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Middle of the Week Memeishness!

A River Runs Through It...

Here's a neat online tool sponsored by Mapbox and, I think, built off Google Maps where you can plop a raindrop anywhere on the map and trace its path as it flows to the ocean (or wherever its final destination may be.)

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Great Cats of Science...

Here's an interesting bit of trivia: That mind-blowing high definition video stream we've been receiving from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters.

Back to the Meme Mines!

Tab Clearing...

• David Yamane: Sometimes "I Don't Know" is the Right Answer


• Matt G: Pull Up.


• Secretary of Defense Rock: In Defense of Operation Market Garden

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A Basket of Memes!

Automotif DCXVII...

Driving home from TacCon I made a point of pulling over and photographing this Snow White 1958 Edsel Ranger 4-door sedan in Pryor, Oklahoma. (It was parked outside the same shop where I snapped that '57 Dodge wagon back in 2022.)

This is only the third Edsel I can recollect seeing in the wild, with the others being a '58 Citation and a '59 Ranger.

If you want to read the definitive story on Ford's Edsel debacle, it's Bonsall's Disaster in Dearborn: The Story of the Edsel.

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Strange Attractors

I was today years old when I found out that Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League, tutored Arlo Guthrie for his bar mitzvah, which is one of those weird pop culture trivia facts on the order of "Samuel Beckett drove Andre the Giant to school."

Coincidences like this feel like the universe is desperately trying to communicate something, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is.

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To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

There are currently ten toilets in space:

• International Space Station: 4
• Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
• Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
• Tiangong Space Station: 2
• Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
• Artemis II on way around Moon: 1

This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit, and the toilet on Artemis II will venture further from earth than any crapper in history. It had a spot of trouble, but the crew and Mission Control successfully fixed it.

They also had trouble with the capsule's computers running two instances of Microsoft Outlook. A lot of talk is made of NASA's SLS rocket using Shuttle-era solid rocket boosters, but it's also worth noting that Microsoft Outlook was first released 25 years after the final Apollo moon mission… …and 29 years before Artemis II.

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War Plans...

I've been collecting proposals to get shipping through the Strait of Hormuz...

TGI Meme-day!