The .gif Friday Post 65: Animated Scales

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Fun for seconds on end.

[These are not rulers.  Kings and queens are rulers.  These Geek Scales were found via RGS.]

The Dawn of Efficiency

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And boy was Dawn efficient.  According to her husband, she was a regular filament-winding prodigy.

[Image with caption from the master of Captionland,  Fengtastic.]

How to get linked to Chelsea Clinton’s website

First you start a website called “Tacky Raccoons.”  Then, while under duress to make a late post, you find an amusing story about a guy in China who wants to make a robot-likeness of Hillary Clinton.  Then while trying to be clever and funny you accidentally misreport the story, claiming that the Chinese guy has made a Chelseabot.

The following day, you notice that a new website has thrown you some traffic, so you click on the link, only to find this:

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So you scroll to the bottom and discover that you’re now world famous, and that you knocked Wonkette off the preferred status list on Chelsea’s Blog.

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Now I’ve got nothing against Chelsea Clinton.  As far as I can tell she’s completely innocent of wrongdoing, except for having an automated blog that she doesn’t run.

By the way, there’s no photoshoppery here.  I stitched 3 unedited screenshots for the first image (amateurish, I admit… you can spot the stitches) and cropped and enlarged the 3rd for legibility.  Honest.

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Exclusive Photos of the Inauguration

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[Images from here, via here.]

Just One Look…

Doris Troy wasn’t singing about this.  Or maybe she was.

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Saturday Matinee: Hollies, Checkmates, Guitar Strings, Waits & Satchmo

The Hollies’  “Just One Look”  was a 1964 cover of Doris Troy’s 1963 hit. [More tomorrow.]

[Via Ms. C.]

[Via EK.]

Since Phil posted a TW vid, here’s a reposte.  Tom Waits never sings the same song the same way twice.

One of the prettiest songs ever sung.  Oh Yeah.

The.Gif Friday Post No. 64: Lenticulations

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Want to make your own 3D images and .gif’s?  Directions and cool links here. Another thingy here.  A nice, tasteful and odd collection of .gif animations here.

[Found via The Presurfer.]

Some things you just shouldn’t question.

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Really.  You don’t want to know.

[Image found somewhere and posted somewhere like  here.]

Trailer for Sale or Rent

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Specious country living at its best.  Surrounded by woodlands and meadows, this economical residence provides all the rustic utilities you look for in a pristine rural setting.  Campfires every night!  Far from the bustling city, the lot provides ample opportunities for pursuing both game and fish, and has sanitary facilities adjacent to the creek a mere 150 yards away.  You’ll never have to mow the grass again.

[Image from here via here.]

Miss Prattle

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Miss Prattle, consulting Doctor Double Fee about her Pantheon Head Dress, has a very unusually shaped bottom that always points very very slightly to the southeast of her chamber pot in her chamber.  What does it mean?

I don’t know, Babs, but I do know this.

Bunk’s outta work, and may slow down his posting for a while.  Lo Siento.  Of course, maybe I’ll work for free, cleaning up the mess in the back yard and stuff.  Or maybe I’ll work for free messing around here while I drum up some busyness.

I decided that if I’m gonna be unemployed, I might as well make it worth my while and delve into savings.  If I delve frugally enough, I’ll have enough to pay for my own office while I scrounge for additional projects.  All I need is to hold my breath while the C and D students eat it.

Unfortunately for us, the C and D students run the world, but all I have to do is beat the dregs.  Meanwhile, lemme know if y’all want your windows washed.

[Image from NM/GH.]