Images of Interest

[Napoleon]

Last weekend I was out to teach a class in Lancaster County (Amish country). It's a strange system out there - and not fully sure how it all works with the Amish and the "English". But the Amish are extremely active with the local volunteer fire departments. They are excellent firefighters and extremely dedicated to the community.

There is a decent number of Amish near me (Ohio has the largest Amish population in the US) with a decent size community not to far to the east of me which I drive through now and then, and an even larger one (perhaps the largest in the US) about an hour and a half south/west and west (much of it not to far south of Mid-Ohio). As an aside, last weekend I biked with a group in that area on a "Rails to Trails" trail that actually has one half dedicated to Amish buggies the other to your typical walk/jog/bike use (including, of course, Amish bikers and the Amish kids who like their foot powered scooters).

Anyway, maybe 10 years ago I was giving blood and two of the workers were engaged in shop talk when one mentioned she had worked a collection in Middlefield, dead center in the Amish community to the east, so I asked "I just know your answer is going to be one extreme or the other, but how good is the Amish participation rate?"

Of course it was very good.

[Elmo T]

This will keep you busy:

http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

http://i66.tinypic.com/166dqpj.jpg

http://i68.tinypic.com/2eppncg.jpg

http://i65.tinypic.com/2z5tydv.jpg

[datachicane]

Saturn V tattoo, taken from 1967 Boeing engineering drawings.

http://i.imgur.com/2MmSgkb.jpg

[chop456]

That's commitment. :lol:


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[datachicane]

FDR, Oswald Mosley, and Unity Mitford on vacation.
Just wow.

http://i.imgur.com/mUDwnkL.jpg

[chop456]

All sorts of interesting people in their family photos, I'd bet. (Not FDR's, though this one sort of disproves that).

I wonder if Elvis Costello has a copy of that one. :tony:

[Napoleon]

Data,

What is the backstory to that picture?

[datachicane]

Mosley was a bit of a political opportunist in his early days, switching parties on occasion. This was taken in 1926, when he was a Labour MP, having previously lost his seat as a Conservative. FDR invited him on the Florida fishing trip.

In trying to find the background I found other photos from the trip that claim that it's actually Oswald's 1st wife, Cynthia, which would be more plausible than then 12 year old Unity, especially given that Unity was supposedly only introduced to Mosley by her sister (Mosley's eventual 2nd wife) in 1932.

[Napoleon]

Timeline is wrong for that to be Unity. The woman looks somewhat like her, but not exactly.

FDR sure loved his boating.

Speaking of which, I finished a bio of FDR recently which had a picture of him walking (this was pre-polio) out of the Brooklyn Naval Yard after participating in the laying of the keel of the Arizona. About half the battleships at Pearl Harbor 12/7/1941 were FDRs babies built while he was Assistant Sec. of the Navy (FDR was very pro-build up of the Navy and pressed for the ships, unlike others in Wilson's administration). It struck me when I read that that among all the other things that must have gone through his head that day how personal that must have been for him to have the Japanese send his navy to the bottom.

These are not the picture I mention, but both were taken that day at the laying of Arizona's keel.

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[gjc2]

I didn’t know FDR had been Assistant Sectary of the Navy like his second cousin Teddy.

[Napoleon]

I didn’t know FDR had been Assistant Sectary of the Navy like his second cousin Teddy.

I had known that (college history major, with an emphasis on modern American history) but for all my post graduate history reading (I don't have a postgraduate history degree) I did not circle back to that era until now. FDR pretty clearly wanted to be President from when he was young, and took Uncle/Cousin Teddy as his template. Anyways, he was actually, for the day, pretty internationally hawkish for an American, and he was way more supportive of an expanded navy then the sec of the navy at that time or Wilson. He was a big navy guy.

By the way, the navy thing connected him with Churchill, who held a similar position with the British government.

[G.]

Well, to tie WickerBill's question about Reddit to old photos, try https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/

The name does not mean to imply an adult nature of the photos, it just means that they are photos. Of history.

[cameraman]

A fiery-throated hummingbird

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvueZgDWIAAr2ht.jpg:large

[Insomniac]

If you like hummingbirds, Nature just spent a whole episode on them, including the picture above.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/super-hummingbirds-full-episode/14586/

[SteveH]

If you like hummingbirds, Nature just spent a whole episode on them, including the picture above.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/super-hummingbirds-full-episode/14586/


Thanks, I'll have to watch that.

Amazing little creatures, ours disappeared for warmer weather the first week of Oct this year. A little later than normal.

[EDwardo]

I was buzzed by a hungry hummingbird a few weeks ago. I was on the deck at a friends' house and apparently I was between him and the feeder. He passed by me at the distance of about a foot. That was pretty amazing.

[cameraman]

Some major league makeup skills

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cv0ssRGWIAAIwZJ.jpg:large

[dando]

If you like hummingbirds, Nature just spent a whole episode on them, including the picture above.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/super-hummingbirds-full-episode/14586/

Love to watch them, but I only plant flowers for them. The feeders tend to attract wasps and bees. :\

[Napoleon]

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[Gnam]

A flock of black birds. :cool:

http://i.imgur.com/gXJBZ9A.jpg

[dando]

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Originally ARPANET, or DARPANET, which then evolved into the Internet when Al Bore came along... :gomer:

[SteveH]

A flock of black birds. :cool:

http://i.imgur.com/gXJBZ9A.jpg



Awesome photo! Breathtaking. And a few are leaking fluids, as they should be.

Where and when was this taken?

[Gnam]

I don't know. The base looks like Beale AFB in Northern California.

[dando]

Awesome photo! Breathtaking. And a few are leaking fluids, as they should be.

Where and when was this taken?

From the posting date, 8/2014. I'm guessing Nellis AFB and not Edwards AFB.

[SteveH]

But they flew their last flights in 1999. And those were NASA planes, the Air Force planes were retired a year earlier.

[WickerBill]

Originally ARPANET, or DARPANET, which then evolved into the Internet when Al Bore came along... :gomer:


It's interesting to draw parallels between two things promoted and created under Eisenhower: DARPA's network and the interstate system. Thumbs up on both accounts, Ike.

[dando]

It's interesting to draw parallels between two things promoted and created under Eisenhower: DARPA's network and the interstate system. Thumbs up on both accounts, Ike.

Yup. Ike set the stage for the space race, and learned from the Germans when he used the Autobahn during the drive to Berlin. Much like Teddy Roosevelt, he doesn't get the respect he deserved. :\

[SteveH]

The 50s is almost a forgotten decade but it laid the ground work for everything that exploded in the 60s and beyond.

The post war economic expansion was significant with lasting effects into the 70s.

[dando]

The 50s is almost a forgotten decade but it laid the ground work for everything that exploded in the 60s and beyond.

The post war economic expansion was significant with lasting effects into the 70s.

Nuh uh...I've watched M*A*S*H and Happy Days. ;) :D

[nrc]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9D8RXcVYAAjOe_.jpg

[Insomniac]

What part of the 2nd and 4th ones are OK and not-usable?

[datachicane]

Saw this at the PDX old car swap over the weekend. Solid advice for the new driver...

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[Elmo T]

Traffic accident today in the northern end of my County...

http://i64.tinypic.com/2livuw6.jpg

[WickerBill]

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Incorrect.

(seen at a childcare facility)

[stroker]

Traffic accident today in the northern end of my County...

http://i64.tinypic.com/2livuw6.jpg

Looks like somebody fell asleep at the wheel...

[Kiwifan]

Looks like somebody fell asleep at the wheel...

Bugger.

[datachicane]

http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/590c7ab5450f8_rwqvlv7g9hby__605.jpg

[Insomniac]

I guess accuracy does not apply to the watch face. (Or maybe the precision is so bad that it is 100% faster from 3-5, 50% slower from 5-9 and normal from 9-3, so it is accurate.)

[nrc]

Dando would have appreciated this one.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAChFlAXoAIMQbe.jpg

[SteveH]

https://i.redd.it/puj0ueku92w01.jpg

Still there, still there :thumbup:

[nrc]

Groovy, man.

[datachicane]

Ran into this on Facebook Marketplace (which sucks, btw) while scoping out cars for my college freshman daughter.
Not a bad deal, I thought, until I read the fine print.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rrZmdr3XMbhKxopDlJGzNne5JuIkP5qovC_7lsTomxxR4jqHJl cd_CKzDEWT-ytgNys_bB2imnZo4nlyX4D5JEefNq-1sxwfPPlZPoBm4MvLkoOcs25_Wk72UQvGuKatQIMmJWzjsbq3B Iadz-PfAkUpCnKOnF-_9RdGH19VSrjn-wEafIBiJmeAN6XUNE_dBpNnXabGgk_Kg-Db49lUEYMNEX95JQzRpc1akGbAP2xP3VhGqlxey0m1fSU7E8s8 aOFW8GvTRPVKyTkDUZq-_lzyPaV2JRgt_84oPNPf7iGsU0ByyBtvxZWypy__4vQUJUtiLy xCt4Qv8ntH71_EDyjtGyyHWBZulwz84xYP6RSQdpVltZhMn7HH soFEv4mWbHnpa7fGMNw_Fmp3TNXPmaDoxKh3djr0k_aszV3V0_ mqxcluZaxXMpDuARnM47dvOyOLNGxAZu-H2hq4D7L49jt6VubRfHUDACG871f6_3jM5HCrEs0f6Ir0Xrk_O ZKlsCarrJjI111rrassgLrWkxsAufK_FxXRVamIjmIM1kesMcT FB_uUAPgdNDWz454sp7x8uPRHrvmGwcluhBN0rtj5LTajiSYN3 cjTifc=w1030-h551-no

[nrc]

Fine print? Maybe I'm missing something?

Missy was driving her Dad's Corvair coupe when we first started dating. Cute cars for the day and not 100% fatal. I'd be curious to know their tendency to turn turtle compares to, say, your average '90s SUV.

[datachicane]

Fine print? Maybe I'm missing something?


Read the very last line in the ad.

[SteveH]

:laugh:

[nrc]

Read the very last line in the ad.

Ha! My brain inserted the word that it expected. :)

[chop456]

Mom had a Corvair Monza Spyder. It was totaled while parked a week after she moved to Chicago. Welcome. :gomer:

[SteveH]

https://i.imgur.com/qYq0JWd.gif

[TravelGal]

A close agent friend just came back Sunday from a highfalutin' conference where Hawaii (Island) Visitors Bureau folks were well represented. She asked them how it was. They said, and I quote, "Bad. It's bad. But we can't say much because people think 'Hawaii' means Oahu, and Maui, and Kauai too and we can't ruin the tourism for the whole state." If the TOURIST board people are saying it's bad, it's BAD.

[SteveH]

https://i.imgur.com/s9MvYnc.gif

[nrc]

https://i.imgur.com/s9MvYnc.gif

Pretty amazing. What could possibly go wrong? :eek:

[chop456]

Pretty amazing. What could possibly go wrong? :eek:No s****. I'd be watching that through a telescope.

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[SteveH]

Welcome to Hell.
https://gfycat.com/ThatFluffyHalcyon

[SteveH]

https://i.redd.it/z12t4x14nm011.jpg

[nrc]

Welcome to Hell.
https://gfycat.com/ThatFluffyHalcyon

If you watch closely you can catch a glimpse of Anakin Skywalker.

[SteveH]

Tornados at Kilauea

https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/180511-kilauea-volcano-photographers-leilani-relief-science-vin-spd?source=relatedvideo

[datachicane]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ffEjJg8jfElERZ9Ws-lJcJ6fe1QUxo8jAXLvH3yQjzSOj4JTAm6KjIsl0D5eLh61coBu 5XoTs5DGLcevbByI-OF7sg14ux88nwyAkzILaBJHZR7LbHUUQxswirD11X9KQTH0WBG 0_1rgHekQ_eD83pIT3A-tvDf8a_1WuweFKx2q8moL3QPq89IGm9i7Tu4EMlEyNAfaK7kpE R8r-mMBi1QzlVhtkWskOmNM9au_l2jTYfxt5gUn59ZPK447R1Zr4ig CIAm7QZWQBNec3DShorpm1ZJ9HG-agOmZ2TYon5pXaN77skDnPd8jUSovbG8W3EHsslrnD6zZtKz-ftA3vH2EEO9Yh4CcOrhevKNr2D9sFiWV_UIvyV7ucp6bLxmr54 9c1FxMhbZCLAiCbC_ZsdQpVOSLyMo1PfKUWFPEKJDomRKld8z1 vc5GoCNfoNryWZy6HT3NZkXO8pT5cUVOfAY69FbuUXj_TixJ8U 6s12Cif2qmkeEEzjr6IqK7cG9iH0Kgdni67B9EHUE7ErRL6Kdu wjZQWKiQ4tk2CDD97uJxRLNNp_gGQcMVlnwUjfyIMDRrODJblQ qtD8pl6xro8GiRMmEShQj5twfBtZo-t3eJPwi6MMhzzTKLdwAyH-39sXiWtwhhfI0K9_xDv7X-MjDsyzFnrgGh71VCxaPuMysDUGlCUG-KlIyaCtXEYNAJRjlmlygIMlGMkyDpsUDOC1lMIw=s867-no?authuser=0

[opinionated ow]

Editorials in The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph earlier this week
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[nrc]

Thanks, guys. If Amazon takes the forum down we'll know why. :rofl:

[WickerBill]

data: A+

[Elmo T]

Saw this shirt at Kohl's...

What am I missing with this? Or does it make sense??

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[nrc]

Saw this shirt at Kohl's...

What am I missing with this? Or does it make sense??

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Was this Kohls in Bejing?

[WickerBill]

Saw this shirt at Kohl's...

What am I missing with this? Or does it make sense??

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I truly hope you bought two.

[Elmo T]

Order yours here direct - still not sure what they were thinking...


https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/p/tops/boys-ua-hoops-nitro-t-shirt/1361655.html?start=72&breadCrumbLast=Graphic%20T%27s%20%26%20Tanks

[devilmaster]

Order yours here direct - still not sure what they were thinking...


https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/p/tops/boys-ua-hoops-nitro-t-shirt/1361655.html?start=72&breadCrumbLast=Graphic%20T%27s%20%26%20Tanks

Damn. thats a UA website.

I sooo thought this was a knockoff shirt like you find people selling in the parking lot of nfl games.

[nrc]

My head is spinning so fast that I can't see straight. This is a product of fine upstanding corporate citizen, Under Armour? :confused:

I admit that I'm so far outside the hip mainstream that I'm observing from a gun nest with binoculars. But I don't see any way of interpreting this other than making fun of the "Engrish" phenomenon. But that would be, you know... double plus ungood.

[Elmo T]

Another shirt was I surprised to see out in the real world.

At the local Macy's Department Store.

Apologies for the rotated photo. I tried a few things during the upload and it always ends up this way. :confused:

[SteveH]

https://i.redd.it/uphnh31gi2k81.jpg

[nrc]

Live map of tweets and news items linked to location. Beware, some items linked are graphic.

https://liveuamap.com

[Elmo T]

Live aviation tracking map with a military aircraft filter.

We are flying numerous air refueling missions. Just not sure what we are refueling.

Luxembourg's AWACS has been very busy too.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

[SteveH]

https://i.redd.it/wmw8grcbikk81.jpg

[SteveH]

https://i.redd.it/9ykkhsaldlk81.jpg

[Kiwifan]

At least we made the list even if it is at the bottom. :D Right next to China and Taiwan. Oh wait....another crisis in the making. :shakehead:

[SteveH]

https://i.redd.it/v1jwbf5dnmk81.jpg

https://twitter.com/Dadsaysjokes/status/1498359823850745856?s=20&t=-dVTSfpzlhHNflKftxPblw

[SteveH]

https://i.redd.it/ryfqlaisntk81.jpg

[TravelGal]

Live aviation tracking map with a military aircraft filter.

We are flying numerous air refueling missions. Just not sure what we are refueling.

Luxembourg's AWACS has been very busy too.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

I'm not getting anything but the New York city area. I tried to search for IEV (Kiev) that didn't bring up anything. ???

[SteveH]

https://twitter.com/hackingbutlegal/status/1499027208555401222?s=20&t=Z8HgNtr2iEpE67oEpLBGcw

[TravelGal]

https://twitter.com/hackingbutlegal/status/1499027208555401222?s=20&t=Z8HgNtr2iEpE67oEpLBGcw

I hope they are using up their Russian vodka to literally "throw it back in their faces."

[SteveH]

https://i.redd.it/ga68slhkx9l81.jpg

[SteveH]

https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1499672805868294144

[stroker]

That was useful, Steve. Thank you.

[nrc]

Just a few of at least 38 Ukrainian children killed so far.

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[SteveH]

http://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/1500652112765767690

[SteveH]

http://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1500649936400142339

[datachicane]

A highly valued coworker with whom I've worked very closely for going on 15 years is from Mariupol. She has family there. I can't imagine the horror.

The irony is, in spite of all of Putin's posturing about the invasion being necessary to ensure the safety of Russian-speaking peoples in Ukraine, she and her family, as well as many of her friends in Mariupol, are those very ethnic Russians he professes to be concerned about as he shells their escape corridors from the city.

[nrc]

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[SteveH]

https://andywoodruff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dstMaps.png

[cameraman]

Yeah if you live in the western edge of your time zone you will see some very dark mornings Nov-Jan.

[SteveH]

109 empty strollers in Lviv. One for each.

https://i.redd.it/42ilycj1n4o81.jpg

[nrc]

Ukrainian fighter returns with street sign stuck in the jet intake.

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Nevermind, this was several years ago on a highway operations exercise. Still pretty cool.

[SteveH]

https://i.redd.it/i8gy63he14t81.jpg

[Kiwifan]

https://i.redd.it/i8gy63he14t81.jpg

Now that's funny right there. :rofl::rofl:

[Elmo T]

We were in Colorado last week and I saw these at the arcade in Manitou Springs.

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[nrc]

We were in Colorado last week and I saw these at the arcade in Manitou Springs.

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You can always spot a ride-buyer when they've got a coin slot in their headrest. :D

[Elmo T]

You can always spot a ride-buyer when they've got a coin slot in their headrest. :D

:rofl:

That Lotus probably has less porpoising than today's Mercedes.

[RaceGrrl]

https://i.redd.it/i8gy63he14t81.jpg

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[SteveH]

:rofl:

[stroker]

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/a-mystery-rocket-crashed-into-the-moon-and-no-one-on-earth-is-owning-up-20220628-p5ax4x.html?fbclid=IwAR3qAzEl7s3iGscG0tKYALltVNWZ7 EkJb61eg0XneflaG_E4wCtcOb0PB-c

[SteveH]

https://twitter.com/BatteryVoltas/status/1558768777940066305?s=20&t=KtN2qYZz7a5B9xAml7FtIA

[SteveH]

Racing through the roofs of Paris. Banville garage "hillclimb" 1927.

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https://twitter.com/RDV69/status/700962808440217600?s=20&t=Fi0XAvV4AEBapUnlGw3IfA