Will not end well…

 awesomeness, blather, news  4 Responses »
Jan 042011
 

… or, it will be legendarily awesome. I’ll bet on the former, sadly.

Real-Life Superhero Walks Streets, Fighting Crime

“From the right, this guy comes dashing in, wearing this skin-tight rubber, black and gold suit, and starts chasing him away,” said Dan. 

What Dan didn’t know is that just about every night, an anonymous Seattle man strolls into a comic store, enters a hidden back room and emerges transformed. “From the right, this guy comes dashing in, wearing this skin-tight rubber, black and gold suit, and starts chasing him away,” said Dan.  

What Dan didn’t know is that just about every night, an anonymous Seattle man strolls into a comic store, enters a hidden back room and emerges transformed.

Be sure to watch the video.
 Posted by at 12:44 pm

Now, where have I seen this sentiment before…

 books, dumbassery, history, humor, politics  7 Responses »
Jan 042011
 

From the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal web comic:

It does seem somehow familiar.

Oh, and by the way, the PC-droids are neutering one of the actually good classics:

Upcoming NewSouth ‘Huck Finn’ Eliminates the ‘N’ Word

Twain himself defined a “classic” as “a book which people praise and don’t read.” Rather than see Twain’s most important work succumb to that fate, Twain scholar Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books plan to release a version of Huckleberry Finn, in a single volume with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, that does away with the “n” word (as well as the “in” word, “Injun”) by replacing it with the word “slave.”

“This is not an effort to render Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn colorblind,” said Gribben, speaking from his office at Auburn University at Montgomery, where he’s spent most of the past 20 years heading the English department. “Race matters in these books. It’s a matter of how you express that in the 21st century.”

Goddamnitsomuch.

 Posted by at 11:25 am

My Emails Are Being Delayed

 AARRRGH, APR, blather, Gah.  4 Responses »
Jan 042011
 

As mentioned in the comments here, a lot of emails I’m sending out are either not getting to the destination… or are being delayed by more than a  *day.* This is of course not a good way for an internet business to run. Anyone have any ideas what might cause this, and who I might yell at to make it stop?

 Posted by at 10:26 am

Regulus

 aircraft, drawings, history, nukes  1 Response »
Jan 042011
 

Downloaded this off the Intarweb Tube-Trucks some years back.

There was a time when aviation companies proudly published scale diagrams of their products so that people could fashion models out of ’em.

 Posted by at 1:04 am

The Lost Continent

 awesomeness, blather, reshaping the world, science, science fiction  5 Responses »
Jan 042011
 

Note for those who may have missed the news: “Atlantis” is bunk. Almost certainly made up by Plato as a device to let him expound on his nonsensical notions for a perfect society. However, there have been at least two true “lost continents.” Sci-fi and fantasy authors, take note. But also take note of the timescales.

Kerguelen microcontinent

A small volcanic continent (about 3 times the size of Japan) formed in the southern Indian Ocean about 130 million years ago, it sank beneath the waves about  20 million years ago.. and is now one to two kilometers deep.

Zealandia: a full-fledged continent under what is now New Zealand. 3.5 million square kilometers in area, it began to sink about 60 million years ago, and was largely sunk by about 23 million years ago, leaving just New Zealand and some scattered mountaintops as islands.

 Posted by at 12:01 am

Free Books! Free Library, In Fact…

 books, dumbassery, Gah., photography  32 Responses »
Jan 032011
 

A photo slideshow of the wonderful urban ruins of Detroit includes this photo of the East Side Public Library:

Now how in the hell can a library be abandoned and *not* cleaned out? Even if the local government simply shut the door and walked away, books have monetary value. At the very least you’d think some enterpising and larcenous used book dealer would show up with a truck, an armed guard or three and a couple of burly guys to box all that stuff up and sell it a bit at a time. There has *got* to be some money in that… they can’t all have been books by Oprah.

This seems to be a theme in a lot of the photos. Buildings were abandoned with the stuff still in them, and the locals thought of nothing better to do than to trash the stuff… not sell it.

Weird.

 Posted by at 6:36 am

Nope. Not Creepy AT ALL.

 blather, critters, news, science  10 Responses »
Jan 022011
 

Arkansas game officials probe mystery of falling birds

Arkansas game officials hope testing scheduled to begin Monday will solve the mystery of why up to 5,000 blackbirds fell from the sky just before midnight New Year’s Eve. … “Shortly after I arrived, there were still birds falling from the sky,” said commission wildlife officer Robby King in the statement.

Yeesh.In the movies, this typically precedes the appearance of Satan or Jesus or aliens, or something equally unfortunate. Let’s just hope nothing else weird happens in that area…

Ummmm…

State commission says dead fish now cover 20-mile section of Arkansas River

An Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman says dead drum fish now cover a 20-mile section of the Arkansas River near Ozark.

Ah, crap. Well that’s got to be about the end of it, right?

Ummm…

Clues sought in Arkansas earthquake swarm

More than 500 measurable earthquakes have occurred in central Arkansas since September, and it’s unknown if they’ll stop anytime soon, seismologists say.

 Posted by at 6:40 pm

APR issue V3N1 is Now Available

 aircraft, APR, awesomeness, drawings, history, new products, news, nukes, rockets, spacecraft  16 Responses »
Jan 012011
 

Get it while the gettin’s good!

http://www.up-ship.com/blog/eAPR/ev3n1.htm

127 pages of awesomeness related to the Convair NEXUS super-booster, the Convair XP-92, von Brauns “Ferry Rocket,” a 1982 McDonnell-Douglas AFT concept and the Lockheed GL 238 cargo plane. If you like spacecraft, ramjets, gas-core or solid-core nuclear thermal rockets or Project Orion, you’ll love this issue.

Remember, APR is no longer taking new subscribers, so unless you’re already a subscriber, the only way to get this issue is… to buy this issue. Go for it… it’s cheap!

 Posted by at 10:20 pm
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