Friday Ephemera (659)
How to lose your shoes. || Crown flash. || It fell from the sky. (h/t, Damian) || Fungus of note. || How to measure very tiny forces – say, the push of a laser pointer. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || Incoming. || Incoming 2. || On the benefits of British colonialism. || A very modern mindset. || An excruciatingly simulated heist game. || Moog dancers, 1971. (h/t, TDK) || As seen by meteorological satellite Himawari-8. || How was your day? || Because it can be done. (h/t, Dicentra) || The British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum. (h/t, Things) || Looking sharp. || Lighthouse location. || “Ready to drive away today.” (h/t, Julia) || A compendium of Japanese portable record players. || An attempt was made. || And finally, an illustration of life’s modern complications.
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Fungus of note.
It was called Jew’s Ear when I was a child, but that will get a call from HR nowadays.
David, I have happily noticed the absence of any “First!” comments on your blog.
Incoming.
Enlarged photo available here.
Lighthouse location.
At first I thought it was a photoshop.
A very modern mindset.
Is today’s word ‘pathetic’?
“An attempt was made.“
Yes, definitely a job for a man with a van…. Oh.
Morning, all.
Ah yes, the ‘Do It To Someone Else’ approach. The assumption that sociopathic predators will be swayed by appeals to pity and the plight of one’s fellow man is almost darkly funny, in a wretched kind of way.
Snow in Ginzan Onsen.
Moog dancers, 1971
Worst workout video ever.
On the benefits of British colonialism
Oh, they’re not happy with him in the comments.
An excruciatingly simulated heist game.
Arrgh.
There are some, er, helpful videos.
Incoming.
Only 3.75 billion years!
I laughed and I’m not sorry.
First!
Oh, wait.
With all the whimsical fuckery of the House attempting to select a Speaker here in the States, I am grateful for the diversion of leaked excerpts from “Spare,” Prince Harry’s autobiography. On losing his virginity:
“I mounted her quickly, after which she spanked my ass and sent me away. One of my many mistakes was letting it happen in a field, just behind a very busy pub. No doubt someone had seen us.”
I see Fay Weldon died 🙁 Author of the cleverest-titled autobiography evah Auto Da Fay!
From Twitter, “based on your likes.”
There was a vicar had a God – and Bingo was his name-O
Don’t fancy yours much 😀
She’s about 20 years too early. 🙂
Wisconsin artist Kay LeClair, … has been accused of being white.
The modern equivalent of being denounced as a witch.
So many types of competing pretence, it’s hard to keep track.
Another struggling artiste being kept down by the man.
and Bingo was his name-O
This.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Author of the cleverest-titled autobiography evah
My favorite Auto-da-Fe.
@WTP
More like Mehron 😉
First!
Oh, wait.
David, about that covered hole in the floor of the correction booth: Is that an oubliette for those whom you judge incapable of correction?
Because it can be done.
The *only* thing stopping me is I don’t have any chickens.
Louis A. Layva, PhD (he/he) gives a lecture.
With casting like this, sure to be a blockbuster.
Heh. It would be quite funny.
man with a van: reminds me of the flatbed truck I saw with a pile of dirt…held down with a strap. One strap.
what have the romans done for us? A map of Europe roads vs roman roads shows that many many roman roads were still roads 2000 yrs later. Latin is everywhere in our language. We base our legal system on rome. All this in spite of how nasty they were if you did not want to be assimilated.
As for the Brits, yes they conquered half the world, but they also waged war against the slave trade for 80(?) years and finally shut it down. They were the first to end it in their colonies. Countries that were brit colonies are today ahead economically of those that were not.
Wisconsin artist Kay LeClair, … has been accused of being white.
From the article, a reason why this whole non binary pronoun shit has got to stop (bolding mine):
Passing off people’s crafts as their own is exactly the opposite of what LeClair’s being accused of, until you realize that the “their” there is not the people but her, LeClaire the indian faker who, unlike Elizabeth Warren and Sacheen Littlefeather, is being punished for her fakery.
With casting like this, sure to be a blockbuster
On the one hand, most rumours about superhero movies are the fever dreams of overgrown adolescents. On the other, Gunn has said in public that the Superman reboot will focus on Superman as a young man, because apparently ten years of Smallville weren’t enough. And I could see
man-made horrors beyond your comprehensionWB casting Ellen Page as Clark’s bisexual son Jonathan, who is certainly a Superman.In totally unrelated news, there’s a new 4K remaster of the Chris Reeve Superman films due out this year.
“As for the movie itself, fearing nostalgia bias, I showed it to my wife, 14 years my junior. She’s not fanatical about comic book movies […] I asked how the movie compares to modern comic-book films.
“I like Superman,” she replied. “It’s more epic.” And this was before we got to the part where he flies backwards around the world to go back in time.”
Snow in Ginzan Onsen.
I hate winter, and yet want to go.
Seems fair.
Science marches on.
Bring out the fine china. [ Raises eyebrow at David. ]
Too much information.
Heh.
I don’t normally care about Logan Paul, but OzzyMan released a video repurposing Paul’s non-apology for scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars from crypto buyers. This led to Coffeezilla’s three-part examination of how it was done. What’s amazing was going through the first ten minutes of the third part (which was where I started) in which CZ apparently got ahold of Paul’s PMs with his co-conspirators detailing how they were going to buy in before the official announcement, only to discover that one of the gang double-crossed them by secretly buying more tokens (200K versus Paul’s 100K), and how they scammed that guy by releasing not the original token, but a duplicate that blackballed the guy’s wallets.
Apparently, this is not Paul’s first dip into NFT fraud. If anything shows how broken our judicial system is, it’s that he’s not in jail right now.
Louis A. Layva, PhD (he/he) gives a lecture.
The lecture title refers to Cisheteropatriachal something or other.
I thought “Cis” and “Hetero” meant the same (bad) thing.
https://www.londonworld.com/whats-on/london-dungeon-announces-they-will-ban-vegans-from-entering-in-january-in-support-of-beloved-character-3972614
“And the best bit, no need for additional security to help identify the veggie lovers, as we know they will most likely mention it within minutes of stepping foot into the attraction!”.
Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope for London.
Heh.
Would watch.
Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope for London.
“This Veganuary, the London Dungeon has decided to stand behind our Mrs Lovett and her iconic but somewhat suspicious meat pies.”
[ Looks up. ]
Just who are your suppliers, David?
Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope for London.
“According to Veganfriendly.org.uk, the United Kingdom has the most vegans out of any country.”
Not that I’d trust vegans to report honest numbers.
[ Slides jar along bar. ]
Jerky?
[ Slides jar along bar. ]
Jerky?
I may have found out why Britons become vegetarians.
You’ve got your band names, your album names, your song names, I give you 1970’s album cover…
Heh.