Friday Ephemera
July 14, 2017
She’s a big girl. // He’s a big girl. // Vertical exercise bike. // The world’s longest running lab experiment, complete with gripping live feed. // Maglev self-levelling elevator goes up and down, also sideways and diagonally. // Cheap old houses. TLC not included. // Looking for lodgers? // Homeland of tea. // Yes, but is the coffee any good? // A dossier of monsters. // The squid and the whale. // I’m pretty sure he does this better than you do. // Oh, what are the humans doing now? // No, after you. // Pea salad. // Pecking order. // “Just don’t provoke them,” he reassured. (h/t, Julia) // A collection of period Maoist posters. // “Sometimes they can act like a solid.” // At last, your very own private island. // And finally, rather emphatically, there may be some softening of the metal.
Drove over the Deception Pass Bridge just last week. Not scared in the slightest though the currents running through the pass were neat. Lot's of random whirlpools.
Posted by: R. Sherman | July 14, 2017 at 01:02
"Don't provoke them."
The "see nothing, say nothing" strategy for survival.
A shame it never actually works, in the long run.
Posted by: Squires | July 14, 2017 at 01:12
In the ant video, I couldn't help wondering what would happen if you took the ball of ants out in the yard and tossed it away.
Posted by: Pogonip | July 14, 2017 at 01:19
Cheap old houses. TLC not included.
Bookmarked for a proper look when I'm on a half decent computer. But at-a-glance, this: http://circaoldhouses.com/stop-everything-youre-doing-and-look-inside-this-80500-house/ looks lovely. That window may even be Tiffany. And the joinery throughout, especially the stairs and that mahogany library, to me, is perfection.
Posted by: Captain Nemo | July 14, 2017 at 01:43
If I was driving over what someone told me was Deception Pass Bridge I'd be questioning if it really was Deception Pass Bridge.
Posted by: PiperPaul | July 14, 2017 at 02:41
Deception Pass. Whidbey Island, Washington in the background.
Posted by: R. Sherman | July 14, 2017 at 04:35
"He's a big girl", despite Rule 34, I would think that the pool of people finding "him" attractive would be remarkably small, driven smaller by his conceits and posturing. Is it any wonder he struggles to find partners, natural selection driven by poor life choices.
Posted by: Angus | July 14, 2017 at 05:07
I think the plane is not bad in the attractiveness stakes, considering the practical limitations? She, on the other hand, well ... yes. Nope. Not me either.
Posted by: Surreptitious Evil | July 14, 2017 at 05:51
Looking for lodgers?
"We love art, crafting and anarchy"
Hm. Maybe that's why they're sleeping on people's couches.
Posted by: Connor | July 14, 2017 at 06:30
“Just don’t provoke them,” he reassured.
Blood boiling stupidity.
Posted by: Connor | July 14, 2017 at 07:01
despite Rule 34, I would think that the pool of people finding “him” attractive would be remarkably small, driven smaller by his conceits and posturing.
For those who missed Caleb’s vain and tearful tale, here it is.
That insufficient numbers of men are swooning with desire for Mr Luna’s ample proportions is, we’re told, due solely to people having the wrong kind of politics. And so if the men of the world were schooled in the pieties of intersectional victimhood, he – sorry, they - would have a heaving social diary. And the videos in which he – sorry, they - boasts of single-handedly eating an entire pizza would be erotic catnip.
Posted by: David | July 14, 2017 at 07:11
Unfortunately, the Neatorama bridge link only has two of the bridges, and the original article it links to is an expletive-deleted slideshow.
Can I take my credit note over to Travel and Leisure and exchange it for anything there?
Posted by: Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA | July 14, 2017 at 09:49
"There may be some softening".....
Ahhh....so THAT'S why my instructor always impressed upon us the concept of short, controlled bursts.
Posted by: jones | July 14, 2017 at 10:09
For those who missed Caleb’s vain and tearful tale, here it is.
Eh, no thanks.
Posted by: Lou | July 14, 2017 at 10:19
Eh, no thanks.
No sense of adventure, some people.
Posted by: David | July 14, 2017 at 10:28
Ha, that pitch drop experiment is a relative youngster compared to this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
Posted by: Jugra | July 14, 2017 at 10:35
Yes, but is the coffee any good?
The real question is, given the other product, do you care ?
Posted by: Farnsworth M. Muldoon | July 14, 2017 at 10:44
Mmmmmmmm......
https://robbreportedit.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/1_irishcoffee1.jpg
Posted by: jones | July 14, 2017 at 11:21
"Blood boiling stupidity."
Prog mission accomplished.
Posted by: PiperPaul | July 14, 2017 at 12:04
And the videos in which he – sorry, they...
To be fair, as young Master Caleb seems to be getting to ever more Brobdingnagian proportions, they is a bit more appropriate than he.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 14, 2017 at 12:15
An ad from simpler times... clean mind, clean body. Take your pick.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | July 14, 2017 at 13:14
No sense of adventure, some people.
Heh. Rather, sometimes a break is needed. Just a little time to convince myself that all this is simply a case of mass hysteria that will soon burn itself out. Right? RIGHT??!!
Posted by: Lou | July 14, 2017 at 14:03
Re: Caleb.
Is it my imagination or are 90% of these new wave genderqueer transwimmin just gay guys who can't get laid?
You would think that anyone whose physical and psychological shortcomings are such that they can't find a guy prepared to fuck them would step back and have a look at their lives. Oh yes, hello straight feminists...
Posted by: MC | July 14, 2017 at 16:22
Re: cheap old houses
I wonder what the average number of bodies under the floorboards is for each property?
Posted by: MC | July 14, 2017 at 16:25
The $200,000 selfie.
Posted by: Darleen | July 14, 2017 at 17:08
The $200,000 selfie.
You’d think the gallery might have – here’s a wild idea - secured the pedestals.
Posted by: David | July 14, 2017 at 17:13
'Seattle Councilman Objects to Hosing Excrement-Covered Sidewalks Because It's Racist'
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/seattle-councilman-objects-to-hosing-excrement-covered-sidewalks-because-its-racist/
Posted by: sH2 | July 14, 2017 at 17:22
Seattle Councilman Objects to Hosing Excrement-Covered Sidewalks Because It’s Racist
The words corrective sack beating come to mind.
Posted by: David | July 14, 2017 at 17:31
Stories about private islands always make me think of Sealand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
Posted by: WTP | July 14, 2017 at 17:50
clean mind, clean body. Take your pick.
Our motto here at camp.
Posted by: Geezer | July 14, 2017 at 20:32
A fine collection of ephemera. Thank you. As to the last one; this boys and girls is why they say "Short, controlled bursts" and also why LMGs come with quick change barrels.
Posted by: Fruitbat44 | July 14, 2017 at 20:41
Posted by: Sporkatus | July 14, 2017 at 20:58
Apparently the Earth is flat. No, really.
Posted by: Hal | July 14, 2017 at 23:01
The earth has been flat for ages. And gravity is a hoax. Just ask David "Avacado" Wolfe. He's like rich and stuff and his company grew in part by endorsements from celebrities like Steve Jobs, Woody Harrelson, Alicia Silverstone, and Angela Basset.
Posted by: WTP | July 15, 2017 at 02:59
Well, obviously.
Posted by: PiperPaul | July 15, 2017 at 17:18
So my question is about bicycling up skyscrapers. Lifts and stairs aren't just there to move people, but stuff. Am I to believe that, if you're intent on living in a skyscraper where you have to pedal up to your floor, you'll be content to live without furniture? Or a refrigerator? Maybe you'll just watch streaming on your phone hunched in a corner and call it a day. And what if you break your ankle? In the real world, you can hobble up the stairs. But if you have to pedal? Seriously, this proves my thesis about the forces that want us to live in tiny apartments and tiny houses: that's not where you live, it's where you're stored.
Posted by: Tragic Christian | July 16, 2017 at 04:49
Maryam Mirzakhani, 1977-2017
Posted by: Hal | July 16, 2017 at 05:58
At last, snortable chocolate.
'Snortable chocolate' must be investigated by regulators, warns US senator
Posted by: Hal | July 16, 2017 at 07:31
Nobody but the best and brightest get to be our journalists.
Posted by: Darleen | July 16, 2017 at 18:36
Nobody but the best and brightest get to be our journalists.
And as quite a few people point out in the thread, it’s clearly not just a typo. So… laugh or despair?
Posted by: David | July 16, 2017 at 18:46
WWII was the one where we beat the Martians, right?
Posted by: David | July 16, 2017 at 18:52
WWII was the one where we beat the Martians, right?
I believe it was General Orson Wells who lead the first germ-warfare effort.
Posted by: Darleen | July 16, 2017 at 19:03
C'mon. It's Andrea Mitchell. I'm pretty sure she was there.
Posted by: WTP | July 16, 2017 at 19:34
Also, come to think of it I did hear this reported this way by someone not her on the "conservative" news radio driving in to work on Friday because I thought to myself, funny this happened on Bastille Day yet I don't recall it being reported as such in all these years.
Posted by: WTP | July 16, 2017 at 19:39
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Yip
Posted by: PiperPaul | July 17, 2017 at 00:37
WWII was the one where we beat the Martians, right?
No, that was the Spanish American War---remember, all that fake news about a "Spanish" flu "epidemic".
WWII was when the US entered the war as a result of the North Koreans sending the Zimmerman telegram to the Viet Kong about a really big monkey.
Posted by: Hal | July 17, 2017 at 04:25