Friday Ephemera
Autocorrect of note. (h/t, dicentra) || Unwanted caller. || Oh, Waitrose, never change. || Why blue is rare in nature. || 8-bit cat. || Abandoned castles. || “What a cute little chicken.” || How to take a photo of a stealth bomber flying over the Rose Bowl, from above. || Flying bathtub. Well, a hovering bathtub, but still. || The Bourne Identity (1988), starring… er, Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Japanese people attempt to eat Marmite. || The future is now. || Pretty fish. || Action figures. || This. || They do this better than you do. (h/t, Obnoxio) || The thrill of Bismuth. || Cardboard beings. || The Great Hedge of India. || Night light. || Norwegian train-driver cam. || A holiday memory to cherish. || And finally, painstakingly, marbles, magnets and music.
You’re thinking outside of the box?
Scenes from the Apocalypse.
Elephants G, that was one incredible little white boy. But I can’t help wondering what happens when he hits puberty.
But I can’t help wondering what happens when he hits puberty.
His voice just got better.
Oh…and here reprise of the original song.
2018 is going to suck harder than 2017 in SJW land.
Eating tofu is cultural appropriation, of vegans and vegetarians if you only eat tofu because you like it (though why anyone would remains a mystery).
Honestly, it is past time we need to ship all these twits with made up problems to Venezuela.
I like tofu. Goes with everything. I will continue to appropriate it whenever it’s on sale.
If you don’t like tofu, you may be leaving it too watery. Rinse it off good, set it on a plate in the sink, put a saucer on top, stack a couple of heavy cans on top of the saucer, then let the sculpture sit for an hour or so.
Set the saucer aside, Take your drippy tofu off the plate, wrap in a whole bunch of paper towels, and have whoever opens tight jar lids in your family squeeze hard. Now all that water is pressed and squeezed out, leaving room for your tofu to soak up the flavor of your recipe.
Nameless one of note
‘Thulhu wants you, this we know,
For the voices tell us so,
Red and yellow, black and white,
All are food in Cthulhu’s sight.
Yes, ‘Thulhu wants you.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
Yes, ‘Thulhu wants you.
The voices tell us so.
She [the vegan] said: ‘Tofu is strictly for vegans vegetarians [sic].
Millions of Chinese, Japanese & Southeast Asians would like a word or two with this bint.
When being a victim is hip and cool, people will find ways to make themselves seem like victims.
I love Brendan dMac’s voice…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbcSVxP4cZk
But I also love a man in uniform (or in this case, out of one…)
Go Navy!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmPmzHGmTY&t=39s
“Millions of Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asians…”
Plus one none-of-the-above. How dare she appropriate our tofu!
A perfect venue for a night out:
http://twitter.com/bkmagazine/status/950577968706973696
I am reminded of a contemporary description of WIndows 9x: a 32 bit extension and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprossessor, written by a 2 bit company that can’t stand 1 bit of competition.
Enough of this Brendan fellow, here is Christone “Kingfish” Ingram at the ripe old age of 14 singing, actually playing the guitar, and leading the band. Something a little more recent.
Go Navy!!
I have to tell you, that video isn’t exactly covering in the Navy with glory, or, speaking as a former member of the senior service, dispelling any stereotypes about our sister service, we (and I am guessing the Marines) may have had.
Well, it wasn’t quite as bad as https://youtu.be/pNFF1ZTl1oY
Well, it wasn’t quite as bad as…
In the old days that would have required seppuku for all involved.
“might play havoc with Susan Storm’s otherwise immaculate hair-do” she could put a force field around her head.
“Five-year-old me thought the FF’s modular flying bathtub was the coolest thing ever.”
It was great and when 5 it made perfect sense but I thought the FF’s air jet cycle was even cooler. Farnsworth probably means tungsten with a melting point near 6000°C vs titanium at 1600°C. Related (to being 5) : while you mentioned that you felt the humor of Thor Ragnorak fell flat I saw it in a theater on a Saturday full of small children and they laughed a lot.
From Why blue is rare in nature:
“Creating some blue pigment out of the blue should have required inventing new chemistry and there was no way to just add that recipe to their genes. It was much easier for evolution to change the shape of their bodies ever so slightly at the microscopic level and create blue using physics instead. They solved a biology problem with engineering. ”
Didn’t they solve a biology problem with biology? One of my pet peeves is people ascribing agency to evolution as if evolution has a master plan (while sitting on a cloud with a lightning bolt in hand)
Farnsworth probably means tungsten with a melting point near 6000°C vs titanium at 1600°C.
No I meant titanium which does indeed have a melting point of 3,036 (vs. 6192°F not C for tungsten), which is why much of the SR-71 is made of it, and tungsten is far too brittle.
Regardless, there is no way Blazing Lad or whatever his name is could get that hot as lava only maxes at around 2000°F, otherwise he’d be melting the earth everywhere he walks unless he has tungsten shoes…
One of my pet peeves is people ascribing agency to evolution as if evolution has a master plan
Yes, it’s a small mistake with quite big implications. I find myself chafing at astronomy programmes that refer to such-and-such a planet or moon as being “alive,” with a hint of sensationalism, when what they mean is geologically active.
Ah! I’m not the only one.