Friday Ephemera
Enhance the moment with a vibrating toilet seat. // Beefcake. Mostly cake. // Knitted frog dissection. (h/t, Coudal) // Biology videos of note. Tissue generation, shrimp on a treadmill. // Robot camera meets magnapinna squid. // When pandas sneeze. // Impressive hair. // Crosswind. // Ships with very large cargo. // Robotuna. // Your very own HAL 9000. // Bit Blob. Hours of fun. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus) // Miniscule revisited. // More microphotography. // Nanofilament fibre doesn’t get wet. // BAM, the ceramic alloy. // Meteor filmed over Edmonton, Canada. // Zeus: the directed energy weapon. // Base jumping in Dubai. (h/t, AC1) // And, via The Thin Man, the return of Ms Valaida Snow.
The squid is scary but the “beefcake” is scarier. Is there some way I can unsee it? Please?
[ Points to sign behind bar: ] “No refunds.”
Valaida rocks!
BTW- am I the only one trying to picture Mr Beefcake on a vibrating toilet seat?
Now that you’ve obligingly pointed that out, no. My mind’s eye is weeping.
I doubt Chubby Mickey’s going to be able to make much of a dent in the Krispy Creme Girls calender sales.
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To David: I was severely shaken by the image which flashed through my mind after reading Anna’s comment. It might be time to get in touch with your inner “Queen’s University Dialogue Facilitator” and give her a time out. That was just wrong.
Wayne,
Blimey. Miss November’s shoes catch the eye, from an engineering point of view. I kept pondering pounds-per-square-inch for some reason.
You’ve got to admire the cool of those Canadian police – they don’t stop, swerve, speed up – considering how much that meteor looked like the start of a particularly disturbing Michael Bay film, my hat is off to them…
The lack of sound probably helps. 🙂
Girlish shrieks would only spoil the moment.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zgDZOhQbmRs
There was no call for that.
Changing the subject.
Here’s a recipe book. http://www.lulu.com/content/4956212
“Semen is inexpensive to produce and is commonly available in many, if not most, homes and restaurants.”
But not to everyone’s taste I bet.
I’m told it contains zinc, which is good to know. But then so does Marmite.
What’s marmite really made of?
AC1,
Actually, there’s a whiff of mystery when it comes to Marmite’s ingredients and there seems to be some variation in the Marmite sold in New Zealand, which is apparently sweeter. No doubt to mask the human male “extract”.
“[T]he main ingredients of Marmite manufactured in the UK are glutamic acid, rich yeast extract, with lesser quantities of sodium chloride, vegetable extract, niacin, thiamine, spice extracts, riboflavin, folic acid, and celery extracts, although the precise composition is a trade secret.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmite
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil//marmite.htm
I’m a fan, even though it does look like some industrial waste product. It’s excellent for stews and stocks.
From the pages of ‘Natural Harvest’:
“Please do not add semen to your guests’ food without informing them beforehand.”