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It's been a very long time since I've had a math class, but I felt pretty confident that this was correct. Then I read the comments. Now I'm unsure.
Er, okay.
I can kind of follow this.
I'm just going to pet the cat instead of saying anything.
A bouquet of a dozen Roses card
Thank you for being a friend . . . and for making such clever crafts inspired by The Golden Girls! Jenna Guilliame of BuzzFeed has rounded up 23 crafts that people have made with images and words from one of the greatest American sitcoms. They make me want to eat a cheesecake and slap a friend.
Now this is obviously a good idea. But Scott Loxley is doing more than being cool by dressing as a stormtrooper from Star Wars. He's a member of the 501st Legion, a charitable organization operated by Imperial stormtroopers. Loxley plans to walk around the entire coast of Australia--that's almost 10,000 miles--to raise money for a children's hospital.
So far, Loxley, 47, has traveled about 5,600 miles in a year and a half. He hopes to finish his journey by July of next year. He has raised about $19,000 (USD) for Monash Children's Hospital in Melbourne, which will open in 2016. Loxley hopes to get as much as $87,000 (USD) by the end of the project.
It's hard journey, but Loxley is committed to it. Jenni Ryall writes for Stuff:
He has gone through more than 20 pairs of shoes, eaten roadkill and slept in a swag by the side of the road. […]
It is an amazing story of survival in the harsh Australian outback, where he says his own company is the enemy but to get through he thinks of the children he can help. "You are fighting a mostly mental battle. Some days you wake up and don't want to get up, and you think why I am doing this," he said. "Before I started I went and visited the kids quite a lot of times, I dwell on that a lot and think of those kids on my bad days. Their bad days are worse than this."
-via Dave Barry | Images: Storming Australia
Máté Csipszer made this charming clock from old bike parts. The body is the hub of a wheel and the numbers are shaped pieces of bike chain. The hands are pieces of cut plastic. Does it work? Máté says "that it runs well but in a different way not as it did on the road."
How delightful! You can see more photos at Recyclart.
His expression as he lifts out of the chair is priceless!
From Flying Frenchies (warning: auto-sound) comes this video of a base jumper being launched off a cliff with something that looks like a huge slingshot. Whee!
If I read this page correctly, this video shows Tancrède Melet, an adventurer with Skyliners. This team enjoys performing stunts such as climbing mountains, walking on tightropes, and flying.
-via Geekologie
Yes, there's a recipe. But more than that, Josh Scherer of Culinary Bro-Down* speaks to my soul when he describes his relationship with food:
The other day I was explaining to someone the nuance behind making a proper Red Bull Vinaigrette and they interrupted me with a stupid question.
“Wait, wait, wait. Does it actually taste good?”
“I don’t know. Not really.”
“Well then why’d you make it? Isn’t that the point of cooking? To make things taste good?” [...]
So why even make food? And more specifically, why waste 12 hours of my life on ramen donuts?
Because I don’t want to consume food culture, I want to produce it. By recycling the same Pinterest recipe for red velvet kit-kat cheesecake over and over, you’re complicit within cultural stagnation; you’re taking things from the conversation without adding anything new. I’m just trying to spark up a few lines of dialogue. I want to do things that are unique, things that have never been done before, and whether they taste good or not is tertiary to the real goal of progress.
Exactly! The point is not to make good food. It's . . . . Well, I'm still processing that one.
Anyway, he provides a recipe for ramen donuts, which includes ramen, horchata, eggs, frosting, and donut fillings. The horchata and eggs apparently act as bonding agents. Cook them together, then freeze the mixture, cut it into donuts, and fry them in oil.
*Content warning: foul language.
A one-year old elephant at the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia got separated from his herd. Journalist Jesse Nash shot this footage of him fighting off 14 lionesses eager for a meal. He's badly outnumbered, but he eventually figured out a strategy that would make his enemies less eager to attack.
The elephant, whom the local humans now call Hercules, eventually reunited with his herd.
-via Huffington Post
One car almost hit him. Then a truck almost hit him. Then the car and the truck hit each other. In the eye of this maelstrom, one man remains inexplicably alive.
My hypothesis: he's immortal.
And he appears to be as surpised of it as we are.
-via Jalopnik
The USS Barb was a Gato-class submarine operated by the United States in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Under the leadership of Commander Eugene B. Fluckey, who would be awarded a Medal of Honor and 4 Navy Crosses for his exploits, the crew of the Barb devastated Japanese shipping during its patrols. The book Medal of Honor describes one of those incredible feats:
Early in 1945, the Barb was moving along the China coast, looking for targets of opportunity. On January 8, it sank a large Japanese ammunition ship it had been stalking for hours. Believing a larger group of enemy ships was in the area, by January 25, Fluckey had located this “mother lode,” as he called it: a convoy of more than thirty Japanese ships anchored in Mamkwan Harbor. The harbor was shallow and heavily mined, with threatening rock formations. It was clear that if the Barb got close to attack, it would require a nearly impossible run at full speed through uncharted mine- and rock-obstructed waters to make a successful escape. Fluckey immediately ordered an attack anyway.
He managed to penetrate the perimeter of frigates designed to protect the anchored ships from submarines. In water of only thirty feet deep, he maneuvered to within range and launched four torpedoes from the forward tubes, then fired four more from the rear tubes. After watching eight direct hits on six main targets—including another ammunition ship whose explosion damaged craft all around it—he turned the Barb around and headed for open sea. With Japanese shells hitting all around it, the Barb had to stay on the surface for almost an hour before reaching waters deep enough to dive.
Today, the European Space Agency successfully landed a probe on a comet moving at 80,000 miles per hour. That’s an extraordinary achievement. What the scientists and engineers operating the Philae lander have accomplished is unprecedented.
It can be hard to grasp the significance of this feat. The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet is tiny.
How small is it? Christopher Becke, a high school physics teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia, created several illustrations to demonstrate. He laid photos of the comet over New York City, Washington, and the Rock of Gibraltar, as well as next to space craft from Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly.
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This is the PianoArc, an invention by Brockett Parsons. He's a keyboardist for Lady Gaga, so he wants an instrument as outlandish as his boss. With 294 keys, it's 3 conventional keyboards put together. The exterior diameter is about 6 feet. The height is adjustable and the PianoArc can be set at an angle.
Now hopefully people will take me seriously when I talk about my idea for a circular set of bagpipes.
-via Technabob
Vincent Van Gogh
Piet Mondrian
You've invited some of the most famous artists from history to join you for Thanksgiving dinner. They've stayed out of the kitchen, but are indulging their creative sides when it's time to serve the food. Hannah Rothstein, an artist in San Francisco, shows how they would plate their foods in their own distinctive styles.
Who came to dinner? Among your guests are Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol. Hopefully they'll stay to clean up after everyone is done eating.
We have a problem? No, you have a problem. It's not my business and not my problem. Or, you could say in Polish, that it's not my circus and not my monkeys.
Matt Lindley of the travel blog Hotel Club illustrated 10 idioms in languages other than English that might baffle native English speakers. Use them when you travel and you'll be, as we say in the Texan language, safe as Granny's snuffbox.
According to designer Keita Suzuki of the Product Design Center, the average person will cry 64 liters of tears during his or her life. That's assuming that you, well, cry after the age of 5. We guys don't do that, right?
So our chairs would be much smaller. A more weepy person would be comfortable on this blob of 0.3 millimeter thick vinyl filled with the waters of sorrow. I'm thinking of this as an office chair--one that I would require a guest to sit on.
This is a brilliant idea! Cheri Alberts of The Watering Mouth shows us how to make shot glasses using just marshmallows. The delicious cups are entirely edible. Just toast a marshmallow over a fire or a hot stove. Bake all sides except one, which will implode. Pour liquor or liqueur into that hole.
You have to drink them pretty quickly. So I suggest making 10, then immediately drinking them. Then repeat the process as often as necessary.
-via That's Nerdalicious!
