Friday Ephemera
The fierce and mighty warriors of professional wrestling. (h/t, Obnoxio) || According to the ladies at Marie Claire, this is now a thing. || Tortoise teamwork. || How do machines learn? Or, the thrill of algorithms. || Siberian farm cats. || The frugal Mrs Thatcher. || Heist. || Hard, harder, hardest. || “Comprised of ten organs covering nine metres, this is one of the most complicated systems in the body.” || Just type stuff. || Cats’ eyes. || Christmas spirit. || Classy as all hell. (h/t, Julia) || Auld Lang Syne interactive music box. || Where railways are. || You are still allowed to swear in Rochdale. || Vintage jackhammer restoration. || The dog copes remarkably well. || Seven wonders in 360. || More tiny worlds. || And finally, in shiny, revamped product news, you want one and you know it.
According to the ladies at Marie Claire, this is now a thing.
. . . . Oh, just keeping abreast of things . . .
Christmas spirit.
. . . and getting to the bottom of things.
Classy as all hell.
Sometimes it works.
Auld Lang Syne interactive music box.
And singalong.
And finally, in shiny, revamped product news, you want one and you know it.
Be certain to read the tech manual carefully first.
“Just type stuff”
I though that was going to be this, considering the time of year:
https://codepen.io/steveg3003/pen/pNqdRq
The fierce and mighty warriors of professional wrestling
Hallo engineer, skipper here…so polite and proper whilst getting shot at by Germans…
https://youtu.be/8R5NI-IrUU0
In a humiliating blow for Donald Trump on the world stage, the United Nations General Assembly has voted by 128 to nine to declare his controversial decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “null and void”.”
Also sprach The Independent, which is apparently unaware that the U.N. has no authority to declare our location of our embassy “null and void.” Additionally, query The Independent‘s understanding of the verb “to humiliate” when a) the U.S. Embassy winds up in Jerusalem and b) the U.S. stops writing checks to the U.N. and those nations which threw a fit today?
I want one of those purring furballs wrapped around my feet on a cold night.
“…and then decorating your boob to like a reindeer.” (sic)
I’m guessing the copy editor was laughing too hard top properly scan this? Only my stomach really likes reindeer, my boobs don’t really have much of an opinion.
voted by 128 to nine to declare his controversial decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “null and void”
I’m warming to this Trump fellow.
Related.
If it’s produced by someone who doesn’t conform to my political beliefs, then it’s not art. At least, that’s the world view of this particular art critic:
https://mobile.twitter.com/jerrysaltz/status/943979103719510016
the world view of this particular art critic
That’s a thing I like about Twitter. It allows us to see just how dim and politically dogmatic many of our media gatekeepers really are.
In other news, Mike Stuchbery is a “writer, broadcaster, educator.”
Perhaps not the best of plans.
“The dingle bop is 30% larger”.
Sold.
I come for the stories from the academic madhouse.
I stay for the tips on jackhammer restoration.
It allows us to see just how dim and politically dogmatic many of our media gatekeepers really are.
It does rather hold a mirror up to certain sections of society. A mirror which reveals rather more than was perhaps otherwise intended.
I come for the stories from the academic madhouse.
I stay for the tips on jackhammer restoration.
It’s just my cynical ploy to lure in the vintage-jackhammer-restoration demographic. That’s where the big money is.
Siberian farm cats.
Want one.
Barn cats rule.
Siri to sue for harassment and toxic workplace.
voted by 128 to nine to declare his controversial decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital “null and void”
The fierce and mighty warriors of professional wrestling.
Watched it 3 times and I’m still laughing. 🙂
Watched it 3 times and I’m still laughing.
At least the fringing is coordinated.
Idea: The U.S. should declare Constantinople the capital of Turkey.
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks. Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
But there are exceptions for a country like Israel…well only a country called Israel…I’m sure.
Just in time for Christmas, Theodore Dalrymple is not sanguine about the future of Britain.
“decorating your boob to like a reindeer”
I think I’ll do just one testicle this year, done up like Santa’s bag. If all goes well, next year, I’ll have both dressed up as silver bells.
Oh, thanks, internet. You actually managed to make boobs unattractive. Well bleedin’ done.
Bah humbug.
“You are still allowed to swear in Rochdale.”
Well, that’s something, I suppose. (Of course, in medieval times, there’d have been a big festival to celebrate, and by now Rochdale Effin’ and Blindin’ Day would be a much-loved pre-Christmas tradition. Go on, Rochdalians, make it happen.)
And speaking of we reserved, classy, Brits…
Perhaps not the best of plans.
The rather sad thing is that those micro-bollards are there precisely to prevent that sort of behaviour.
Dingle bell, dingle bell, dingle bell bop…
Theodore Dalrymple is not sanguine about the future of Britain.
Unfortunately, I don’t think he’s far wrong, or far enough wrong, anyway. But then, socialist psychology does tend to have dysgenic effects. Several Londoners have told me that their neighbourhoods are becoming unwelcoming places to live, or indeed visit, as the cultural norms of those neighbourhoods are transformed.
The tortoise teamwork link appears to be dead.
The tortoise teamwork link appears to be dead.
Bugger. It was a heart-warming tale of upturned-buddy-flipping.
The tortoise teamwork link appears to be dead.
Bugger. It was a heart-warming tale of upturned-buddy-flipping.
Hem, hem, hem . . . . . ‘ere y’are.
Memory of the tortoise angle of approach in what the twit clip showed states that the twit clip used the second half of the video.
During this festive time of year, make sure to talk to your toddlers about fascism.
Slatestarcodex.com is surveying its readers. I think David should survey us.
—Do you approve or disapprove of pickled eggs?
—Is the number of henchlesbians not enough, too many, or just about right?
—Thinking about the last time you were arrested, was it:
—Justified?
—A frame up?
—That particular arrest was unjustified, but considering what I got away with last month, it all comes out even
Should The Other Half write an occasional post?
—Yes
—No
—No, I should
—The other half of WHAT?
Do we spend enough time laughing at modern tomfoolery?
—-Yes
—No
—TOMfoolery is a cissheteropatriarchal word, you bigot
P.S. One of Slatestarcodex’s questions asked what “gender” I was assigned at birth. I’m pretty sure he meant “sex,” that he does not think all his readers are parts of speech, but since my sex was assigned at conception, not birth, I wasn’t sure how to answer a question about what happened 9 months later, especially since I wasn’t paying much attention at the time; crying, sleeping, eating, and pooping kept me busy. So I skipped that question.
The moral is, don’t write ambiguous survey questions.
What is your opinion of ambiguous survey questions?
—Approve
—Disapprove
—Well, I kind of go one way or the other on that.
Do we spend enough time laughing at modern tomfoolery?
Oh, haven’t seen any performances, whether the original back in 1980 or any of the more recent local regional productions,
On an other hand, I have been quite familiar with the original material for years, so there is that at least . . . .
What is your opinion of ambiguous survey questions?
—Approve
—Disapprove
—Well, I kind of go one way or the other on that.
If you’re asking if we’re ignorant or apathetic, I don’t know and don’t care.
A modern Tom Lehrer could work 24/7 and still never run out of material.
How do you feel about double negatives?
— no, not never
— yes, not never
How do you feel about double negatives?
Yeah, Right.
No way, no how.
About time, Star Wars is finally properly feminist – https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2017/12/last-jedi-first-properly-feminist-star-wars
Sargon has some quality commentary on The Last Snowflake: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LPsRp7uUXUk
My favourite tomfoolery quote is
Sargon has some quality commentary on The Last Snowflake
I gave up on Star Wars after ploughing through Rogue One, on TV, in the vain hope of being entertained. Dear God, it was dull.
I gave up on Star Wars ages ago. 40 years of trying to destroy the damned Death Star du jour. Enough already.