Days of Nano Past: From Nano 2009 - The Zombie Wrangler!
So, what do you do when you write yourself into a corner...? One of the characters in my Nano last year was...well...Prometheus. Or what's left of him, anyway, after all his worshippers died or forgot about him. Now, his name is Tesla. And his home base is an incredible museum: Tesla turned from the storm lashing the window, and returned to his workshop. And what a workshop it was. The building itself was massive, but Tesla's lab covered a full three floors, end to end, of the entire building. Two of the three floors had been almost completely removed to allow the room for display, flight, testing, or simply space to observe. In the center of the room stood the bulk of a Cray mainframe, constantly cranking away at variables that only Tesla knew or understood. Centuries of oddities and curiousities inhabited the shelves, from frisbees to Tesla coils, V8 engines to perpetual motion machines, items ranging from the simple and basic but interestin...