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Kaleidoscopic cities filmed by Michael Shainblum.
As is the custom here, posting will be intermittent over the holidays and readers are advised to subscribe to the blog feed, which will alert you to anything new as and when it materialises. Thanks for another 1.5 million or so visits this year and thousands of comments, many of which prompted discussions that are much more interesting than the actual posts. Which is pretty much the idea. And particular thanks to all those who’ve made PayPal donations to keep this rickety barge above water. It’s much appreciated. Curious newcomers and those with nothing better to do are welcome to rummage through the reheated series in search of entertainment.
To you and yours, a very good one.
Likewise!
Hey, I want a refund for Christmas.
Merry ChristmasEveEve, David! And a very happy Christmas & New Year ahead for you and yours.
Kaleidoscopic cities
That was a bit intense for 8am. 🙂
Merry Christmas to all who ride this rickety barge.
Ps. I’ve left you something under the tree.
Merry Christmas, David. And to all the heathens.
I’ve left you something under the tree.
Bless you, sir. May your chopping board always be hygienic and never sullied with undetected garlic, resulting in a dessert that’s best forgotten yet often brought up by others.
Here’s a thing. Several of them, in fact.
Via Tim Newman.
Elite credentials.
Kaleidoscopic cities
That’s great. I think I saw Singapore.
Merry Christmas.
I think I saw Singapore.
The cities being kaleidoscoped are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Dubai, Doha, Shanghai and, yes, Singapore.
So, if I understand correctly, a PayPal donation guarantees that the reader no longer sees those posts about modern woke art that appear every so often? That’s the kind of tiered membership I can get behind.
Elite credentials.
Pretty remarkable, seeing as how he was rejected by all the Florida state schools.
However, from the reliably red Huffingpaint Pest Getting an A-letter grade isn’t above average for undergraduate students at Harvard University; it’s the norm.
The bottom line is that in four years the ignorant little git will leave with a fancy piece of paper from a high priced diploma mill, just as ignorant, but with a massively inflated ego because Harvard.
So, if I understand correctly,
And a place in Heaven.
Merry Christmas y’all.
Hardcore.
To you and yours, a very good one.
Thank you and likewise, David. Merry Christmas to you, your other half Chris, and your respective families. Now, time to pour myself a martini using Noel Coward’s famous recipe. Cheers everyone!
The bottom line is that in four years the ignorant little git will leave with a fancy piece of paper from a high priced diploma mill, just as ignorant, but with a massively inflated ego because Harvard.
David Hogg was just accepted to Harvard — SAT score of 1250. Bet he’ll pull straight-As at Harvard, too.
David Hogg was just accepted to Harvard — SAT score of 1250.
It occurs to me that there ought to be a word for the opposite of charisma.
It occurs to me that there ought to be a word for the opposite of charisma.
Charisn’tma.
Hardcore.
Photoshop. It has to be photoshop. That kind of perfection is just not possible.
[ Has fit. Throws wrapping material to the floor. Adds more rum to the eggnog. ]
Charisn’tma.
Charismaren’t, surely?
It occurs to me that there ought to be a word for the opposite of charisma
Amsirahc?
Charismaren’t, surely?
Sorry, no. Terry Pratchett is Never Wrong.™
It occurs to me that there ought to be a word for the opposite of charisma.
There are several, just not generally used in polite company.
It occurs to me that there ought to be a word for the opposite of charisma.
As far as a phrase, one easily notices hipsters demonstrating a certain Je ne sais pas.
Have a wonderful Christmas David and everyone here.
Left a little something in your tip jar. 🙂
Left a little something in your tip jar. 🙂
Bless you, madam. May your rolls of leftover Christmas wrapping paper, stuffed right at the back of a closet and buried under numerous other neglected items, remain uncrumpled and perfectly usable twelve months later.
Buy one of those Christmas-wrap organizers. Doesn’t take up much space & keeps them uncrumpled.
Tip jar has been hit!
Thank you for putting up with me in your fine establishment. This seat by the loo is really not so bad since you’ve put in the balsam fir scented strips for the holidays.
Cheers
Tip jar has been hit!
Bless you, sir. May you never know the horror of squeezy-bottle mayonnaise, which is totally the wrong consistency.
Today’s funny idiocy:
I’ve been playing Cat Collection (you get it under its Japanese name, Neko Atsume). This is elegantly simple. You start out with a yard and 300 fish, the currency of the game, which you use to buy food and toys to attract cats to the yard. The cats leave tips of fish. The object of the game is to fill an album with pictures of all 66 (I think) cats. So in looking for hints I found this:
https://recombu.com/mobile/article/neko-atsume-how-to-get-rare-cats-guide
“We’re not sure how we feel about all of the game’s obviously female rare cats playing a passive role.”
Well. Put aside that Alex Todd is being paid to write although she (? it’s hard to tell from the small picture) cannot construct a sentence. (Does she mean all the game’s rare cats are obviously female, or that all the rare cats that appear female play a “passive role”?). She’s talking about CARTOON CATS in a game invented by a guy whiling away a slow day at work. Is there nothing, no matter how minor, that feminists can’t pounce upon (sorry)? It used to be annoying but now it’s farcical.
Alex may also be the only person on earth who doesn’t know that tortoiseshell and calico cats are almost always female; see messybeast.com for a lucid explanation of why that is.
Has anyone ever encountered a tortie or calico tomcat? I haven’t and don’t know anyone who has.
I went to her site and looked; messybeast has updated her tortie/calico tomcat article, and nowadays they seem to be everywhere. So if you haven’t seen one, don’t give up!
Feminized males seem to be becoming more common in several species, including humans. I’ve often wondered if one possible cause is all those female hormones in modern water. It’s politically incorrect to study the effects of same, so we may never know.
Merry Christmas from Everyday Feminism!
https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/06/examples-christian-privilege/
I wonder what part of the U.S. the writer lives in? Here in flyover country, I can’t remember the last time I encountered a business that was closed for Easter.
I wonder what part of the U.S. the writer lives in?
Canada, which is probably why she thinks stores and businesses in Jesusland are closed on Easter.
The woman claims to be a teacher, yet writes like a adolescent student.
Edit: She’s Canadian, but currently a teacher of “human sexuality” at Brooklyn College in New York, which is even less likely to ever see “flyover country” people – and almost as insular as the SF Bay Area.
As over on the far side it is already, ,good old Irish Christmas Eve tune to start the day – a Muldoon family favorite !
Merry Christmas, Muldoon, and may the saints add preservatives to ye!
Canada, which is probably why she thinks stores and businesses in Jesusland are closed on Easter.
Aye, we’re an odd bunch.
Hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Year.
*hits tip jar*
Buy yourself a bottle of the good stuff, David. 😀
Buy yourself a bottle of the good stuff, David.
Bless you. May the changing of the duvet cover be an effortless ballet, not an Augean chore.
And this is your brain on identity politics.
Just say no, kids.
“I’m told that “minority” is now an incorrect term (like “illegal alien”) on campus. We’re supposed to say “marginalized groups.” Fine: nothing will marginalize a struggling student more than telling them they are exempt from academic canons of excellence and achievement. But this is the Orwellian world of higher education today, where the real racists parade under the banner of anti-racism.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/academic-absurdity-of-the-week-writing-is-racist.php
nothing will marginalize a struggling student more than telling them they are exempt from academic canons of excellence and achievement.
That, as they say.
Mr Inoue, by the way, has been mentioned here before. He’s the educator who took “over a year” to write a 500-word press release.
LoL:
Scenes.
Via Damian.
Take a short road trip on Mars.
I figured ’tis the season to finally pay to have that unfortunate red wine stain on the sofa cleaned.
Merry Christmas.
Godfrey Elfwick’s muse.
I figured ‘tis the season to finally pay to have that unfortunate red wine stain on the sofa cleaned.
Bless you, sir. May an even number of socks always emerge from the dryer.
May an even number of socks always emerge from the dryer.
Not to look a gift blessing in the mouth, but, um, it’s not working.