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  • Yeah… still bitter.

 

 

 

  • POLITICS NEVER CHANGES FILES:

You think this quote is relevant, perhaps? More rambling on that here.

From EERILY relevant Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72:

“Remember the Whigs, Larry? They went belly up, with no warning at all, when a handful of young politicians like Abe Lincoln decided to move out on their own, and fuck the Whigs which worked out very nicely, and when it became almost instantly clear that the Whig hierarchy was just a gang of old impotent wind-bags with no real power at all, the Party just curled up and died . . . & any politician stupid enough to ‘stay loyal’ went down w/the ship”

‘The Standups’ Is a Solid Start to the Comedy Year Naomi Ekperigin, Janelle James, and Dusty Slay are highlights of a collection of half-hour sets that also kind of double as 2022 resets. https://www.indiewire.com/2022/01/the-standups-netflix-season-3-naomi-ekperigin-janelle-james-1234688805/

 

 

  • I personally would like to talk about this. It should be teethpaste. It’s not even a conversation, but I would like to talk about toilet paper because they’re essentially butt napkins.

 

  • Remember tho…

Covid, Politics, the crushing existential weight of existence…            …… even when dark, look for it.

 

“Where there is light, there is hope”

(photographer Dre Erwin: https://www.dreerwinphoto.com/)

 

 

  • Now a fluffy:

Catameleon

r/aww - Catameleon

 

 

  • In the “not sure why I’m telling you this anecdote, but something jogged thy olde dome” files:

In 1989, when phones were still attached to the wall with cords, I won a Scholastic Magazine sale contest, and was awarded this “Class Act” Express-Yourself Locker Answering Machine. This commercial is divine nostalgia.

Were You A Class Act With These School Supplies? – Allison's Written Words

 

OH MY BETTY WHITE, Just some Betty, because she’s Betty, and will always be Betty.

 

 

One of the greatest lines in film history, from the fun b-movie called Lake Placid, and it’s totally and completely relevant to 2020-2022:

 

No Tarzan, just Betty!

 

 

 

 

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING, wait for all Betty all the time!

 

SPACE

  • TRACK THE WEBB TELESCOPE UNFURLING TOWARDS THE BEGINNING OF TIME!

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

SUN SHIELD FULLY DEPLOYED!!!!

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/4/22857571/nasa-jwst-space-telescope-sunshield-deployment-success

 

The amount of things this thing has done is more than amazing. Seemingly miraculous feat of engineering for human kind.

 

 

 

 

 

  • A man’s father recorded here, having worked for NASA for 35 years, at home during the pandemic and landing his 5th rover on Mars.

 

  • I do think I linked this last newsletter, but the Moffett field NASA wind tunnels in Sunnyvale area are AMAZING. Retro-futurist paradise!

Rare Photographs of NASA’s Massive Wind Tunnels Used to Test Aircraft, 1925-1990

 

 

SCIENCE, TECH & the 1989 HOUSE OF THE FUTURE

 

 

 

  • MFW they have flu corona called flurona, and they combined omicron in Cyprus so now Delta and Omicron sound like a Transformer that eats planets, called “Deltacron”, and I realize the people in charge are winding the simulation down.

 

 

“I can’t put into words how thankful I am to this new technology and the speedy delivery of the defibrillator. If it wasn’t for the drone I probably wouldn’t be here”, says the 71-year-old patient who has made a full recovery and now has been able to return to his home.

For Dr. Mustafa Ali the experience was just as gratifying, despite the gravity of the situation.

“I was on my way to work at the local hospital when I looked out the car window and saw a man collapsed in his driveway”, says Dr. Ali. “I immediately understood that something was wrong and rushed to help. The man had no pulse, so I started doing CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) while asking another bystander to call 112 (the Swedish emergency number). Just minutes later, I saw something flying above my head. It was a drone with a defibrillator!”

Thanks to Dr. Ali, and the use of the defibrillator, life-saving treatment was initiated early and, which in the end, meant that the life of the patient was saved.

 

 

  • 1989 PREDICTIONS… for 2020. Pretty solid:

 

 

  • We have had the metaverse… it’s called virtual reality, we have had the cloud… it’s called network storage, we have had drones… it’s called RC freak show people. But as Gibson said, “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”
@dailydoseofrc #rc #tiktok #radiocontrol #4u #viral #foryoupage #crash #helicopter #jet #foryou ? original sound – Daily dose of rc

 

 

  • No words. Robots like this are amazing… and the face aside, look at the human arm movements and the way the servomotors effortlessly glide the back and arm muscles to make anthropomorphic locomotion. Unreal.

 

 

 

More on Tardigrades: Chubby, Misunderstood, and Not Immortal:

 

 

 

Exploded view of the Antikythera mechanism shows internal gears color-coded by the celestial bodies they were used to track.

 

 

 

  • How shipping works, and how the supply chain gets broken by complex interrelated “webs” built into the chain as a feature, but when a few nodes fall apart the whole thing is crippled:

 

 

 

  • This is new construction. And I still say my dream is to do a secret passageway on a project someday, this sort of perfect fit efficiency is a delight. TO CODE!

 

@mrcaapp? original sound – Mr Cap

 

 

 

  • This is very cool. I’d love to see automats and crazy vending machines in the age of Covid.

 

Vintage pictures of bizarre vending machines you never knew existed, 1920-1960 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vending-machines-vintage-pictures/

 

 

  • I get to put some of Mitch Hedberg’s best vending machine jokes in sci-tech? That’s RIGHT.

“Vending machines are a big part of my life. I like when you reach into the vending machine to grab your candy bar and that flap goes up to block you from reaching up. That’s a good invention. Before then it was hard times for the vending machine owners, “What candy bar are you getting?”, “That one… and every one on the bottom row!”

“I like vending machines ’cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it… So that it achieves its maximum flavor potential.“ — Mitch Hedberg

“I’d like to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It’d have to be real fuckin’ big!“

 

 

  • This is insane. It’s unders sci/tech because we’re gonna have to solve this weather stuff. Wild.. the whole thing, but this part:

 

MOVIES TV AND THE BEST PITCH MEETING IN HISTORY

 

  • This is a work of art. Long story short, Criterion releases Citizen Kane FINALLY, and the 4K disc is okay, but they mastered the bluray wrong:

 

 

  • This trivia is so great:
@love_tox #fy #didyouknow #fyp #foryou #smart #be #everyone ? Infinity – Jaymes Young

 

 

  • Best pitch meeting is unreal:

The story goes like this: Cameron walks into a conference room at 20th Century Fox filled with studio executives. He goes straight to the whiteboard, and writes the word “Alien” on it, and waits a beat. Then he adds an “s” to it, making it “Aliens.” Another beat, and then he adds two vertical lines to the “s,” transforming it into “Alien$.” Cameron confirmed the story to CinemaBlend, although he did clarify his presentation was slightly more involved than just drawing on a whiteboard: https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/james-cameron-confirms-that-the-most-badass-aliens-story-about-him-is-100-percent-true

 

 

  • This is a video game, Resident Evil 3. But if you didn’t know, games are absolutely cinematic, and this remake of the original includes a 17 minute intro sequence that is just unbelievable. And relevant.

“THIS PANDEMIC IS SPREADING FASTER THAN ANY DISEASE IN MODERN HISTORY”

 

 

  • Alan Tudyk is a gem and Resident Alien season 2 is COMING!!! Late January. Let’s get reacquainted with Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle:

 

 

  • OZARK IS BACK 21st JANUARY.

 

 

  • This is a nice chat with two nice guys. Or seemingly nice guys. Kieran Culkin from Succession, and Dan Levy from Schitt’s Creek.

 

COMEDY

 

 

 

  • Ahhhh yes, the modern suburban Cul-De-Sac experience. I mean, it’s not “The Dead Center”, but pretty scary.

 

 

 

 

  • Poor Morty and me.

 

 

 

  • THIS IS GLORIOUS TO ME. I still have one and want to hook it back up.

 

 

  • Larry David, a gem and treasure:

 

 

  • When life is *not* a movie:

 

 

  • I love this so much more than I should. Social experiments that are harmless are fun. This isn’t the Stanford Prison Experiment:
@leona__max#foryou #foryoupage? original sound – ????Leona_Max????

 

MUSIC

 

  • I miss music videos like they existed in a space together, and you could vibe for awhile vs [waves arms around wildly].

 

 

  • He’s 19.
@purple_partyman #prince4ever #princeedit #ripprince #mynameisprince #princerogersnelson #princefanpage #prince #royalbadness #princenelson #foryou ? original sound – ????Purple Nelson’s Wife????

 

 

  • BUT HE IS THREE…

 

 

  • She’s legend too!

 

 

  • You know, I never watched Golden Girls. I didn’t like it. Also, they were all like 50-60, and Estelle Getty was the youngest, wasn’t she?

 

 

  • Culture vs Tech? Hahahaha, it does get more complex than you might like:
@muhmuhmuhmyshanoa #duet with @laughwithbreeze this was great! All for the laughs – don’t take it so seriously – sad I have to say that #WhenRiftanSays #ThanksandGiving ? original sound – laughwithbreeze

 

Culture, People Animals are Better, Society, Infrastructure

 

  • This should really be in tech, because of the magic behind bringing this old footage to life. The 1960s, San Francisco:

 

 

  • I don’t have FB, and I’ve never used/embedded it, but this story… another one where dogs are better than people, and we don’t deserve them:

 

Hero Dog Saves Hiker Stranded in Mountains by Lying on Him for 13 Hours https://www.thedailybeast.com/miracle-alaskan-malamute-saves-injured-hiker-grga-brkic-after-getting-stranded-in-croatian-mountains

 

 

  • HEY CATS TOO. I’m not sleepin! Cat got your back, in this case a ninja! Watching the 6s for cars and evil.

 

 

 

  • SOMETHING SOMETHING TACO BELL. Also if you’re scared of huge stuff, or heights, or anything, I dunno….
@me.in.the.past This is what it looks like when you open a dam’s gate after years. #fyp ? original sound – Omid

 

 

  • He may have jumped the shark, maybe not, but he’s cashing in as people literally exit his gift shop.

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs. – Banksy

 

No I won’t ride that cliffside

 

 

 

  • Madeira Island off Portugal, Mountain Biking Hell.

 

 

VEHICLES

 

  • HOT TUB BOAT

 

 

 

  • How much would *you* pay for a personalized or valuable license plate? $800,000? No, that’s just the car. This guy got a $9 Million dollar plate for his Rolls Royce in Dubai… but it’s the plate system that’s also insane.
@imemezy Having a Rolls Royce means nothing in dubai unless you have a expensive numberplate #numberplates #dubai #rollsroyce #uae #mostexpensive ? original sound – asif khan

 

 

  • GIMME MY G.I. JOE SNOWJOB SLED MACHINE. Also, Snowjob was an iffy name, even at the time, I believe.

1973 Honda White Fox American Honda’s sole, lamented foray into snowmobiling https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/1973-honda-white-fox

 

 

  • The annual orange tree shaking in Valencia with this highly specialized vehicle tool!

 

 

  • BMW at 2022 CES with a new color changing paint technology. This *is* real.

Choosing a car color isn’t just about personal preference; there are other, more practical factors that come into play. Dirt stands out on a light-colored car, while a vehicle painted a darker shade can become extremely hot inside as it absorbs sunlight on a warm summer day. https://gizmodo.com/bmw-created-a-color-changing-car-completely-wrapped-in-1848297528

 

 

  • Audi E-TRON digital path lighting concept, and digital headlight designs:

 

 

  • NO.
@150dow #pilatuspc12 takeoff from #courchevel #altiport #winter ? Thunderstruck – AC/DC

 

 

  • SAFEST STREET IN THE WORLD:

 

 

 

  • Really a great, great record that most of us can identify with. Did you make it all the way down here? Let me know and I’ll send you a dollar. I am going to start upping this out of curiosity. This isn’t for you, but if you’re here, I guess it’s not just for me. I guess it’s for me and you. Hugs. =)

By Uncle FishbitsCategories: Newsletter