THURSDAY #2278

One Of My Very Own...

I ran Tesla up the grandchild naming flagpole and there wasn't much saluting. To 6 1/2 billion people, Tesla would now only be a name of a car...like naming a kid Mercedes or Porsche. So I am countering with Nikola...or Nikolai (which is Russian and means Victory Of The People)

How is it that a country like Iraq can let a few thousand members of a motorcycle-like gang take over huge chunks of their territory and not have a military powerful enough to take it back? Think about it; in one of the most dangerous places on the planet, a whole country can't defeat a group of men who don't even have a helicopter.


The greatest TV ad ever....
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2015/03/st-bernards-prefer-spaghetti-to-salad.html

My old friend used to be the Assistant Secretary of Transportation under President Carter. Once a women came into his office and said that she had invented a color of green she called "'53 Oldsmobile Green" and she deserved money because the interstate highways system was using "her" color on their signs. Being a consummate politician he smiled and told her that the color selection was the work of 3M and quickly gave her the address and contact person of the 3M office in Washington. The contact person was a personal friend of his and within a couple of days they got together to talk about the dirty trick played on him. But the 3M guy ended up laughing in that he had sent the woman to talk to a guy he didn't like in the paint division of 3M.

Can you see the illusion?

What you are looking at is just the outside wall of the cabin. 

A house is missing and deputies with the Klamath County sheriff's office in Oregon are looking for it.

A Woman riding an Autoped, ca. 1916

 That is also a beautiful photograph. And...

All these years of thinking about it and still no cheap, fun, safe and easy way to move around urban environments.

A whole bunch of people have gotten into big trouble over this button...

 That's why I removed it from my page. Why doesn't more people do that?

Weddings r cool bc u can cry in public about other stuff as long as u look in the general direction of the bride + groom

What a wonderfulWhat a wonder, and demeaning, way to look at it, and demeaning, way to look at it.

 Conspiracy theorists are claiming that the two shiny spots on Ceres seen in photos taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft are ice or patches of salt. But applying Occam's Razor, a more reasonable explanation is that an alien spacecraft was damaged while going through the Asteroid Belt, and the crew had to bail on the dwarf planet, and are using a signaling mirror as a distress signal. We'll know more as Dawn gets closer to Ceres next week.

 We have seen the scoop arm of a rover reveal white ice under the surface...

We see other orbs with crater bottoms of different colors.

The Sahara Desert helps fertilize the Amazon rainforest even though they're on two different continents that are separated by an entire ocean. The Saharan dust is carried over by wind and the phosphorous in the dust is essential to the Amazon.

This illustrates participation worldwide, but also shows how the bands on Jupiter rotate in different directions...

Another report has been released by the FBI concerning how racist the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department is.  This was done by comparing the percentages of various stops, fines, and arrests compared to the percentage of black people to white people.
Okay, folks, I'm going to go real slow here, so pay attention. Let's suppose you have a town that, like it used to be, had a railroad track running down the middle. And on one side of the track you had rich white people and on the other side you had poor black people. Now let's further suppose that the police department gets 90% of call for assistance from one side of the tracks. If you were a good police chief, where would you allocate your cops and cars?
Of course, you put the cars where the crime is. While these cops are patrolling, they stop more black people. They fine more black people for jaywalking, etc.
So, how do we solve this problem? Do we demand that half of the cops spend half of their time on the "safe" side of the tracks even though there is no crime? Or do we send more cops to the crime infested side of the track but tell them not to ticket people for breaking the law?

It's called gerrymandering...

What if Neo swallowed both pills at the same time?

OHIO!?! I would have bet money this was in Russia. I didn't know Americans got that drunk.

Le Château de Vigny, a castle, built in 1504 about an hour outside of Paris, could be your new home for around US$ 5.6 million. It's 37,000 square feet on 44 acres and includes an orange grove, stables, greenhouses, bridges, and, yes, a moat.

A painting by Concetta Antico, the artist who is a tetrachromat, meaning a genetic difference in her eyes enables her to see approximately 100 times more colors than an average person.

The Spark Electron is a small component that enables devices to connect to the Internet where there is no WiFi or Bluetooth. The data plan cost $3 a month for one megabyte. That's about 20,000 text messages. 

So he suggests taping a 45 to a drum stick to swat it out of their hands. So I am not the only one sick of that shit.

FUN WITH LANGUAGE

See anything odd about this?

 It's so fake it is signed by Moe Money. College student was arrested with $13,000 of it in her room.

Let's take another look of the guy loading fish in a truck...

A very interesting short article about mice...
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=108041

New York, February 26, 1993

Driving in your lane is the adult version of coloring in the lines.

Imagine the first thought that went through the brain of the first caterpillar to turn into a butterfly.

Opinions are like assholes; the internet has desensitized me to them.

I would call this How To Live In A Big City...

Let's talk about feminism. Men and women aren't the same. They do not face the same problems.

 Men don't breastfeed.

 Men aren't raped.

 Men won't be arrested for walking around shirtless.

Some people call it showing someone how you feel about it; others, indecent exposure….whatever.

That last guy thinks two men fucking each other in the ass is a sin. Well, according to the bible it IS a sin, but that's really not the point.

One of my young bartenders killed herself. Hard for me to deal with that. Old people are supposed to die. Young people are supposed to live. 
Very, very sad, that.

My Final Words...