Friday Ephemera
May 13, 2016
Doctor’s note of note. // Little Mercury, big Sun. // 200 years of U.S. immigration. // Antimatter yield calculator. // Notice of note. // At last, your very own garden igloo. // It’s a good-news-bad-news thing. // KFC edible nail polish. // For dining or ping pong, only $8,200. // Peak Waitrose. (h/t, Damian) // Honey on tap. // Hardcore icing. // For sufferers of phone battery neurosis. // Honest Trailers: Deadpool. // Juggle drumming. // The dead and deadening world of contemporary art. // Annoy your pets with the cat soundboard. // 90 episodes of Suspense (1942-1962). // 2,000 metres of fabric. // Middle-aged break-dancers. // Meanwhile, in China. // “Children make toys out of it.” // And finally, quite splendidly, the 2016 Mylapore Kapaleeswarar Temple Car Festival.
KFC edible nail polish. // For dining or ping pong, only $8,200. // Peak Waitrose.
. . . . . .someone(s) desperately in need of a life . . .
Hardcore icing . . . . Juggle drumming.
Skill and focus, demonstrated.
Posted by: Hal | May 13, 2016 at 01:01
Contemporary dance remix video.
Posted by: Hal | May 13, 2016 at 01:10
I suppose that John Fries Award probably isn't named for the leader of the 18th century tax rebellion in Pennsylvania.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fries
Posted by: Wilbur Hassenfus | May 13, 2016 at 01:39
Regarding the immigration animation, it appears that all the immigrants wind up in Kansas City.
Posted by: R. Sherman | May 13, 2016 at 02:53
The f*^**(^**ing flow hive!
Posted by: TimT | May 13, 2016 at 04:46
Shiny cakes. I'm not one for photogenic cakes (the eating is what's important) but these are quite impressive.
Posted by: TimT | May 13, 2016 at 04:49
My first thought was that Benjamin Shine calls himself an artist but he's gone and created something skilful, interesting, and beautiful: what the Hell does he think he's playing at?
But then I read that he "explores ideas of impermanence and the fleeting moment, which are conveyed through the inherent qualities of delicate tulle material", so I'll let him off. I do think he should be more careful, though. He'll never be taken seriously if he keeps turning out stuff that people can enjoy.
Posted by: Tell Sackett | May 13, 2016 at 05:47
For sufferers of phone battery neurosis.
"Battery Share is a new iOS app… that lets friends track each other's battery levels. Groups of friends can now see when someone is running low on power to send them a final update before losing contact."
Er... doesn't monitoring each other's battery levels and sending them warning messages just drain the battery even more?
Posted by: John D | May 13, 2016 at 07:22
doesn’t monitoring each other’s battery levels... just drain the battery even more?
Of course you’ll then need another app to show you exactly how much power is being consumed by the app that monitors your friends’ battery levels. Otherwise it won’t quite be neurotic enough. And then another app on top of that one to advise you of the nearest Battery Anxiety Support Group.
Posted by: David | May 13, 2016 at 07:31
Annoy your pets with the cat soundboard.
Done.
Posted by: Liz | May 13, 2016 at 07:52
'Social Justice: The Musical.'
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/363421.php
Posted by: sk60 | May 13, 2016 at 08:18
‘Social Justice: The Musical.’
Heh.
And speaking of which. Apparently, the 19-year-old Mao-lings are educating us.
Posted by: David | May 13, 2016 at 08:32
"The f*^**(^**ing flow hive!"
You do know that's cultural appropriation, don't you? Better get yours now, since all the bees are dying off and We're All Gonna Die™ soon!
Posted by: PiperPaul | May 13, 2016 at 09:45
Notice of note.
That has to be photoshop.
Posted by: Jen | May 13, 2016 at 12:12
That has to be photoshop.
The sign is real but fake, i.e., it’s a real physical object photographed in situ, but it’s unofficial, most likely a prank. Or possibly the result of a visitor’s genuine concern. Apparently, the photo was taken in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, where the dropping of acid is hardly unknown.
Posted by: David | May 13, 2016 at 12:17
Apparently, the 19-year-old Mao-lings are educating us.
Yet somehow they missed the fact that in a police state a) they wouldn't have been allowed to throw their tantrum, and b) if they even tried, they would be off to the gulag.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | May 13, 2016 at 14:19
Wise Cat:
Posted by: Jonathan | May 13, 2016 at 15:48
Perhaps a bit heavy for Friday Ephemera, but this has my knickers in a twist this morning...
So Cuomo gets plausible deniability by saying the ban, which IS his idea, does not apply to HVCC because they aren’t a “state entity”. However, were SUNY or similar to have such an opportunity, presumably the ban would apply to them. So the rule is still stupid for the very reason they are trying to weasel out by saying that it doesn’t apply to HVCC. Yet OTOH, HVCC “stands with Gov. Cuomo” in doing so. It’s this muddying of facts and BS under the guise of nuance that really grates on me.
http://menrec.com/college-baseball-team-will-denied-shot-nationals-due-nc-bathroom-controversy/
Posted by: WTP | May 13, 2016 at 16:53
Fans of scintillating prose will appreciate this paragraph from Jasbir Puar:
Posted by: Geezer | May 13, 2016 at 18:50
Meanwhile, the law may be an ass, but so is the Turner Prize. Literally, it appears.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | May 13, 2016 at 21:20
So the book attempts to offer a counter genealogy to the surge of theories of object-oriented ontology
Can't even make up their own BS terms anymore. Gotta steal a perfectly good term from computer science, so they can sound all smart-y, and corrupt that. FFS there's 26 letters in the alphabet. The combinations are nearly infinite. Show just a little creativity for all the oxygen you're sucking out of the planet.
Posted by: WTP | May 13, 2016 at 21:47
Fans of scintillating prose ...
In the late 1990s I took out a subscription to an anthropological journal, thinking it would be a good way to re-acquaint myself with the subject I had once studied. It was full of impenetrable gibberish, which did not come as a complete shock, but I nonetheless enjoyed one edition in particular. It carried an interview with the eminent anthropologist Isaac Schaapera, then a nonagerian, who was asked what he thought of current trends in the subject: 'I don't understand it', he said. 'They just make words up.'
Posted by: Trevor | May 13, 2016 at 23:26
Career choices . . .
Posted by: Hal | May 14, 2016 at 15:32
WTP,
Can't even make up their own BS terms anymore. Gotta steal a perfectly good term from computer science, so they can sound all smart-y, and corrupt that.
Why shouldn't they? They stole the "cis-" prefix from chemistry, and have gotten away with it.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | May 14, 2016 at 19:03
Point taken, Spiny. This abuse of language does burn my grits, though. Tower of Babel revisited.
Posted by: WTP | May 15, 2016 at 02:36
Hal:
She's a housemaker.
Only a momma can make a house a HOME.
:D
Posted by: dicentra | May 15, 2016 at 03:54
https://youtu.be/os9qYgJ6Nw8
VE MUST DEAL VISS IT
Posted by: DensityDuck | May 15, 2016 at 03:59
Re: $8,200 ping-pong table: My $50 ping-pong table currently has a dead computer, Christmas lights, lawn mower parts, and unfolded laundry on it.
Posted by: Southpaw | May 15, 2016 at 11:41
"They stole the "cis-" prefix from chemistry..."
Which stole it from Latin: Remember "cisalpine Gaul" (this side of the Alps) and "transalpine Gaul" (the other side of the Alps)?
So in some ways the nomenclature makes a certain kind of sense, although of course its purpose is to normalize every psychological and biological defect and disorder.
Posted by: pst314 | May 15, 2016 at 17:05
She's a housemaker.
Only a momma can make a house a HOME.
Momma, or daddy, or both, or two of, whatever . . . .
I just read the item, didn't write it.
---Paul FussellPosted by: Hal | May 15, 2016 at 19:36
Movie notes . . .
Posted by: Hal | May 16, 2016 at 18:44
VE MUST DEAL VISS IT
I think alcohol may have been involved.
Posted by: mojo | May 17, 2016 at 04:27