Glass and technology

It isn't often that some technological advancement amazes me, because I frankly am not that excited by technology. Most of the time. Sometimes, though, something just comes and hits me square in the eye, and I have to sit back and marvel at the power of the human mind. Take today. Today was road day. I watched as things got squished into nothingness on the road as huge, heavy tyres rolled mercilessly over them. One of these things was broken glass. Apparently there had been an accident and there were shards of glass on the road. Which got me thinking about safety glass and the like. Isn't it amazing that someone would come up with laminated glass and tempered glass just so that a piece of glass wouldn't poke your eye out in an accident? It totally amazed me. So of course, I had to come home and read up about it. I learned about glass today. I'm fascinated. I was also thinking about how I'd like to learn to fix a car. So if I'm ever stranded on a road, I'd know how to fix my car, and not have to play the role of the helpless female. I'd like to be like Betty, actually. Fantastic cook, gardener, seamstress and mechanic all rolled into one helluva cute package. Damn. Oh, Rest In Peace, little crow.