Thursday - October 06, 2011
Why not?
I just couldn’t face another post on the DC Follies, so here’s some cats scaring the hell out of themselves. via cutenessoverload.com
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Permalink • Thursday - September 29, 2011
We’ll Call It A Draw!
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 28, 2011
It’s that time again
My wife loves hers. They’re more than just conversation starters, they frighten liberals. Their reactions run from “WTF” to “that’s sick!”. Far more impressive than another Danger Kitty wristband
To get yours, pay a visit to Kevin over at Smallest Minority. No other gun designs available. Act quick, the production window closes soon.
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Permalink • Friday - September 23, 2011
Can I introduce you please To a lump of Cheddar Cheese
Love this!
Being a Yank, I’d never heard it or knew it existed until just now. It’s utterly simple and stupid and completely excellent. It doesn’t hardly even have real lyrics until the second verse. Fabulous. Turn it up!
It’s fighting music but without the bagpipes.
Less than one guess as to what I’m cooking for dinner.
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Permalink • All That Is Old Is New Again
I have Doc Jeff to thank in part for this one. Thanks for the link Doc!
Ever since TinEye and Google Image Search came on the scene, it’s been pretty much impossible to do a WhatsIt. No matter what picture I put up, unless it’s one I photograph myself, you can find it in a second. Grrr. But if you’d like to play along and can resist the temptation to use an image search tool, here’s a really neat thing.
It’s a hexagon pyramid of glass that measures about 4” across. This one is green, but most of them were clear. The pyramid could have 4, 6, 8, or more sides, but 6 was fairly common. Some of them were as small as 2” across, but almost none of them was larger than 6” across because that would make the pyramid too tall.
As a very small child, I stood on several of these without injury. Heck, I probably jumped up and down on them, since I was that kind of boy.
These have been around ever since mankind had the ability to make fairly clear glass and understood it’s properties. Some of the later ones are not pyramids at all but fluted, which utilizes the same property but in a different way. Some of them also had a rim around the edge, but most didn’t. Wiki thinks they’ve only been around since the 1840s, but Wiki is wrong about lots of things. I think they might date back almost to Roman times.
They make dandy paperweights. They make decent palm maces; if ever there was a small blunt object to use as a weapon, here it is. They probably also excel at juicing oranges and grapefruit. None of these is what the things were designed to do.
Have at it. And then check below the fold for the answer, and for Doc’s link to a modern zero-cost implementation that is about as “green” a solution to an age old problem as can be found.
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Permalink • Tuesday - September 13, 2011
Sandbox Play For Adults
Drive a bulldozer and shoot a machine gun for $525 in Vegas
By Julie Jacobson, APWhat to do with all those empty construction sites in Las Vegas, where work on a handful of hotels and other projects has halted in the last few years due to the see-saw economy?
A company called Dig This has a solution, according to the Associated Press. Give tourists one of the most original outings ever: letting them get behind the wheel of heavy machinery including bulldozers and excavators so they can play construction worker. Moving sand and rock not far from the Trump International Hotel and Palace Station casino isn’t for penny-slot players; it starts at $210 for an hour and a half on one machine and climbs up to $750 for hours of play on a bulldozer and an excavator.
And it’s not just the male species fascinated by playing Bob the Builder. “Fifty percent of our clients are women,” Dig This owner Ed Mumm tells me. “They’re very good because they listen and they don’t put as much pressure” on the machinery.
The AP article quotes Mary Fitzsimons, an emergency room doctor from Walnut Creek, Calif., who took the quick intro course and spent two hours digging a trench, stacking tires and picking up basketballs and placing them on the top of cones. “I thought it would be much clunkier, and the lighter you are with the controls, the easier it worked,” she told the AP.
Mumm said he started Dig This after renting an excavator while building a house. “I thought to myself: ‘If I’m having this much fun, imagine the amount of people that don’t get to do this stuff that would love to do this,’ “ he said, according to the AP. Dig This is billed as “America’s first and only heavy equipment playground.”
One of the more unusual offerings is a “Dig and Destroy” package ($525). Participants work the heavy machinery, then are taken to a nearby shooting range to run through what’s billed as “50 rounds of ammo-KRISS Super V (fully automatic Sub-Machine Gun); 10 rounds of ammo- Saiga 12 (short barrel Semi-Automatic shot gun); 20 rounds of ammo-M60 (fully automatic machine gun). Less expensive scoop-and-shoot packages are available.
I gather she didn’t actually give it a try, because I’m utterly certain that bulldozers don’t have steering wheels. And I’d want more ammo for the M60; at least 100 rounds.
Las Vegas has seen its share of heavy construction equipment as it bulldozed its way through one giant casino project after another. But with the recession having gutted the construction industry, excavators and bulldozers near the Strip are being put to use as toys for thrill-seeking visitors.
A business owner has created what amounts to a life-sized sandbox for adults who pay up to $750 each to push around dirt, rock and huge tires with the earth-moving construction equipment. All it takes is a 10-minute classroom lesson and guidance from trainers through headsets.
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“When they’re in those machines, everything else doesn’t mean anything,” added Mumm, 45. “They’ve forgotten about all the stresses in their lives because the fact is, they’ve got to focus on that piece of equipment. When they get in there and they rev up that engine, they know they’ve got a serious program on their hands.”
The play sandbox sits just across the freeway from the Las Vegas Strip, near remnants of an actual construction industry that nosedived in 2008 and hasn’t recovered.
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Permalink • Le Tour De France
I’m messing about with this old PC today, trying to repair the damage I inadvertently inflicted yesterday; while trying to clean up some old files, I used a software removal program that was very overly enthusiastic. Bad program! Not only did it uninstall the ancient software, it took out all the associated files, which happened to include all my system fonts, about 900 registry entries, and any number of .dll files which actually belonged to other programs. And then absolutely erased them using government level security methods. So I’ve been busy trying to rebuild things.
Anyway, I ran across this picture in some old folder, and it reminded me of Steamboat McGoo, a great but currently retired blogger. How? He used to run these funny mystery pictures, all titled “When you see it, you’ll shit a brick” and then remark in various ways how little mortar or kiln fired clay he had actually passed. So here’s one of those from me ... if you have to play tourist in France, this looks like a pretty good way to do it.
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Permalink • Saturday - September 10, 2011
Phil Foglio
Yeah, I’m remembering the days in the mid-70s. Playing D&D and reading The Dragon magazine. Phil Foglio was one of the cartoon artists.
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Permalink • Thursday - September 08, 2011
STWA
A couple weeks ago Philip Guthrie sent me a package containing his new board game, called Spread The Wealth Around. I promised I’d give it a try and stick up a review, but what with hurricanes, floods, work, and helping out the neighbors I haven’t got around to it until now.
I gather it took him a year and a half to develop the concept, work up the graphics, and get the game ready for market. And he has obviously put in a lot of effort. The fold up board is visually impressive and worth looking at for 5 minutes even if you don’t play the game. And the Obamabucks play money is fantastic, far better than what passes as real money in Zimbabwe.
He even got John Cox, from the late Cox & Forkum politcal cartoon, to do some of the artwork.
Choose membership in one of four organizations: Public Service, ObamaCare, Big Labor or Wall Street. From your perch atop the ruling class, you’ll bankrupt other players, drag them before show trials, carve them up in unnecessary surgery or just get one of your big labor goons to wack ‘em in Rocko Roulette.
Rather than accumulate wealth in Spread the Wealth Around, you’ll rack up mountains of debt – just like Obama’s America. Scam dead people and collect their Social Security in Public Office. Unplug granny and play the lawsuit lottery in ObamaCare. Gamble and go burnin’ and lootin’ with Big Labor. Cut in line for your Wall Street bailout – it’s all for the children.
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Why earn when you can spend? Why work when you can party? You don’t have to be an assistant deputy undersecretary for central planning to get too big to fail – you just have to Spread the Wealth Around! If you never let a crisis go to waste, then leave behind the little people in the tea party, and get your green job aboard the high speed train to the ruling class.
Prosperity is just another government program away, so don’t wait for global warming and the next ice age before playing the ultimate boardgame for Bamster bureaucrats. Like the deficit and gas prices, there’s no where to go but up! It’s time to reward your friends, punish your enemies and get your fair share of stimulus money.
All of this would be for naught if the game itself sucked. But it doesn’t. We gave it a couple of tries, and it’s not to hard to learn and rather fun. It is NOT Monopoly™. Just because you get money, and go around a board, and there are two decks of random circumstance cards conceptually similar to Chance and Community Chest ( called Social Justice featuring Comrade Obama smiling over a legion of marching skeletal death Nazis, and Nanny State, showing a frightened child’s nightmares as the wicked witch approaches) the similarity ends there.
It’s a game for 4 or more players, but we were able to try it out with just the 2 of us. The first time we each played 3 roles, the second time we tried it with just one. It worked, but it’s best with 4 or more. You get a token ( I suggested acorns in every color of the unicorn rainbow other than white. Phillip came back with ideas for lead pipes, coke straws, food stamps, union membership badges, but regretted they’d have to wait for the Deluxe Edition. They guy has at least as much snark as I do, so I’m impressed ), you get a huge amount of money. And then you buy your position in the government (sound familiar, Chicago residents?). Somebody should be the bank, though it’s the most expensive role. But it makes money, always. Then you go around the board and just follow the notations on the squares. Sometimes you may not make it even once around before getting wiped out, but hey, that’s life. Your debt gets tracked on a little notepad, included along with a microscopic pencil. And the roles are fully explained, each on a nicely made card. So it’s pretty easy to pick up, even if you don’t read the rules.
The game is fun, the messages on the back of the Social Justice and Nanny State cards are really sharp, and the graphics are fantastic. It’s sure to be a hit the next time you have a Tea Party meeting at your house, or if you have a few Right-thinking folks over for chips and beer. Which is almost the same thing.
Spread The Wealth Around is available for online purchase here. The web site gives you much more information about the game, and shows you more of the fantastic artwork. Oh, and it has a love song for Kim Jong-Il too, that master of Progressive Thought.
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Permalink • Saturday - August 27, 2011
who are these people?
First of all and most important ... hope any of you back home in USA are high and dry and safe from the storm.
OK ... just for the heck of it and not to make a mystery of things, saw this in yesterday’s paper but not on line til this morning. So I thought just for fun,
I’d post the following. But I will also leave you with a link to answers that match the numbers. That’s for folks like myself who really don’t have the patience to screw around and want to get to the heart of the matter quickly and go on to other things. And boy oh boy do I have things on the ole plate today. Break in weather, sun showing so I have to get outside after breakfast at some point, and finish off mending and painting. Fun weekend ahead.
Can you identify the stars from their childhood photos?
Now before you click on that answer link .... take a look at #10 above. I can’t imagine anyone picking up on that. Let us all know if you do. But I don’t think I’d believe it. lol. Have fun.
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Permalink • Thursday - August 11, 2011
I need one
Link sent in by Vilmar - How to get ahead in bowling. Oh, wait, sorry, that was a head. These would be perfect for a Halloween bowling party. Or for totally freaking out your opponents. Truly sick!
Yes, it’s a bowling ball. It just looks like the head of a zombie! Artist Oliver Paass painted a set of these balls that were then placed in German bowling alleys to advertise a TV channel specializing in horror films.
link, with short video. Best comment for these zombie balls: “Laaaaanes! Laaaaanes!”
In bowling, intimidation is half the game. I wonder if you can get these made to order? Sneak photos of the folks on the other teams and get them made up. Seriously frightening. If they were made on slightly under-size balls, then given a clear plastic coat to bring it up to proper diameter, like the famous Viz-A-Balls, they’d even be legal. Gross, but legal.
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Permalink • Saturday - July 30, 2011
A Bigger Punchline
... and the old joke concludes “and she slapped her hands together and said “I TOLD you not to park the truck in front of the house!!”
Massive iceberg blocks the town’s harbor : “Big Berg Blocks Boats”
An impressive iceberg arrived in Newfoundland’s Goose Cove in mid-July. “Icebergs float in from Greenland,” said the photographer, Gene Patey. This one briefly blocked the town’s harbor before breaking apart and melting, “but the fishermen took their chances.”
The Northern Peninsula’s international reputation as ‘Iceberg Alley’ continues to grow as more than a dozen gargantuan blocks of ice float down from Greenland. The largest, a chunk calved from the Petermann Ice Glacier, is yet to appear around the tip of Newfoundland however it was last seen off Battle Harbor on the Southern Labrador coast, yesterday.
A few miles away in St. Anthony, the icebergs are coming down in droves. Locals are making some quick summer money taking tourists out to see them. It’s a very good year for icebergs. Goose Cove and St. Anthony are towns on the northern end of the island of Newfoundland, which sits at the east end of the Bay of St. Lawrence where the St. Lawrence River empties into the sea. Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia lie to the southwest, Labrador to the north. St. Anthony bills itself as the “iceberg, whale, and moose capital of the world”, and locals report that there was still snow on the ground as of last month; “it has been a cold summer thus far”. That isn’t too much of a surprise; the ice cold Labrador Current runs along the south side of the island, keeping the warmer Gulf Stream current far out to sea. And the continental shelf is quite abrupt there, so it is possible that the iceberg in the picture is not shelved, but floating.
That same Labrador Current should push the icebergs into the waters off the coast of Maine in another month or less, assuming they don’t all melt on the way as they usually do.
More interesting stuff in the same neighborhood: Did you know that Canada is less than 16 miles away from France? Seriously. You can take a ferry back and forth. Within the “12 mile circle” is the tiny island of St. Pierre. This is not a territory of France but an actual part of France, even though the area is called “Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon”. They use the Euro as currency, they have their own time zone, their electricity is 220v just like in France. They probably only have one shower on the whole island, just like France.
I leave it to you to debate why this summer is such a great one for icebergs. These ones come down from Greenland. Climate change, higher thermal activity from the Greenland hotspots, just random fluctuation, more seismic activity causing more calving, Eskimos being naughty with crowbars, etc?
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Permalink • Thursday - July 07, 2011
This Quacks Me Up
BOISE IDAHO -- A few animal lovers rescued a few ducklings that were trapped in a storm drain Tuesday night on Victory Road near Five Mile Road.
A passerby noticed a mother duck acting strangely on the side of the road and stopped to see what was going on. She realized a few ducklings were trapped in the drain.
A bit later, some others had gathered to help remove the ducklings. They used a stick with duct tape on the end as well as a swimming pool skimmer to take three ducklings out.
All of the rescued ducklings were reunited with their mother who was by then swimming in a nearby canal.
“Happy ending. It was adorable. It was just wonderful,” Annette Anderson said.
And now everything is just ducky.
via Insty
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Permalink • Tuesday - June 28, 2011
What do you get when you cross Star Trek with Tolkiein
You get the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins!
The sad fact is, when Leonard Nimoy did this, he’d never read Tolkien’s works. He had no idea of what a ‘hobbit’ was. I have this on Nimoy’s own words. I’ve read his autobiography “I’m Not Spock”. I’ve also read the follow-up autobiography: I Am Spock!.
Somebody has the same vinyl LP that I have. Leonard Nimoy is a passible singer as he covers songs like Green Grass.
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