Month: June 2018

The Hot Links Whisperer

Crookes’ Radiometer doesn’t work in a complete vacuum because there’s no heat transfer.

Flight 25 podcast is entirely bitchin’. “Extended One-Hour Space Age flight featuring lounge and surf musics, and other galactic goodies…along with various stops in between.” This has been stuck in my head for decades.

Q: “Why are Saturn’s rings flat? Why isn’t the debris dispersed equally around the whole planet?”
A: Because physics.

This past week a swarm of Lake Erie midges was spotted and tracked by Doppler radar in the Cleveland Ohio area.

Meanwhile, The WSJ declared a crisis: Why a Decline in Insects Should Bug You.

Walter E. Williams explains the difference between capitalism and socialism.

The missus attended an estate sale today, paid $10 for a set of cups, saucers, plates and a platter. This site offers replacement items, same vintage, same pattern, for $214. WIN!

The History of Pottery of Sebring, Ohio.

From The Fun Facts To Know And Tell Department:

“I’d rather be a hamster than an ale; If I could, If I would.“

Simon and Garfunkel scored a hit in 1970 with “El Cóndor Pasa.”
An earlier instrumental version made the charts in 1963 by Los Incas.
A copyright infringement lawsuit filed (by the son of Daniel Alomía Robles, the Frenchman who composed the song in Peru in 1913) was resolved amicably. The copyright dates to 1933.
It is revered in Peru as a song of national pride, and is the equivalent of “God Bless America” in the US. [h/t ricedelman.com]

[Top image: Eskimo Safety Matches found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Jurassic Parkour, Eliane Rodrigues, Doña Oxford & The All Night Long Blues Band

Not quite Sweded, but close. [Found here.]

Brazillian concert pianist Eliane Rodrigues discovered that her piano was defective, descended into Hell, then came back smiling. She’s no prima donna.

Doña Oxford ain’t no slouch either, and her keys melt. Let’s do one more.

The All Night Long Blues Band featured Sean “Bad” Apple, Dixie Street and Martin Grant with a nice cover of Hambone Willie Newbern‘s 1929 recording “Roll and Tumble Blues.” [Harp player Martin Grant passed away in March of 2015.]

Have a great weekend, folks. See y’all back here soon.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 538 – Sun Pong, T. Rex Geometry & Ringtoss Win

[Found here, here, and here. All three are from this Very Nice .Gif Collection.]

Unshaven.

I remember her. Thank God I had some common sense and walked away clean. [Found here.]

6 June 1944 D-Day

In 1944, and against the odds, General Dwight D. Eisenhower accepted the risk and subsequent bloodshed in order to prevent more of it. His leadership freed France from Nazi Germany occupation and was the beginning of the end of the war in Europe.

General Eisenhower was mocked by the left as a dullard, stupid and ignorant. He wasn’t. Not by a long shot.

[Found in here.]

2018 June Primary Election – Bunk’s Voter Guide


If in doubt on a Proposition, vote NO.
If in doubt on any Candidate, ABSTAIN.
If anyone asks you how you voted, LIE.

 

How To Serve A Cat.

Cat’s up.

[Found here.]

Sunny And Warm With A Chance Of Scattered Hot Links

Sikh Humor.

The pasta race.

There’s nothing here.

How to use a step drill. [h/t Lucy D.]

No A/C? How to make a swamp cooler.

Organic farming: Weeding without pesticides. [h/t Alan U.]

The 5th Amendment of the US Constitution addresses Double Jeopardy. It prevents one from being prosecuted for a crime, acquitted of that crime, and being prosecuted again and again and again, for the same crime, until a conviction is obtained.

The protection from double jeopardy is over 2,355 years old and is one of the oldest legal concepts in Western civilization.

The Attorney General of New York Barbara Underwood wants to rescind the 5th Amendment. REALLY.

30 years ago he spoke into his watch and owned a driverless car. Then he ate a cheeseburger.

[Top image from Camel eats cactus, found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Kmac2021, Stevie Ray Vaughan with Jeff Beck, and Don Nix with the Mar-Keys

Kmac2021 is a one-man Spinal Tap. Reminds me of the vids entitled, “What It’s Really Like To Work In A Music Store.”
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V

Okay, so where do we go from here? Goin’ Down.

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Jeff Beck covered Don Nix‘s “Going Down.”
I always thought it was a Freddie King song. So what else did Nix do? A lot.

From Wiki: Don Nix began his career playing saxophone for the Mar-Keys, which also featured Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn and others. The [1961] hit instrumental single “Last Night” (composed by the band as a whole) was the first of many successful hits to Nix’s credit. […] The Mar-Keys evolved into Booker T. & the M.G.’s.

https://youtu.be/CIZUS5rBtFE

What a convergence of talent at the right time and the right place. God Bless Stax Records.

Have a soulful weekend, folks, be back here tomorrow.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 537 – Blimpcycle, Steel Cutter, & The Popeye & Olive Construction Co.

[1st one was snipped from this cartoon. Second is an eye-witness .gif  Guy’s cutting rebar for dowels and burning his pants at the same time. 3rd .gif is the way high-rise steel buildings were once constructed, with red-hot iron rivets tossed from below.]