President and Mrs. Johnson and Vice President Humphrey watch Apollo 11 lift off at Cape Canaveral, July 1969. Photograph by Otis Imboden, National Geographic. [Found here.]
Category: Odd
Space Bimbos V
[Found around the interverse. More Space Bimbos here.]
Panhygrous Hot Links
Man Child, Sam The Sham (1963)
Domingo Samudio, aka Sam The Sham, released his first 45rpm in 1962, a cover of Chick Willis’ Betty and Dupree; the B side was Man Child. Two years later, Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs’ hit Wooly Bully made No. 1 in Billboard’s Top 100 for 1965. Contrary to popular belief, Samudio wasn’t of Mexican ancestry; he was of Basque/Apache descent.
The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.
Tower Records 1971 [via Everlasting Blört.]
The new recipe smells just like the old recipe.
Headbanging with glasses [via Thompson, blog].
Chaco Chachalaca, Dickcissel & 98 more cool bird names
[via Memo Of The Air].
[Image at top: Slotville Gas by Jarel Built found here via here.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 958 – Goose the Turtle, Taste the Chicken & Jump the Penguins
Young Family in a Dark Forest at a Bridge To Nowhere
Four small nightmares. An abandoned stage set creates a terrifying forest setting for these visitors to a lonely theme park scene now closed. What horrible event was portrayed inside the forest with a bridge to nowhere but darker? – Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
[Right click to enlarge; full size at link. Photos and description found here.]
Put this dog in charge of everything.
[Found here.]
Math is Fun.
The HP 9820A (AKA the 9800 series model 20) was HP’s third calculator. It made use of many of the same parts used to make the HP 9810. In fact, a number of PC boards were interchangeable between the two. There was, however, a major distinction: The HP 9820A was HP’s first algebraic calculator. It was a fully algebraic calculator with parentheses, precedence and even implied multiplication. (e.g., 2AB meant 2 times A times B.) The calculator displayed the expression as entered on a single line alphanumeric LED display (which showed 16 characters and scrolled as needed) and evaluated it when the EXECUTE key was pressed.
The HP 9820A was originally priced around $5,000 to $6,000 circa 1972, approximately $44K in 2026 USD.
[Unaltered image found here. Fake ad copy courtesy of Grok.]
Nothing Much Happened Today.
From Levitation series by Japanese photographer Natsumi Hayashi.
[Found here, via here.]
Misocaineacal Hot Links
Romantic Beach, Los Elásticos (2003)
Banda instrumental de México, amante de la lucha libre y de la de Música Surf. Los cuatro luchadores y una Go-go Dancer tienen una página web por ahí.
Potty love [via Thompson, blog].
Daredevil is Latin for bonehead.
Richard Johnston, Lonely Hunter.
The Boston Boom [via The Feral Irishman].
Argus is omnidirectional [via Everlasting Blört.]
1948 MG TC Special Roadster [via Memo Of The Air].
[Image at top: Soviet baby rally propaganda poster ca. 1923 via Nag on the Lake. Among other things they are demanding clean diapers.]
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