Friday Ephemeraren’t
As I was pushed for time this week, you’ll have to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. However, I’ll set the ball rolling with a demonstration of stealth, how to deal with lawn pimples, a life lesson, some marble and acrylic furniture of note, and the ball that didn’t fall.
Oh, and if this isn’t serendipity, I don’t know what is.
I want my own lawn bubble. All we ever get is giant mushrooms.
Toilet seat museum.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/toilet-seat-museum-barney-smith
demonstration of stealth,
Of course, the classic guide regarding How Not To be Seen.
Not-at-all-complicated hotel shower. Via Damian.
He has a cunning plan.
Everything wrong with Blade Runner. Also, poor structure and pacing.
Everything wrong with Blade Runner. Also, poor structure and pacing.
*starts writing angry letter*
*starts writing angry letter*
Heh. I realise it’s heresy in some circles, but it’s never struck me as a great film – nowhere near as good as, say, Alien. It’s often pretty to look at, granted, and influential; but I can’t say I’ve enjoyed watching it, particularly, though I’ve seen it several times, in various edits. The script is unremarkable and not entirely coherent, and I doubt anyone could seriously claim that it’s Harrison Ford’s best performance. The structure and pacing are poor and there’s very little sense of dramatic momentum. It doesn’t engage concern for any of the characters, except perhaps when J F Sebastian receives his visitors (and then ends up killed off-screen). For the most part, it just sort of drifts by, albeit handsomely.
It doesn’t engage concern for any of the characters
I get tears in my eyes for Roy Batty’s death every time. Maybe that says more about me than it does about you 😉
Sinister.
Every once in awhile I get offered a hotel room as a part of whatever local project I’m helping run.
Not-at-all-complicated hotel shower.
That is exactly why I turn down the hotel room in favor of staying at home and commuting in . . .
That is exactly why I turn down the hotel room in favor of staying at home and commuting in . . .
Once you get shampoo in your eyes, you’re pretty much doomed.
Everything wrong with Blade Runner.
That. is. funny.
. . . . For rather awhile, I’ve been thinking that a very interesting pair of movie projects would be to make a movie of The Bladerunner . . . and then also make a movie of Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep . . . .
Meanwhile, in fable news…
Not-at-all-complicated hotel shower.
To turn on the shower you need a diploma in plumbing.
To turn on the shower you need a diploma in plumbing.
You have to cross-connect the phase modulator and then input the fourth and seventh letters of your mother’s maiden name…
[ Searing heat intensifies. ]
Just another day at the 11′ 8″ bridge in Durham, NC.
Just another day at the 11′ 8″ bridge in Durham, NC.
You’re not from Lancaster, NC are you?
The shower was Bloody Stupid Johnson’s senior thesis project.
Straw sculptures.
https://youtu.be/Gqh-4c0IRmM
Liking dogs means you’re a racist.
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/10-not-racist-at-all-things-white-people-do-that-make-m-1819152214
A touching tale of burgeoning love:
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-scammer-reply-anil-khullar/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=BPFacebook
A touching tale of burgeoning love
Points for ‘cock snorkler’.
straw sculptures
More on the Wara Art Festival.
We didn’t get there last year, but loved Japan so much, I’m noting this for future visits!
Liking dogs means you’re a racist
Poe’s Law?
I know, it’s The Root but, dayum, how exhausting to get up and spend every waking minute looking for signs of “hidden/unconscious” racism.
Whoa, whoa, whoa… you better reverse the polarity before cross-connecting the phases or… BOOM!
it’s never struck me as a great film
I stopped reading after that.
I have torches to fashion and pitchforks to sharpen…
Full marks that man! For the Discworld reference.
And it wonders why we don’t take their calls for alumni dollars anymore.
[ Searing heat intensifies. ]
It’s a shower for people who think being scalded and blinded by shampoo isn’t enough of a challenge.
It’s a shower for people who think being scalded and blinded by shampoo isn’t enough of a challenge.
“The capital of Slovenia…? Um, er, give a minute…”
[ Klaxon sounds. Shower cubicle begins to vibrate alarmingly. ]
And it wonders why we don’t take their calls for alumni dollars anymore.
“…asking students to consider having ‘a counselor present’ for ‘potentially triggering’ events.”
“Counselor” = “Commissar”.
The robotic cat you’ve always wanted.
The robotic cat you’ve always wanted.
Tribbles got tails?
Tribbles got tails?
To determine if it is indeed a Tribble, speak to it in Klingon.
The robotic cat you’ve always wanted.
I’m not sure whether to laugh at the absurdity or weep at what the proliferation of robotic companions says about modern life.
The robotic cat you’ve always wanted.
I’m a big fan of all things Japanese, but things without heads are not cute and strokey.
“looking for signs of “hidden/unconscious” racism”
Can’t you get expensive, advanced degrees in just this sort of thing and then go on to a profitable career in parasitism?
“The capital of Slovenia…?”
For the love…it’s Bratislava!!! I didn’t use Google, I swear! There are four..five..whatever…fingers!
No…really. I meant Ljubljana…Turn it off! Turn it off!
it’s Bratislava!!!
[ Shower cubicle now juddering violently. Tiles shake loose. Through dense clouds of superheated steam shrieking can be heard. ]
I know, it’s The Root but,
It appears to be a publication for racial monomaniacs, whose Angry Studies degrees are eating them from the inside out.
but things without heads are not cute and strokey.
Put on some googly eyes and glued-on cat ears and call it an Anime cat!
Re: racist dog owners.
Fine. I’m a racist. I like dogs and am of northern European extraction for probably the last 20 or so generations (if we ignore the Persian great-grandmother).
Don’t care.
Pity all these oppressed PoCs are chained to the radiators here in the Evul White CisHeteroNormative Patriarchy of America (EWChnPA). Elsewise they could just up and move to a better place, surrounded by Sun People, and show us evil Ice People how to live in peace and harmony.
This might actually be cultural appropriation..
When you start from a faulty, self-flattering premise, mental garbage will tend to pile up.
This might actually be cultural appropriation..
Rachel Dolezal, courtesy phone please.
Bill Clinton, Trump supporter before it was cool! (via Ace)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=51ojuOt-TnU
Never lose a shoelace.
Is loving dogs still racist if I love black labradors? Or is that even worse?
You have to cross-connect the phase modulator and then input the fourth and seventh letters of your mother’s maiden name…
. . . In which language? And isn’t one of those inputs for cuneiform?
This might actually be cultural appropriation..
the culture.
Lesseee . . . .
Is loving dogs still racist if I love black labradors? Or is that even worse?
There could be a question of what sauce is served on the dog in question, or which side dish along with.