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I'm an artist, educator, militant anti-theist , and I write. I gamble on just about anything. And I like beer...but I love my wife. This blog contains observations from a funny old man who gets pissed off every once in a while.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

THURSDAY #2174


This 3 minutes I found fascinating. Pay attention at 1:30. There seems to be fighter aircraft practicing dogfighting or some such and they seem to take off and land in the ocean — aircraft carrier...
(best seen in full-screen)
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It's not only Buffalo engulfed in a terrifying snow wall. Yesterday was the coldest November morning since 1976: More than 85% of the surface of the contiguous United States reached or fell below freezing. This is much more anomalous than last year's polar vertex: Ten degrees celsius below normal temperatures!    

 Buffalo firefighters carrying a patient 10 blocks to mercy hospital...

 I just can't imagine waking up to this and knowing I have to do something about it...
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Here's what that 300+ mph train looks like from the outside...
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We have seen it all over the world for as long as we recorded history...oppressed people will strike out with whatever they have at hand...
You are NEVER going to stop them without stopping the oppression.
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Not to be outdone by their ESA colleagues, NASA is sending a spacecraft to an asteroid to bring a piece of it back. Her name is OSIRIS-REx, and she will be visiting Bennu, one of the primordial asteroids that have been orbiting the Sun for millions of years.

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This is for my wife. A nice piece to scroll to....



All of these by Thomas Yang have something in common...
And this is how it was done... 

 Want to guess what this is?
 I thought it was sutured human skin, but it's actually dunes on Mars.


 I read somewhere that his accent was a complete fabrication of his super-sized ego.



Shit people think about when they are stoned: If we drink drinks, why don’t we food food?





There is an app where no matter where you are, you can use your phone to honk your horn just to annoy people.



Fuck you, label guy.

 Don't know about this...
Google image search used to be so easy, but they have changed it. Now I'm just too stupid to look that up. Can someone help me identify if that is real and where it is.

What a very unusual image...
Just try to pin a story to what you have been presented.

Guy bought a house...
 And did a few modifications...
 But at least the inside was done tastefully...
Enough to move an interior designer to tears.

We've all seen this scene...
 But few people realize that the wall was tons of wood and in those days there were no stuntmen...

They did all the stunts themselves...
It was stated that this was a live shot filmed in real time...


What if the lottery is an Institute to catch time travelers?



A selfie you don't see every day...
I talked to a fighter pilot who said you don't fly in a fighter jet, you wear it...
Putting rockets under the ejection seat has saved countless lives...
I talked to a sailor who told me about a friend who was sitting in the pilot seat of a jet parked in the hangar inside an aircraft carrier when the ejection seat fired, sending him crashing into the ceiling.
The guy told me that because his blood type matched the injured man, they hooked his vein directly to the arm of the maimed guy. He watched as the guy died and at that moment he knew that racism was stupid...he being white and the other guy being black. Don't know if that's all true, but it's a pretty good story.

This is me...
...when I'm trying to decide whether to go all-in in a game of Texas Hold'em.


This is what happens when you keep firing a revolver with a stuck bullet...
How could anyone be so stupid?


This kid told his mother that he wanted "cold hard cash" for his birthday.
 "Sorry, your assets have been frozen."



An Awful One Of My Very Own...
Let's try it again...


I have reached a point in my adult life where I can, in fact, believe it’s not butter.




No dog should ever be homeless. 
And no home should ever be dogless.


It may not surprise the average cat owner, but a team of researchers has discovered that the genome of domestic mousers differs only slightly from that of wild cats. In other words, after 9,000-odd years of living alongside humans, the house cat remains only semi-domesticated. 



How did this happen to us? How did breastfeeding go from one of the purest, most fundamental of human activity to nasty?

Another painted woman...
 But I'm confused by how exactly her foot lines up with the grass, but her right hand is way off...or is it?


Recently-left-Amish-community world problems.

Fascinating comparison of the top 10 causes of death in 1900 and 2010...

Photography...

Oh, look, a social statement...


One thing Instagram does instantly is reveal who is living on a trust fund.



Food ala Rothco...

Andrew Wyeth has a thing for windows...


Stop asking where the bathroom is. It’s always in the back of the restaurant. Just keep walking. You’ll find it.



Even a modest bill to limit their power was voted out today. Alas.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The digital artist is Marcel Laverdet.

Anonymous said...

Yes, it was LOVE at first sight.
Your Wife

Spider Borland said...

Meh, as an Interior Designer, I'm fine with that house. Mainly because, in my mind, it crossed over from Living Quarters to Personal Statement a while ago. It's that what he wants, good for him. It's the POA that's crying.

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