Automotif DCXXXVI...

Spotted this pristine 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix in Terre Haute yesterday afternoon. It was sporting 421 fender badges and a four on the floor with unmistakable clatter of solid lifters emanating from under the hood. Glorious!

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Meme Dump!

 

Nope.

It's September 11th.

Entirely coincidentally, I'll be in a class this weekend again, as I have been so many years before.

Like I said fifteen years ago, I won't be participating in the performative hair-rending and sackcloth-donning celebrating the tactical victory of our foes. Instead, I'll be getting harder to kill.

You can go virtue signal to your friends how mad you still are, if that's what makes you feel cool.

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Pre-Weekend Memes!

Tab Clearing...

• Like a roving Flock: Garbage trucks in Texas with AI-powered cameras to scrutinize properties in passing and determine which homeowners should get fined.


• Clearview AI is testing an AI tool that would let cops unearth your life online: The forums you post on, who you chat with, where you comment, and what you say...


• Eight F-15s and an A-10 damaged when Iranian missile hits airbase in Jordan. The Eagles only took minor damage but the Warthog lost a wing.

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Meme Dump!

Over the Hump Memes!

Sportsball Man Melts Brain

Apparently Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf has spent too much time around QB Aaron Rodgers and managed to sandblast his brain smooth in the process.

Metcalf wants to know what is really going on in Antarctica. That is, what’s really going on in Antarctica.

“I think it’s another world,” Metcalf says.

What do you mean, “another world”?

“I think there is another civilization inside of Earth.”

[SNIP]

“You can go to Alaska. You could go to the North Pole,” Metcalf says. “But why not Antarctica? Why can’t you just book a trip to Antarctica?”

Here you go, Mr. Metcalf. I'm sure the fat stacks you make as an NFL player will cover a stateroom.

There's a whole city in Argentina where one of the main sectors of its economy is people flying in to board cruise ships for Antarctica. Look! A whole Wikipedia article on "Antarctic gateway cities"! This information takes ten seconds to find.

How come these "Just asking questions, doing my own research" people never actually ask any questions or do any research? (Or at least any that doesn't confirm their biases.)

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Automotif DCXXXV...

The badges say "SS396" but I think the grille, fenders, and taillights say "1971". I'm not a hundred percent because my Nova-fu is admittedly pretty weak. Obviously this Chevy pocket muscle car is far from stock.

Whatever was under the hood, it had no trouble breathing and definitely sounded down to party.

These were snapped with a Canon EOS R5 and an RF 24-240mm f/3.5-6.3 IS zoom lens, so they can be embiggenated rather a lot.

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Meme Dump!

Labor Day Memes!

Legends of the Fall

Meteorological autumn starts on the first of September. Even though the "dog days of summer" extend into September... and with a streak of 90°-plus days stretching from August 31st to the day before yesterday its been a record stretch of heat this late in the season here in Indianapolis ...the ninth month is also the first of the "brrrrr months".

You know, "Septembrr, Octobrr, Novembrr, Decembrr". On average, by the time the month closes out, overnight temps here will be in the forties.

Actual astronomical autumn begins later in the month, with the autumnal equinox on the 22nd.

But today is Labor Day, the traditional Last Day of Summer here in 'Murrica.

When I was a kid, summer vacation generally ran from Memorial Day to Labor Day, a stretch of time that spread out as an endless vista of lightning bugs and camping trips, sleepovers and pool parties, and now it goes by in the blink of an eye.

Happy Lebber's Day!

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