Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Automotif DLXIX...
A couple of newlyweds having a grand old time waving from the back seat of a Sandshell Beige 1962 Ford Thunderbird last weekend. The photo was snapped with a Canon EOS-1D Mark IV and an EF 24-105mm f/4L IS zoom lens.
It's only lightly cropped from the full 16MP resolution, so it should embiggenate nicely.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Clownshoes
Trump's cabinet picks started off normal enough. Marco Rubio as SecState? Sure, dude's been a senator for over a decade, with most of that time on the Senate Committee for Foreign Relations and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (he's currently the ranking member on the latter), and that's as solid a resume for the job as you can want.
Things got progressively sillier from there, though. I'd make fun of RFK, Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services, but that's been thoroughly covered elsewhere.
The proposed Director of National Intelligence, though, is a huge yikes. You know who's excited about her? Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“The C.I.A. and the F.B.I. are trembling,” Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian newspaper, wrote on Friday in a glowing profile of Ms. Gabbard, noting, positively, that Ukrainians consider her “an agent of the Russian state.” Rossiya-1, a state television channel, called her a Russian “comrade” in Mr. Trump’s emerging cabinet.Jesus wept.
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Labels:
Bad Ideas,
News,
politics,
Seriously WTFingF?
Sign of the Times
Jaguar apparently shopped around for a new logo and the one they bought was, um... questionable. It's vague, communicates nothing, and sticking a capital "G" in the middle of a bunch of lower case letters is a crime against typography.
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Designer: “What are your company’s core virtues and strengths?”
Jaguar: “Tradition. Luxury. Excellence. High performance…”
Designer: “Cool. Here’s a logo fit for a Spice Girls cover band.”
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Monday, November 18, 2024
Sunrise, Sunset
It's a bit of a puff piece, but this WaPo bit on the solar shenanigans in American's northernmost decent-sized town, Utqiagvik (née Barrow) in Alaska, is full of interesting bits of triviata.
Meanwhile here in Hoosieropolis, sunset tonight will be at 5:27. Fortunately, though, it will rise again about 7:30 tomorrow morning, rather than in frickin' 2025.
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Saturday, November 16, 2024
Memewhile...
Did some video game reminiscing at the other blog (and there's fixin' to be more), but in the memetime, here...
Labels:
Blog Stuff,
memeishness,
t'hee
Friday, November 15, 2024
Ugh, it's starting...
We've reached that time of year when sunset is occurring before the time when normal people are just starting to think about dinner. Combine that with three days in a row of overcast skies, drizzly weather, and the leaves being off the trees, it's time to get the SAD lamp down from the attic and plug that thing up.
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Thursday, November 14, 2024
Written Elsewhere...
- My 200th post at Cars Gone By: A 1966 Mustang GT convertible.
- On the reasons behind the enduring popularity of the 1911.
- The U-Shaped Utility Curve of All the Things.
Labels:
Boomsticks,
teh intarw3bz,
writing,
Zoom zoom
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Busted
Well, they caught the guy they think was the leaker of the Israeli attack plans. Turns out he was a CIA employee.
A C.I.A. official has been charged with disclosing classified documents that appeared to show Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack earlier this year, according to court documents and people familiar with the matter.Meanwhile, the dweeby A1C who put all the classified docs on that gaming Discord server is going to the big house for fifteen years. He should have kept them in a spare bathroom or garage, then he could be going to the White House for four.
The official, Asif W. Rahman, was indicted last week in federal court in Virginia with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. He was arrested by the F.B.I. on Tuesday in Cambodia and brought to federal court in Guam to face charges.
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