Friday Ephemera

Nap buddies. // Parenting. // Edible pizza box. // He lives inside a Boeing 727. // A bear’s-eye-view of Yellowstone. // Bee versus nail. // An aid to concentration. // Hair dryer of note. // A short history of human height. // At last, a screen-licking robot. // Bodies of the solar system. // ISS Earth viewing livestream. Everybody wave. // Saturn and Enceladus. // Space invaders. // Psychic sasquatch. You know it makes sense. // Under construction. // Chronas. // Slither. // How to light a match. // Upgrade now. // Its gonads glow. // Nightmare fuel. // The only way to appreciate Wagner. // World’s longest functional golf club. // You want one and you know it. // Photography of note. // And finally, spiritually, “They have no internet. They don’t know what a sex toy is.”

Comments

[R. Sherman]

In 2012, a TV station in China's Xian city apologised after running a false report that a local farmer had discovered a giant piece of precious lingzhi mushroom.
The fleshy object, found in a well by the farmer, was identified by many viewers as a sex toy made of silicone.

TV reporters in Xian City need to get out more.

[R. Sherman]

Further to the "don't know a sex toy" link and the last paragraph, I quoted above, this is a lingzhi mushroom. I can hear the discussion:

Farmer Wang's wife: "What the hell is this I found buried in your sock drawer?"

Farmer Wang: Um, it's a . . . a . . . lingzhi mushroom!!! I found it in a well!! Honest honey.

[svh]

Kangaroo attacks car.

http://www.neatorama.com/pet/2016/05/05/Dash-Cam-Footage-Shows-Kangaroo-Attacking-Car-At-Midnight/

[George]

TV reporters in Xian City need to get out more.

In fairness, it could be argued that it is those who need to get out more who are most likely to be familiar with that type of thing...

[Hal]

Edible pizza box.

Ehn, of course the hot dog pizza has already been done . . .

Or if you also want dessert at the same time, you could just have a hamburger.

[Hal]

Kangaroo attacks car.

And then you should see what the koalas will do to you . . . !

[Sam]

ISS Earth viewing livestream.

"The space station is experiencing a temporary loss of signal."

That's how it starts...

[David]

That’s how it starts…

Signal restored. Invasion averted. For now, at least.

Incidentally, you can track the station’s position here.

[jones]

The isolator helmet just HAS to be better than goey for those troublesome tomes.

[David]

Your host, busily compiling next week’s ephemera.

[Joan]

Feminist hypocrisy, part three million.

http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2016/05/03/fat-shaming-editor-of-marie-claire-gets-an-epic-lesson-in-trolling-from-conservatives/

[David]

Feminist hypocrisy, part three million.

Heh. But of course.

[mojo]

Can't we rename Sir David Boaty McBoatface instead?

[jones]

Feminists eh?,

"sex work isn’t inherently immoral or demeaning. It can even be authentically feminist. “Once you’ve done it, you always know: When it comes down to it, I have everything I need to survive,” says Anna Saini, a former escort who is now a sex-worker activist and law student living in Brooklyn. “That’s powerful.” This view poses a deep challenge to traditional Western feminism, which treats the commercial sex industry as an ugly source of sexual inequality. The activists themselves are a fractious bunch."

Hmm, fractious?...or confused?

Do please don an isolator helmet and have a read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/should-prostitution-be-a-crime.html

[PiperPaul]

David, could you provide details on how to correctly insert images into posts here, or might that messy up the place with silly animated gifs and outrageously-oversized, possibly triggering photos ?

Let's see if this works:

HOW TO POST AN IMAGE AT DAVID'S SITE

[David]

Use the tag below and insert the image URL between the quotation marks.

Which is pretty much what you’ve done. But watch the size.

[R. Sherman]

Use the tag below . . .

Wow. I now feel the same way as I did when I learned there were photos of boobs on the internet.

[PiperPaul]

Let's see if free-hosted, more reasonably-sized but more sillily-enhanced photos work...

Oh well, on previewing the post, it seems to not work. I can see why there would be Typepad filters for this type of thing, though.

I'll stop now, lest non-cake gets fed to me.

[Dom]

This is annoying. Very annoying.

http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/05/muslim-students-want-san-diego-state-pre#comment

[David]

This is annoying.

If a university president fails to enforce the university’s own codes of expected behaviour and is willing to tolerate and thereby encourage physical harassment and in effect taking hostages and obstructing the police, all of which is illegal, then I’ve very little sympathy for him. Presumably, he had on his person a phone with a camera, with which to identify many of those involved. Each of whom should have subsequently received a letter, copied to their parents, informing them of their immediate expulsion.

[J.M. Heinrichs]

Expulsion with prejudice?

Cheers

[Spiny Norman]

Each of whom should have subsequently received a letter, copied to their parents, informing them of their immediate expulsion.

Except that "muslim" is at the very top of the Left's "Victimology Scale", so even if he did record them, nothing would have happened.

[David]

so even if he did record them, nothing would have happened.

Well, yes. Such are the moral inversions of identity politics. But you’d think a spot of expulsion, delivered good and hard, would be part of the educational service. To disabuse them of the conceit that “activism” is somehow a license to indulge in mob intimidation and other criminal behaviour, and also the conceit that such behaviour can never have consequences. Maybe universities could broadcast live footage of the students being informed of their expulsion, and the sums of money pissed away, ideally with cutaways to the students’ parents opening letters informing them of the same, and of the reasons for it.

I’d watch.

[Joan]

"Blood-smeared Milo protest girl given 'Human Dignity' award by Rutgers."

http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/05/07/blood-smearing-protestor-milo-yiannopoulos-rutgers-talk-given-human-dignity-award/

[David]

“Blood-smeared Milo protest girl given ‘Human Dignity’ award by Rutgers.”

I think we may be living in a post-ironic age.

[WTP]

post-ironic age

Actually it's all a plot by the dictionary cabal to drive business their way.

[PiperPaul]

Alanis Morissette started all this mess.

[Hal]

Um. Brilliant calculating, this . . . .

Economist Suspected Of Terrorism While Doing Math

[sk60]

you’d think a spot of expulsion, delivered good and hard, would be part of the educational service.

'Hate crime' hoaxers expelled:

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/233255/

Best comment:

"So when will University of Albany organize a rally defending white males from false accusations? And will attendance by females and minorities be required so they can receive sensitivity training?"

[WTP]

Re our economist suspected of terrorism, I'm suspicious of anyone using differential equations to do economics.

Perhaps the lady reporting him was right for a different reason than she understood.

[Hal]

I'm suspicious of anyone using differential equations to do economics.

Ehn, granting that career is one thing, assorted random research can be something else . . .

[WTP]

Ehn, granting that career is one thing, assorted random research can be something else . . .

The kind of problems that require the use of higher math are pretty far removed from economics. Like using higher math to do "research" in psychology, philosophy, religion, etc. The data points in such disciplines are generally not significantly quantifiable. IOW smells like BS. Helps academics spin sufficiently science-y sounding mumbo jumbo to justify their jobs on the public's dime, however.

[Jason]

Alanis Morissette started all this mess.

Isn't it ironic?