Lambent
Lambent Originally shared by Pat Kight It's a frosty morning, but my, the sunrise was nice...
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Originally shared by Tamsin Cheyne
Originally shared by Tamsin Cheyne Wha's like us? Damn few and they're a' deid The average Englishman, in the home he calls his castle, slips into his national costume, a shabby raincoat, patented by chemist Charles Macintosh from Glasgow, Scotland. En route to his office he strides along the English lane, surfaced by John Macadam of Ayr, Scotland. He drives an English car fitted with tyres invented by John Boyd Dunlop of Dreghorn, Scotland, arrives at the station and boards a train, the forerunner of which was a steam engine, invented by James Watt of Greenock, Scotland. He then pours himself a cup of coffee from a thermos flask, the latter invented by Dewar, a Scotsman from Kincardine-on-Forth. At the office he receives the mail bearing adhesive stamps invented by James Chalmers of Dundee, Scotland. During the day he uses the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, born in Edinburgh, Scotland. At home in the evening his daughter pedals her bicycle invented by Kir...
I Believe
I Believe Roy Ayers Ubiquity-The Spirit of Doo Do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmZhmW8kGpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmZhmW8kGpw
Fitting
Fitting http://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-many-cables-can-you-pull-through.html
Come And Get It
Come And Get It Trump's campaign as a remake of The Magic Christian. Only without Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, or Raquel Welch. Will you walk away from a fool and his money? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tOnbeNAxdU Originally shared by **** Some kind of farce is just what the modern presidential campaign has devolved into. By calling attention to that sorry state of affairs 24/7, Trump’s impersonation of a crypto-fascist clown is delivering the most persuasively bipartisan message of 2016. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/frank-rich-in-praise-of-donald-trump.html?mid=fb-share-di
Genius
Genius Originally shared by Carolyn Curtis (Wenchkin) Ha! This has become the tradition. 1. Take Leftovers 2. Smash into hot dog maker 3. set timer for an extra 3 minutes after light goes out. 4. Eat amazing stuffing turkey mashe potato nuggets perfectly crisped on the outside. 5. Add gravy 6. Loosen pants.
Wal-Mart's Home State
Wal-Mart's Home State Arkansas wins! Originally shared by **** They compiled two sets of data about each state: The amount of interest shown on Facebook regarding #BlackFriday deals, and the amount of aggravated assault that occurs in the state. Then, they factored the information together, making a list of all 50 states and the likelihood there would be a brawl over sales. http://distractify.com/fyi/2015/11/23/meg-would-rather-not-shop-then
Psghetti
Psghetti Originally shared by **** On this day when many tables of the world are filled with bounty, we remember the sparkle in the eyes of 7-year-old Eunice a few months ago as she savored a plate of spaghetti. Eunice had told us her greatest birthday wish was to eat "colored pancit." (After an hour of questioning we found out that she meant spaghetti.) Eunice lives in Barangay Garawon, Hernani, Eastern Samar, Philippines, facing the Pacific Ocean. Her home was among those washed out by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Her father is a recipient of NVC's Peter Project which provided him with a motorized fishing boat to replace the one he lost to the super typhoon. Her mother is a beneficiary of our Project Joseph which has given her cooking utensils and a stove so she can augment the family income. ~ Negrense Volunteers for Change https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1049632048411782&id=132828936758769
A Story Of Rebirth
A Story Of Rebirth http://fictionmachine.com/2014/12/23/a-fuzzy-blue-charles-dickens-the-muppet-christmas-carol-1992/
No Cheeses For Us Meeces
No Cheeses For Us Meeces Even the vegetables don't like him... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KBthi_An5qQ
The Spirit of Giving
The Spirit of Giving Originally shared by Meg L I haven't had a conventional Christmas morning in almost 20 years. I haven't missed it. Steve Albini is a wonderful human being. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-albini/why-i-havent-had-a-conventional-christmas-in-20-years_b_8614568.html
Serfs
Serfs Originally shared by Alex Scrivener The median marginal tax rate for households just above the poverty level is almost 34 percent, the highest for any income level. Some households that receive larger benefits or higher state taxes have even higher effective rates: 10 percent of households just above the poverty line face a marginal rate higher than 65 percent. For each additional dollar earned in this range, these households would lose almost two-thirds to taxes or lost benefits. http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/punishing-low-income-workers/
Follow Your Nose...
Follow Your Nose... Originally shared by Steven Blatt Julie Bee on vacation .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nek5ZvqpqLU
Seven Essential Vitamins
Seven Essential Vitamins But I'm hoppin' mad, 'cause no Hoppin' John. Also, my Sour Cream Pound Cake is to die for. http://bittersoutherner.com/the-seven-essential-southern-dishes#.VlSL_mY8LCQ
In The House
In The House http://thedailyasker.blogspot.com/2010/05/can-i-buy-your-mug-waffle-house.html?m=1
First!
First! Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh Fabulous find via John DeNardo ! Reads a lot better than my first story, now lost in the mists of time...};-) "Here’s a cool treat from Open Road Media, who is publishing an eBook version of Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions today. It’s Poul Anderson’s very first story!" http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015/11/read-poul-andersons-first-story-written-handwriting/
You Probably Think This Song Is About You...
You Probably Think This Song Is About You... Don't you? Don't you? http://www.usatoday.com/media/cinematic/video/76034654/
Originally shared by lynn paden
Originally shared by lynn paden “If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?” President Kennedy, Address on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
Design Like You Are Right, Listen Like You Are Wrong
Design Like You Are Right, Listen Like You Are Wrong Code like you are Asleep At The Wheel? The newest Feedly iOS app crashes immediately on launch if used on iOS 7/8. Despite the fact that the Apple Store allows settings to keep folks from installing apps that won't run on certain iOS versions. Sometimes I feel like mobile software products are like old fashioned soap box derby cars made from fruit crates and junkyard parts that fall off unexpectedly. Only with better paint jobs. Ain't that logo pretty?
Do Not Adjust Your Set
Do Not Adjust Your Set Originally shared by Damn interesting Remember, Remember the 22nd of November (on this day, 1987) http://www.damninteresting.com/remember-remember-the-22nd-of-november
Flipbook
Flipbook Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh Woah. Via Emily Lakdawalla . "If you were to download the entire catalog of photos taken at Saturn to date by Cassini and then animate them like a flipbook, how long would it take to watch them all pass by? The Wall Street Journal's Visual Correspondent Jon Keegan has your answer: nearly four hours. Enjoy." http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/11200737-watch-the-entire-cassini.html
The Case for CamelCase
The Case for CamelCase Originally shared by Cory Swanson (MisterDrow) This is why we CamelCase hashtags...
AFAQ
AFAQ Answers to Frequently Asked Questions. Originally shared by **** To child, with apologies for repetition : “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.” (O.W.) How to Be Perfect Everything is perfect, dear friend. (Kerouac) Get some sleep. Don't give advice. Take care of your teeth and gums. Don't be afraid of anything beyond your control. Don't be afraid, for instance, that the building will collapse as you sleep, or that someone you love will suddenly drop dead. Eat an orange every morning. Be friendly. It will help make you happy. Raise your pulse rate to 120 beats per minute for 20 straight minutes four or five times a week doing anything you enjoy. Hope for everything. Expect nothing. Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world. Know that the desire to be perfect is probably the veiled expression of another desire—to...
Legacy
Legacy Reforming the Reformer... Hopefully the Princeton radicals won't extend this rationale to Woody Guthrie, who was also named after the man... Originally shared by Will Shetterly http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist
My First Android
My First Android Thanks to the generosity of a friend (Thanks, Charley!) I'm now the proud owner of a Remix Mini. It's a cute little hockey puck of a computer, that I'm mostly interested in using as a media center. I only recently came out of the Stone Age of CRTs to an LCD with HDMI, but no Smart TV functions. I still have an OTA antenna bolted to the chimney (gasp!). I looked longingly at the AppleTV, but as I'm not at all locked into the Apple Video Store, I decided it would not suit. I looked next at the various Raspberry Pi devices, but as with all Hacks, there are an almost endless list of possible variables, and I never finished my homework on it. This gizmo is pretty nice. You have to bring your own HDMI monitor, and keyboard/mouse. It has some fixed memory on board, and a microSD slot for more. Two USB ports for input or storage. Draws 10W. The clever thing about Remix OS is that it presents Android apps in a Windowed environment. Media apps like Kodi, ...
Agist Agonistes
Agist Agonistes It used to be that convenience and usability in tech gadgets was mostly constrained by scarcity of resources. That really isn't true, anymore, except for those who desire a completely immersive experience. So I find it pretty irritating when gadgets and platforms sacrifice basic usability for gee whiz gimcrackery. Although, with Google engineers having a median age of less than thirty, I should not be surprised. Apple has generally done better with accessibility tweaks to its platforms, but the drive to be cool and stylish still makes lots of iOS functions less than ideal for folks with aging eyes. The current trend for "soothing" grey type on grey (or colored) backgrounds is everything I hate about "design." In a similar vein, I'm amused to note that the web version of Goober+ now has a red top banner with white (miniscule) type. Guess what color the notification gizmo is? Red. Eesh. The only rational explanation I can see for all the cu...
Asymptotic Normality
Asymptotic Normality Originally shared by Geo. Tirebiter Finally, these folks have a say and can feel pride in almost serving their country in the military . As Trump, says, if he would have gone in, he would have been a fantastic soldier, but too bad, his draft lottery number was too high, so he went to orgies instead. http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/10/halfway-heroes-near-veterans-seek-recognition-for-almost-serving-in-military
Schweppervescence
Schweppervescence http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/18/us-egypt-crash-islamicstate-photo-idUSKCN0T725Q20151118
Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/pf-sloan-folk-rock-songwriter-and-musician-dies-at-70/2015/11/17/5ebdabc4-8d36-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story.html
Picture Not Related
Picture Not Related We are Doomed. Doomed, I tell you. http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-SEB-92180
Finest Kind
Finest Kind Originally shared by Alvin Stearns At the turn of the 21st century the USA made a priority of allowing the immigration and settlement of Bantu Somalians in America. Since then, hundreds of Bantu Somalians find themselves trying to figure out how to live in this cold and stony land, and 1.3 million native Mainers try to understand why Bantu Somalians look, sound and sometimes act so odd, ayuh. The transition has not been easy and without its issues and challenges. Maine is overwhelmingly Euro-American, Christian and English-speaking. The Bantu Somalians (many of whose ancestors were forced immigrants to Somalia) are determinedly non-Euro-American, Muslim, and arrived here knowing little or no English. It's working, this social experiment. Not always elegantly, often with misunderstanding on both sides. But, it's working. Now, what's this about the USA not taking in displaced people, aka refugees? Yes, our current crop of political hopefuls are making hay ou...
Soul City
Soul City Biscuits aren't the only thing that's hard to make from scratch... Originally shared by Damn interesting The Time Republicans Helped Build an All-Black Town Called 'Soul City' http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/11/the-time-republicans-helped-build-an-all-black-town-called-soul-city/414585
Hot Racking
Hot Racking “All hands desiring to do so lay to the do so locker and do so.” Brings a whole 'nuther meaning to Trim Party. Originally shared by Pulp Covers U.S. Frogmen Who Raided Mussolini’s Underwater Call-Girl Barracks http://bit.ly/1MJOlyv
In The Dark
In The Dark https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/15/one-mans-hard-lesson-after-mistaking-the-eiffel-towers-darkness-for-a-moving-tribute/
Bright Side Of The Road
Bright Side Of The Road From the dark end of the street... Van Morrison-Bright Side Of The Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvS2OtG2SHc
Shirts and Skins
Shirts and Skins Originally shared by **** “Given that there is a reasonable basis for believing that the British were themselves involved in the supply of arms, if that’s so, it would be an utter hypocrisy to prosecute someone who has been involved in the armed resistance.” http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/01/trial-swedish-man-accused-terrorism-offences-collapse-bherlin-gildo?CMP=share_btn_gp
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Colors and tastes not found in Nature. 'Murrican to the core... Originally shared by Mitch Wagner The Mountain Dew-colored beverage is America's most post-modern soda. http://www.buzzfeed.com/venessawong/what-is-mountain-dew#.el9Om3jgeA
Theme Song
Theme Song Roy "Don’t let me catch you doing this at home!" Underhill wrote the lyrics to this. His daughter is the banjo player in the band Underhill Rose. It's a wonder that man has any fingers left, after all these years. I've often wondered if he was better, or worse with power tools in hand. A knowledgeable, amusing, and likable fellow, nonetheless. For those that are curious, I still have all my fingers and toes. http://video.pbs.org/video/2365463735/
"Language tends not to do what we want it to."
"Language tends not to do what we want it to." via Ralf Haring Originally shared by Allen Varney "English’s weirdness began with its transformation in the mouths of people more at home with vastly different tongues. We’re still talking like them, and in ways we’d never think of. When saying ‘eeny, meeny, miny, moe’, have you ever felt like you were kind of counting? Well, you are -- in Celtic numbers, chewed up over time but recognisably descended from the ones rural Britishers used when counting animals and playing games. ‘Hickory, dickory, dock’ -- what in the world do those words mean? Well, here’s a clue: hovera, dovera, dick were eight, nine and ten in that same Celtic counting list." (Aeon): https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages
Going Clubbing
Going Clubbing Originally shared by Meg L From the Department of Seriously Awesome. Don't you almost hate people who can do stuff like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5E84ePfEOw&feature=share
Eighty Eighty Eights All The Way Down
Eighty Eighty Eights All The Way Down Originally shared by Randy Culler A computer glitch that brought the Paris airport of Orly to a standstill Saturday has been traced back to the airport's "prehistoric" operating system. In an article published Wednesday, French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné (which often writes serious stories, such as this one) said the computer failure had affected a system known as DECOR, which is used by air traffic controllers to communicate weather information to pilots. Pilots rely on the system when weather conditions are poor. DECOR, which is used in takeoff and landings, runs on Windows 3.1 https://news.vice.com/article/windows-31-is-still-alive-and-it-just-killed-a-french-airport?utm_source=vicenewstwitter
Gandy Dancers
Gandy Dancers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=025QQwTwzdU Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh While most of us are asleep.... "SINGAPORE: To be replaced: A total of 188,000 timber sleepers, 92,000 of which are on the East West Line. Of these, 14 per cent have been replaced with concrete ones. The target: All swapped out before 2016 is through - three years ahead of schedule. In the early hours of Friday (Nov 13), Channel NewsAsia photojournalist Ngau Kai Yan and reporter Kenneth Lim spent a night with the workers and the machines doing the heavy lifting." http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/in-pictures-the-men-and/2256308.html
The Answer Is Blowin' In The Wind...
The Answer Is Blowin' In The Wind... Science! Originally shared by Damn interesting New Study Explores Link Between Climate Change and Kangaroo Farts http://magazine.good.is/articles/new-study-explores-link-between-climate-change-and-kangaroo-farts
Burn Or Starve?
Burn Or Starve? Originally shared by Steven Blatt http://apps.npr.org/lookatthis/posts/brazil
Try To Remember
Try To Remember The not so Fantasticks... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQ1P8NnlWo http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2015/11/three-old-men-having-fun.html?m=1
Reeling In The Years
Reeling In The Years Stowing away the time... Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette How Chemistry Is Rescuing Our Audio History from Melting http://nautil.us/blog/how-chemistry-is-rescuing-our-audio-history-from-melting … http://nautil.us/blog/how-chemistry-is-rescuing-our-audio-history-from-melting
Reading Is Fundamental
Reading Is Fundamental Chicanery, but not entirely one sided. 6,000 page reports are not effective instruments for process review. They are evidentiary collections, usually for the purpose of establishing blame. Originally shared by Alex Scrivener The DOJ has taken Burr's lead and claimed that the report is a Congressional record, and that's also why they insist that no one at the DOJ has opened it -- to maintain that it has not become an executive branch record subject to FOIA. Not surprisingly, Senator Feinstein is pissed off about this -- because her staffers spent years putting together this report, detailing massive abuses by the CIA and others in torturing people, and the whole point of it was to help the government learn how badly it messed up and to stop it from doing it again. But if no one reads it, then that won't happen. And, the DOJ now says that not only has it not read it, it has instructed everyone in the exec branch not to read it for fear that reading it ...
PDA by the SDP within the SDO of the OSD for LGBT
PDA by the SDP within the SDO of the OSD for LGBT In MA. Originally shared by Alex Scrivener Under a diversity program launched during the Patrick administration, a percentage of state contracts is already set aside for businesses owned by minorities, women, and service-disabled veterans. Under an executive order just signed by Baker, the program will expand to include businesses owned by all veterans and people with disabilities — as well as those owned by the LGBT community. As I mentioned in a post about a California program, I wonder: How will anyone know whether a business owner is bisexual? Do you have to say that you’ve had sex with members of the same sex? What if you just say that you’re attracted to members of the same sex? Or is the state relying on the assumption that non-bisexuals would be reluctant to label themselves bisexual, even when that helps them get valuable contracts, for fear that the label will come out to their friends (or to other prospective business partner...
Frosty!
Frosty! Originally shared by lynn paden we should all quaff a few root beers to-day. more examples of schulz and mauldin: http://bigdesignevents.com/2012/11/veterans-day-tribute-missing-from-charlie-brown/ http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2012/11/snoopy-root-beer-and-bill-mauldin.html #veteransday
Top Kick
Top Kick "Nobody writes a better crime novel." Dutch Leonard Originally shared by **** "The universe is dumb chaos so you better quit looking to be saved and make your own meaning but, also, it’s good to wake up early and work hard. " http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/11/the-train-hopping-nazi-fighting-literary-hero-you-ve-never-heard-of.html
Brefuss
Brefuss Neesie's, buckwheat griddle cakes, cawfee, and Bill Mize. Bill Mize-Coastin': https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfx51CXvnFE
Five Stars
Five Stars "Blue Star Service Banners were widely used during both World Wars, but were not embraced during the Korean or Vietnam wars with the same enthusiasm. The American Legion rekindled that spirit of pride in our military men and women following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by providing banners to military families across the nation." http://www.legion.org/troops/bluestar Originally shared by North Carolina Museum of History In honor of Veteran’s Day tomorrow, our #TextileTuesday features a “Blue Star Banner” from World War II. These small flags typically hung in a front window, and each star represented a family member in the armed services. Robert and Ruth Whitlow of Leasburg (Caswell County) had four sons and two daughters in service. Commercially-made banners only went up to five stars, so the Whitlows attached an additional star taken from another banner.
Progress
Progress Or not. Originally shared by **** The Panthers, in the second issue of their newspaper, laid out a ten-point program, one which called for full employment, decent housing, historically conscious education, as well as the end of black imprisonment, service in the armed forces, subjugation to police brutality, and “the robbery by the white men of our Black Community.” The ten-point program remains as incendiary and intellectually defensible today as it was then, especially in our era of mass incarceration and structural joblessness. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-most-important-legacy-of-the-black-panthers
"Are We Having Fun, Yet?"
"Are We Having Fun, Yet?" Originally shared by Steven Blatt "Or to put it a bit differently, we’re looking at people who were raised to believe in the American Dream, and are coping badly with its failure to come true" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/opinion/despair-american-style.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
Betamax Is Dead
Betamax Is Dead Not resting. Not pining for the fjords. Not getting better. Dead. http://mashable.com/2015/11/10/betamax/#U3yKGOaufiqa
"Coming Soon On iOS"
"Coming Soon On iOS" via Jens Reuterberg Originally shared by Google UK Hot off the press: Google Maps is now available offline. Read more here...
Precursor
Precursor "This included laughing inappropriately at tragic events." Does my treasured collection of National Lampoon from the 70s count? Mojo Nixon? I think I know the answer, sports fans... http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34766361
The Big Roundup In The Sky
The Big Roundup In The Sky Right after McRib Season. via Cara Evangelista Originally shared by **** McDonald's please confirm.
"...Like Nobody's Business..."
"...Like Nobody's Business..." David Gorman: "...here’s the thing about Allen Toussaint: I’ve bought almost every album he’s produced (most of which he also wrote all or some of), and I’ve only found one that isn’t great. Many of them are among the best records ever cut, like Rejuvenation by The Meters, Right Place Wrong Time by Dr. John, not to mention a couple of the albums Toussaint put out on his own. Then there are the songs he wrote, which have been covered by everyone from The Doors to Devo, Glen Campbell to Phish. Elton John compared him to the Dalai Lama. The President gave him the National Medal of Arts." An Absolute Monster Gentleman is gone. Originally shared by **** http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2015/11/allen_toussaint_dies.html
Chewbacca
Chewbacca And yet, I got a haircut yesterday... Must go clear to the bone... http://www.bloxi.com/b/SiG56Ullq/who-are-you-from-star-wars via Bigscrod wants cake
Take The Ball And Go Home
Take The Ball And Go Home "Over the weekend, members of the school’s football team threatened to boycott its remaining games, significantly raising the stakes." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/09/missouris-student-government-calls-for-university-presidents-removal/
Wouldn't It Be Loverly?
Wouldn't It Be Loverly? Originally shared by The Cloberth “She's so deliciously low, so horribly dirty!” Loverly The movie musical My Fair Lady premiered on this date in 1964. Directed by George Cukor Written by Alan Jay Lerner Based upon George Bernard Shaw’s stage play Pygmalion Starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison Co-starring Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Jeremy Brett Film score by Andre Previn My Fair Lady was awarded eight of the twelve Academy Awards for which it was nominated: Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Actor (Harrison’s only Oscar), Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Original Music Score, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design It won three Golden Globes, for Best Motion Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor It also won the BAFTA Award for BAFTA Award for Best Film from any source My Fair Lady is #91 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, #8 on AFI's 100 Years of Musicals, and #12 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions. "I Could ...
Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound Three races in, probably no worse than second in any of them. Short courses, so busy, busy, busy. Got to the marina before the rain. Looking forward to pig and beer.
Head East
Head East Fittingly enough, from the Flatter Than A Pancake album... Head East-Never Been Any Reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7jW8_2Us5c
Everyone Will Stop And Cheer
Everyone Will Stop And Cheer When you put on your Sailing Shoes... Originally shared by Drew McCarthy Sailing Shoes Valerie Carter, Inara George, and the Feat, with Van Dyke Parks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihRALKSvXvA
Go Faster
Go Faster “It never gets easier, you just go faster.” ~ Greg LeMond “Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live.” ~ Mark Twain “Never use your face as a brake pad.” ~ Jake Watson #NaNoWriMo via Cara Evangelista Originally shared by Amanda Patterson Being a writer http://on.fb.me/1MfYPC8
Maverick's Ten Commandments
Maverick's Ten Commandments 1. If you don't have a fighting hand, drop it and wait for another. 2. In five-card stud, never draw a third card unless your hole card or your open card either equals or tops the highest card showing around the table. A back-to-back pair is an exception, of course. 3. In draw poker, "Jacks-or-better" to open, never call an opener unless you have the pair of Jacks beaten. 4. Never draw to an inside straight. 5. Never draw to a three-card flush. 6. Always call a known bluffer if you have a better than average hand. 7. Don't play poker with women. 8. Don't play with men who can't afford to lose. 9. Don't play yourself, if you can't afford to lose. 10. If you find yourself in a losing streak, relax and wait! There always will be another hand or even another game. #ThrowbackThursday
Use Enough
Use Enough "And if you're like 97 people out of 100, you don't need to worry about sleeping." Originally shared by Isaac Ben J.C. Leyendecker
Grist For The Mill
Grist For The Mill http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article42066846.html
In Search Of The Lost Chord
In Search Of The Lost Chord Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Workin' like a dog.. The noise is impossible to describe accurately in words – the famous quote ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture’ comes to mind. The sound can be heard here:> http://www.kevinhouston.net/blog/2014/12/the-beatles-magical-mystery-chord-2/ http://www.kevinhouston.net/blog/2014/12/the-beatles-magical-mystery-chord-2
Polk Salad Annie
Polk Salad Annie Sock a little polk salad to me, you know I need me a mess of it... Tony Joe White-Polk Salad Annie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrT-TQTLoiw via Andrea Monticue Originally shared by Jym Dyer ☙ I say it's broccolini and I say to yum with it. "The clitoris is one of the typical products of Galician cuisine." http://www.thelocal.es/20151103/galicia-town-considering-action-over-google-translate-clitoris-festival-gaffe
Seditious Fried Chicken
Seditious Fried Chicken Originally shared by **** """ In a speech on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei sought to emphasize why shouting “Death to America,” words that proponents of improved relations call unhelpful at best, will be forever justified. He also suggested they should not be taken literally. “The slogan ‘Death to America’ is backed by reason and wisdom,” he said in a speech. “It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the United States policies, death to arrogance.” """ Here's what's funny: Khameini here sounds exactly like a character from 1984 . It seems difficult for Khameini not to know that. Well, not know that , but recognize the general principle Orwell was following. "Marg bar Amrika" is just Iranian duckspeak, but here he speaks as if the slogan held in it deep, unfolding meaning. Because it does or, at least, it has come to. Because it's had to. Because...
Take The Challenge
Take The Challenge Originally shared by Richard Bensam My first thought was this sounded like an outtake from Idiocracy, but it gets even better, or worse: Krispy Kreme didn't pay for this branding. Students did. http://consumerist.com/2015/10/26/now-you-can-take-your-kids-to-the-krispy-kreme-challenge-clinic
Suits Me
Suits Me The Newklear Option if someone threatens to make me trade in my overhauls for a Suit... via Kat R K Roberts http://www.shinesty.com/collections/suits
McCarthy
McCarthy 2,728th most common surname in the world. Approximately 200,825 people bear this surname. Probably would rank a wee bit higher if bad behavior counted for anything. http://forebears.io/surnames/ via Assia Alexandrova
Firstable
Firstable EX: "I have many ways to explorate but firstable, I would like to work on relations between the “recall” of roman empire and colonial theories / words / language." TIL: Eggcorns Existables via God Emperor Lionel Lauer http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
Known Male Bias
Known Male Bias Only because the Wimmen are Afeered of Fire, also ... via Kam-Yung Soh Originally shared by Bug Gwen The Exothermic Entomology Award, for exceptionally bad judgement in killing invertebrates with fire. http://www.wired.com/2015/11/exothermic-entomology-awards-dont-kill-it-with-fire/
Skylon
Skylon Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "For the last quarter century or so, a British company called Reaction Engines has been making slow, steady progress toward a hybrid system that has the potential to bind aircraft and spacecraft together. Reaction’s Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) could power a safe, efficient, and very cool looking single-stage-to-orbit vehicle. It's an enormous technical challenge, but one that may now be realistically solvable thanks to massive new investment from BAE Systems and the British government. BAE just ponied up £20.6 million for a 20-percent stake in the company. And with £60 million in grants coming from the UK government, the company thinks it should have the resources it needs to stage a full-scale ground test of SABRE by 2020, and unmanned test flights around 2025." http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/aviation/bae-systems-uk-invest-120-million-in-skylon-space-plane-engine-prototype
The Struggle Is Real
The Struggle Is Real But if it takes too long, then maybe it isn't worth it... I'm sympathetic to the writer, and to the issues involved, but... This stuff is hard, and academic administration is full of fear these days. Fear of change, and fear of running out of money. It is not always easy to sell discomfort to prospective students and their parents, even if you believe it builds character. It's probably worth noting that Brandeis' previous president, Jehuda Reinharz, had explored closing the Rose Museum and selling its collections, because of dire economic circumstances, and that his successor, Frederick Lawrence, recently resigned in the wake of a number of free speech controversies. Just because you're doing it right, for the right reasons, doesn't make it easy, or even possible. That takes perseverance, among other things. http://www.salon.com/2015/10/28/i_wanted_to_be_a_supporter_of_survivors_on_campus_and_a_good_teacher_i_didnt_realize_just_how_imposs...
Raw Talent
Raw Talent He appeared to have some talent at getting elected, and did not often appear a fool... But I'm not sure what he actually got done.... Maybe I'm missing the point... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/02/fred-thompson-was-one-of-the-most-talented-politicians-of-his-generation/
Did Not Reach Full Potential
Did Not Reach Full Potential http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20151102/
Auspicious Cranes
Auspicious Cranes A depiction of a real event, supposedly, at the beginning of Emperor Huizong's reign, and attributed to his hand. "Just as the sky grows light, rainbow-hued clouds brush the roof ridge. Immortal birds, proclaiming good news, suddenly appear with their measured dance. Soaring windborne, truly companions of the isles of immortality, Two by two, they show their noble forms." Huizong was an aesthete, and as the eleventh son, not expected to ascend to power. But, unluckily, his all ten of his brothers died and left him to rule. He did not, apparently, make such a good job of it, with the kingdom eventually taken over by the Juchen, and he and his son ending up poor and miserable in Manchuria. Born in 1082, he reigned for twenty six years (1100-1126) and died in 1035, at the age of 52.
Every Day Carry
Every Day Carry Old coot wisdom is seldom easily imparted. In fact, it is often downright unkind. But it has value, nonetheless. Originally shared by Alvin Stearns Think like water It is the most Buddha thing my Grandfather ever said to me. It blew my small young mind. Think like a thing that is not me, that does not even have a mind. OK! I was in. Hesitantly. Fearfully. I was under my grandparents' mobile home in the clearing in the old growth pine forest. I was about ten years old. He'd sent me in because I was ten, small, and could get to the pipe needing attention. I protested. I had no idea why he was sending me into the spider-infested dankness. Did I do something wrong? He talked to me about water. Water? What? I was ten, what did I know about pipes and basic domestic functions? I needed context! All my life, all I've ever need is context. Why is our civilization so bad at that? "What am I looking for?" I begged as I kicked my legs to p...
Dorsai!
Dorsai! Originally shared by The Cloberth Born in Edmonton, Alberta on this date in 1923, Canadian-American writer Gordon R. Dickson. Knight received his Bachelors degree from, and did graduate work at, the University of Minnesota. His first published story, “Trespass!” co-written with Poul Anderson, was in the in the Spring 1950 issue of Fantastic Stories Quarterly. During his life, he published 3 dozen novels, over 20 short story collections, and more than two dozen books as part of three series. He is perhaps best known for two of those series: Dragon Knight, and the Childe Cycle. Dickson won three Hugo Awards, one each for short story (1965), novella (1981), and novelette (1981). He won the 1996 Nebula Award for best novelette. He was also awarded the 1977 Skylark, from the New England Science Fiction Association for Imaginative Fiction, for contributions to Speculative Fiction. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000, the year before his death...