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.]
Tag: awesome
Amazon Delivers Washing Machines
[Found here.]
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.
And The Times They Are A Hot Links
A long forgotten grade-school rhyme popped into my head recently and here it is.
Mary had a little watch.
She swallowed it one day,
So Mary took a Feen-A-Mint
To pass the time away.
The Feen-A-Mint, it did not work;
The time, it did not pass;
So if you want to know what time it is,
Just look up Mary’s little brother.
He’s got a watch.
Marky Ramone talks about CBGBs and stuff.
The U.S. Tax System explained with beer.
These “Chimera Cats” are not photoshopped images.
Caren Zeldie Turner lost her position as NJ Port Authority Commissioner because of this.
Cool and embarrassing at the same time. El TIE Fighter más ecológico de la galaxia.
The world’s oldest living person is always alive because the previous record holder has passed on.
Broward County school shooting survivor Kenneth Preston did some homework and was squelched.
Some People Are Their Own Identical Twins. [via]. More here.
[Top image found here.]
Invisibility Pants
[Found here.]
Proactive Retributional Hot Links
18 April 2018 was the 75th Anniversary of The Doolittle Raid of 1942, the daring attack on mainland Japan after their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. A 1983 interview with (then 87 year-old) General “Jimmy” Doolittle can be found here.
Why some doorknobs are knurled.
Zen moment: Just saw a bee with one wing. Every time it tried to fly it ended up on its back, rolled over, crawled for a bit and tried to fly again with the same result. It never gave up, but it made the same mistake over and over. There’s more than two morals in that story.
“Have You Ever Really Seen The Moon?” is a collection of peoples’ reactions to looking through a telescope [via].
A beheaded majestic white swan didn’t bleed, wasn’t killed.
This is clever. Mechanical servos go digital.
Gumball Wars [via].
Ever work on a carpentry project, mis-measure the cut and end up with a short board? The BS100o Board Stretcher is the solution. “Measure once, cut twice.”
The Institute for Centrifugal Research (ICR) is worth the visit. If you’ve seen it before, it’s worth a revisit.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 531 – Kitty Lizard Tizzy, Dog Wars & Beach Ball Chumping
Scaffolding.
[Found here.]
Happy Snake Is Happy
So two snakes slither under a bar.
1st snake says, “Gimme a rock and rye.”
2nd snake says, “Gimme the same.”
Bartender looks around the empty bar and hollers, “Insert punchline here!” The snakes are stunned, neither can speak.
This condition is called “a reptile dysfunction.”
[Original image found here.]
Condoned by Congress, The USS Comfort Carried Captured Camels
In 1855, Congress approved a plan developed by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis to import camels as pack animals for the U.S. Army operating in the American Southwest.
The camels were also considered for use as a long-range mounted force that could drive “hostile Indians out of the country.” The storeship USS Supply was refitted with special hatches, stables, hoists and a “camel car” for the sole purpose of loading and transporting dromedaries.
Once the first herd of camels was obtained in North Africa, Supply [w]as further modified to compensate for the towering humps of the camels by cutting away part of the main deck. The camels were delivered to Texas where their potential was recognized but the plan was never fully implemented due to the advent of the Civil War.
So instead of wasting them, the U.S. Army sold the camels to zoos. TRUE
[Image and story found here. More about the Camel Corps here.]
Tacky Raccoons 