Friday Ephemera (663)
Crabs give pedicure. || Deaf man and his cat. || Not quite what I imagined. || Calling International Rescue. || The calculator drawer. || Random Street Views. || City living scenes. || A.I. attempts to make sign-language manual. (h/t, Dicentra) || At last, music generated from text. || Smart slime and throbbing bloblets. || Bruising of the soft tissue. || You had one bloody job. || But only when it rains. || Back passage of note. (h/t, Damian) || Ancient Earth Globe. || Theirs is considerably bigger than yours. || Gently does it. || A decision was made. || Thriller, Indian version. || Chain reaction. || ChronoPhoto, a photographical history game. (h/t, Things) || Coffee can do anything. || And finally, don’t worry, it’s a weight-saving measure.
Hell, Liberace, even . . .
I don’t, I’m afraid. Your guess is as good as mine.
Too bad, if there was some google submarine cruising around like their idiot cars I was going to ask if you wouldn’t mind torpedoing the thing – I’d split the cost of the torpedo.
Too bad […] I was going to ask if you wouldn’t mind torpedoing the thing – I’d split the cost of the torpedo.
Heh. I’ll keep a weather eye out, and if I run across one, you have a deal.
Yeah, but were all those earlier “artists” boundary-bending, gay, gender-queer, non-binary, preening, talentless fucks tho?
The game AI now reads the “green texts” in character!
https://youtu.be/NNmEobhD5uo?t=651
I still use a HP35s nearly every day.
I have one at work, one at home and one in the shed.
RPN
The replies include some wonderful examples of NPCs shouting out “NOOOO we’re all different and special”.
The replies include some wonderful examples of NPCs…
..including this deluded nitwit.
“You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension”.
“I’m gonna go back natural…”
That ship has sailed, I fear.
I did laugh at the word velociraptor.
Instalanch to your old site, David.
I hope you’re going to keep the old site up for a good while.
It isn’t particularly costly to maintain, so yes. I suspect it’s more a question of how long Typepad will be around.
I don’t think you can see natural from there.
It isn’t particularly costly to maintain, so yes. I suspect it’s more a question of how long Typepad will be around.
So it’s more costly to get out the sawdust and disposable drinkwear whenever there’s an influx of visitors from the seedier side of the internet?
Instalanch to your old site, David.
The current link is here.
By the way, the weasel Zack Ford is still busy gnawing away at our civilization.
I’m on my 2nd HP-11C and have/had (a now broken, not worth fixing) 28S and an HP-67 and 41CV, both of which seem to be missing at the moment.
I picked up a couple Swiss Micro clones last year but the button click feel is not the same.
I have an HP20S which is still going strong after about 30 years.
Speaking of narcissists who think history started with them, “This will probably piss some boomers off…”, says this guy.
Boomers say hello.
Reducing women to “uterus havers” is brought to new level.
“Hello, is this Sasquatch General? Yeah, you have any women on life support, we’d like a kid but prefer not to have to do that whole pregnancy thing. Got any brain dead, not too much trauma?”
Yeah, taking an organ out of a dead person to save a life is totes the same as keeping someone alive for 9 months so Buffy doesn’t get stretch marks.
Other than that whole lack of uterus thing, but as long as the feminists are assuaged we’re good, I guess.
Science!™
RTWT.
Our betters, a short thread.
More bigoted horses.
Leggy babe.
Making portraits smile.
More bigoted horses.
So much for Mrs Patrick Campbell’s remark about not frightening the horses…
Boomers say hello.
My husband about 1988 …
My husband about 1988 …
Yikes! [ Smashes glass. Pulls the hippie alarm. Deafening klaxon sounds. ]
apropos the hippie alarm…
My mother insisted that Liberace wasn’t gay. He was just a little “la-dee-dah”. Like some men just were. Like her cousin Gene. We had many, many arguments about this. She turned our out to be right about so many other things that I was sure she was wrong about that sometimes I wonder…though Dad did agree with me…though now that I think about it, his agreement was always out of earshot from Mom.
I was thinking more of Dunlap’s Disease.
Be lenient, judge. I’m just kind of excitable.
I remember when that neighborhood was quiet and peaceful, with very little crime and disorder.
My husband about 1988 …
[ Hat tip ]
He’s totally rocking a Tom Petty vibe. I want to talk to his roadie named Bart.
I didn’t know Darleen was married to one of the Hanson brothers. Talk about robbing the cradle! 😉
Clarkson’s Farm, season two.
Clarkson’s Farm, season two.
Can Jeremy sing the Green Acres theme song?
Last night on the Grammys, Sam Smith and his “girlfriend” transwoman were lauded like heroes when they got a grammy and put on a show of their song “unholy” which looked like a satan worship ceremony, complete with rings of fire. Another transwoman was a presenter and gave a sickening speech. Madonna introduced the presenter with a disjointed speech about being a rebel. It was all trans all the time. They are having to reach farther and farther to be rebels.
It was all trans all the time.
Interesting, isn’t it, that the Grammys have regressed to celebrating and rewarding Minstrel shows.
Being a gentleman, I’ll just leave this here.
Ouch. Feeling a bit better? 🙂
I’ll just leave this here.
It’s kind of pathetic to hear the unrecognizable Madonna drone on about being ‘shocking’ and ‘a rebel’ when she, rappers, WAP Cardi B, the Minstrel act of Smith/Petras, et al, are firmly part of the Establishment. They aren’t ‘rebelling’ at all, they just keep establishing their Ruling Class creds while stomping on the face of anyone who dares to question them.
Only marginally. When horizontal, my breathing sounds like the TARDIS dematerialising. So that’s lovely.
establishing their Ruling Class creds while stomping on the face of anyone who dares to question them.
This.
The grammys are watched by families. Some of their viewers are religious. Both of these categories are likely to be repelled by the minstrel show of trans and especially by the “unholy” stage show of satan worship. They would rather not have you as a customer if you do not approve of their grossness. It would be helpful if they tried to consider that someone’s sexuality is NOT the most interesting thing about them. Or the only thing in these cases.
They had a roundtable of young people talking about their favorite artist, and one lesbian woman went on and on about her “journey” of “self-discovery” and how some artist had helped her with it. It isn’t that hard really–you are a lesbian, so what? The rest of us do not really care and frankly don’t even want to know. Would they consider it interesting for a straight man to talk about his journey of discovery of his penis? No? ahahaha why not?
Another excitable individual kills a young preteen.
Only marginally. When horizontal, my breathing sounds like the TARDIS dematerialising. So that’s lovely.
Oh dear. Take good care of yourself! Lots of chicken soup, steam, and rest.
maps of ship routes, 1700-1850, by nation
And yet they continue to do so. Some people that I know, and even used to work for, will bore me with their God-y God God talk and still watch the Grammys, go to Disney, watch the Emmys, NFL, NBA, etc. But I’m the weird one to question it. When they brought the subject up to begin with. I have a cousin who teaches American history. She’s oh so conservative…”conservative”…but really, she’s conservative. Votes GOP. I know because I hear about it. Speaks ill of those who don’t. But she still spends every single vacation break at the Disney that is producing this crap. It’s like a personality substitute. She’s more extreme example but I know a few others. Who mostly are of the XX chromosome variety. All of this idiocy would end right quick if conservatives, with all their principles that they love to bang on about, would just stop watching. But no, they think that their bloody voting once every two years or so (and some if that) and giving money to conservative…”conservative” causes is what is really going to change things. Then they whine when they lose. I find most conservatives more insufferable than the leftists.
maps of ship routes, 1700-1850, by nation
Captain Cook was unavailable for comment.
Standards of civility and professionalism subjugate black people.
So… I just popped over to Patterico’s blog to see what the NeverTrumper take has been on the China balloon thing. I must say that I am humbled to witness, to wonder and to marvel at the stunning stupidity that God hath wrought in this world.
Disney that is producing this crap.
And if dare dispute that 1619 woke garbage you get (like I have) all manner of people saying “so you think slavery never existed, huh? huh? huh?”
I believe the last thing ‘Disney’ I bought was “Frozen”. Haven’t been to the park in well over 15 years. And it’s sad, because I grew up in SoCal where Disney & Knott’s were fun places to go. I watched “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color/Wonderful World of Disney” on Sundays back when the shows had titles like “The Swamp Fox” “Davy Crockett” and “Johnny Tremain”.
Of course, Walt and Roy are dead and the grandkids like Abigail Disney, spoiled Princess of Woke, can’t stand the old company.
If it weren’t for hoax racism, we’d hardly have racism at all.
My conclusion: Doing business with black people is risky. Even when they have degrees and dress well. The fact that the professors specialize in “racism studies” should be a very large red flag.
Frankly, I think the appraiser should have asked for much more than $250,000 in damages. A few million would be appropriate.
As Mr Swen Swensonson over there observes, if it’s bigotry to suggest that these people can’t be expected to behave like civilised human beings, what is it when they tell us that themselves?
Standards of civility: perhaps these people should go to Japan, where politeness and professionalism are everywhere–no white people in sight and no one being subjugated (well, except for some korean guest workers). A lack of professionalism gives you things and organizations that don’t work.