Any Questions

Just gonna assume this guys name is David.

How To

Yeah, it is one of those unverified Google search maps.

Always amusing, if not exactly informative...

Really, Rhode Island?
How to make an igloo?
That's your big question?


I guess it is a small, lightly populated state...
Seven people searching about igloos is probably enough to skew the results, here.

(That map should get bigger if you click on it.)

Shark Week

Is it shark week?

Perfect Food

The perfect food...



To eat while driving a bus?

Science

I think you know what this means...

Parking

Is that not a reasonable place to park, officer?

This Guy Again

Another video to inspire you to cut your bicycle in half, because you never learned how to actually ride it well, by comparison...

Or a tourism video for Scotland, with the bike guy.



You get some bloopers at the end, as well.  Which is a nice reminder that even for this amazingly talented guy, there are still a lot of misses and tons of work.

Hot Rod

Thoughts of building another hot rod have been floating around my head...

Nothing specific, just the idea of another giant puzzle to mess with.

St Louis Scientist

Rather prescient headline on a St Louis scientist, from 1902.

I mean, nailed the crazy part.
The people read this in 1902, all dead I assume.


St Louis hosted that debate last night.
That seemed to verify the crazy bit posed by the scientist.

Forgery

Something Fishy

So, I live in the ocean state and I eat fish.

But pretty rarely, at this point.

I find it hard to find fish I trust at the store and I don't have the free time I did when I would actually drive down to a dock to buy what fish I cooked.
That is an option here, a pretty amazing option, but not so convenient.

By comparison, those fish on display at the more convenient market, well...
I read those display case signs pretty carefully.
If it has a grown or caught in anyplace vaguely suspect, it's a non option.  Really, do you trust the fish regulations in China or Russia.  Not a nationalist jab there, I don't trust the regulations here either.
It may not even be the fish claimed by that little sign in front of it.

Anyway, came across this article today on the whole seafood scene.  Here is a snippet-

The seafood industry offers a perfect storm for scandal: In sharp contrast with beef, pork, or chicken, more than 90% of the seafood we consume is imported, via a largely opaque and convoluted supply chain featuring numerous middlemen and minimal regulatory oversight. Plenty of low-cost products can look remarkably like high-value ones, particularly given that consumers very rarely see, buy, or cook whole fish (save a subset of relatively small and less coveted species). There are 400 to 500 commercially available species, yet, according to the National Fisheries Institute (NFI), 94% of the fish consumed by Americans is limited to just the top 10 most consumed among those, and the top three—shrimp, salmon, and canned tuna—account for almost 60% of sales. When almost no one knows what most fishes look or taste like, it's not too difficult for consumers to be fooled. If we actually get red snapper fewer than one in 20 times, how can we be expected to know the flavor of the real thing?

If you eat fish, it's worth a read.
If you order fish from a restaurant and enjoy that, you might want to skip reading it.  Ignorance is bliss and all that.


Another link to it.

Five More Minutes

Another

Another Pixies album?

Did we need another?
I guess we did...


Haven't even given it a complete listen, yet, but here's a track.