Friday Ephemera
An interesting approach. || A notable misunderstanding of how a chair works. || That time it rained meat. Lung tissue, specifically. || When obnoxious mediocrities get a taste for power. || Pizza delivery of note. (h/t, Obo) || The eternal struggle. (h/t, Julia) || Einstein’s flying car, 1931. || Consequences. || Stems. || What’s that smell? || Space without the space. || Stumbling on the Moon. || An interactive gulag map. || Best not to, I think. || 6,000 years of history, 1858. || How they see themselves. || Hardcore dude. || Commodity City. || “You cannot go round a corner in fourth.” || Foxes. || Fallout. || Life is unfair. || And finally, your time here is finite: “If you’re in your last 10% of time with someone you love, keep that fact in the front of your mind when you’re with them.”
“Why women live longer than men”
Because women won’t climb the roof nor operate a chainsaw? =)
. . . but it’s still a damn shame Kurosawa finally started believing his own publicity.
Ehn, not really.
Kurosawa was a painter, where he painted Kagemusha and Ran, and then literally drew from his own dreams to make Dreams.
After some googling, I’d say the Massachusetts incumbent is safe.
Black man reacts to white man culturally appropriating another black man.
NSFW for language.
Black man reacts to white man culturally appropriating another black man.
“If you aren’t moist right now I don’t know what’s going on in your life.”
Hilarious and of course St. SRV is always a good listen.
Oh, just one or two layers of occurrences might be going on here . . . . mebbe . . .
Seen at Ace’s – someone really didn’t think the Prince Harry one through…
The cute avatar/grotesque reality sub-thread reminded me of the following. Don’t know whether it’s been mentioned hereabouts or not.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/37-women-before-and-after-third-wave-feminism/85648010/
“When obnoxious mediocrities meet, you mean. B… but Sturgeon’s a sort of Lefty Gary Johnson! (The more I look at that chart the more bizarre it appears. Teresa May is more authoritarian than Mao and Castro, apparently. It must be all those political opponents she locked up in labour camps.)“
That chart is pure lefty projection. For all that Theresa is one of the more authoritarian of the recent Prime Ministers (because she isn’t conservative enough to reject lefty populism as the drivel it so obviously is. And the years of drinking the water in Marsham Street – which aggressively destroys liberal brain cells), that libertarian/ authoritarian axis is horribly incompetent.
“Because women won’t climb the roof while operating a chainsaw? =)”
Fixed that for you.
Wu is running for congress.
I suppose it might result in fewer of those ugly, godawful games that no-one wants to play.
Eleanor Penny, by the way, is not only an editor for Red Pepper, but also a senior editor for Novara Media
Happy Royal Wedding Day all!
What’s this? Bar bill? [reads] You mean you charge for those pickled eggs?
I’ll just leave this here while I go to the cash machine.
Happy Royal Wedding Day
Ah yes, the Jeremy Corbyn supporting Novara Media. Kinder, gentler politics indeed.
I’ll just leave this here while I go to the cash machine.
[ Phone pings. ]
Bless you sir. May hedge trimmers never disturb your crafty afternoon nap.
I am at a bit of a loss trying to come up with a real reason why this would be needed by any sane person, though I may have just answered my own question.
Kinder, gentler politics indeed.
Remind me: Didn’t the French Revolution end with most of the major revolutionary protagonists turning on one another in an orgy of executions, ultimately opening the door to Napoleon’s dictatorship, decades of total war across continental Europe, and a template for modern Fascism?
Perhaps Penny junior was letting on far more than she intended … out of the mouths of morons, and all that …
May hedge trimmers never disturb your crafty afternoon nap.
Why thank you, sir.
Remind me: Didn’t the French Revolution end with most of the major revolutionary protagonists turning on one another in an orgy of executions?
Indeed. All revolutions eat their own. Eleanor Penny ought to be a little more careful about what she wishes for.
P.S. Thank you David for fixing my little italics screw-up earlier. I’d have done it myself, but unfortunately my computer crashed on me.
P.S. Thank you David for fixing my little italics screw-up earlier.
And you’ll notice that I did it quietly, in the background, without even drawing attention to how fabulous I am as a host.
What?
Indeed. *Quietly raises a glass and makes a toast to your fabulous modesty*
The glorious mainstream media, gatekeepers of truth.
https://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2018/01/what-media-really-wants.html
“You can catch up here, Mr. Wu is running for congress. No, seriously. Not to be outdone, in case you missed it, the artist formerly known as Bradley Manning, AKA USDB Inmate Manning, has thrown his hat in the ring for senate.”
What was PJ O’Rourke’s definition of politics again? “The pursuit of wealth and power without merit”?
“Didn’t the French Revolution end with most of the major revolutionary protagonists turning on one another in an orgy of executions, ultimately opening the door to Napoleon’s dictatorship, decades of total war across continental Europe, and a template for modern Fascism?”
And it’s not as if we haven’t tried that kind of thing ourselves. Didn’t go so well.
Anyhoo, apropos of nothing other than I stumbled across it last night and it seems oddly appropriate on a Royal Wedding day, a little vexilogical* humour (that’s flag jokes to you).
*Vexilological? Sounds right, looks wrong.
Tried to spot you in the buffet line at the wedding après-party. What sort of a hat were you wearing?
Although to be fair, I was stuck with the other Americans attempting to stab cocktail weenies in BBQ sauce with toothpicks from a Crockpot and drinking Old Style keg beer from red Solo cups. We all wound up hanging out in the kitchen.
Tried to spot you in the buffet line at the wedding après-party.
I had a bout of insomnia and slept through the whole thing.
—Albeit I did have one bit of curiosity, wondering who was going to be the designated cartwheel turner this time around . . .
Brianna Wu thinks private companies shouldn’t be allowed to colonise the moon, because they could cause devastation by dropping rocks onto the earth.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/03/01/dem-candidate-moon-colonizing-companies-could-destroy-cities-by-dropping-rocks/
…because they could cause devastation by dropping rocks onto the earth.
Excellent, he’ll fit right in with Hank “My fear is…[Guam]…will tip over an capsize” Johnson.
Never let it be said that the U.S. Congress has nothing but the best and brightest.
“The moon is probably the most tactically valuable military ground for earth,” the tweet said. “Rocks dropped from there have power of 100s of nuclear bombs.
See “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. But Heinlein, in contrast to Wu, knew his physics and engineering: his railroad-car-size loads of rock, falling at terminal velocity, had an energy release on impact of about 10 kilotons. And to launch those loads he had a very large and powerful linear accelerator on the moon whose purpose was to launch cargo pods destined for Earth.
. . . because they could cause devastation by dropping rocks onto the earth.
Wu wants to join Mo “Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise” Brooks . . .
Never let it be said that the U.S. Congress has nothing but the best and brightest.
As Pst314 points out, at least rocks from the moon can be engineered.
Graduation advice . . .
