QotD: If Everybody's Special Edition...

From Bobbi's post about Emergency Alerts:

"As a practical matter, all that is needed are alerts for "lost child" and "lost adult." Details should go in the accompanying text message, to tell you and me if we should be looking for a four-year-old Native American child or a 60 year old law enforcement officer: it's supposed to be way to help out, not an overloaded "thin blue line" flag with a special stripe for each and every sliver of the population who might be at risk."

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Midweek Memes...

Eras?

When you say "the Malaise Era" in reference to cars most people know what you're talking about: that period of time when cars were slow and awful. It came after the "Muscle Car Era", but when did it end? And what was the period before the "Muscle Car Era" called?

This is the sort of thing I'm pondering at the moment. I have some ideas, maybe a pretty good post's worth.

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Memes to Amuse You...

Floating Home

So I'm tooling around the satellite view in Google Maps, as one does, and I'm scrutinizing Presque Isle up there in Erie, Pennsylvania and I see what look like a bunch of cottages in the middle of Horseshoe Pond.

"Huh," say I, "I wonder what's up with these?"

So I grab my little Street View dude and drop him on the Coast Guard Road that runs alongside the pond and sure enough, those are houses on pilings or floating homes of some sort.

Quick! To the Google!

And there I found this neat little story...

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Monday Morning Memes...

Anti-Sleep Cat

Holden started out the evening curled in a ball at my feet, which meant I couldn't stretch my legs out full length.

Eventually my knees were aching enough that I sat up and picked him up and set him on the bed next to me so I could straighten my legs. I carefully set him so that he was stretched parallel to me, leaving me the maximum amount of room to toss and turn in comfort.

Somehow, in his sleep, he rotated himself through ninety degrees on the bed until he was stretched out across its width, about at my waist level, leaving me barely enough room for the width of my hips if I lay on my back. If I lay on my left side in any position other than completely straight as a board, my butt would be hanging off the bed.

He's lucky he's so cute.

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Alleged Jaguar

So artist's renderings of what is allegedly the all-new Jaguar EV have leaked.

It looks like an unlicensed Barbie Cullinan trying to dodge a trade dress lawsuit from Rolls Royce.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, we regret to inform you...

...that it is, in fact, one of the Monday-est Mondays of the entire calendar year today.

The National Weather Service forecasts that it is likely to remain Monday all day long. 

At least there are Cyber Monday deals to take the edge off the day. Retail therapy can help!

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Undergeared...

Me heading out the door to lunch on Friday: “It’s 28 degrees out there. I won’t be doing outdoors photography. The 17-55mm/2.8 will be plenty.”

Me five minutes later slowly creeping up on a squirrel with the camera in front of my face:

With the 1.6x crop factor of a Canon APS-C sensor, the lens has an equivalent field of view to a 27-88mm zoom on a full frame camera. That 88mm is on the short end of telephoto length, fine for portraits but way too short for wildlife. 

Starting with that upper photo from probably a dozen feet away, I had to slowly inch my way up to maybe double-arm's-length to get the lower shot.

Meme Dump...

Local Sportsball...

The Indiana University Hoosiers took on the hapless Purdue Boilermakers in the annual Old Oaken Bucket cross-state rivalry game and dismantled them 66-0, to wind up with an 11-1 record. First time they won the contest since 2019.

This apparently might not be enough to get them into the playoffs, despite the fact that they beat Michigan at home, which Ohio State was unable to do...

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