April 29th, 2017 7:05am
posts from 2017 / 04
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April 29th, 2017 7:04am
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April 29th, 2017 6:56am
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April 26th, 2017 9:52pm
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April 25th, 2017 5:50pm
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Francesco DeFrancesca (Canadian, b.1967)
April 25th, 2017 5:46pm
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April 21st, 2017 6:39pm
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It’s time to Hero Up! Join us for all-new epic adventures during the Summer of Heroes at Disney California Adventure Park. And don’t miss our awesome new attraction- Guardians of the Galaxy-Mission: BREAKOUT! The excitement begins May 27.
April 21st, 2017 6:39pm
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April 21st, 2017 6:36pm
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April 21st, 2017 6:06pm
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Friday plans include a cold beverage? Meet the beer fridge of 1899.
It’s from a catalog of by L. H. Mace & Co. of New York, now in our @smithsonianlibraries. Early refrigerators used insulation (with an inch between two sets of walls) and circulation to move cool air from the ice chamber throughout the space.
Inside this refrigerator, there were places for kegs to rest and shelves in the lower part of the refrigerator could be removed, making it possible to chill two more kegs.
April 15th, 2017 8:35am
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Finally got a chance to see Big Lazy, very nice.
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Lithiated Hospital-Up™
with inverted sugar to blend out the harsh features
April 14th, 2017 7:27am
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April 13th, 2017 8:00am
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Muir Woods
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower (via bythegods)
April 7th, 2017 8:05am
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New bike day!
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You’ve replaced the joke about digital watches with a reference to ‘cellular phones’ instead. Obviously, I understand that this is an attempt to update the joke, but there are two points to raise in defence of the original. One is that it’s a very, very well known line in Hitch Hiker, and one that is constantly quoted back at me on both sides of the Atlantic, but the other is that there is something inherently ridiculous about digital watches, and not about cellular phones. Digital watches came along at a time that, in other areas, we were trying to find ways of translating purely numeric data into graphic form so that the information leapt easily to the eye. For instance, we noticed that pie charts and bar graphs often told us more about the relationships between things than tables of numbers did. So we worked hard to make our computers capable of translating numbers into graphic displays. At the same time, we each had the world’s most perfect pie chart machines strapped to our wrists, which we could read at a glance, and we suddenly got terribly excited at the idea of translating them back into numeric data, simply because we suddenly had the technology to do it… so digital watches were mere technological toys rather than significant improvements on anything that went before.
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) on Americanisation and Digital Watches: a Fax to US editor, January 1992. : books (via pmoehring)
April 5th, 2017 9:02pm
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Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr presents during the 15th Grammy Awards show in Nashville March 3, 1973.
April 5th, 2017 7:58am
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April 4th, 2017 9:27pm
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DP
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April 1st, 2017 4:32pm
