Finally, something that is beautiful and joyful in its own right. See, I’m not entirely depressing.
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Finally, something that is beautiful and joyful in its own right. See, I’m not entirely depressing.
Content Warning: Cannibalism, Christmas
In a flanking maneuver, let’s attack St Nicholas. A friend of mine sent me this gem:
This is some really neat stuff. It’s from a recent episode of This Week in Virology(TWIV), which is generally worth listening to in its entirety, but sometimes their side-topics are so interesting it’s delightful.
I remember hearing about this back in the USENET days. It’s a fun story and he’s obviously told it many times.
Commentariat(tm) Underwater Obstreperousness Agent Patrick Slattery sent me this story, to brighten my day. Because, unlike some of you, I probably didn’t pay for it. The Brits, apparently have figured out what to do with their F-35s.
Old welder to young welder: “OK, now we’re going to check your welds to see if they hold.”
Young welder: “They’re tight, they’ll hold up to anything.”
Old welder: “We’ll see about that.”
The whole “Columbus discovered The Americas” meme is stupid; rather obviously the people who settled down there 13,000 years before Columbus came, did. After all, they were there to greet him when he arrived, and promptly murdered a few of them. There were literally millions of people who discovered and inhabited the americas before Columbus was even born. What a strange conceit that it takes a white european to “discover” a place.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a special effects wrangler. In fact, the short story Armaments Race by Arthur Clarke [wik] really appealed to me – I thought that making swords and guns and armor and tanks for movies would be a fine way to spend my life.
This posting will be a bit image-heavy.