This man isn’t a US Senator, but he should be.
Everyone in the US Senate knows how to carry water these days.
[Found here.]
Tag: awesome
Graduation Day.
The Girls of Delta Tau Phi all want to borrow your van to move their belongings from here to a few feet over there. It’ll take all day and you still won’t get invited to their private wubba wubba dance.
[Found here.]
HOT LINKS Squeezin’s [Updated]
That image is from Page 25 of The Best Cookbook Ever, aka “The Campus Survival Cookbook” by Jacqueline Wood & Joelyn Scott Gilchrist (William Morrow & Company, 1973). While not condescending in the least, it assumes you know little about cooking, own few cooking utensils, don’t know how to shop for groceries or what staples you need. It also assumes that you’re on a tight budget and even provides shopping lists. It’s out of print, but there are used copies out there, and no, you can’t have mine.
[Beware of the freebee .pdf’s – MalwareBytes threw a hissy when I tried to download a copy.]
The Seven Tone Fart Symphony is awesome.
Flying houses [via].
2.2 lb burrito swallowed in 1 minute 44 seconds.
Ancient Islamic depictions of Mohammed. Don’t worry. You won’t be beheaded for looking at history, at least in the one remaining country with Freedom of Speech. Here’s the full archive. Download them all before The Powers That Be decide that they are hate speech, and God Forbid it ever comes to that. [BTW, Zombie is brilliant.]
LMAO. AGW is a fraud, a transparent hoax that has nothing to do with science and everything to do with confiscation of your income. Check this out.
George Carlin on Global Warming [warning – strong language].
Can you say “indoctrination?” Here’s the Reverend Jesse Jackson on Sesame Street. Really.
“Remember when you stuck my nose in it when I was a puppy? I do.”
I saw an insect yesterday I’d never seen before. It was about 2-inches long, the size of a large grasshopper. It had pumpkin-colored wings that laid flat on its back, and a shiny black body with a sky-blue band on the top of its abdomen. It crawled into a patch of dead rye grass that we’re growing on the side of the garage, so I pulled the grass out to get a better look and disturbed it. It flew off, with orange dragonfly wings and black dangling legs, obviously a wasp. It was a Tarantula Hawk, and I’ll never mess with one again. Here’s one description of what it’s like to be stung.
But then there are bullet ants.
So you’re in the Outback on walkabout and you need some rabbits? Catch some snakes first.
This may be the most mildly disturbing collection of miscellaneous links we’ve posted, but to make up for it, here’s a link to our Hot Links Archive.
The .Gif Friday Post No. 393 – OmeletPizzaWave, Busy Street Scramble & Hydraulics Hop
ROOTMAN does not like you.
Gimme Me A Hand
[Found here.]
Hurricane Sandy & The Golden Ratio φ
BTW. nature doesn’t run on mathematics, and the typical example of a nautilus shell exhibiting the proportions of Phi has been debunked. It’s still a fun exercise, counting the seeds in a sunflower’s (or pine cone’s) spirals and dividing the larger number by the smaller to see how close it approximates Phi.
Oddly enough, if you multiply Phi by ten it gives you the approximate average miles per hour on Interstate 10 between Santa Monica and Los Angeles in either direction at any hour of the day and any day of the week. TRUE.
[Image of Hurricane Sandy (2012) found here. The definition of Phi is stuck in my head, but it’s also found here.]
Saturday Matinee – Pensen Paletti, Wayne Hancock, Doc Watson & Aerosmith
THIS is pure awesome. Pensen Paletti [aka Peer Jenson of the Monsters of LeiderMaching] wired up his acoustic guitar and added drum synth keys. Wait for the Theme To Peter Gunn.
“Milk Cow Blues” was originally recorded by Sleepy John Estes in 1930. This version is a kinda late night early morning retro country thang performed by Wayne Hancock & Co. in 2008. Hoy hoy hoy, indeed. Here are two other versions:
Doc Watson was awesome.
Aerosmith did a nice cover of “Milk Cow Blues” that had nothing to do with the 1930 original that I can tell, but at least they worked in some Chuck Berry riffs.
Have a great weekend, folks, and we’ll be back here tomorrow whether you like it or not.
[Note that the Utoobage link for Sleepy John Estes’ “Milk Cow Blues” is not the same song.]
The .Gif Friday Post No. 392 – Tardigrade Swim, Indecisive WTF Fish & The Chicken Whisperer
Awesome Clock Is Awesome.
No, it’s not a Harry Potter movie set. It’s a functional astronomical clock in Prague, Czech Republic. Its workings date to 1410AD and it’s still in operation after over 600 years.
[Image found here, story here. Here’s a video with an annoying soundtrack.]
Tacky Raccoons 