[Testing the limits of human vision] (Viewer #62,276)
Everything you never wanted to know about eye charts. Kinda neat.
Archive of entries posted on May 2018
Shut Down
President Trump cancelled the summit with North Korea due to that country’s “tremendous anger & open hostility“.
Guess CNN’s not getting an interview anytime soon, then.
Not Much Good at Changing Light Bulbs, Either
Friday Night Open Thread
I love Weird Al.
Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s Friday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
Five Bucks Says She Voted Hillary and Cried on Election Night
All Breathing Is Osmosis
[How Birds Get Oxygen Inside Their Eggs] (Viewer #305,810)
I had no idea, since none of my experience with eggs includes fertilization
Link of the Day: They Won’t Like How This Ends
[High Praise! to Townhall]
Liberal Lies And Slanders Are A Slippery Slope To Trouble
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
Icebreaker: If You Were Famous, What Would You Be Famous For?
Previously: “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data”
Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)
Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.
If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.
If you were famous, what would you be famous for?
My facial hair style – the soulless patch.
I grow everything except that little strip of fuzz under my lip.
I’m Assuming Parody, But I Could Be Wrong
Straight Line of the Day: Apple Is Upgrading Its Siri AI Assistant With a New Voice, Which Will Sound Like…
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
Apple is upgrading its Siri AI assistant with a new voice, which will sound like…
The Illustrated Frank J: Reasonableness Is Actually a Definable Legal Standard. Liberals Forget That
Soon There Will Be No One Left to Pay for Obama’s Stupid Library
A new study shows that Illinois residents are fleeing the state at an increasing rate to avoid the punishing tax rates.
Illinois politicians are worried. If this gets any worse, even the dead may take their votes elsewhere.
Thursday Night Open Thread
I never really got Rage Against The Machine. I don’t know if it’s that I’m too old for that, or if it’s just that I have good taste in music.
Maybe someone can explain it to me.
Anyway, what’s on your mind? You got something you’d like to share? It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
That’s One Weird Garden
Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine have developed a system that uses robots to grow human organs.
That’s fine. Let’s just not ever put them in charge of harvesting them, though.
Like the Rolling Stones of Skateboarding
[Tony Hawk: 50 tricks at Age 50] (Viewer #606,061)
You absolutely need to turn captions on, or you won’t be sure if he’s moved on to a new trick.
And then you need to watch it again, because some of the distinctions are quite subtle.
Also, I still don’t know what a fakie is.
Anyway, it’s an impressive collection. I couldn’t even do any of these when I was 20.