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Midweek Memes!

Automotif DCIV...

If I'm reading the tea leaves right (the position of the side marker lights and lack of headrests) this beautiful Bermuda Blue MGB GT I photographed last autumn is a 1969 model.

Cold Snap

We're off to an unusually snowy start to the winter in Indy, having already gotten over a foot, total, for the season. We also just had an unseasonable cold snap, too. Note that the two are not necessarily connected. It can be extremely cold and not snow, and it can snow rather a lot with a temp in the low thirties, which isn't particularly cold for winter in these parts.

The thing about these arctic dips is that the polar air mass is like Mother Earth's beret. When she pulls it down rakishly low on one side, that means it's hiked way up on the other.

The cold snap is past, though, and we're supposed to be back into the fifties on Thursday. They're calling for warmish weather all next week, too.

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Only Two Monday Memedays 'til Christmas!

Indiana is Basketball Country, but...

Between Mendoza being the first Hoosier to win a Heisman and then grandpaw Phil Rivers doing unexpectedly well in his first NFL start in five years on Sunday, there was a lot of football in the air this weekend.

(Oh, I forgot the NFL gets pissy about embedding its vids. Anyway, if you don't feel like clicking through to YouTube, it's Rivers' first TD pass since 2020. He seemed pretty happy.)

What a loss...

The sun went down on Saturday with the news of the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island and rose on Sunday with reports of an antisemitic terrorist attack in Australia.

Then on Sunday night comes the news from California, where Rob Reiner and his wife had been found stabbed to death in their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of LA. The danger here wasn't a random shooter or an ideological terrorist; no, the suspect in the double homicide is the couple's own adult son.

I immediately thought about 99-year-old Mel Brooks, who has already buried his best friend, Carl Reiner, and now will be attending the funeral of his friend's son, who was practically a nephew to Brooks.

What a legacy Rob Reiner left, though! From his acting role as Mike "Meathead" Stivic in All in the Family to maybe one of the most amazing decade-long streaks in motion picture directing history, starting off with the iconic mockumentary This is Spinal Tap in 1984, followed by...

Tab Clearing...

• The room-size multiplayer arcade game...


• The original Pike car (and also the only one I haven't spotted in the wild.)


• Stop, Shop, and Scroll.

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Person(s) of the Year

So, as you may have heard, whatever's left of TIME magazine announced their person of the year for 2025, and it was "The Architects of AI".

Fitting that the cover illustration is a half-assed remix of an actual artist's original work and also replaces actual workers who build things with extraction-class plutocrats, to include noted pretengineer Musk.

I'll note that, looking at the artist's other works, the metatext of the TIME cover is making a definite and deliberate statement.

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Friday Memes!

Oh, Mickey, you're so fine...

Disney inked a deal with OpenAI to allow the use of numerous characters from its formidable arsenal of intellectual property (which, remember, includes a lot of Marvel and Star Wars stuff, too) in AI-generated Sora videos.

I'm sure the idea here is that kiddos would make short videos featuring Goofy or Darth Vader and then buy more merch or beg mom and dad for a trip to Orlando. See, while movies and video are not a loss leader for Disney, they aren't the main profit center, either. That's all rolling in from licensing, merch, and their hospitality and amusement park arms.

I predict this arrangement will last about a week, during which time the 'net will be flooded with AI slop vids of Mickey and Minnie piloting the jets into the World Trade Center on 9/11 and Iron Man doing hardcore porn scenes with Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

We'll see. Disney's always been extremely protective of their IP.

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