Just the other day, I read a fun little short story about lost love. The "hook" (the "love" lost) was a TI graphing calculator that got crushed.

I get this itch in my hindbrain to draw a comic panel based on the scene, see? Arrgh! I couldn't get to sleep that night until I put it down on paper. After I get this scanner I recently acuired hooked up, I'll probably post it.

Anyhow, a really odd coincidence happened a few days later -- my uncle presented me with a TI-81 graphing calculator that he had found in the street, which was run over a couple times. It still works just fine, it's just scratched and dented all to hell.

What makes it even more surreal is that the first time I was shown one of these, it belonged to a guy with the same first name as the guy who wrote the story....

[cue Twilight Zone theme...]