Gerry & Ginny are selling their house.

And their model train collection. Their daughter-in-law typed up an inventory of the train collection.

It was 45 pages long.

Nice little story, pics of the collection

There are 18 of them, from mild to wild, here.

Your goddamn link is f*cking broken.

:D

Sorry, it's here or LJ posted it here. :blush:

What your zip code says about you. And the other bastards that live around you.

Kind of general because the township I live in is covered by zip codes of adjoining areas that are very different.

Cellar member Allen Bellows(can't remember his screen name at the moment) at Damn Interesting is having trouble with Dollop podcast stealing his material. :(

Hot pastrami

"The Zero-Armed Bandit" @ DamnInteresting is damned interesting.

Yes, thank you. :crone:

Yes it is, lots of interesting stories, well written with minimum fluff.

I must have become completely jaded.

Are these new creations in art and technology - or more of just: "What did you expect ?"





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http://touchpianist.com/

I am no more than a casual listener, but I'm reasonably familiar with a couple of the pieces featured and found it an interesting exercise.

However, I have no musical ability whatsoever, so the purist might well frown upon this site.

thanks for the carpal tunnel syndrome!

that's fun

This was new to me... it starts very slowly but that just helps set the mood.
Or, you can jump over to almost the 2 minute mark...

You do need to click the button for viewing on VIMEO

Whoa.

Yeah! I want to go there someday to see that. But then I realized it will never happen. You would only want to go on a solstice or something like that, and you know if they open it to me, they will be opening it up to throngs of people. And who wants to be crammed in there with 100 people?

This is even more fun on a phone. The tapping is easier and you can increase volume by tapping on different parts of the screen.

Congratulations Philly!!

You made the top ten!

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It's the city of brotherly love.

Notes you can download.

25 Unexpected Celebrity Voice Actors

Ok, some of them are unexpected...

Like these three, for instance:

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Isn't there a thread somewhere here about the voice over/voice acting movie "In A World"? I was gonna put this there, but, damned if I can find it.

The Really Big One
Toast? Like Rocky horror Picture Toast?
link

Dear xoB,

Thank you for that lovely bedtime story.
We hope you sleep well and have good dreams too.

Your friends,
The Jelly Family on Toast Ave

James Gelet tracks down and photographs various set locations from "Breaking Bad".

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Kickstart a city! (not technically kickstart, but indiegogo doesn't verb well).

Well, at least they have their sights set on something realistic...

Ever wonder what a certain bird sounds like? The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library claims they have for your listening (and viewing) pleasure, the world's largest archive of wildlife sounds and videos. Go wild! :blush:

The Spruce Goose - some assembly required.

Some of those laws don't seem that weird, like salvaging road kill.

Thanks, I wondered what that was about.

http://micro-universe.tumblr.com/

bunch of cool scanning electron microscope images

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for 2015.
The winner is Dr Joel Phillips of West Trenton, New Jersey. An Alabama native, Joel teaches music theory and composition at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.

This is the winning entry, but the others are well worth reading.

VOX has an article entitled, "Tech nerds are smart. But they can't seem to get their heads around politics". The first part sings the praises of Tim Urban's WAIT BUT WHY, for digging deep into, and explaining in plain English, subjects many people are fuzzy about.

In the majority of the article, David Roberts, explains why he thinks Urban, like many tech nerds, get politics wrong, when not shunning it in disgust. He goes on with his explanation of why Congress is gridlocked, and his reasoning is far beyond money. He explains how the roots, trunk, and branches of American politics, grew to the tangle it is today.

It sound logical, reaffirms things I knew, dispels some misconceptions I had, and clarified a lot of fuzzy WTFs. You may like it, or not, but I think you'll come away with a clearer picture.

How would someone be classified if they don't care about the candidate's positions at all? ie, just vote against the incumbent; just vote to split congress/president; just vote on personality? Is that independent or moderate?

He addresses that.

Sort of; I guess they would be "independent"; but the relevant paragraph was about super-rational voting, by people who pick without regard to party. I read that as caring only about issues, and how the issues happened to lay out at the time (as in, right now I consider issue X is most important, I agree most with candidate Y on issue X, so I vote for Y). It doesn't quite line up with people who are apathetic about issues, but they probably would fall into the "independent" bucket anyway.

Quite a few GOP voters have drunk the purple Koolade

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...rn-us-cruz-was

The notion that every concept has to be on a left-right line, with everyone falling exactly one place on the line and all reasoning being a debate between one side or the other... is some serious bullshit once you stop and think about it

Our educational system, our media, our entire society wants to push every single goddamn thing under the sun into this continuum. Except that almost no actual issue works that way; and people's ideas don't even work this way. The only thing this represents now is a rough divide of some forms of schools of thought. Not even philosophies, just groups of people who use mob behavior and group-think to decide how they should describe the world and its problems, that's our continuum.

Should we use that to decide on anything in the world?

I fail to buy into the author's worship of this continuum, and as a result I just want to kick him squarely in the nuts. Yawn, another Vox article that "explains" how if you are very smart you will agree with the author.

That's what he said, but recently in Congress, it seems if one side say they support something, the other side automatically are against it, even stupid little shit. That makes it look like fer us or agin us. Any Congress critter who agrees with the "enemy" gets jumped on by their party leaders and challenged at the next primary.
That's true, they want to point out the differences aren't that great so there's no reason not to get along. Kumbaya.
However, isn't that what Congress is supposed to do? Hammer those differences into a workable plan... even if it takes fisticuffs on the floor? :haha:
In the past there has been a lot of horse trading in Washington, if you vote for my bill, I'll vote for yours. Even that seems to have disappeared in the current polarization. I get the feeling the populous isn't as polarized as the politicians, and are generally sick of it, except for maybe a pet peeve issue.

What I got out of it is all the polls and discussing voting blocs is bullshit, if it depends on taking their word for the size of any group and anyone's ability to predict the voting behavior of that group. Mostly because people who are assigned a group, really shouldn't be, and the ones who are don't agree on many issues. The only groups that are anywhere near reliable at the poles are the hard liners in each party, and they're pretty small. There's a whole lot of people who vote on single, or maybe two issues, with no thought to compromise. The Tea party and Trump have been very good at zeroing in on those hot buttons of the disgruntled. People who don't like this or that about the government but don't understand what's really going on, so they'll support anyone who claims to be able to fix it.

UT you have always shown a way above interest in the political system, and were in fact involved for awhile. Monkey has been close to the workings in DC by blood. You guys ain't normal.

"Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775: An Accurate Charting of the Past and Present Trend of Prices, National Income, Federal Debt, Business, Stock Averages and Commodities with a Special Study of Wages and Postwar Industry," Tension Envelope Corporation, 1943.

I didn't bother with a link to the Fed PDF because it's too small to see shit. but further down the Slate article you can click on the chart to go to a zoomable version. Lot of history and a better picture of exactly what the "good old days" actually was like. So much information you can cherry pick support for any argument imaginable. :lol:

Jon here from HomemadeTools.net.

I know this thread is an old one, but thanks for the kind words :beer:

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I'd cut someone slack for responding to a shout out from this site.

Thanks Bruce!


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I have been unsuccessful in finding a way to bring this video here.
www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/923232114386312/

Col. Ty Seidule, history professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, dispels any doubt the Civil War was about any thing but slavery. He shoots down States Rights, social differences, economic differences, and more.

That was a good piece

I thought he sounded like he had fully worked through all the arguments and had formed solid responses. I had to laugh at him telling about the guy from Mississippi complaining about New York's states rights. :haha:

Here's the video on Youtube. Their Youtube channel has many videos examining various issues.

Excellent. I saw it embedded in a messy website which wouldn't give me the location. later I found the facebook location which was much cleaner to link. How did you locate it on youtube?

I bet he went to YouTube and searched "Was the Civil War about slavery?".;)

Worked for me.

Congratulations, Philly!! Ya made the top 200...and you're consistent!

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America's Best Drivers, according to Allstate

I searched for the university website and then went to their link to their youtube videos.

Thanks glatt.