Leendert Hasenbosch: The Gay Soldier Who Was Marooned on a Deserted Island.
South Pole Signage. The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica has many ways to transfer unique knowledge to newcomers. (via Metafilter)
This Fried Chicken is Actually Ice Cream in Disguise.
The Orthodontist's Grand Entrance.
Writhing, Gren, & Diferent. Miscommunication cakes, including one with the original mangled order form.
Jonathan Frakes Looks Back at His Star Trek TV Directing Career, From Next Generation to the Strange New Worlds’-Lower Decks Crossover.
Tiny Roman dog remains found during Oxford archaeological dig. Maybe the phrase "get a long little doggie" had meaning long before the dachshund breed was perfected. (via Fark)
Napa County’s largest lake covers 1.6 million acre-feet—and submerged an entire town. Dorothea Lange photographed the flooding of the valley in the 1950s. (via Metafilter)
8 comments:
You're four times
It's hard to
more likely to have
concentrate on
a road accident
two things
when you're on
at the same time
a mobile phone.
Actual sign. Pretty sure you're guaranteed
to have an accident if you try to read it.
to each his own.
Happy Friday Miss C!
Happy Friday, gwdMaine!
Loved the South Pole Signage. Some mundane but some surprises, and a reminder it's an environment where small mistakes can be catastrophic if not fatal.
What in the ..... are ACRE-FEET ?
Let me Google that for you. Acre-foot.
Driving while Canadian in Japan, the sign passes before I’ve translated the first word, again!
Like Miss C linked to ... the amount of water necessary to flood a surface area of one acre to a depth of one foot. It's a convenience when measuring massive amounts of water, like the volume of a reservoir or huge lake, because the human mind cannot easily grasp large numbers once we get past millions of something (like gallons of water, dollars in the National Debt, or the number of stars in the universe). It's easier to say "Lake Berryessa contains 1.6 million acre-feet of water" than it is to say "Lake Berryessa contains 521.4 billion gallons of water" (or for your unit of measurement, almost 2 TRILLION liters).
Although I will agree that it might have been better had Miss C said, in the little blurb, that "Napa County’s largest lake covers 34.34 square miles" — or 901,587,000 square feet. But then there we go with those huge, unimaginable numbers again!
-"BB"-
Most of the time, it's just easier to use the headline or tagline directly from the article.
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