Friday Ephemera
Code brown and hairy. || Tricky conditions. || A delicate touch. (h/t, Obnoxio) || Today’s word is segue. (h/t, Ben) || In defiance of gravity. || An ongoing index of every physical record shop. || Pastries of note. || It’s a price she’s willing to pay. || Every bloody time. (h/t, Holborn) || When you’ve never held a baby before. || Bookmark of note. (h/t, Damian) || Animated collages. || Cross-cultural bonding. || His computer case modification is more ambitious than yours. || How to de-crumple a paper balloon. || The thrilling world of icicles. || Hand-carved wooden toys of note. || Cinemagraphic waves. || When victimhood is currency, strange things will happen. || And finally, artistically, his self-portrait-done-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-canvas-using-a-mirror is more impressive than yours.
That paragliding one is just spectacular.
“Tricky conditions”
Montreal should have a rebuttal within a few weeks. I forget if last year’s slide-a-thon was posted here.
slide-a-thon
One of the few remaining things nice about living in California is that studded snow tires are still legal. Lived in Big Bear for 23 years. Loved my studded tires, because they’d grip even on a hill like that. OTOH, I did get hit a couple times because I could stop on the ice but someone else couldn’t. >_<
Today’s word is segue.
That was random. 🙂
Escape artist
I’m very pleased Australia’s own Mad Katter is getting the attention he deserves. In one election he had a campaign ad featuring (rather decent) bush poetry. Here it is, along with a few poetic revisions I wrote about the event.
his self-portrait-done-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-canvas-using-a-mirror is more impressive than yours.
Okay, you win this time.
Morning, all.
This is what The Other Half wants for Christmas.
When you’ve never held a baby before.
Lovely. But how do you get to be 49 and have never held a baby?
But how do you get to be 49 and have never held a baby?
It’s one thing to not have children of your own, but presumably these people have relatives and friends who have babies and who sometimes wave them about in search of a spare arm. I mean, I’ve held a baby on several occasions, though admittedly not with any great flair.
Today’s word is segue.
Every Bob Katter presser is like that. I suspect the good people of Kennedy keep voting for him, hoping he’ll one day go the full Mick Taylor on all them soft handed townies.
Every Bob Katter presser is like that.
I had to watch it several times before realising it wasn’t a mischievous edit.
Lovely. But how do you get to be 49 and have never held a baby?
The only thing worse than holding a baby is delivering the things. I’ll hold one in an emergency, but one of the things I have never understood is why new parents always think one wants to hold their baby.
Things I would rather hold than a baby include rabid weasels, live rattlesnakes, and molten magma.
Meanwhile, speaking of kids and ruining things, “sleeping Beauty” must be banned from school. Why, you might ask ?
No, you silly bint, it was no more “sexual” than kissing a frog to see if it turns into a prince. These SJWs have more sexual hangups and neuroses than the Puritans.
Ugh. Of course the bloke who took the picture of the seal is being prissy about it possibly appearing in the Sun. Ok, their Hillsborough coverage was fairly loathsome, but as with the rubbish directed against advertisers in the Daily Mail, the focus strangely always seems to be on papers that have the ‘wrong’ political views.
The interesting history of business buzzwords:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/23/from-inboxing-to-thought-showers-how-business-bullshit-took-over
Farnsworth, you’re not taking advantage of the situation. Talk to the baby. You can say any stupid thing to a baby and he’ll still look at you with wide-eyed interest, at least until someone rattles a set of those big plastic keys.
And finally, artistically, his self-portrait-done-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-canvas-using-a-mirror is more impressive than yours.
One wonders what Norman Rockwell would have said.
Farnsworth, you’re not taking advantage of the situation.
Damn skippy, and quite deliberately, I might add. Children should be kept in holding tanks till housebroken and able to hold a rational conversation even if these days that means till they might be their mid 30s.
Via Holborn, a Twitter thread about ghastly oddments and bewildering tat found in parents’ houses. From man-on-unicycle toilet paper holders to allegedly decorative anvil collections.
Where can I buy a “Shakespeare head button that opens a bookcase door”? Neither ghastly nor bewildering; a must have.
My son can brag that his mom owns a Japanese white oak wooden sword, just like Miyamoto Musashi packed. Beat that, clown collectors!
(And the sword is not nearly as scary as the clowns.)
Where can I buy a “Shakespeare head button that opens a bookcase door”?
First you have to build a Bat Cave filled with crime-solving computers, speed boats and giant pennies.
TimT’s Escape artist link is EXACTLY like that scene in Terminator 2, isn’t it?
…giant pennies.
Very careful spelling required there, or it might be an entirely different version of Batman than I’m used to seeing.
This is what The Other Half wants for Christmas.
That’s seriously impressive. Personally I think you should give him one.
There were giant pennies in the Batcave? I’ll have to go back and look.
“First you have to build a Bat Cave”
And all the gadgets have to be labelled.
Bob Katter is as mad as a cut snake. Further news from Down Under sees former Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s father pass away at the age of 93. Didn’t stop some from insulting him.
http://www.theunshackled.net/rundown/leftist-trolls-insult-tony-abbott-about-fathers-death/
That’s seriously impressive. Personally I think you should give him one.
Or I could just get him one of these.
Residents of Vladivostok, in far eastern Russia, woke Friday morning to snow-covered roads
Today’s high here in SoCal will be 87F/31C, down from yesterday’s 95F/35C.
Today’s high here in SoCal will be 87F/31C, down from yesterday’s 95F/35C.
This morning I slipped, briefly, on the first ice of the year. I remained upright, more or less, if not entirely dignified.
#PersonalDrama
I have never understood is why new parents always think one wants to hold their baby.
Well, any time a co-worker shows up with their new baby for the first time at my work, you need to step aside rather than be crushed by the mob of women rushing to have a turn at holding the infant.
Mine too! And I’m right in there cooing with the rest of them.
In other news, I knew my plants were conspiring against me!
https://www.wired.com/2013/12/secret-language-of-plants/
crushed by the mob of women rushing to have a turn at holding the infant.
Well, for me at least, there’s a certain novelty. I don’t generally spend much time around babies. And provided they don’t eject fluids onto you, or emit terrible smells, or howl, or wriggle too much, they can be entertaining. Though probably for no more than a minute at a time.
#ParentingSkills
It’s important to have a quiet hotel room, don’t you think?
http://twitter.com/HongKongBee/status/932955850406117378
Twitter thread about ghastly oddments and bewildering tat found in parents’ houses.
I just spent way too much time scrolling through that… SO awesome!!!
My mom & grandma were never into collecting kitsch, so no real oddities at mom’s. But it is also a warning to me to take another look at some of the stuff I have as not to give my daughters room to snicker.
Well, any time a co-worker shows up with their new baby for the first time at my work…
Don’t get me started on bringing infants to work, that should be grounds for instant termination.
And provided they don’t eject fluids onto you, or emit terrible smells, or howl, or wriggle too much…
It is a given they are going to do that, which is why one should always be prepared (in order of best COA) to:
a) not hold the thing to begin with – hacking, coughing, and sneezing are good subterfuges to avoid the problem;
b) instantly lateral it to another sucker;
c) always carry sedatives in appropriate doses based on weight of the thing – or for yourself.
Good heavens, Farnsworth, don’t be so misanthropic (misbabythropic?).
I am pleased to report that I was never squirted once while changing a diaper. The trick is to hold a reserve diaper, ready to put over the little hoser’s–er, hose, at the first twitch.
Small appliance report: more successful toast!
I read the hotel tweet. Either “James Madison” is in the wrong thread, or I didn’t read far enough.
Good heavens, Farnsworth, don’t be so misanthropic (misbabythropic?).
Sorry, I suppose in the dark ages it was a good thing to pass a baby around so it could be exposed to no end of now readily preventable diseases so as to build its immune system, but long ago I got tired of people shoving them at me, and me, for the sake of good order and discipline, being forced to pretend to like it.
If I get a new carburetor, which takes a lot more effort and ingenuity to make than an infant (and a lot more useful), it is not as if I would take it to work and make everyone hold and bill and coo over it. Well, maybe a few gearhead buddies, but not everyone in the tri-county area.
#getoffmylawnyoudamnkids
I read the hotel tweet.
It’s slightly weird and out of place but I just thought the OP was quite funny – although he seems to be a leftist git.
Reading the last few comments from Farnsworth, I keep hearing this.
Heh.
there’s a certain novelty.
One of my uncles is a master at entertaining infants that have been handed to him. Swooping, alley-ooping, various tricks of centrifugal force – and then the true master-stroke of handing them back right before they go from giggling with glee to vomiting.
I keep hearing this.
Substitute infants for woman, and human for man, and you’ve about got it, besides, most of the ones that people tried to foist on me are now millennials, and look where that got us.
I don’t care what Farnsworth says, babies are cool! I should know–I used to be one. But I promise to hold his carburetor and coo at it if he brings it in. Equal time, that’s my motto.
I must confess, the only babies I really cared for were my own three. Otherwise, they all seem to resemble Jimmy Hoffa to me.
Well, my kid WAS bald when he was a baby (and is going bald again), but as far as I know he did not play with gangsters.
Other people’s babies are the best, even if they do resemble corrupt labor leaders. You can hand them (the babies) back when they start screaming.
This tactic does not work so well on corrupt labor leaders, which may be why the Mafia became frustrated enough to incorporate Hoffa into a freeway. (That sign that says “James R. Hoffa Freeway” ain’t kidding.)
Otherwise, they all seem to resemble Jimmy Hoffa to me.
When my sister had nephew number one and showed me a picture I was obligated, of course, to comment that it was cute. She responded by saying, “You liar, they all look like Churchill.”