Eugene Andrews, 91, of Idaho Falls, Idaho served in the US Army during World War II. He still keeps his uniform in good condition. It fits him well, too. That's intentional, as Andrews wants to be ready to serve should he ever be recalled to duty. In this video, Andrews performs one-handed push-ups to demonstrate his physical fitness. East Idaho News tells us about his life:

Andrews was drafted into the United States Army and ended up traveling to Japan for the occupation in the Signal Corps.

“I consider that time in the military a blessing,” Andrews told EastIdahoNews.com earlier this week.

Andrews grew up in Idaho Falls during the Great Depression. He began working at a young age handling cattle before being drafted into the Army. After he returned, he found a job with Andrew Drilling, where he spent 25 years before opening his own insulation company.

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What matter where, if I be still the same,

And what I should be, all but less then he

Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least

We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built

Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:

Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

Therefore as we have fallen from a great height into the bowels of the earth, let us dine appropriately with this meal of kiwi fruit-covered pizza, a monstrosity befitting our condition. Redditor nre found it for us and dubs it "an unholy abomination."

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Medina Dugger is a photographer in Lagos, Nigeria. She's fond of the work of the late Nigerian photographer J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, who documented the fanciful hairstyles of his homeland.

To commemorate his work, Dugger has taken up where  'Okhai Ojeikere left off, photographing the women of Nigeria who style their hair so expressively.

Redditor Stephen Hues brings us this interesting image. Wheeling up a hill can be tiring. So the urban planners have incorporated into the sidewalk a space where a wheelchair user can stop and rest.

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Tom Booth is a visual storyteller. Even single images speak of adventure, childhood joy, and magic.

This time, however, he tells a sadder tale. Without words, he shows a man grieving the loss of the woman he loves. The woodworker finds himself carving her image into wood wherever he goes. As the years pass, he gets older and grayer. She stays just as young--and just as forever separated from him.

You can see the story of Booth's woodworker summarized at My Modern Met. And as you can see from Booth's Instagram feed, it has inspired sculptures, tattoos, and fan art.

A central element to an effective post-secondary education that prepares the mind for the workforce and engaged citizenship is pizza. College students need pizza to survive, especially when ramen is in short supply.

So it is good that the University of North Florida in Jacksonville has installed a pizza vending machine. It is stocked with pre-cooked pizzas, which are warmed up when hungry college students buy them. This particular one is conveniently located in one of the residence halls on campus.

In this video, Joe Lachina, dining services manager at the University of North Florida, demonstrates how the ATM works.

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Leonardo Frigo is trained as an art restorer and violinist. So it's appropriate that he has reached into the depths of history and literature to tell a great story on that stringed instrument. For four years, he illustrated the first chapter Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" on thirty-three violins and one cello. He writes:

My work comes from deep research that has roots in my passion for reading, for art and, in particular, for the of Dante’s masterpiece. Dante’s Inferno has always inspired me since I was a child, I can probably say that it taught me to imagine and dream.

Therefore, after taking notes and annotations about each canto, I start to search for symbols, names, and illustrations that, put together, tell the story written by Dante. When the final design is clear in my mind, I am ready to paint it by hand, in black ink, on the entire surface of the violin. The instrument is then varnished and installed on its base.

You can see more photos of this work at Bored Panda.

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The NASA History Office tweets out these photos of an electric-powered motorbike that was almost sent with Apollo astronauts as an easy means of traveling across the surface of the moon. Although NASA ultimately went with the rover, it built a prototype scooter. Above, astronaut and motorcyclist Pete Conrad tests it on the KC-135 Vomit Comet.

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I totally agree with Chris Hallbeck of Maximumble. On a cold winter day, there's nothing like slipping into a tub of mashed potatoes. Honestly, it's even good when fully clothed--an option that my neighbors have enthusiastically endorsed.

Hostile architecture, also known as defensive architecture, is designed to subtly make a place an unwelcome place to stay for long periods of time. Spikes, armrests that prevent lying down, and snake pits are examples of this creative phenomenon.

Designers most commonly use these features in urban environments to discourage homeless people from staying too long. To mitigate them, artist Sarah Ross made clothing that allows the wearer to find comfort in deliberately uncomfortable places. She calls the outfits Archisuits. You can see them all here.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that all things are improved with the addition of bagpipes. Thus it is right and meet that managers of a McDonald's restaurant in Sacramento, California are bringing joy to their neighborhood by playing bagpipe music 24 hours a day over loud speakers. CBS 13 News reports on the delighted responses of neighbors:

“The first couple of days they had it on 24/7. If we wouldn’t have said anything or reported it to the police, they would have had that thing going on still,” Arnold Phillips said.

Phillips lives across the street and says it’s making him crazy.

“It actually penetrates through the walls. We can hear it [when] I’m trying to watch TV or whatever and it’s going through that,” Phillips said.

The music is intended to drive the homeless away and doesn’t appear to be working. [...]

“It sticks in your head when you’re going somewhere else not even in this neighborhood because you’ve heard it for so long,” Phillips said.

The pipes do have that effect on people, as they sing from the collective unconscious of humanity. Even when bagpipes are not actually playing, they still play upon and from our psychic need for melody within our souls.

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This monk in Thailand needed to pray for five hours for rites associated with the new year. He needed to focus.

The cat needed rubs.

Thus a spiritual battle began. The cat prevailed after several failed attempts by the monk to deflect it. But he doesn't seem to upset by his defeat.

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Etsy seller Krukru Studio has some amazing designs for luxury bags, including octopodes, angel wings, coffins, cacti, the Eiffel Tower, and a boxing glove. But the one that I found most amusing is this gas can purse. I wouldn't mind too much carrying it as murse if I had to. It still conveys a manly sense of utility.

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Stained glass artists Eugene Koksharov and Anna Dobrunova in Vladivostok, Russia are masters of their craft. The most spectacular piece in their Etsy shop was this 41-inch tall panel showing a female version of the comic book hero Hellboy.

It contains 1,470 individual pieces from a palette of 45 colors, which makes it 21 times more complex than any stained glass panel I have ever made. It's a truly incredible work of precision craftsmanship.

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KT Beans studied printmaking and bookmaking in art school. It was only when, according to a 2019 interview, that she discovered taxidermy that she found renewed inspiration.

Her creative output has been both impressive and terrifying. Teeth, eyes, and hair inhabit decidedly non-human abodes, making them not quite human and not quite non-human.