Month: July 2018

Card Game

[Original source unknown and I don’t remember where I found it. A Tineye search produced no matches.]

Whales are freezing solid due to Anthropogenic Climate Change because too many people ride in an Uber or Lyft and want to poison the world with Bird Scooters. There. I said it.

Meanwhile, Arctic foxes are not freezing. Film at 11.

[Found here.]

3D x 2.666666666666666667 Hot Links

The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature and it relies upon Octonians, 8-dimensional numbers discovered in 1843 by John T. Graves.  A x B doesn’t always equal B x A.

Cohl Furey describes Octonians in layman’s terms. I still don’t get it, yet it fascinates me.

Zebra or donkey? “Zebras also have black snouts, according to one 9-year-old expert.” The comments are fun on that report.

Wholphin? Its father was a rough-tooth; its mother was a melon-head. TRUE.

The most complete fossil of the earliest known true lizard, Hylonomus, was found in a tree stump.

What’s your running style?

I’m sorry to admit that I watched THIS in its entirety.

#InMyFeelings Idiot 1.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 2.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 3.
#InMyFeelings Idiot 4.

Our archive for the category “Dance Hard” has some related stuff.

John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols) became a U.S. citizen in 2013. In March 2017, he opined about Donald Trump.

Young U.S. Communists Explain USSR/Venezuela/Cuba/N. Korea Failures to ex-USSR immigrant Vladimir Jaffe on 27 July 2016 [pre-Trump era]. Some people can’t handle the truth.

Saturday Matinee – Jared Dines, Hillbilly Moon Explosion, The Baboons, Howlin’ Wolf with Willie Dixon

Jared Dines commissioned the design of a 17-string guitar, paid $1,200 for it, then learned that it was made in China for $400. Pissed him off, so he destroyed it. He then ordered this 18-string from a legit Australian company. Nice catchy tune…

Hillbilly Moon Explosion is interesting. Not too many bands feature Wednesday Addams teaching Lurch how to do The James Brown (at least I think that’s the dance).

The Baboons‘ “It’s Dark” has a solid (but unattributed) Howlin’ Wolf groove, so let’s go there.

That’s Willie Dixon on bass. He wrote, arranged, produced, played and sang on some of the most influential blues standards in modern history, so it’s really a Dixon Groove.

Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here when you’re ready.

Non-Stop Barking Hot Links

The Dentist.

The Chiropractor.

She Thinks I Steal Cars.

Welcome to the 419 Eaters.

Slavery: What They Didn’t Teach in My High School.

This [from the “What The Hell Was He Thinking?” Department].
That [from the “What The Hell Was He Driving?” Department].
The Other [from the “Why Twitter Was Invented” Department]. Sound up.

Fuman Musicoloco the Juggling Drummer. Scroll down for the video.

Walter E. Williams on “Russian Collusion.” It’s not what you think it is.

Found in 2013, planet Kepler 78b, 700 light years away, orbits its star in just 8.5 hours. Its top layer is a rolling ocean of lava that reaches temperatures of 2760°C.

U.S. Marines held a training exercise (in a faux village) with Mexican Marines and a Royal Canadian Army infantry force at Camp Pendleton on 3 July 2018:

The squad of Mexican marines stepped deliberately through a narrow alley, their rifles scanning windows and roofs for any potential danger. The village seemed calm, with some local residents milling along the market street amid the occasional sounds of bleating goats.

But the blast from an improvised explosive device near the patrol broke the calm, and the Mexican force joined by several U.S. Marines for the security mission were soon under gunfire from unknown shooters in what looked like a coordinated attack.

[Link, with video here. Related post here.]

And yes, the neighbor’s little yappy dog has been going at it since 5pm. It’s now midnight…

[Top image: W.C. Fields drills Elise Cavanna as Zedna Farley looks on in The Dentist, 1932.]