An alert commenter informs us that our
Bicentennial Countdown Clock Count-Up, which we'd
speculated could go as high as 36,524 days, actually ended earlier this week, as the clock's decaying glass-and-stainless-steel hulk was removed (or stolen, it's not clear) after just 159 days. What remains is a far more suitable monument Mexican engineering: as two-inch high slab of easily tripped-over, ankle-breaking rubble with four sharp bolts and a cut-off bit of PVC pipe sticking up, right in the middle of a busy andador.
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| Monument to the Unknown Civil Engineer, Querétaro, Mexico, 2011. |
Three blocks away, in Plaza Constitucion, is the Mexico 2010 Torch, a 20-foot sculpture made primarily of Christmas-tree lights and cellophane, with "Mexico 2010" carved into its plastic crown.
Today is the 55th day of 2011.
1 comments:
the clock was stolen!
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