I'm the same.

I read pretty quick, but my retention is awful. My memory as a whole has gotten really sketchy the last 5 or so years. I blame it on the weeeeeeeed man.

Top 10 Funny Celebrity Reproductive Organ Stories

I don't know about top 10, and none are particularly funny. Well, the first Penn Jillette story is kinda humorous.

The Lonely Death of George Bell

What happens when you die alone in New York City. It's a long, very interesting, somewhat sad read.

That that was good, maybe a little prophetic for many people. I sent that to a couple people the other day, who bounced it back with a 'take heed'. It makes a good case for not keeping a carnivorous pet. :haha:

I foresee my own eventual passing in that. I have few friends, none close.
No one would notice I died until I stink either. Happens to truckers sometimes. We die alone, in our little boxes and usually the first to notice is our dispatchers who wonder why we haven't delivered whatever to wherever. Sometimes it takes days to locate us. It's a big country, lots of truck stops and parking spots and a rig is so small in that.

I won't leave behind much. A few dollars in the bank, a few meager possessions, bills. I have a sister I do not talk to, a few elderly relatives I do, a handful of online friends who will likely not ever know of my demise unless they notice and do a determined search. I do not use social media other than the Cellar.
I worry that I will be labeled under the wrong name and gender, despite name changes and a will, which specifies that I be cremated and my remains sent, long with the remains of a friend I keep out of sentimentality, to a mutual friend in Canada, that we all be joined after our respective deaths.

My life won't take up much of an obit. My friend, Rita, who died three years ago, got one sentence, using her male name because her family didn't accept her name and gender change. I hope I get more than that. Maybe a paragraph. Proper grammar please! :D

But in the end, barring a lottery win, a cleanout service will go through my junk, cherry pick a few things, trash the rest and that will be that.

No fanfare, no funeral, no notice. I'll just be gone one day. I often say that no one is truly dead until they are forgotten. Some, like Ben Franklin, will never be forgotten. Others, like Mr. Bell, are forgotten quickly.

How will YOU be remembered?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C...:UB_Basel_Maps


Sometimes the internet shows a hint of promise, digitizing ancient maps for instance.

I love maps. Thanks Griff.

:)

Great catch, Griff. That is a neat collection.

It amazes me that the map of Peru (1500-1599) is so accurate.
Here is Google's Map for comparison...

That's one way to die alone. Another path is that you wind up in an assisted living facility and die there. Then you won't be alone and they will know who you are and what your story is.

My belief too.

As long as there is The Cellar, Pamela and all other Dwellars will be not be "truly dead".

(That gives UT quite a heavy responsibility !)

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Internet Archive

Hah, word!

Thank you, Bruce. I had not seen those before.

Many are now deceased. The Boones Ferry was replaced by the I-5 bridge a mile to the east.
But the Canby Ferry is still in year-around operation, and is a very important crossing, costing $4 / car

The Willamette river runs from the south (e.g., Salem) up north thru PDX into the Columbia River.
This part of the Willamette Valley developed on both sides of the river.
And without the Canby Ferry, it's a long, long, road trip to get from the East side of the Willamette to I-5.

I keep meaning to take a trip on White's Ferry across the Potomac. Maybe 45 minutes from here. It's not really on the way to anything, but it would be a fun experience. For the kids too. I feel like I've been on a river ferry before, but can't picture where that would have been.
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Sounds like a cool thing to do... about 3 hours from me though. Kind of a long ride for that. Wonder if there are any closer to me.

Ya'll might find the following site useful:

• http://www.dollartimes.com/

It's basically just an index of 29 different financial calculators.

Congrats, Philly!! You made the list again. You came in 54th. But your redheaded stepchild, Chester, PA came in 2nd. KY didn't even make the list.

"What list?", you ask?

Well, The 100 Most Dangerous Cities In America, of course.

Wow, Oakland has knocked East St Louis off the top five. At least Camden and Chester are representing. ;)

Virginia is not on the list. :sniff:

I have Lapham's Quarterly bookmarked, but often forget about it, and I'm always happy to rediscover it. I'd describe it as a high rent readers digest, with lots of interesting stuff.
For instance where did "tar & feather" come from.

The British Library has made available over a million images, which are copyright free and downloadable. The images are from books in the library's collections, some hundreds of years old. Arranged in albums for easier searching.

Good find Bruce, when I have the rest of my life I'll sit down and go thru that.

:lol2:

So apparently this guy made the most AMAZING new winter coat, and I won't believe what it's made of. Should I click the link?

Watchu talkin bout, Willis?

Where is the link?

Oh. I didn't include a link. My post was more of a commentary on the prevalence of click bait stories on the internet. This particular one was on FB. If the coat is so freaking amazing, just put in the headline what it's made of. Fuck them. I don't care what the coat is made of. If it's that great, I'll find out eventually through other channels. I didn't click the link and I don't know what the coat is made of.

If we boycott click bait stories, they will go away.

And if you are dying of curiosity, then use google to search for the topic, and then they won't know that their click bait headline drove your traffic there.

This time, I'll include a link.

Here is a cool collection of images of residential skyscrapers in Hong Kong. This photographer has a very good eye. His trademark appears to be centering his camera in a courtyard and aiming the camera straight up, but I also thought this particular image was a nice one.


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I like the brave soul with no bars over the door. I bet he's a gangster or something, everyone already knows not to fuck with him.

'cause he's the burglar. :haha:

LuckyGunner has conducted a fairly exhaustive ballistics test on 117 self-defense handgun loads in .380ACP, .45ACP, .40S&W, and 9mm (with more in the works), looking at penetration, amount of expansion, and muzzle velocity.

Check it out over at Lucky Gunner.



ETA: They also have free printable targets.

Whew, lot of information there. :rollanim:

"The Disturbing Truth About How Airplanes Are Maintained Today"

What if the world lost all oxygen for 5 seconds?

I know some of that is basically correct, but is any of it just plain wrong?

Some sound pretty far out, but all the metal fusing together is wrong. Removing the oxygen for 5 seconds doesn't instantly remove the accumulated oxidation. There's also the little matter of paint, oil, and other coatings on said metal. They've taken a scientific known and stretched it to an unrecognizable fat tick, then call it a certainty, a "fact". Short on truth and long on hyperbole... commonly known as bullshit.

I think they're saying the element itself is removed, not just the free O2 in the air, and oxidized metal minus oxygen would be metal. And they do specify "untreated".

But I don't see how that would work in the "doubled" direction. That seems to be purely atmospheric.

If you have to add qualifiers to 'removing oxygen for 5 seconds', like oh, by the way, and 'all past effects of the oxygen', it make the statement hyperbole, alias bullshit. Any statement is true with enough modifiers, but this list is over the top. I can't address the other statements without research I don't care to invest the time in, but most sound highly suspect without a lot of qualifiers. I think most of the statements would require a lot of probablys, in-some-cases, generallys, and usuallys, to be valid.

FB thought I would be interested in this story, and I am, slightly.

This is the most expensive house currently on the market in the US. $159M

The rendering looks nice enough.

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Fly to it in Google Earth and the curb appeal is somewhat lower.
What an ugly service entrance for the utilities. This neighborhood is ugly to me.
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And the private docks for your yachts are on the other side of Route A1A! You have to walk across the street to get to your yacht! I suppose if you were the kind of person who lived here, you would drive down your driveway, but then you would have to park your Rolls Royce on the side of the road.
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The inside is extravagant, if you go for that kind of thing. And I suppose it's all about the inside. Maybe they will find the right buyer.

Yeah, but there's a guy building a spec house in CA which will be done in 2017, that's 100,000 sq ft,, for half a Billion dollars.

He says most these super expensive houses are being snapped up by foreigners, to keep their money safe here, and only visit a couple weeks a year.

http://www.details.com/story/most-ex...ion-nile-niami

Randall Monroe writes the comic xkcd.

Awhile back he wrote a book called "What If?" providing funny but accurate answers to highly theoretical and weird questions, which Minifob loved.

Now he's coming out with a new book called "Thing Explainer," which explains common scientific principles, but only using the 1000 most common words in the English language (which must be called "ten-hundred," because "thousand" isn't one of them.) To illustrate the concept and promote the book, he teamed up with a popular YouTube channel to create a sample video about becoming an astronaut, or "How to Go to Space." It's fucking hiliarious.

Oh, that's how it works. ;)

"Speak English or GTFO", proponents are not going to like this.
The published list withholds 32 languages for which the government won't reveal the raw numbers, "out of concern that the number would be small enough to let anyone de-anonymize the data".

With only a couple of exceptions, many states are not represented.

I guess they all speak just one common language:

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WTF, why is New England orange... and cut off?

Maybe they ran out of yellow ?

Jewish?

The best advice if you find yourself in a terror attack: Do not play dead

That article contains this link to the UK's National Counter-Terrorism Security Office's .pdf "Guidance Note 1/2015".

For you Brits.

Thank you. It's a well-kept secret!


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Terrorism in the US. If you buy their definition, they list 567 incidents in the US between 1968 and 2009.
The #1 perp group with 140 or 25% of the total, is anti-Castro Cubans.
The #2 perp group with 62 or 10% of the total, is the Jewish Defense League.
link

I guess the various white supremacist groups are considered as separate entities? We see more of those fucks around here, rural Amerika, than disgruntled Cubans and Jews. Still the Klan alone would put up some numbers.

Yes, I read PA has more white supremacist groups than any other state, and see a lot of it in Lancaster/York/Lebanon counties. I prefaced that ranking with "If you buy their definition" because the "goal of political change" is tenuous. I don't think the supremacists want political change, just someone to feel better than. Nobody wants be on the bottom of the totem pole. Interesting though, the bottom of real totem poles was the most respected and revered position. :lol:

The coffee-machine bacteriome: biodiversity and colonisation of the wasted coffee tray leach

Hah, die caffeine junkies, Bwahahahaha. :p:

The fuck does that mean

I think it means, that coffee rots in the garbage. Coffee grounds make excellent fertilizer.