Friday Ephemera
Pachelbel’s Canon played on a rubber chicken. (h/t, Matthew) || Full-colour 3D x-rays reveal the meaty goodness within. || It’s a phone, it’s a shaver. || Lemon makes bid for freedom. || Because all houseplants need robotic legs. || Cool, yes, but just don’t lean backwards. || He bought a dog spa. || Sad and embarrassed. || “We had to crawl under the rotor blades.” || An iceberg passes by. || Oh, that black-supremacist-UFO-cult. || Iridescent insects. || Popcorn-powered robots. || At last, a phaser-controlled mood rock. || Smile-activated mirror. Ideal for tormenting moody teenagers. || And finally, via Julia, “The woman contended that police had no basis to make comments about her possible mental health issues.”
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/07/multi-dimensional-illustrations-by-victo-ngai/?mc_cid=0fde067cef&mc_eid=d63b7b651c
Popcorn-powered robots.
OK. So these geniuses noticed from popping popcorn, that popping popping corn in an expandable container will cause it to expand. Mind blowing.
I see. So instead of “complicated hardware” like a fan/blower or compressor (which can be made as small as a watch), all you need is something simple like a heater that can heat the kernels to about 400F, and hope there are neither insects, rodents, or stoned students around.
Cornell – with cutting edge research like this, who says the Ivy league schools are overrated ?
Well, other than THAT…
You can’t argue with her logic.
Makes sense to me.
Has anybody been following the Russia kerfuffle? Is there anything to it other than the Hillaryites being poor losers? I admit to not understanding why improved relations with the other nuclear power are a Bad Thing. I also do not understand how, even if they were interested in doing so, the Russians could possibly screw up Our Democracy more than our moral and intellectual betters already have.
On the way home our carpool driver had the news on and by the time we got back I was getting frightened. Some of the Hillaryites seem to be trying to gin up a war. (Great timing—if they start up now they can invade Russia this winter!). What do you all at the end of the bar think?
I want to go on record as being unequivocally against war with nuclear powers.
You had me at Pachelbel and rubber chicken.
Iowahawk launches hashtag twitter storm against a non-existent person. Hilarity ensues .
Social media is an electronic schoolyard, in every negative manner possible.
Via Ace‘s ONT, an article about Jordan Peterson, which demonstrates a new attack. Specifically, we should ignore him because the concept of “genius” is reserved for males and thus somehow diminishes the rest of academe in ways that are left ill-defined. That is, we should deal with Peterson’s ideas, because . . . reasons, which reasons presumably make us feel bad in some also ill-defined way. N.B. the mischaracterization of his views on trans-rights and feminism.
I did laugh at the author’s invocation of “contract faculty,” i.e. “adjuncts,” as evidence for her thesis, such as it is. The fact that adjuncts exist in such numbers and are virtual slave labor is the direct result of leftist administrations and tenured faculty, a substantial chunk of which are women, making sure that their own nests are appropriately feathered. Socialism and workers’ rights are all well and good as long as it’s some Fortune 500 company being implicated, don’tcha know.
(FWIW, while I like Peterson, I wouldn’t call him a “genius.” Rather, he simply has the huevos to articulate what to most of those of us outside of academia and the far left industrial complex find intuitively obvious.)
The largest muzzleloading black powder firearm ever built.
Feminist logic.
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1019690137649844225
Morning, all.
Rather, he simply has the huevos to articulate what to most of those of us outside of academia and the far left industrial complex find intuitively obvious.
That is, I think, the chief basis for his popularity. It’s not the stuff about Jung or Solzhenitsyn, or the archetypes and metaphors of Pinocchio. It’s the fact that, by politely stating reasonable positions about familiar issues and being attacked for it, immediately and often vehemently, he reveals just how far the dogmatic vanities of leftism depart from reality. He reveals the shocking narrowness of the progressive Overton Window.
Feminist logic.
Is it Diabetes Awareness Week?
See also this.
“Feminist logic.”
Astonishing! They’ve trained guide dogs to tell you when to wolf whistle!
“Because all houseplants need robotic legs. “
Affordable versions of this. THAT’S that Elon Musk should be working on!
Affordable versions of this.
I think the problem with plant mobility is that, like cats and dogs, they’d always be round the neighbours being fussed over and pampered:
“Didn’t you have a big cheese plant in here?”
“It’s round at number 32. She’s got some Baby Bio.”
Pachelbel’s Canon played on a rubber chicken.
The primary proof that MS Pisspoint has zero to do with actual presentation of actual information, that anyone claiming otherwise is equally inept and useless.
Oh, that black-supremacist-UFO-cult.
And the Award for Most Fashionable UFO Cult Goes to . . .
See also this.
In today’s exciting episode of “Things That Never Happened”…
“I had been seen”.
I wish my smartphone had a better camera.
Cornell – with cutting edge research like this, who says the Ivy league schools are overrated ?
Check out the history of MIT pranks.
A link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
I wish my smartphone had a better camera.
Is it Bigfoot?
I hate to break it to her but…
…The Colonel and Al Copeland (founder of Popeye’s), not to mention George Church of Church’s Chicken, are all noted People of Pallor.
Houseplants with robotic legs.
Now all it needs is a weapon of some kind, maybe a whip like thing that smacks you in the eyes. Seems familiar somehow.
Empowered women. Not demented at all.
Via Dicentra.
Empowered women. Not demented at all.
Jesus wept.
Jesus wept.
It’s the image of this supposedly empowered leader of women, this self-declared “disruptor” and “badass single mom” – a Valkyrie of the Resistance – vomiting hysterically and weeping on the bathroom floor just because her preferred candidate lost an election.
It doesn’t exactly cry leadership material.
I hate to break it to her but…
Is it possible, hope does spring eternal after all, that she’s an American Godfrey Elfwick?
No, probably not, Godfrey did conjugate his verbs correctly, part of his white privilege no doubt.
Empowered women. Not demented at all.
From the same mess, two more exciting episodes of “Things That Never Happened”, one featuring Woke Toddler™.
two more exciting episodes of “Things That Never Happened”, one featuring Woke Toddler™.
If “one of the worst nights of [her] life” was a preferred candidate losing an election, I’d say that this drama-seeking bint has been luckier than she knows, or seems willing to admit.
. . . . …The Colonel and . . .
Reminds me of the news of the Spice Girls and seven guys all named Herbert being in a small plane crash on a chicken farm.
There weren’t any survivors, even the chickens got barbecued with the eleven different Herbs and Spices.
That lemon had a certain Attack of the Killer Tomatoes vibe.
https://youtu.be/ItZnP7gU4V0
I couldn’t stop shaking after David gave me a credit note instead of a refund. How, how, how will I tell my kid? How can I go on in a world where white patriarchal heterosexual—oops, sorry, got my cliches wrong—white patriarchal homosexual capitalists issue oppressive credit notes and blah blah blah blah isn’t there a $35 workshop for this blah blah blah blah I just can’t even blah blah blah blah
I’m a white woman and I’d never set foot in KFC because I respect black people and their culture
It’s the fast food version of Steve Sailer’s strategy of rebranding Democrats as the black party
Someone should tell her that in any way connecting black people with fried chicken is RACIST!
Also, KFC is a disgrace to American cuisine. Go to Popeye’s.
Don’t argue it. Just treat it as a given.
This begs the question as to the Dems being the Black Party.
NORMAL PERSON TO BLACK COLLEAGUE FROM AFRICA: Hey, we’re ordering fried chicken from Popeye’s, you want anything?
SJW: Racist!
IMMIGRANT: Are you serious? You fry CHICKENS here?
😄🐓
Not sure if this belongs on the previous thread re kinky or just a general ephemera…can there be a singular ephemera? Whatevs…
Hey, it happens…
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/20/man-arrested-for-allegedly-killing-co-worker-by-forcing-compressed-air-up-his-buttocks.html
From the writer obsessing over writers obsessing over Dr. Peterson: We need to reject this cult of the masculine genius. If we want a thriving intellectual culture, we need to start valuing all academic labour and forms of inquiry…we need to demand that politicians and administrators value and economically support a diversity of voices inside universities.
Given the flimsy, self-serving argument presented, one is tempted to assert that Ms. Garrison’s academic labour is valued overmuch already. What’s worse, the articles she links in her little cri de coeur are even more laughable than her original assertion. The first is a self-serving article in The New Republic deliberately overlooking any instances where females and/or non-scientists are branded with the label of “genius”, thus ‘proving’ that it’s a sexist term. Next, an academic article showing that female professors spend more hours on “service” than their male counterparts. It offers no examination as to causes or reasons, simply assuming that females are ‘saddled’ with these duties disproportionately, as opposed to finding these activities more pleasant or fulfilling.
Then there’s the link to the study on “underemployed” workers by major, where underemployment is defined as taking a job without a degree requirement. Again, no examination of the extent to which different fields of study are wont to grant degrees to underqualified students. No consideration of whether credentialism is significant in particular industries — just the assertion that Literature majors are in demand because most of them find credentialed work of some sort.
I suppose that unsupported assertions and articles proffered as evidence when they have no evidentiary value shouldn’t surprise me any more, but I confess that I still find this sort of thing dismaying. Little wonder that a scholar like Dr. Peterson so effortlessly runs circles around these people.
Outrageously outrage du jour, Starbucks puts an oil rig on a Colorado themed coffee mug.
Of course it did.
Damn mug was probably designed by Allegra Budenmayer and made by Rampit Capital.
“we need to start valuing all academic labour and forms of inquiry”
I’ll just note that xhe is only concerned about ‘academic’ inquiry and labour.
Me? I’m concerned about the inquiry and labour of whoever is inspecting and working on my brakes…
Poor old Pachabel.
David, since I can’t stop shaking, how about paying me to dance on the table?
I suppose that unsupported assertions and articles proffered as evidence when they have no evidentiary value shouldn’t surprise me any more,
Ideological lockstep tends to blunt the senses, resulting in the kinds of preening idiocy that we’ve been laughing at for the last decade or so. And the more that the Clown Quarter’s inhabitants insist on their pivotal role in the unfolding of the cosmos, on account of all the critical thinking they allegedly do, the less reason there is to suppose that what they claim is true.
since I can’t stop shaking,
[ Hands Pogonip a jar of pickled eggs, watches it jiggle. ]
It’s good to agitate the brine every few weeks.
@ 8:21: The same logic therefore must be applied to other things.
Hammers, for example, are useless for building, since some people mash their thumbs with them instead. Out with hammers, then! All carpenters – you’re “inept and useless” for using such a tool; find something else instead to drive nails with.
Paper and ink are used to print useless or even harmful stuff, like most newspapers. Out with those, then! Back to engraving using a stylus on a clay tablet.
Say, computers are useless too, since certain people – notably those for whom The Curia is the single source of all goodness and truth – use them for dumb arguments like that one.
Hmmph. I just can’t even.
Boy, talk about someone getting their comeuppance…
https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2018/07/20/elitist-harvard-exec-gets-taste-sjw-justice-racist-encounter-goes-viral/
two more exciting episodes of “Things That Never Happened”
“My ex-husband called me that night around 2am because he knew how devastated I would be.”
Lol. He sounds like one of the good ones. Wonder why it didn’t work out?
On-leave, effective immediately.
So she’s rude to the neighbor and gets paid time off? Nice gif.