electric relaxation

Driving through Oakland with Lisa yesterday, the oft-told story that the Oakland cranes inspired the AT/AT walkers in Star Wars was revisited, as was my equally well-worn belief that I would actually bother to research this rumor. Fortunately, the weight of inaction was finally too much to bear. Inspired and resolute, I plumbed the abyss; indeed, I made it all the way to the FOURTH PAGE of the Google Search results, a depth that few can claim to have matched. And what I found was… insubstantial. A bunch of jerk-offs claim it’s true, the Oakland Port Authority mentions the rumor in passing without any real stance on its validity, and Snopes has nothing on the subject.