Wisdom (and sometimes the cereal guy): 03/01/2023

27.3.23

Eye of the [pick one]

b1-66er: <Wombo>

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/tiger-unaccounted-pine-mountain-animal-safari-deputies-say/XJ7E3ATPNVHJZCRQPXNWHJR3QY/

b1-67er: There's a risk you don't expect in a tornado. Tiger mauling.

26.3.23

The wafer goes round and round...

MISTER Crypto: Li-Lac has a shop in Chelsea Market; in the same building, the Oreo was invented (plagiarized, perhaps), and now, upstairs from Li-Lac is YouTube NY. And thus, the circle is complete.

21.3.23

20.3.23

War of All Worlds

Special K: The grandparents of Tom Cruise's kids at the end of War of the Worlds (2005) are played by Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, the two leads of 1953's The War Of The Worlds.

b1-66er: THAT I did not know.

Great trivia.

K: Yes. I just watched it Saturday night and didn't know.

b1: Where'd you stumble across that fact?

Thave a Criterion DVD version of the

original WotW and

I'm pretty sure that fact isn't mentioned in there.

K: I was searching to see where the movie was filmed, and that tidbit turned up.

https://www.movie-locations.com/movies/w/War-Of-The-Worlds-2005.php

19.3.23

This is what you get...

b1-66er: "...He found an error in the maths..."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/19/jeremiah-horrocks-the-forgotten-maths-genius-who-laid-the-foundations-for-isaac-newton

Special K: Don't arrest that man.

18.3.23

...butt watt am eye?...

b1-66er:

b1 okay Google, who is smarter, you or Leslie?

G I know you know my real name.

MISTER Crypto: Weird

Special K: Oh snap..

One thumbs up

b1-66er: Just tried calling you.

Many rings. No answer.

I was merely calling to say hi.

Special K: We were watching Spartacus. Still are - it's 3.5 hours.

b1: Watching the movie, itself, is like a gladiation event.

K: I'm loving it so far. Never saw any part of it before.

b1: Not even IRL?

K: Nuthin.

b1: So THAT'S one way we're different.

K: Seeing Spartacus?

b1: No.

Having parts of your life being like a gladiation event.

K: Ah.

15.3.23

Pinched

b1-66er: <Wombo>

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/15/1163615206/maine-lobster-industry-sues-california-aquarium

b1-67er: While helping out at MPC we did a project for a company developing submersible floats for lobster traps. You send a low frequency pound signal in the water to release the floats. So the fisherman goes out, triggers the floats, they raise to the surface and he retrieves them. It minimizes wale entanglement

It has a knock on benefit. People steeling or raiding your lobster traps is such a big problem fisherman go out just to watch their traps.

14.3.23

Swearing about talking about walking the rubber knife edge

b1-66er: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/buffalo-wild-wings-has-hilarious-response-lawsuit-claiming-boneless-wings-arent-wings/XXYRA4F3BRGIHO4MIXACMJGM7E/

D4rw1n: That tweet is so meta it crosses from insulting to meta to insulting

Of apples and kites

b1-66er: <Wombo>

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/14/1157862843/endangered-snail-kite-invasive-apple-snail-florida

b1-67er: There are a bunch of rare snails in the Everglades, some native only to a single clump of trees. Many are in trouble because shell collectors poach them for their exotic patterns.

13.3.23

When your nuts shell

b1-66er: The K said Mr. Kimmel was fabulous as the Oscars opener.

He's right.

Must view.

https://youtu.be/JaPWOUjjoZM

D4rw1n: Looking forward to viewing this. I have watched Kimmel's opening monologue about three out of five nights per week for the last year (delayed, on YouTube). I also watch Seth Myers, Jimmy Fallon, and Stephen Colbert (on about the same rough frequency using the same platform). I think for the last year Kimmel has been consistently the sharpest

Myers is by far the most surreal. Especially a weekly segment (which I watch pretty religiously) entitled Corrections. It's self-referential bordering on inscrutable, self-deprecating bordering on masochistic, meta bordering on incomprehensible, and wry bordering on unfunny. Which together is super-original and somehow always makes me laugh

Plumbing your belt

b1-66er:

https://youtu.be/OiXNXwN0pVU

b1-67er: A Couple of things could be better on that belt Loader. They connect the belt with a set of wire hoops on each side with a pin through the middle. Those connectors can be dangerous bastards if they get damaged. Imagine a bunch of stiff wires sticking out every which way to grab your clothes and drag you around the belt.

Also the lift cylinder has a bunch of plumbing external on the cylinder. That should all be integrated into the cylinder. Cheaper, safer, more reliable.