Friday Ephemera (763)

…and now for something completely different…

Midnight, 49 & 61, bring your axe.

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As cool as that is, and thank you very much I enjoyed it, the premise of “playing for change” is getting really tiresome. Playing for…I dunno…something else…unity?…appreciation?…just the general enjoyment of music? Sure. Great. But the idea of using music as a tool to change things, and let’s not pretend that there isn’t a political angle there, denigrates the music. Dude went down to the crossroads trying to flag a ride. The faustian bargain, whether Johnson himself was reading Faust at the time or not, is the general idea there. It’s a universal thought itself. Precedes Faust. There has been a thing of loading way too much into that song, a song I really got into after I learned of its pre-Clapton origins. Or maybe I just read too many musician magazine back in the day. But then again, here we are. I just like to enjoy that song in its abstract sense.

Frank Lloyd Wright was a notoriously arrogant man.

I like to point out, especially to architects of various kinds, that the engineer was right about that cantilevered deck. Yet no one remembers the engineer.

So this prompted me to ask Perplexity this question:
Are there any notable bridges in the USA that are named for the principal engineer who built them?

Yes, there are notable bridges in the United States named for their principal engineers:

Ellis Bridge: The US Highway 62 Bridge across the Tennessee River below Kentucky Dam was renamed in memory of George A. (Tony) Ellis, a resident engineer for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project. Ellis played a crucial role in the construction of this bridge and other infrastructure projects near the dam. His leadership and expertise left a lasting legacy, and the bridge was named in his honor after his unexpected passing in 2016.

Horace King Bridges: While not explicitly named after him, Horace King, a renowned 19th-century African American bridge builder, constructed numerous covered bridges in the South, including the Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge in Georgia. King’s innovative designs and craftsmanship earned him recognition as one of the most important bridge engineers of his time. Though bridges he built are attributed to him, they are not formally named after him.

These examples highlight how engineers have been commemorated for their contributions to infrastructure projects across the U.S.

Best it could do. So…die or be black.

I’m sensing a certain… symbolism.

But that’s been a thing at least at Windsor Castle for ages. That guard looks like cavalry? Perhaps at the Horse Guards or whatever in Whitehall? Do they have a similar guard thing there as well? There wasn’t a chain/forbidden zone at Windsor, at least when I was there. Though people were more respectful, even a-hole Americans and Irishmen, back then.

Libtards are posting this screenshot from the Economist, thinking they are saying something wise and true. The same libturds that were happy when conservatives were deplatformed, debanked, denied funding, banned from degree programs, fired, passed over for promotion, etc.

The Economist has been showing up a lot since the tariff thing started. Normies are under the impression that it’s a magazine about economics and are now stumbling on to their other further-left-Atlantic drivel.