Interesting/Noteworthy Things of the Day

Hey, if the beer is decent quality I'll drink out of any mug. Didn't mean to rain on your parade, as the yanks say!

 

Alarming but also interesting
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/largest-nuclear-explosions/

 

I had a pest control guy come to the house today. He was spraying the baseboards and got to my office where I keep my display cases. He just stopped and stared for a bit and said "You have reached a level of nerdyness I did know was possible. I have no idea what I'm looking at. Oh, I think that's Ultraman."

 

That needs to be on a T-shirt!

 

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I mean why should I be the only one with the nightmares?!
And don't make post Pelosi's mamayabas.. on the beach!

 

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^^^ Nailed it @Biff

 

See, now when I see that beautiful bald head, it reminds me of when my daughter was little and we'd sing "Baby Beluga" by Raffi. I'm not letting that billionaire fuckwad get stuck in my good memories.

 

If he, and his actions, weren’t a vision of nightmares prior to me seeing that photo, he certainly is now…

 

Reading the BBC news today, it would appear he has pulled one of his classic u-turns and after proclaiming “Tesla will not be selling any Bitcoin" on Twitter has sold of circa $2bn worth of it…

 

Ok, now I'm craving super melty pizza! And maybe a shot of whisky to chase it down (only if I'm not driving!)

Crab Whisky anyone?

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/11/1110541257/invasive-green-crabs-whiskey-new-hampshire
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...akes-whiskey-out-of-invasive-crabs-180980414/
https://tamworthdistilling.com/spirits/crab-trapper/



Love the label and bottle design! Not sure about the taste though. The distillery is trying to find some use for invasive crabs. Takes a pound of these critters to make a bottle. Yum?

 

Dinos walk again...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/us/dinosaur-tracks-discovered-texas-park/index.html



Tracks so we'll preserved, they look like a Hollywood movie set!

 

'Your Doppelgänger Is Out There and You Probably Share DNA With Them
That person who looks just like you is not your twin, but if scientists compared your genomes, they might find a lot in common.'
Aug. 23, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/science/doppelgangers-twins-dna.html

'Twins who married twins share how their sons are genetically brothers as well as cousins'
23 Aug 2022
https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/23/twin...their-sons-are-genetically-brothers-17228073/

 

Archaeologist Benoît Robitaille talks pre-electric tattoo technology of the Pacific

Zapatoloco sighting!

 

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/islamic-state-tests-out-nfts

 

SF Board of Supes unanimously voted today to decriminalize entheogens.
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/ca...minalized-this-is-the-new-resolution-backed-b


'the bells of freedom ring out their spores forward in all directions'

 

This is prob why I started smoking cigarettes.
Bonkers X rated Benson and Hedges advert from 79....

 

Great remembrance of being a 1970s monster kid, by Peter Bebergal:
https://tinyurl.com/y5wz85bw

 

Got a good pic of the eclipse last week lensing through the trees. Total eclipse next April!