Friday Ephemera
May 06, 2016
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.”
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.
Posted by: R. Sherman | May 06, 2016 at 01:46
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.
Posted by: R. Sherman | May 06, 2016 at 02:52
Kangaroo attacks car.
http://www.neatorama.com/pet/2016/05/05/Dash-Cam-Footage-Shows-Kangaroo-Attacking-Car-At-Midnight/
Posted by: svh | May 06, 2016 at 07:24
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...
Posted by: George | May 06, 2016 at 08:51
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.
Posted by: Hal | May 06, 2016 at 08:54
Kangaroo attacks car.
And then you should see what the koalas will do to you . . . !
Posted by: Hal | May 06, 2016 at 08:55
ISS Earth viewing livestream.
"The space station is experiencing a temporary loss of signal."
That's how it starts...
Posted by: Sam | May 06, 2016 at 09:01
That’s how it starts…
Signal restored. Invasion averted. For now, at least.
Incidentally, you can track the station’s position here.
Posted by: David | May 06, 2016 at 11:43
The isolator helmet just HAS to be better than goey for those troublesome tomes.
Posted by: jones | May 06, 2016 at 13:25
Your host, busily compiling next week’s ephemera.
Posted by: David | May 06, 2016 at 13:58
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/
Posted by: Joan | May 06, 2016 at 15:20
Feminist hypocrisy, part three million.
Heh. But of course.
Posted by: David | May 06, 2016 at 15:29
Can't we rename Sir David Boaty McBoatface instead?
Posted by: mojo | May 06, 2016 at 18:23
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
Posted by: jones | May 06, 2016 at 20:24
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:
Posted by: PiperPaul | May 06, 2016 at 20:53
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.
Posted by: David | May 06, 2016 at 21:09
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.
Posted by: R. Sherman | May 07, 2016 at 00:49
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.
Posted by: PiperPaul | May 07, 2016 at 00:54
This is annoying. Very annoying.
http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/05/muslim-students-want-san-diego-state-pre#comment
Posted by: Dom | May 07, 2016 at 04:16
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.
Posted by: David | May 07, 2016 at 07:18
Expulsion with prejudice?
Cheers
Posted by: J.M. Heinrichs | May 07, 2016 at 07:43
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.
Posted by: Spiny Norman | May 07, 2016 at 16:23
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.
Posted by: David | May 07, 2016 at 16:50
"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/
Posted by: Joan | May 07, 2016 at 18:27
“Blood-smeared Milo protest girl given ‘Human Dignity’ award by Rutgers.”
I think we may be living in a post-ironic age.
Posted by: David | May 07, 2016 at 18:52
post-ironic age
Actually it's all a plot by the dictionary cabal to drive business their way.
Posted by: WTP | May 07, 2016 at 20:06
Alanis Morissette started all this mess.
Posted by: PiperPaul | May 07, 2016 at 22:40
Um. Brilliant calculating, this . . . .
Economist Suspected Of Terrorism While Doing Math
Posted by: Hal | May 08, 2016 at 00:30
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?"
Posted by: sk60 | May 08, 2016 at 06:58
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.
Posted by: WTP | May 08, 2016 at 07:06
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 . . .
Posted by: Hal | May 08, 2016 at 09:31
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.
Posted by: WTP | May 08, 2016 at 16:04
Alanis Morissette started all this mess.
Isn't it ironic?
Posted by: Jason | May 08, 2016 at 23:42