Take a look at the photo. Aldrin’s fashion sense is… unique. And why not: he’s been to the moon. Have you?
Late last night the power went out during a mild rain shower. Turns out a power pole caught fire and trashed the transformer and such, cutting things off for most of the night. Fortunately the temperature was not an issue and most everybody was asleep, but having a house full of uninterruptible power supplies suddenly all beeping incessantly was a pain in the keister. But the situation did lead to some interesting sights, straight out of Project Blue Book: a few miles off, a few police vehicles with flashing lights along with a utility truck pointing spotlights up at the pole while the workers fixed it. The lights were reflected not only by the mist in the air, but also the low-hanging clouds.
Saw this feller at a local hardware store. Friendly and dignified critter.
It’s nice that she wants to help, but… she’s not that good with the ‘puter.
Cat-like typing detected.
Work proceeds on the 1/700 scale Nova/Post-Saturn model collection. Here are some of them in various states of completion, not to scale.
Sometimes there’s a work slowdown. Like when Fingers decides that the best of all possible places to be is on my laptop.i
So there I am, doing stuff, when a cat pops up out of nowhere, staring at the ceiling. This lasted *just* long enough to get one photo, then there was the mad dash out of the room. Maybe Banshee heard a mouse up there. Or saw a bug. Or a ghost. Or she just went insane.
So I was scanning some aerospace documents on my PC when I fired up a downloaded Doomcock rant… and suddenly had an avid viewer show up. Turns out that Banshee, my grumpiest cat, is a fan of Dictor Van Doomcock. Who woulda guessed that she was a disgruntled Star Wars/Trek fan?
Here’s your Easy Offense Studies major for today:
Rashaad Thomas is a husband, father, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, poet and essayist.
No reference to holding down a job requiring physical effort? Color me stunned.
#Learntomine
Artificial intelligence takes “butterface” to level 9,000.
Nobody would be fooled into thinking that this is actually a real Steve Buscemi-faced Jennifer Lawrence answering the sort of hard-hitting questions that Buzzfeed is justly famed and successful for. For starters, it’s not a photographically perfect blend; for seconds, it’s just too horrifying. But it *is* pretty close to being a successful blend, especially given that it was created by just one guy in his spare time. So…*how* much did Warner Brothers spend to digitally remove Superman’s ‘stache?”
One of the more admirable features of the common housecat is their ability to make themselves comfortable ona level humans can only dream of.
All four of them on a bed. Fingers, Buttons and Speedbump are all curled up together while Banshee is a little away from the group. She doesn’t tolerate physical contact with the others, but at least she’s calmed down from her days of screaming bloody murder if another cat was in the same room with her.
The two below show the result pf adding a bit of dried catnip to a small plastic shoebox. Buttons has always ignored catnip (supposedly only about half of cats really react to it). But this time he decided to fill the boxes volume.
And Banshee shows us how it’s done.
“I should buy a boat.”