Monday - October 06, 2014

the war was in the future and lucky strike green had not gone to war yet

This had to be 1930s.  A great time for Jazz and Swing.  Lucky Strike hadn’t gone to the white pack yet. Chesterfield cigarettes advertised .... “Not a cough in a car load”
For all it’s sophistication, it was still sort of an innocent time. Busby Berkeley movies.  Radio thrived and so did movies.  Rogers and Astaire, James Cagney, The Marx Bros. Artie Shaw,Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa and Harry James.  Wow. What a time.

I would guess that most folks were working, those who still had jobs anyway, so all these many years later, I get to see and hear more of the stars of their day, anytime I want to, than they could hope to see in their time. 

I always enjoy the artwork that went into posters and adverts like this. 

I tried enlarging without a lot of success, but could only read part of the first line. I did see however, the beginning of what looked like a disclaimer by the company. 

Enjoy.

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   Wednesday - September 24, 2014

nom nom nom nom

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   Friday - September 19, 2014

ISIS Porn

Dirty dirty. Sexy sexy. Hot tails and no panties.

New versions for your iPhone and Android coming soon.

No, I’m not making this up. Here’s the link, go buy your own copy for $9.99

Ok, I’m making up the ISIS part. But WTH, they’re the ones putting underpants on goats, and they sure love to destroy stuff, so maybe this game is a big hit with them.

Goat Simulator has finally hit app stores, meaning you can do away with lesser goat sandbox iOS games like Goat Frenzy 3D Simulator, Goat Rampage, Goat Gone Wild, Crazy Goat, Goat Smash Lite and Goat vs Zombies.

The wilfully stupid experiment turned internet phenomenon is priced at $4.99 in the US and £2.99 in the UK, though the developer Coffee Stain Studios admits that “you should probably spend your money on something else, such as a hula hoop or a pile of bricks.”

The simulator was released a couple of days earlier than expected, because, as a spokesperson put it on Twitter, “When you see a big button that says ‘publish,’ you HAVE to f*cking click it.”

Gameplay teased in Goat Simulator’s superb trailer (7 million views and counting) includes jetpacking around the countryside, flying off a treadmill and defenestrating yourself.

The game has been likened to an old-school skating game, “except instead of being a skater, you’re a goat, and instead of doing tricks, you wreck stuff.”

Goatse mu later!

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

Posted by Drew458     on 09/19/2014 at 09:27 AM   
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   Thursday - September 18, 2014

Too Much Temptation For ISIS

The northern Syrian city of Raqqa is at the centre of an intelligence gathering operation to find Jihadi John.

Dubbed the ‘heart of evil’ by Special Forces, it is effectively capital of the self-proclaimed Islamic State.

Raqqa, on the north bank of the Euphrates, is the headquarters of IS and base to leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
...
In the months since IS militants imposed Sharia law, thieves have had their hands hacked off and opponents have been crucified or beheaded.

Music has been banned.

Smoking is now forbidden, women must wear the full veil and there have been reports of people being stoned to death.

Even goats have had their genitals covered.

It is said that if you are on the streets at prayer time, you risk your life.

One resident said: ‘They banned the sale of alcohol, they tried to close cafes where boys and girls sit together, they banned street theatre, cinema, bright colours and forced women to wear Islamic dress.

‘They are the new dictators, just like Bashar al-Assad, but dressed in black.’

No booze, no babes, no smokes, no tunes, no shows, no fashion. And now, no late night forbidden naughty naughty with the herd. What’s a poor jihadi to do?



      

to paraphrase the guy from the Six Flags theme park ads: “ISIS - more flags, less fun!”

Posted by Drew458     on 09/18/2014 at 01:02 PM   
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   Friday - September 12, 2014

Check Your Six. Or your Five.

When Marlo Dewing went shopping for a car last year, she only had one requirement: a manual transmission.

“Any car that was only available as an automatic was a deal breaker,” said Dewing, 44. “I love to drive. I want to know that I am actually driving, that I am in control of the machine.”

That made her shopping list a very short one. Only around 10 percent of vehicles made in North America now have manual transmissions, down from 35 percent in 1980. And that number is expected to keep shrinking, according to the consulting firm IHS Automotive.

Manuals no longer have a fuel economy advantage. The five-speed manual transmission on the 2014 Honda Civic sedan gets 31 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving, for example, while a Civic with Honda’s continuously variable automatic transmission — which moves automatically to the gear most appropriate for the car’s situation — gets 33 mpg.

The price gap does remain. A Honda Accord with an automatic transmission costs around $800 more than a manual one, while drivers opting for an automatic transmission on a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray have to pay $1,725 more. But that doesn’t seem to have stifled demand.

Driving enthusiasts like Dewing remain manuals’ biggest fans, and ensure that some brands will continue to produce them. Dewing eventually settled on a 2012 Volkswagen GTI with a six-speed manual transmission. It’s a 210-horsepower hatchback that’s popular with enthusiasts; Volkswagen says about half the GTIs it sells in the U.S. are manuals.

Earlier this week I read a news article that told how Cadillac is developing a self-driving car. Are you kidding me? Duh, when Cadillac sold real Caddys, cars you didn’t have to drive had a chauffeur. There is already at least one car on the market that does hands-off automatic parallel parking. And maybe that is a good idea, seeing how tall modern vehicles have become, which limits close-in visibility. OTOH, if your new high rider has power folding mirrors, just tilt them down 45° and ta-da, there’s the curb!

Rear view cameras and back up radar are out there now too. And I can’t say that those are bad things. Lane change warning systems. Fine, great. Low speed front radar braking ... probably a good idea too. It’s almost impossible to buy a new car that doesn’t have computer driven traction control. All of these things make cars safer and easier to drive. But a manual transmission makes a car fun to drive. And that’s what it’s all about. You don’t need thighs of iron to work a clutch any longer either; no matter how powerful the engine is, a modern hydraulic clutch reduces the pedal effort to just a couple pounds.

The old hot rodder argument that automatics are stronger doesn’t fly either; 5 speed manuals from Legend and 6 speed manuals from Tremec can handle 700lb ft of torque, which is crazy strong.

But oh no, manuals suck in traffic!! BS. I’ve been driving manuals since 1983, and I live in NJ, land of traffic. Trust me, it isn’t an issue. Right toe up, a flip of the right wrist, a slip of the left toe up, a touch of gas, left toe down, wrist flip back, left toe up, right toe down: you’ve just let off the brakes, put the car in gear, moved forward 5 feet in the traffic jam, come to a stop, and put the car back in neutral. It’s so easy you don’t even think about it. So is holding the car in position while stopped on a hill. It’s a tiny little skill, and once you learn it you do it for the rest of your life without thinking about it.

But it’s really all about the control. I want to drive the car, not have the car drive me. And when it’s time to go, I want to go. I don’t want to blurble away from the stop light, engine revving away like a buzzsaw with the car going nowhere. Which is what happens with a CVT. Plus a manual simply makes driving more fun.



Here’s Coach to help you through your driving desire to do something with your left foot:

2.97, 2.10, 1.46, 1:1, .74, .50: the standard gear ratios on the Tremec T56 wide ratio transmission (0.80 5th and 0.64 6th available): now your 400hp V8 with it’s 3.90 rear axle can get 20mpg at 80mph.

Posted by Drew458     on 09/12/2014 at 08:17 AM   
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   Saturday - September 06, 2014

For Christopher

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   Wednesday - September 03, 2014

Toys For Boys

h/t to Doc Jeff.

Shoots wooden matches halfway across the yard. Awesome link!

I watched the video and immediately wondered if it could be improved. Maybe you could make one that used 2 hair clips per side, for double the power? And with a little extra work and a desktop staple as a hinge pin, you could build in a trigger as a lever out the back. The weak part of the design is the bridge that holds the bow arms in place. Sure, the thread wrap helps a lot, but a double spring rig might require a pop rivet a teensy tiny nut and bolt. And that’s starting to make it too complicated for kids. So stick with the single pair of springs. Granted, you’d want to sift through the beauty aids section of the dollar store to find the biggest spring hair clips available. Because, moar power!

This looks like a lot more fun than spool tanks and wooden swords; the   troop of baboons   bunch of boys I grew up with would have gone wild over this. And we had those “strike anywhere” matches in those days too. Real firepower!!

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   Saturday - August 23, 2014

Sure, Why Not?

A little tie in with the next post ... for all you parrot heads out there. Count me in.

... and now that I’m home from Jerry’s 50th birthday party, NOW I feel like drinking and dancing. I need a cup or two of tachyons; I’m about 4 hours behind realtime.

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   Saturday - August 09, 2014

There’s A Moon Out Tonight

"Keep on looking up”, the words of the late great Jack Horkheimer, host of PBS TV’s Star Gazer and guide to the stars. The real ones, not those other flaming gasbags.  In space, not in Hollywood.

South Florida is in for a celestial treat this weekend when the second of three supermoons this summer will be visible.

The full moon on August 10th isn’t like any other full moon we’ve seen this year. This is a “Supermoon,” the closest and largest full moon in 2014.

When the moon is full as it makes its closest pass to Earth, it becomes a “Supermoon,” and will be up to 31,000 miles closer to Earth than other full moons this year.

According to NASA, this full moon will be 14-percent closer and 30-percent brighter than other full moons of the year.

The scientific term for the phenomenon is “perigee moon” or the point when the Moon is closest to the Earth in its monthly orbit.

The moon will appear much larger than normal, especially on the horizon.

Pretty neat.

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   Sunday - August 03, 2014

Back on Facebook

Yeah, back on there. So if you want to friend, or refriend, me (wardmama?) look for Chris Mosier. One of the guys I friended is named George Takei. You may have heard of him. Last seen piloting a hijacked Bird of Prey. He’s a funny guy. An example of the stuff he posts:

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   Saturday - August 02, 2014

Don’t scare the children

Makes me wonder… my 10-yr-old granddaughter has never seen me without a beard.

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   Sunday - July 13, 2014

Never get a tattoo…

I’m watching a movie called ‘Down Periscope’. (Originally I was looking for McHale’s Navy on Amazon Prime.)

Opening scene: Top brass in Washington are debating about promoting a man to command a billion-dollar submarine. Point of contention? Said commander has ‘Welcome Aboard’ tattooed on his penis. The CNO (Chief of Naval Operations) thinks this does not reflect well on the Navy.

Well, he loses points for having a tattoo at all. Gains points for enduring the pain of tattooing THAT location!

(Uh, Drew? Can you delete the pings? I don’t think any of those sites that BMEWS pings exist anymore.)

Posted by Christopher     on 07/13/2014 at 07:03 PM   
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   Saturday - July 05, 2014

Photoshop challenge!

BMEWS and BMEWSetts. I came across the following phrase in my reading today:

The imperial order of the upraised middle finger

My first attempts really suck. Need a decent (indecent?) logo for the order. The winner gets free life membership in the order.

UPDATE! Gonna send this off to His Rottiness Emperor Misha I. Bet one of his loyal subjects can do justice to this.

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   Monday - June 30, 2014

Finally, Maybe, Haggis

UK Lobbying To End USA 43 Year Old Haggis Import Ban


Connor MacLeod: You look like a woman you stupid haggis.

Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez : Haggis? What is haggis?

MacLeod: Sheep’s stomach stuffed with meat and barley

Ramirez: And what do you do with it?

MacLeod: You eat it!

Ramirez: How revolting!

The British government has dispatched its Environment Secretary to Washington to try and convince the Obama administration to lift a 43-year-old ban on importing haggis.

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson was due to meet with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in an effort to show that British meat is safe to consume.

Haggis, the Scottish delicacy consisting of a sheep’s heart, lungs, and liver simmered with onion, oatmeal, suet, and spices in a sausage casing—or sheep’s stomach for the traditionalists—was embargoed by the U.S. in 1971 as part of a blanket ban on foods containing sheep’s lung. In 1989, an outbreak of mad cow disease in the U.K. meant that the import ban was extended to all beef and lamb products.

Sky News reports that Paterson is hoping that the U.S. can lift its ban as part of negotiations toward a trade deal between the U.S. and the European Union that could be worth $17 billion to the British economy.

“I share many haggis producers’ disappointment that American diners are currently unable to enjoy the taste of Scotland’s wonderful national dish in their own country,” Paterson said recently. “"I am meeting my U.S. counterpart today to discuss how we can begin exporting it, particularly as so many Americans enjoy celebrating their Scottish heritage.

Haggis ... it makes you strong!

But mark the Rustic, haggis fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll mak it whissle;
An’ legs an’ arms, an’ heads will sned,
Like taps o’ thrissle.

Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,
Gie her a haggis!

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Address To A Haggis
Robert Burns, 1786

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm: 
Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace
As lang’s my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An’ cut you up wi’ ready sleight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like ony ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!

Then, horn for horn,
they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve,
Are bent lyke drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
“Bethankit!” ‘hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him ower his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll mak it whissle;
An’ legs an’ arms, an’ heads will sned,
Like taps o’ thrissle.

Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,
Gie her a haggis!

GET ME OUT OF HERE ...

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