Taking the Fence

For those of you who don't know, the Carnegie Mellon campus has a fence that is traditionally painted by student groups, teams, or just random individual people. LT and I had some time and energy to kill last night, so on a whim we decided to take the fence.

A quick trip to Home Depot provided some nice cheap "Oops" paint. Because I'm an old fogey, a nap was in order since the fence can't be painted earlier than midnight and I've already been short on sleep. The previous paint job on the fence was blessedly sparse and not difficult to cover over. The wind picked up, but thankfully the rain held off long enough for us to finish, and hopefully for the paint to dry enough. (I haven't yet had a chance to see it since we painted.) We were lame and decided not to camp out, since the risk of someone else taking it was minimal, and there was a cold front coming through.

We decided to pay homage to the continued adventures of Babe and the Bumblebee, make everyone who reads the fence lose the game, and celebrate our status as xylophones (if you don't get that, it's OK). And primarily, since the nice weather of the last few days was quite the exception to Pittsburgh winter, we decided on the front side to bring students some imaginary happy sun to brighten their days.



Babe and the Bumblebee take the fence.