Author: Bunk Strutts
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In case you missed it
WordPress was inexplicably shut down today (affecting 10.2 million blogs, including this one) but the techs brought service back in only 110 minutes. Amazing response time.
WP News here.
Secret Service
[Found here.]
The Great Farm: Urban Forester Scores Job Measuring Barley Crop
Tyler Stevenson, an urban forester, measures barley that is growing in the fields at the Great Park on Friday morning.
Irvine, California (Strutts News Services, Opinion Section) –
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Giant Lamprey Attacks King Kong
And boy is KayKay pissed, having to drag that sucker around from now on. Or maybe it’s heartworm he picked up while wading barefoot through the swamps of the Hamptons. Either way, he’s got my pity.
[Found here.]
Fat Tuesday
I like these guys, but there’s just too damn many of them.
(Barranquilla, Colombia)
If I were younger and single, I’d hang out with her. She’s fun.
(Barranquilla, Colombia)
The Wave: Here’s how they do it in Ovar, Portugal.
Rio de Janeiro has a large population of diminutive people, and they built a floating recliner just for Jennifer Lopez. She’s a goddess down there.
[Hundreds of awesome photos of Carnival from around the world, starting *ahem* here.]
Pacman Win
[Found here.]
Oops.
While combing through my leftover posts, I found this image of a post-ignosecond from the early 1900s. Can’t make out the make of the vehicle, but apparently the mishap hap’d in Australia.
Given the price of a state-of-the-art vehicle at that time, this was a very expensive oops.
[Found here.]
Happy Tet, Y’all!
How do’ folks, and Happy VietNamese New Year!
Little Saigon, in Westminster California, comprises the largest population of VietNamese ex-patriots of anywhere in the world. The community was founded by those who escaped the communist invasion that followed the fall of Saigon in 1975.
[More photos after the break.]
Saturday Matinee – Bugging Insects, Anti-Water, Leon Redbone; Plus Lonnie Mack with SRV, Albert Collins & Roy Buchanan
Bug a bug: Annoying a praying mantis. [Found here.]
I want this. It would make clothes dryers and salad spinners obsolete. [Found here.]
Leon Redbone is in a class all by ourselves.
Lonnie Mack and SRV with “Double Whammy,” for preview only.
Lonnie Mack with Albert Collins and Roy Buchanan, “Further On Up The Road.” Whatta classic lineup.
Tacky Raccoons 