Friday Ephemera

Kitten lovers, look away now. // Dolly does it double tempo. // When objects melt. // Vintage mugshots. // Inside is a game. From the makers of Limbo. // First world problem. (h/t, Julia) // Bottle opener of note. // Buddhist kung fu nuns bring food, fight trafficking. // Baby otter cam. // When the algorithm doesn’t like your article. // Bewilder your children with this retro coffee table. // Room service. // Discontinued products. // How to punctuate your parentheses. // “The F-16 student pilot started to pull up for a barrel roll, but was forced into a G-induced loss of consciousness half-way through the manoeuvre.” // “Objects around you will change shape, appearing to shrink and expand.” (h/t, Dr W) // I question the practicality. // And finally, pleasingly, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Comments

[Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA]

Meanwhile, in celebrity news....

[R. Sherman]

Re: The F-16 Autopilot, I recall my dad, who was employed in the military industrial complex from shortly after WWII through the mid-70s, worked on various problems dealing with autonomous solutions to pilot incapacitation or inability to execute maneuvers because of pilot reaction time delays. These included sensor determination of whether aircraft survival/evasive action was possible in the face of attack and if so, executing the appropriate maneuver or if not, firing the primary weapon. One can guess what type of weapon we're talking about.

What's amazing is that most of today's "cutting edge" technology was being contemplated probably decades ago and is only seeing implementation now. It's sobering to think about what the engineers a Boeing or Lockheed are dreaming about today that only our grandchildren will know about.

[sH2]

Which one vapes?

https://whichonevap.es/

[David]

Question.

Related.

[John D]

Dolly does it double tempo.

Brilliant. :-)

[Anna]

I want one.

[David]

I want one.

Have you been stalking Ryan Reynolds again?

[Anna]

Have you been stalking Ryan Reynolds again?

He's my wife now.

[Jen]

This.

https://twitter.com/xeroxeroxero/status/779211275494690816

[Sam]

Dolly does it double tempo.

Skillz.

[David]

Skillz.

And hair. So much hair.

[Darleen]

David

re the Glenn Reynolds tweet ... highly ironic that Patterico is claiming Glenn's intent was clear (which I agree with) when he was all "we must watch our words" during the Limbaugh "I hope he fails" kerfuffle.

And Glenn gave in and apologized on USAToday ... which has only lead to his university launching an investigation. (of all people, Glenn should know he was being caught in Alinsky rule #12 and stopped playing by their rules)

NEVER apologize because people in bad faith are loudly offended by your words.

[David]

which has only lead to his university launching an investigation.

We live in an age of bureaucratic tweet investigation. There’s a thing to ponder. Given the immediate context, Glenn’s meaning should be obvious. I’m assuming, of course, that we haven’t yet reached a stage of degeneracy in which, when faced with rioting racist thugs encircling occupied cars and hurling bricks through their windscreens and trying to burn alive unconscious white people, one is expected to simply cower in terror and hope that the savages will stop short of murder.

[R. Sherman]

Reynolds was simply echoing the advice of every security in the universe, all of whom advise to keep moving when one's vehicle is surrounded by a menacing crowd. Would any politician's security detail do something other than "Run them over?"

[R. Sherman]

Should be "every security professional in the universe..."

[Darleen]

one is expected to simply cower in terror and hope the savages will stop short of murder.

Yes, you are expected to shelter-in-place and to say one is not obligated to become the next Reginald Denny is triggering.

The darkies are too emotional and can't be expected to behave themselves like civilized people. Collateral damage is the price we must pay for white privilege.

[[+]]

This.

https://twitter.com/airavatvolvo/status/779134524206620672

[David]

to say one is not obligated to become the next Reginald Denny is triggering.

Instead, you and your family should sit there and wait to be beaten insensible, and possibly set on fire. For “social justice.”

[Darleen]

TrigglyPuff 2.0

[David]

TrigglyPuff 2.0

Ah, our intellectual cream.

[R. Sherman]

TrigglyPuff 2.0

N.B. it's the University of Kansas at Lawrence.

[Joan]

to say one is not obligated to become the next Reginald Denny is triggering.

And racist....

https://twitter.com/LiteralSalt/status/779016884352155648

[Gregoryno6]

A man, A Muslim, and a T-shirt.
http://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/man-who-filmed-exchange-between-woman-and-hanson-supporter-banned-from-facebook/news-story/317430d4356e62fbce5607c9b4f822f3

[David]

TrigglyPuff 2.0

There’s some background on the, um, exchange and its participants here. And for those who can endure it without feeling an urge to self-harm, there’s a longer, half-hour video here.

[Fen Tiger]

In the matter of being dragged from one's car by a mob, this may be relevant.

[Barb the Evil Genius]

Any kid who has watched the Guardians of the Galaxy movie will know what that coffee table is. As a matter fact, the makers of those tables seem to referencing Guardians of the Galaxy with the tape labeling.

[AnotherFred]

Stop teasing!: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/twitter-trolls-time-academics-fight-back

[R. Sherman]

From "AnotherFred's" link:

In my research, I draw on lived experience and place my personal narrative at the forefront. In short, I write about myself.(Emphasis supplied)

Life imitates The Onion.

[Hal]

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?

Large battles can be lost on small fields. One of the reasons so many fashionable New York critics didn't like "Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?," I'm convinced, is that the title is so hard to fit into an opening paragraph.

Because the movie is basically about what a shallow, womanizing cad Merkin becomes; how he really cares for no one except himself; and how, he, in fact, disavows the existence of God and his need for no one but himself (in a song, of course - this is Anthony Newley we're talking about).

Little Merkin begins as a Vaudeville-driven child, only to have the devilish Eddie Filth (Milton Berle, initially seen in horns and furry Pan legs) teaching him the joys of sex, until he has a line of willing-women queued up at his bed. Merkin eventually encounters Polyester Poontang (Joan Collins, who was not only Newley's wife at the time, but didn't yet look like a Madame Tussaud's exhibit), who seduces him during an ill-conceived, Zodiac-inspired musical number.

[Nikw211]

A Tweet for our Times (seen on Christopher Snowdon's Twitter)

[AC1]

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/orthographic=5.99,43.04,1720

[frank black]

Homer's Odyssey interactive map
http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/odysseus-journey.html