Houthi Ceasefire

This was a surprise:

Iran-Backed Houthis Reportedly Declare Ceasefire Shortly After Trump Victory by Tyler Durden

Former President Trump isn't even back in the White House, but news of his historic victory in the US presidential election has already sent shockwaves through the top leadership of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Reports on X indicate that the rebels have declared a ceasefire, halting a year of missile and drone strikes on Western-linked commercial and military vessels across the critical maritime chokepoint in the southern Red Sea.

According to Defense Arabia on X, Houthi spokesman Yahya Sarea stated, "Our operations in international waters were purely defensive, and we announce their final cessation."

I don't know whether this demonstrates clear thinking on the part of the Houthis or just the general flakiness of Arabs. And I'm not just what kind of 'clear thinking' led the Houthis to think that Trump would be good for them.

Brains

4 arteries supply blood to the brain
Sam Webster

That is quite the model.

Musical Curiosity

An English speaking rock song that’s actually gibberish? I love it.
Will Anderson

Okay, I gotta hear this.

Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol - Official New Video 2012 per il 40° Anniversario
Adriano Celentano Official

This song came out in 1972 so I probably heard it. Can't say as I remember it, but then there aren't any words to remember, are there? And no, I ain't going to remember 'Prisencolinensinainciusol' much less try and say it.

Just checked my blog and I previously posted this tune back in 2012. I guess we're doing retreads now.

Brain Frequencies

Scientists Discovery New Frequencies in the Brain
Dr Ben Miles

Older post talking about brain weirdness: Quantum Figments

Gotham Trailer

Gotham Trailer
IGN

MAX. Pretty good show. Good production values, mostly realistic, but the characters and their actions are exaggerated, like somebody turned the dial up a couple of notches.

We've got all the standard Batman elements, 

• a young Bruce Wayne, 
• the murder of his parents, 
• Alfred, the ever faithful butler, 
• Jim Gordon, the straight arrow detective, 
• the Maroni 
• and Falcone crime families, and of course, the sleaziest weasel in all of gangster land, 
• the Penguin.

I've been kind of avoiding all the Batman movies. I mean, I've seen a couple, back when the Batmobile was the star, but that was enough for me. Funny I don't remember the story from either of those two, other than what I related earlier. But I am enjoying this show and Penguin. It's kind of like Perry Mason, you get to see the same characters over and over again. Probably part of the attraction of Soap Operas.

 

A good show for me has to have some continuity. Actions in one need to have plausible consequences in another. It may take a while, but when so and so falls off the cliff, we need to know what happened to him, or at least know that someone went looking for him. You can't just run a car full of characters off a cliff and just forget about it. One problem with soap operas is they will just conjure a problem out of thin air, and any normal people would easily deal with it, but soap operas use this made up problem to provoke a small war which is somehow brought to a truce by the end of the episode.

I dunno how accurate any of that was, I was just attempting to set down my feelings on the matter.

Ship Bending

ship bending due to wave motion
Bastardo

YouTube blurb: 

Container ship msc busan underway in heavy seas. Please note 00:11 when she hits significant wave of height approx. 7-8 meters

Marine Traffic reports:

MSC BUSAN (IMO: 9289087) is a Container Ship and is sailing under the flag of Portugal. Her length overall (LOA) is 324.86 meters and her width is 42.8 meters.

Some Liberty Ships had a problem with cracking when they were bent.

 

Big Gun

Russian servicemen of the 20th Red Banner Guards Combined Arms Army of Zapad (West) group of forces fire a 2S7 Malka self-propelled howitzer towards Ukrainian positions amid Russia's military operation in Ukraine, at an unknown location, Russia.

I think it was the colors that caught my eye here. They look slightly off, like you might see in a science fiction fantasy. Or it might be that the bright light from the muzzle flash distorted the color palette.

Just for grins, here's another little bit of science fiction:

End Stage Capitalism