How Our World Would Look To Us If We Were Birds via PixTale.net

Lofty title for a bunch of aerial pix. They have some really nice pix, though.

Here's one of them: Tulip Fields in The Netherlands

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This pic is resized, and lost a little of its zing in the process. Looks better from the site.

Good slide show. Thanks.

awesome

Hey, the Vancouver one was shot by the guy who bought my old domain name.

I remember because now he's with the other 1,000 people I've emailed for a few days, many years ago, and now every social media and device wants to friend him and include him in my contacts.

That's even better than a field of roses on our piano

Giants play Bocci Ball in vineyard.

New boulders rolling to get close to an old one in the vineyard:
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I thought I found the video here, or else I woulda done posted it.

ETA: House is 300 years old.



Looks great in HD.

Clean up in aisle 3.

Ummm... holy crap.

That's tricky, at the link you click on the chart to embiggen it, but still can't read it. Then click on the expand button in the upper right to make it readable.

Yeah, it's a tad clunky.

Tips For Single Women - circa 1938.

We need an emoticon for tearing one's hair out.

It's interesting that, in 1938, bras were apparently optional but girdles weren't. Yikes.

Re: optional bras, And again in 1968 if memory serves.

Girdles held up stockings, no pantyhose until the late 50s.

Ah, that's true. By the end of the '60s, garter belts had become an alternative to girdles for the (we) young things who didn't need the 'control'. Pantyhose didn't become ubiquitous until the end of the '60s, I'd say.

The Shortest and Most Accurate History of the World - by country.

Plane Collides With Skydiver's Parachute - photo stream - SFW, btw, happy ending

Wow. Poor freaking bastards. Glad they were ok.

The Most Beautiful Words In The English Language:

"cellar door" - I shit you not.

Last words on cockpit voice recorders, July 1962 to April 2010.

http://www.planecrashinfo.com/lastwords.htm

First publicly browsable high resolution images of the polar region of the Moon.

It's a lot like Google Earth.

Check out this tight crop of a valley on the sunlight side of the hill in the center of Plaskett crater near the north pole. Looks like footprints, those several rocks that rolled down the hill.
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well, there damn sure ain't no moss on it.

The Rolling Moonrocks just doesn't have the same ring to it.

A Burning Balloon And A Flaming Plane Are On Final - Who Goes First?

A short quiz:

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Scroll back up after the quiz to see where you went wrong/right.

You're a Flight Instructor!

You Scored 71% - You're in the top 56% of pilots!

I was guessing. :blush:

You're Chuck Yeager!

You Scored 86% - You're in the top 29% of pilots!

Huh.

Chuck, I started to say "You're dead!", but, you ain't. You turned 91 last month.

:welcome: to the Cellar, Brandon!

All kinds of live, maybe not cams. MS. Bear cam is off line. http://www.ustream.tv/explore/all

Why Roller Coaster Loops Aren't Circular - might want to have a snack, first.

Aha, I didn't realize the last car gets yanked. :vikingsmi

You pays yer money an' takes yer choice ... cervical strain or lumbar strain.

Ultraviolet portraits revealing otherwise invisible sun damage

Enlightening.

She put dogshit in his shoe...he superglued a dildo to her forehead. Good times, man, good times. May be considered NSFW, there's a dick on her forehead.

:lol2:

Prepare to navigate past a floater ad, and a pop-up screen. Or two.

Portraits by George W. Bush - He has a definite style, which isn't totally awful.

I read a headline somewhere online, but never made it to the article. an art critic was saying something like 'I want to hate GWB's art, but I just can't.'
He doesn't suck too much. It's pretty good, really.

Better than I was expecting.

Putin's portrait reminds me of the Jesus monkey done in that church a while back.

Mudslide in WA. http://pixtale.net/2014/04/mudslide-from-above/

A bit of history, maybe http://www.whitehouseonthegulf.com/

Smart gamble. If you're going to risk a bunch of other peoples money plus state and federal help, building a playground for the 1% is a much safer bet than pitch-n-putt.

Cellar member Alan Bellows' website, Damn Interesting. It always has interesting short articles like Mental Floss or Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

This is the best Facebook page I've ever seen.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?=743264506

Seriously. So many FB pages are just boring and so vain, but they do the best job on this page of anyone at keeping it interesting.

Wha --

You are kind for saying such a thing! I do try to copy everything here that I put on FB, but lately I haven't kept up entirely, especially with the food pics. (I get more response here)

I want to post another link I just came across, but before I do, I have to explain the previous one. It was supposed to be a prank. See, when you click on that FB link, it takes you to your own Facebook page. I thought it might generate a few lols when several different people were all talking about how the link was about them. But it looks like it doesn't work with phones, and lots of dwellars visit through tapatalk. Plus, many don't do Facebook. So it kind of fell flat. But maybe you can imagine how it might have been funny. Heh, heh. Right? Guys?

I just came across this blog. My Husband's Stupid Record Collection.

After moving 5 times in 9 years and packing up and unpacking her husband's collection of 1500 vinyl records, a woman decides she's going to listen to each one and write her impressions. A to Z.

It's neat to hear her impressions, and also to see what this guy has in his collection. And what he doesn't have. She is kind of young, and doesn't know a lot of the stuff. Or doesn't know she knows until she hears the one song on an album that she does recognize. I'm going to book mark this one and revisit it as she continues her project.

You got me with it. :dunce:

dag nabbit... why I oughta...

Took me to a log in screen.

Excerpts form an interview with director Ron Howard.

Item #7 is pretty cool.

I like big airplanes, cuz they can hold a lot of shit.

What can we fit inside a C-5 Galaxy?

's true! It was at an airshow waaay back in the day in California. It's really staggering. I remember (not doing the research; sue me) they said it could hold four tennis courts or something like that. Truly cavernous.

Unlike the SR-71 which I also saw that day. Truly stunning in a completely different way. Well, not completely, the SR-71 is no C-5A, but is itself a biiiig airplane.

Read about it, and look at it here.

Or, just look at it.

Multiple cameras/views, and, (they say) astronaut chatter.

gray screen

When I checked in yesterday, it was on the dark side, so nothing to see. You can go to an iss tracking website to see where it is at the moment. Day or night. Wish the cameras were sensitive enough for city lights

Yeah, I read that the connection would frequently be off for various reasons, like being on the dark side. It does work, I swear.

The ISS orbits like once every 90 minutes or so (I think), so I guess 45 of those would be on the dark side?

25 websites where you can find out. Find out what? Most anything.
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/6WnQyR

Bach
 

At this website, "every week, you will find a new recording here of one Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1080 works, performed by The Netherlands Bach Society and many guest musicians."

Cool. Music is universal, but you would think a society lauding a composer would be located in the composer's own country.