SANS HUMOR TUESDAY

I watched a documentary about this. Bears are terrified of dogs and it doesn't matter how big the dog is. One guy whose job it is to capture bears that start hanging out in human neighborhoods, uses a dog to tree the bear where it can be more easily tranquilized. 

I have no idea what this all means, but a very smart lady sent it to me, so it's gotta be cool....

Yes, this exactly what it looks like...

They ought to have a naming contest for this motherfucker...

I think that most of our lost awe of the universe could be rediscovered if people would find a way to sleep under a starlit sky from time to time and thus realizing that many of those stars are really galaxies just like ours.

BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHY

A storm in northern Africa from the ISS....

I am of the opinion that poetry should be read aloud. Using that generic inner voice just doesn't do it justice. Poetry is not just words....but sounds. Try this selection both ways.

This is just fucking awesome!!

SOME SCIENCE STUFF

Why do evil people live in modernist homes?




This works....

This tells you every time it has been send and when and breaks it down any way you want. You, gentle readers, need this.

It's dangerous to be right when your government is wrong.
- Voltaire

This site is great! You enter a graph and it finds the closest matches.

Notice anything....unusual about this? 

Where the fuck is "our" deflation?

This is the most awesome thing I've seen in a long, long time, so pay attention.

The picture at the bottom came right out of one of Michelangelo's sketchbooks. The artist made the purse at the top following Michelangelo's plan.

"i" before "e" except after "c".
Weird!
(you might want to read that again)




My jury is still out when it comes to abortion....

This is his death mask...

Give this a minute....you can figure it out....

The beatings will continue until morality improves.

When I die, I'd like someone to keep posting to my blog just to freak people out.




This is a spiral notebook for left handed people.

Couldn't you just turn it over?


Eye in the sky....

I just dumped a glass of perfectly drinkable water because there was a tiny speck of something in it. Take that, Africa.

"I found out where I buried my steroids."

The military has been testing these for years...

Now Michelin is developing one for us...

This could save lives....

They say that everybody needs a hero. Here is mine....

Fucking awesome!!!

If you don't know how this "Holy Man" Dali Lama was selected, you should look it up....

Does this look rational to you?

Why is it that the people we hire to do the most dangerous jobs for us get the least amount of money?

 (you might want to look at that last one again)

Yeah, he built our rockets....

He also built them for his last employer....

Back when everyone did their part in war....

I don't know what to say to young men who tell me that they never want children. And most of the time I think they would make great dads.

Like this lady, do you?

TOONS THAT I JUST DON'T GET....ANYONE?....ANYONE?

(Seriously, I didn't get any of those)

ONE OF MY VERY OWN....

BEAUTIFUL WOMEN....

AND THEN THERE'S THIS...
A man was murdered in a fast food parking lot. A man was arrested. The police went to his FaceBook account and found this.......the gun with the serial number.  I mean damn.

AND THIS....

Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher wrote this intriguing article over at The New York Times about the death of manufacturing and the disappearing American middle class - if you read only one thing today, make it this one:

Back in February, President Obama surprised Steve Jobs with a question of what it would take to make the iPhones in the United States, rather than China.
Jobs replied that the iPhone could never be made in the United States ... and no, it's not because American labor costs (in fact, labor cost is a tiny fraction of the cost of making an iPhone). It's because America simply doesn't have the manufacturing might anymore:

“Apple’s an example of why it’s so hard to create middle-class jobs in the U.S. now,” said Jared Bernstein, who until last year was an economic adviser to the White House.
“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”