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The territorial display of the Red-winged Blackbird. These images were captured from the bird blind at the Millbrook Marsh Nature Center in State College Pennsylvania. This guy came within a few feet of the blind. Lighting was poor, but he filled the frame.
Picked this up at Giant Robot LA - couldn't find the regular colored one so I had to settle on the turquoise variant.
He kinda looks like the Cookie Monster at certain angles... if Cookie Monster had a bushy unibrow and lives in a trash can.
This look and the story behind it are blogged on Eclectic Equations here... eclecticequations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/december-dreams-...
Foundations Exhibit -
Sydney's original graffiti artists paint side by side with the Insomniaks (formerly Ignore Mainstream crew), Sydney's very own newschool delegates.
Foundations is curated by Phibs in association with aMBUSH Gallery and will include artists such as Paze, Spice, Styles, Scram, Kerupt, Prins, Mare, Kade, Rexy, Gane 2, Mystery, Houster, Kode 2, Poser, Yzer, Oricks, Oke,
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Saturday, March 25, 2017
March Flyer
Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:
LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!
Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!
Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!
Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.
John Field
Your Grandest of Sheiks
...I wish I had night vision.
We found ourselves able to get out of town early on Friday afternoon for our camping trip to Oklahoma rather than Saturday morning. Our mad dash to get out of town early paid off as we found a PERFECT spot! Right by the river and away from other people... it really felt like we were in the woods and not a camp ground. However, we had to set up a tent in the dying sunlight, but we finished setting up the tent by the headlights of the SUV.
We were all sitting around the camp lantern as we hadn't had time to find firewood for a fire that night and we were pretty proud of ourselves. When over on the table we heard some rustling noises in our box of food... we all looked up in time to see a Raccoon take off with a bag of marshmallows. We could not believe how brazen he was... right in front of us! THE NERVE! My wish is that the marshmallows swell up in it's stomach :)
We realized that we needed to put the box of food back in the car before we retired for the night. Sometime in the middle of the night Jerry woke up to take a leak in the woods. I also woke and saw him standing in the middle of our campground looking at the other picnic table that housed our cooler. He took a couple of steps towards it and came running back to the tent. Something had GROWLED at him. We both stood on our knees peering out flap of the tent, but couldn't see anything in the darkness. He got the lantern and went back outside. I heard him yell Get out of here! Scram... Get!!!
This time when he came back into the tent I was laughing so hard... I mean really... do you think they understand English? LOL! Again we found ourselves on our knees peering out at the picnic table with the light shining on 5-6 Raccoons looking back at us cowering in our tent while they raided our cooler.
I could not stop laughing at the absurdity of the whole thing... so this was the Wilderness and not a cartoon movie "Over The Hedge" These are smart varmints though... they sent one of them up the tree by our tent to keep a lookout on us. While they continued to open and close our cooler. I went into another fit of laughter as I named this lookout Raccoon "Charlie" Charlie was joined by another (Charlie2) and they switched out roles while "Charlie" went to get his fill. Then Charlie, Charlie2 and Charlotte all shimmied up the tree to look down on our open tent and laugh at us. There I was joining in the laughter... if you can't beat them join them!
We were sure we would wake up at dawn to all of our food gone. However it seems like they just wanted the dozen of eggs... but they left their marks all over the cooler. That morning we broke camp and moved closer to civilization and further away from wilderness.
Sorry I disappeared without so much as a good-bye... but when we found ourselves able to get out of town early on Friday rather than Saturday morning we had a couple of hours to gather everything and go! Just thankful we weren't dragged off by rabid raccoons :)
A long exposure of my nephew at my brothers' house on Halloween night. He was a superb model and struck a fantastic pose! I lit him with a blue gel flashlight to get the otherworldly effect and then had him scram and let the camera aperture stay open a few seconds longer afterwards to make the transparent effect.
The hereios of the We're Here! group have paid a visit to the 23 on the 23rd group today, at the suggestion of evaxebra.
I looked up 23 on the web and found here that "twenty-three" was a slang term in the USA in the late 19th/early 20th century meaning, "Clear off, scram, skedaddle." The article refers to a piece by George Ade in the Washington Post in 1899.
The derivation seems obscure.
So, we caught the train to Tokyo and fought our way through the O-bon holiday crowd to the bullet train platform. Having not felt the full force of the summer yet, it was a shock when we arrived on the platform. Yes Virginia, 38 degrees and 95% humidyt is really hot. We loaded up on chilled water to sip and waited for the train.
The trip by both trains reminded me of how green Japan is. They actually get rain here!
We arrived in Nagaoka by bullet train and Miki had not slept at all since the plane. She seemed in a good mood, but that was to change. Her grandmother kidnapped her in all the excitement, and made her way to the exit. With all the luggage in tow, Mie and I made our way to the lift. Getting in we could hear Miki's screams from below. After calming her down, we exited the traing station to find everyone in the family waiting... yes, everyone from cousins, to uncles and aunts. We made our way home, via the electronics shop. As I already said, we have misplaced the USB cable for our old camera. So we decided to buy a new one right away. We were going to do it anyway, so that was okay. The bonus of being the cool of the shop was that Miki finally slept, in my arms. After dumping our luggage, Mie had to go to the dentist, so off we went again.
At the dentist, while I was trying to keep her happy, she fell over and cut her nose. The resulting crying kept interfereing with Mie treatment as she went ina dn out of the dentist's chair trying to calm Miki down. In the end we gave up and headed home.
More trials awaited there. As is the tradition, Miki had to carry 1.8kg of rice on her back and walk around. This is meant to be a talisman against hunger in the future.
The upshot of the plant, train, kidnapping, dentist, dinner and rice carrying was that Miki had slept only 5 hours in the last 24...! She was cranky and scraming whilst I tried to get her to sleep. At 10pm she finally crashed, with my help.
She slept really well and enjoyed having a lot more room to roll around, compared with her cot. It sems that she loves tatami (bamboo mats) as that is where she slept most of the night, despiute having a perfectly good futon.
The only downside, for her mum, was that she was now a dad's girl. As I had spent the perviuous day calming her and getting her to sleep, Miki only wanted me to hold her.
Dennis McFadden's Michalak Scram Pram, Granny Smith, and some of the other boats in the fleet just past Point No Point.
Asking $1700 for a gently used machine with some accessories.
MacBook Pro 1226A
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SCRAM
15.4-inch (diagonal) glossy screen
160GB Serial ATA hard drive
8x SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
One FireWire 400, one FireWire 800, two USB 2.0 ports, and ExpressCard/34 slot
Built-in iSight camera
Built-in AirPort Extreme (802.11n)
Built-in Bluetooth 2.0
Apple Remote
Full-size, illuminated keyboard with ambient light sensor scrolling trackpad
Comes with bonuses:
Freitag sleeve
iLap party stand (brand new)
Expresscard CompactFlash card reader
Extra AC adapter (key if you are planning to work in multiple
locations, like office/home)
Excellent working condition. Tiny cosmestic flaw on the inside lid above screen: a small black dot can be seen here, that's about the only thing wrong with it. Otherwise, it's fine since I never really took it outside the apartment. Available for pickup in the East Village to a loving home!
Scraping Ore in a Scram Drift
This horizontal passage, driven through the mine, called a drift, leads to the mine's finger raises (a small opening located beneath the stope) which the mined ore passes through. Emphasis is placed on the "Sullivan" pulley in the foreground.
Republic Steel Mine in Mineville, NY, just southwest of Lake Champlain, 1945.
All photos & captions courtesy of North Country Digital History - history.nnyln.org/index.html
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:
LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!
Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!
Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!
Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.
John Field
Your Grandest of Sheiks
The back side of the Panellit Gauges. There's one of these indicators monitoring the temperature of every process tube. If any of them got too hot, it could cause an emergency reactor shutdown, or "SCRAM". Of course, as the sign says, accidentally bumping the panel of gauges might also cause a reactor scram...
CAUTION: BUMPING PANEL MAY CAUSE SCRAM
Panellit Gauges. There's one of these indicators monitoring the temperature of every process tube. If any of them got too hot, it could cause an emergency reactor shutdown, or "SCRAM". Of course, as the sign says, accidentally bumping the panel of gauges might also cause a reactor scram...
Okay kitten listen here.... I'm a vicious Pitbull.... I eat cats like you for breakfast !! I don't need people talking and thinking I've gone all soft or something... so scram!!
Bud: Look Oscar, I need that reef to put up on the advent calendar.
Oscar: Scram you fur ball!! I got this reef first and I'm gonna use it to decorate my garbage can! Now SCRAM!
Bud: Mom!!!!........
Thanks to NorthernCalifornia for the photo. Check him out @ www.flickr.com/photos/21705618@N00/ . San Francisco, 2006
Danish rider Michael Morkov of Team Katusha-Alpecin chats with guys from the bicycle component manufacturer Sram ahead of the afternoon start of the 2017 Prudential Ride London Classic to Surrey and back
And here's Hubcap's new habitat, constructed out of an old wooden shoe chest I got for $5 at a thrift store. All I had to do was remove the lid, cut out a window in the front, attach some plexiglass, paint it and tell the homeless guy who was sleeping in it to scram.
The Oughtred Caledonia Yawl, Erebus, and Dennis McFadden's Michalak Scram Pram, Granny Smith, east of Point No Point
AWWW I know aren’t we so cute?! I know you are totally thinking it J ! This pic is so presh! I could not resist! This was taken last year (2012) for my senior prom!
I will never ever forget that day! This was so much fun and we took so many pictures I just wanted to have as many memories as I could! What girl doesn’t? This honestly captures us so well! My mom did a great job! Photo Credit to you mamacita! I totally just butchered that spelling, sh! No laughing! LOL, No totally laugh!
The Presh Challenge
Why so much cuteness in one picture? Is that even legal?! This photo challenge was so much fun! Go look through some of your favorite pictures! GO GO! This challenge is taking a favorite lyric that really stood out to you and put it into a picture to really capture those lyrics. This is a fun and fresh challenge to really get out and captivate the lyrics that we all love! Speaking of love… Yes I did a lovey dovey song! I’m a girl in love and I can’t help it!
Creating the Cuteness
This is a fun challenge that you get to get creative! This time I actually had this picture on my computer already! FINALLLY! None of that emailing crap, that wastes so much time. Yes I am one of those lazy people that has an iPhone and I hate downloading my pictures on the computer. I despise it with a passion. I opened up “Adobe Photoshop CS6” which again if you Google it you can download it for free for 30 days. This is a great program to have, TRUST ME! I’m a newbie with it and it is pretty easy to get the hang of.
Open up the picture that you want to use! Make sure that picture captivates those lyrics that you really like! Lyrics have so much meaning and everyone can relate to them. It’s so great! Once your photo is open, on the left hand side of the program there is a vertical tab. Near the bottom of that tab, you will see a capital letter “T”. select it! Click where you want your first text box and type in your lyrics. I broke my lyrics up into 4 text boxes. When you click where you want your text box near the top of your screen you can pick your font, your font size, and if you want to bold it and etc. There is also a color square up there and if you select it you can pick the exact color that you want, don’t forget! When editing your text you need to have it highlighted! If you want to start another text box just click to another area on the photo. It is that easy! It’s very simple and you get to be creative and make your lyrics really pop on that picture. Have some fun with it and really create a master piece. Connect with other bloggers. They could really connect to those lyrics and your picture. We all might have different stories but some sentences might just be the same…
Give it a shot! Try it out and have some fun with it! I sure did!
Why this one?
Why did I pick these lyrics? For one I love “The Little Mermaid” it is such an adorable movie, and you know I’m a sucker for cute Disney movies. What Disney movie isn’t cute? I was actually lying in bed going through pictures on my computer and I saw this one and I just had to use it. TBH I was actually thinking “KISS ME ALREADY!!!” yes if you are wondering he did kiss me, and no, the boat did not tip over (inside joke! If you have seen The Little Mermaid you will get it) So I couldn’t resist doing these lyrics. They really tell the pictures story. Its great to just take a step backwards and really get those type of pictures that can hold so much meaning and passion. This picture to me at least scrams how much we love each other and that we know each other so well. He is my not only my lover but my best friend. We really get each other and I just love that. This picture is worth a thousand words. I honestly can’t describe my feelings about this photo because it’s so hard to describe love. I love him. It’s that simple. I can be me and I have someone who loves and supports me for me and what I do. We have gone through so much, and we are so strong. He is always there supporting me, with cheer, school, anything you could think of he is there for me.
Finding this picture brought back tons of memories. So go through pictures and find that one to share with lyrics that really capture that photo. Or, if you have lyrics that are stuck in your head and heart go find a picture that represents them. For me the picture came first which brought back memories which made me think of me waiting for him to kiss me.
Be creative and have fun! Make it you! Go relax and scroll through some memories. Open up that book of memories and relive them. Its great to relive them! So do it!
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Saps at Sea Tent, Proudly Present:
LAUREL AND HARDY – JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY NIGHT!
Welcome back All Saps! To our second, 39th Anniversary Year Gathering of Marvelous Movie Delights and Humorous Hijinks!
Here your Grandest of Sheiks has assembled a night you will not soon forget. We have a "Special" Guest author in attendance, Mr. Craig Calman. Author of "100 Years of Brodies with Hal Roach: The Jaunty Journeys of a Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Pioneer". A loving look at the man responsible for being the boss of Stan and Ollie, and bringing to us those wonderful Comedy Classics we enjoy each and every meeting. I will interview Craig and he will share great stories and anecdotes. You can also purchase his fine book and have it autographed for a measly $30!
Our special program is JUST ONE MORE TEENSY-WEENSY.... Stan & Ollie and Alcohol, rarely mix. In this case hilariously so! You will see a glass lifting CartOOn, then what happens when you mix two vagrants, a mad Judge that wants them out of town, a drunken benefactor (The always inebriated Arthur Housman) and a tipsy Woman.... everything, in SCRAM! (1932) Then our guest comedian, Red Skelton, provides a demonstration of the wonders of Guzzler's Gin. After a tasty (Alcohol free) intermission, we will watch the recently restored BLOTTO (1930). Stan and Babe decide a night on the town is in order. Off to a Nightclub they go with some Prohibition Booze...they think. What happens when Stan's wife (Anita Garvin) gets a little suspicious? Come see in this evening of .... (Hick) sobriety. Oh yes, there will also be a few surprisses, I mean, surprises .... ah heck, just come and see. March 25th at Williams Hall next to the Trinity Church.
John Field
Your Grandest of Sheiks
The Spinster's Secret Lair Located in Plain Sight AKA The Wallaby Arms Apartment Complex - The Dark Gran Lady villain or Hero - Super woman of mystery Heroes women senior ladies comic strip cartoon character comics cartoons danger dangerous mysterious doom attitude Beware elderly older old Nan Nanny granny 2019 NYC 07/25/2019 originally created in 1995 the 90s 1990s for animation Night Nite Need that Jam to Scram
Call me strange, but I have a nostalgic obsession. I am fascinated by the past. I love old movies. I love old photos. I use to shuffle through my grandparent's old photo albums for hours, asking questions, savoring the images. I am fascinated by the mores, the fashion, slang and fads of, say, the 1920s, 30s, 40s, etc. (I wrote and acted in a movie that was centered in the 1950s--filled with the slang of the time, Daddy-o, you dig).
I find these eras rather charming and romantic. And yes, I am well aware of the strife and troubles each of those decades contained, such as the prohibition of the 1920s, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the bombing of Pear Harbor in the 1940s, etc. I get all that. But I am captivated by all the magnetism and fun that is equally present in those decades. For example, watch the romantic comedy “It happened one night” with Clark Gable or “City Lights” with Charlie Chaplin to get an idea of what I mean.
Oh, and we can’t forget the gangster movies! Oh, some of them are a riot. The slang always leaves a smirk on my face. “Say, you mugs, what are ya—yella?” “Scram, take a powder!” I love it.
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National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
CRITICAL ASSEMBLY
THE SECRETS OF LOS ALAMOS 1944:
INSTALLATION BY AMERICAN SCULPTOR JIM SANBORN
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In Critical Assembly (1998-2003), Jim Sanborn has re-created the moment in 1945 when human beings first fashioned a practical device powered by nuclear fission. It was called the "gadget" We know it today as the Trinity bomb. When it exploded on July 16 in the New Mexico desert, it permanently changed the human condition.
The place Sanborn takes us to is Los Alamos, in the 1940s a secret town known to the outside world only by its mailing address, Post Office Box 1663, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The scene is a small building in an isolated canyon, far enough from other buildings to contain the radiation. On the tables are "criticality experiments," their purpose to determine how much plutonium 239 can be packed into a bomb for maximum yield without making the bomb unsafe to handle.
Electronic instruments, hardware, furniture, tools and materials used by the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory during the 1940's and 1950's were acquired by the artist during a six year period from a variety of sources including Lab employees (some of whom had originally made or designed them) These employees had bought these objects many years later as surplus materials at public sales carried out by the Laboratory. Any materials the artist was unable to collect in Los Alamos he machined and fabricated himself.
Plutonium and highly enriched uranium are very unstable metals. If the scientists placed too much of either material in one place it would spontaneously fission or "go critical" causing a tremendous burst of radioactivity that would kill everyone in the immediate area. Conversely if too little material was used to make a bomb it would not detonate at all. This is not to say that sub-critical masses were non-hazardous, in fact they were extremely dangerous. At any given time several of the experimenters tables held a highly radioactive sub-critical mass and a hemispherical reflector (the tables were kept far enough away from each other to reduce the chance of a fission event). The sub-critical masses on the tables were so close to criticality that the reflective properties of the human hand could cause a dramatic rise in radioactivity and the scientists frequently played tunes on the ever present sound of the Geiger counters.
In the late 1940's the scientists at the Lab referred to these experiments as "tickling the tail of the dragon" and the table top work was done with very little personal radioactivity shielding. After 1950 these criticality experiments were done using robotic arms controlled from shielded rooms.
The "Physics Package" as it was called of the "Fat Man" bomb (the one dropped on Nagasaki Japan and tested earlier in Southern New Mexico) is depicted on two metal tables in this installation.
Evocative of both the brilliance of the collective human mind and the potentially devastating power of knowledge, this installation is about the allure of pure science and the ethical dilemmas scientific researchers have faced for decades.
The Spinster's Secret Lair Located in Plain Sight AKA The Wallaby Arms Apartment Complex - The Dark Gran Lady villain or Hero - Super woman of mystery Heroes women senior ladies comic strip cartoon character comics cartoons danger dangerous mysterious doom attitude Beware elderly older old Nan Nanny granny 2019 NYC 07/28/2019 originally created in 1995 the 90s 1990s for animation Night Nite Need that Jam to Scram