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One does not simple TELNET into Mordor

Posted on September 28, 2016 by James| Comments Off on One does not simple TELNET into Mordor

telnet_mordor

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Unique

Posted on September 27, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Unique

unique

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YMCA

Posted on September 26, 2016 by James| Comments Off on YMCA

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Posted in Humor, Music

RIP Paul Newman

Posted on September 26, 2016 by James| Comments Off on RIP Paul Newman
Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008)

Paul Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing.

Newman was a co-founder of Newman’s Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of July 2011, these donations had exceeded US $300 million.

On September 26, 2008, Newman died at his longtime home in Westport, Connecticut, of complications arising from lung cancer.

Posted in Because I Can, On This Day, The Big Screen

Abbey Road

Posted on September 26, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Abbey Road
Minecraft Abbey Road

Minecraft Abbey Road

Beatles Abbey Road

Beatles Abbey Road

Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on September 26, 1969 in the United Kingdom and on October 1, 1969 in the United States. The recording sessions for the album were the last in which all four Beatles participated. Although Let It Be was the final album that the Beatles completed before the band’s dissolution in April 1970, most of that album had been recorded before the Abbey Road sessions began.

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Up Close

Posted on September 25, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Up Close

Posted in Planes Trains and Automobiles

Longship

Posted on September 25, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Longship

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Posted in Gaming, Humor

YouTube Virus

Posted on September 24, 2016 by James| Comments Off on YouTube Virus

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Happy Birthday, Jim Henson

Posted on September 24, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Jim Henson

James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was the most widely known American puppeteer in modern American television history.

He was the creator of The Muppets and the leading force behind their long creative run. Henson brought an engaging cast of characters, innovative ideas, and a sense of timing and humor to millions of people. He is also widely acknowledged for the ongoing vision of faith, friendship, magic, and love which was infused in nearly all of his work.

Jim Henson StatueStatue of Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog, on display outside of Adele H. Stamp Student Union in College Park, Maryland.
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RIP Dr. Seuss

Posted on September 24, 2016 by James| Comments Off on RIP Dr. Seuss

Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991), better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss, was a famous American writer and cartoonist best known for his children’s books, particularly The Cat in the Hat. He also wrote under the pen names Theo. LeSieg and Rosetta Stone.

Seuss Stamp

Postage stamp honoring Dr. Seuss and depicting him along with several of his creations, such as The Cat in the Hat and The Grinch (courtesy of the United States Postal Service).

Seuss Google Doodle

Google’s 2009 Tribute to Dr. Seuss

Posted in Because I Can, Literary

Anniversary of The Jetsons

Posted on September 23, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Anniversary of The Jetsons

Jetsons

On September 23, 1962, the Jetsons premiered on ABC.

The Jetsons is a prime-time animated American sitcom that was produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing from 1962–63 and again from 1985–87. It was Hanna-Barbera’s Space Age counterpart to The Flintstones, a half-hour family sitcom projecting contemporary American culture and lifestyle into another time period. While the Flintstones live in a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons live in a futuristic utopia in the year 2062 of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.

The original incarnation of the series aired Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962, to March 3, 1963. It comprised 24 episodes, and was re-run on Saturday morning for decades. At the time of its debut, it was the first program ever to be broadcast in color on ABC-TV (as The Flintstones, while always produced in color, was broadcast in black-and-white for its first two seasons). Its continuing popularity led to further episodes being produced for syndication between 1985 and 1987.

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X-15 CB

Posted on September 23, 2016 by James| Comments Off on X-15 CB

x15

Posted in Critters, Gadgets, Humor

RIP George C. Scott

Posted on September 22, 2016 by James| Comments Off on RIP George C. Scott
George C. Scott

George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999)

 

George Campbell Scott was an American stage and film actor, director and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, and as Ebenezer Scrooge in a television adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

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Bad Image

Posted on September 22, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Bad Image

badimage

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Happy Birthday, Chuck Jones

Posted on September 21, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, Chuck Jones

Charles Martin “Chuck” Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Brothers cartoon studio.

In 1966, he produced and directed the TV special How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

He directed the Rudyard Kipling book adaptation of “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi“, which was released on January 9, 1975.

Posted in Because I Can, The Little Screen (Television)

Happy Birthday, “The Hobbit”

Posted on September 21, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, “The Hobbit”

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

The Hobbit is a novel written by J. R. R. Tolkien in the tradition of the fairy tale. It was first published on September 21, 1937. While it also stands in its own right, it is often seen as a prelude to Tolkien’s monumental fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (published in 1954 and 1955).

The story, subtitled There and Back Again, follows the adventures of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins as he travels across the lands of Middle-earth with a band of dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf on a quest to restore a dwarven kingdom and a great treasure stolen by the dragon, Smaug.

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Happy Birthday, H.G. Wells

Posted on September 21, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Happy Birthday, H.G. Wells

H. G. Wells was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine. He was a prolific writer in the history of literature, and wrote works in nearly every genre, including short stories and nonfiction. He was an outspoken socialist, and most of his works contain some notable political or social commentary.

HG Wells

Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946)

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Ashamed

Posted on September 21, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Ashamed

ashamed

Posted in Food, Humor

Lego Aircraft Carrier

Posted on September 20, 2016 by James| Comments Off on Lego Aircraft Carrier

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RIP Jim Croce

Posted on September 20, 2016 by James| Comments Off on RIP Jim Croce
Jim Croce

James Joseph “Jim” Croce (January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973)

James Joseph “Jim” Croce (“crow-chee”) was an American singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, Croce released six studio albums and 11 singles. His singles “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” and “Time in a Bottle” were both number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

Croce, 30, Maury Muehleisen, 24, and four others died in a small commercial plane crash on September 20, 1973 after leaving a concert.

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