I got 4 out of 4 correct. BFD.
Why athletes puke after a cross country skiing race.
THIS is a very cool retro playlist podcast.
When the deadline comes too soon…
Goin’ fishin’ for a few days, but should be back on Thursday, See you then.
Saturday Matinee – Porcapizza (aka Massimo Tortella)
The .Gif Friday Post No. 534- Scratchbird, Hooverbird & Catbomb
Cross Country Skiers
Reminds me of the story of the autistic woman who began whistling an unusual tune. Her caregiver asked what the song was. The woman said the birds wrote it and pointed to the crows sitting on the overhead power lines.
[Found via links from here.]
1930s Socialist Propaganda for a 4 Hour Work Day
Work less, get paid the same wages. Sounds like part time to me. That’s a way for a government administration to doctor the numbers to show unemployment decreasing while reducing the gross income of the work force. I’ll pass.
[Found here.]
Amazon Delivers Washing Machines
[Found here.]
Pickin’ n’ Grinnin’
[Found here. Date & location unknown.]
Stir Fried Hot Links
“Stupid is rarely quiet.” – Bunk Strutts 5 May 2018
Urban graffiti vid is better with the sound off.
Cat hunts and retrieves sponges.
Time passing too quickly? Consider a Slow Watch. Its single hand rotates once every 24 hours.
Major 7th arpeggio in B♭. Hold your nose and enjoy the Rectal Magnum Opus.
World’s oldest spider dead at 43.
Heh.
Cheap thrills: Find a pair of 3D movie glasses (not the red/blue type, the polarized kind). Put them on, look in a mirror and close one eye. Do it.
George de Mestral (1907-1990) was a Swiss electrical engineer who invented Velcro, but lost his patent rights in 1978.
[Top image found here.]
Saturday Matinee – The Skids, Linkin Bridge & Cinco De Mayo Madrid Flash Mob
The Skids “Into The Valley” [via]. Nice Ramones influence.
Today is the start of The 2018 Kentucky Derby, and yes, it has a themesong.
Linkin Bridge‘s “My Old Kentucky Home” is killer.
Oh, and Cinco De Mayo has everything to do with selling beer in the US and nothing to do with Mexican Independence Day.
This is kinda cool. Mariachi flash mob showed up in Madrid, but Mariachis originated in Mexico not Spain. Go figure.
Have a great weekend. folks, see you back here tomorrow.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 533 – Early .Gif FaceMorph, Shadows & AI Humanoid Spaz
[First .gif source unknown, and it’s the second one ever posted on this site. It’s one of my all-time favorites and inspired This Awesome Collection.
2nd .gif found here,
Third .gif was cobbled together from a video of a computer-generated humanoid that taught itself to walk, then run, by trial and error.
Tacky Raccoons 