Author Archives: James

Cuttlefish Hypnotizes Victim Crab

Posted on September 5, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Because I Can, Critters

Happy Birthday, Google!

Posted on September 4, 2018 by James| Comments Off

To use their own image:

Google Birthday Cake

On September 4, 1998, Google was founded!

PCWorld Article

Wikipedia Link

Posted in Because I Can, On This Day

Abilities

Posted on September 3, 2018 by James| Comments Off

When God solves your problems, you have faith in his abilities; When God doesn’t solve your problems, he has faith in your abilities.

Posted in Because I Can

Mantis Murder Shrimp

Posted on September 3, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Critters

Aerial Stocking

Posted on September 2, 2018 by James| Comments Off

“They kind of flutter down, so they don’t impact very hard,” said Kamas State Fish Hatchery supervisor Ted Hallows. “They flutter with the water and they do really well.”

From an article Hallows wrote in Wildlife Review (PDF):

Many of the lakes in Utah are excellent places to fish, but you can’t get to them with a truck or a car. The Uinta Mountains alone have more than 650 fishable lakes. The best way to stock many of these valuable fisheries—and sometimes the only way to stock them—is from the air… What used to take the old-time biologists and their pack trains months to stock can now be stocked in a few hours with an airplane. And using an airplane stresses the fish less. That means more of them will survive their fall to the water.

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How Ice Cream Sandwiches Are Made

Posted on September 2, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Because I Can, Food

MJF meets Christopher Lloyd

Posted on September 1, 2018 by James| Comments Off

While walking around the 2014 DeLorean Car Show in Dayton, Ohio, actor Christopher Lloyd of Back to the Future appeared to be taken off guard when spot-on Marty McFly impersonator Rob Sims caught his attention. After posing for the requisite photo, Sims began talking to Lloyd in character. The actor enjoyed a good laugh before walking away.

Actually I didn’t want to do Marty for Christopher Lloyd but his handlers insisted on it. I really just wanted to talk to him just normally.?

via Reddit

Posted in Because I Can, Humor, Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Big Screen

SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ Sets ‘Speed Over a Recognized Course’ record

Posted on September 1, 2018 by James| Comments Off

SR-71

The SR-71 holds the “Speed Over a Recognized Course” record for flying from New York to London distance 3,508 miles (5,646 km), 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h), and an elapsed time of 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds, set on September 1, 1974 while flown by U.S. Air Force Pilot Maj. James V. Sullivan and Maj. Noel F. Widdifield, reconnaissance systems officer (RSO). This equates to an average velocity of about Mach 2.68, including deceleration for in-flight refueling. Peak speeds during this flight were probably closer to the declassified top speed of Mach 3.2+. For comparison, the best commercial Concorde flight time was 2 hours 52 minutes, and the Boeing 747 averages 6 hours 15 minutes.

Wikipedia Link

Posted in Because I Can, Planes Trains and Automobiles

Welsh Guards – Tribute to Aretha Franklin

Posted on August 31, 2018 by James| Comments Off

Crowds attending the Changing of the Guards Ceremony at Buckingham Palace this morning were treated to more than the usual respect by the troops from the British Army’s Household Division.

https://youtu.be/s66grYJ5DDs

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