Friday Ephemera

eLEGS unveiled by Berkeley Bionics. // Chocolate covered bacon and bacon pancakes too. // A visual timeline of the boombox. // The Pope-Waverley electric runabout, circa 1905. // The panhandlers of San Francisco: “The defining characteristic of all these ‘travelers’ seems to be an acute sense of entitlement.” // Printing with foam. // Florida from above. // Lego aircraft carrier. // The inconstant Batman logo. // Waiting for Superman. (h/t, TDK) // Mexico City’s public library. // Million-dollar London properties that may leave you disappointed. // How to degauss a cat. // The grass roofs of Norway. // Underwater scooters.

Comments

[rjmadden]

Thanks for the 'panhandlers' article. Heather MacDonald is always a good read.

"I ask the group on the blanket: Why should people give you money? "They got a dollar and I don't," Cory replies. Why don't you work? "We do work," retorts Eeyore. "I carry around this heavy backpack. We wake up at 7 AM and work all day. It's hard work." She's referring to begging and drinking. She adds judiciously: "Okay, my liver hates me, but I like the idea of street performance."

[David]

Maybe Eeyore imagines that framing her hustle as “street performance” is somehow endearing. The lack of self-awareness is almost – almost - touching.

[carbon based lifeform]

"A visual timeline of the boombox."

Eighties flashback... I used to own #7. Twin tape decks!

[JuliaM]

From the panhandling article, it seems that self awareness is at least not totally dead in the States:

'Some are runaways; some are college dropouts; others are years older. Eeyore says she got kicked out of her Riverside, California, home at 14 because she was “a punk and an asshole.”..'

[Andrea Harris]

"Florida from above"

Ah. Memories. I'm still amazed I managed to last so long there without going insane. Hey, shut up you in the back.