomorrow, the furniture goes in.