10 Short Videos #6268

10 Short Videos #6268

1. 3D Printing a Boat
2. DO YOUR JOB 🫵🏻 - Big Merla
3. How Real Truckers Row a 31-Speed "Twin Biscuit" Transmission! 🤠
4. Recirculating Ball
5. 19 de julho de 2026 - Women's exercise / dance class
6. Nobody Rides Sand Like Jeffrey Herlings 🤯 - Motorcycle on sand
7. AR Shotgun with DRUM
8. Jet Powered Harley Davidson is Ridiculous
9. Peeling Open A Giant Wasp Nest To See Its Multi‑Layer Inner Structure
10. China CNC Machining Services | 5-Axis CNC Machining for Complex Parts

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Sounds very African to me...

Leijdekkers at the New Year’s service.

Bayou Renaissance Man has a fabulous post about one Jos Leijdekkers. Go read the whole thing.

Sounds very African to me...

I'm amused to read about a Dutch drug hitman who has apparently "captured" the entire African nation of Sierra Leone, effectively making its government and security forces dance to his tune.

There isn't a movie about this guy yet, thought I expect there will be one in the works shortly, if it hasn't already happened. Meanwhile we have a tune:

Leijdekkers is celebrated in krio rap, the English-based creole spoken in Sierra Leone—“Ar change di game e name lek Umar Sheriff” runs a lyric of Drizilik’s recent hit “Sabi Road”. . . 

Drizilik’s recent hit “Sabi Road” is on YouTube. It's not bad, and it's pretty entertaining. As a change from what passes for popular music here, there was nothing overtly sexual and no swearing, just talkin', which is just rap is, right? Well, at least as near as I can tell.  The cant they use is like a distant third cousin to English. I tried embedding the video but Drizilik won't allow it.

Not sure who this Umar Sheriff is, is he talking about Omar Sheriff? No, that's just me being old. We're talking about Africa, not the west, so he's no doubt talking about:

Mohammad Umer (1955 – 2021), known professionally as Umer Shareef, was a Pakistani actor, host, comedian, director, producer, writer, singer and television personality.

On no evidence at all, I suspect Umer of being Pakistan's James Bond. 

P. S. I haven't read the article linked by the photo caption. It's late and I've got a lot of nonsense to deal with.

P. P. S. YouTube has an apparently infinite selection of videos on Jos. I'm probably not going to watch any of them. I have seen his story told in an endless series of crime sagas on Netflix. It will probably appear on our Netflix home page. I'm sure Google and Netflix are in cahoots. Right now, I'm busy watching Strategist Kanbei, which is all about Samurais in sixteenth century Japan. Coincidentally, My Daily Kona has been posting about Samurai.

Chicago Concert

Chicago - Saturday In The Park (1973)
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Went to the Chicago concert at the Hillsboro ballpark last night. A fine show. The crowd surprised me, though it shouldn't have, this is Oregon after all. In any case it seemed to have pulled all the old hippies out of the woodwork. Very different from what we saw in Las Vegas. Next time I go to a concert I need to remember to take the day off and rest up in advance of the evening festivities. I didn't and now I'm going to be resting up for days before I recover.

We bought tickets from StubHub and for the second time they failed to deliver. We ended up buying tickets at the gate. We should get a refund from Stubby brains. We shall see.

P. S. They sang 25 or 6 to 4. I recognized the tune, but that's all, so I'm trying to figure out what's going on with the numbers. I'm hearing 25 oh 6 2 4 and that's only six numbers. Is it because he forgot the last one, or maybe he didn't hear it? Or maybe it was the first one. That, at least, seems plausible. Wouldn't think he would miss a number in the middle, but I suppose if someone's drunk and it's late at night and they're in a hurry, it's basically a miracle he got six numbers. You only have to try each of the ten digits in seven places - 7 times 10 is 70. That's all, he just has to try 70 different numbers. Just hope she isn't using a satellite phone that has like 25 digits, that would change the situation. Anyway, those are my idle thoughts on matter. When I finally looked it up I found this:

". . . Lamm's dynamic but cryptic "25 or 6 to 4" (Chicago's first Top 5 hit), which is a reference to a songwriter trying to write at 25 or 26 minutes before 4 o'clock in the morning"

Robots

Robots Installed in 2025

From Construction Physics:

The US passed Japan to be the second largest installer of industrial robots in 2025, with 38,400 newly-installed robots against Japan’s 36,200. China is still far ahead of both with 354,000, almost 10x the US. [IFR]

I was hoping to post an animated video of an endless parade of marching robots, something similar in scale to the old Soviet Union's May Day Parade's, but all I found were videos of marching Chinese robots at Bejings Ice Ribbon Stadium and marching American robots at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. While impressive, they aren't endless. Yet.

Weird Asteroid

University of Arizona's Dr. Allison McGraw

The Silicon Graybeard reports:

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named an asteroid for singer/comedian Al - better known as 'Weird Al' - Yankovic, it was reported on Wednesday, Sept. 23. 

Allie nominated Al and presented the award to him before his concert in Tuscon. 

10 Short Videos #6267

10 Short Videos #6267

1. THE BEST THERAPY WHEN SHE GETS MAD AT ME🤣
2. Do you know why do Chinese are massive producing this 550cc Rc engine? 😂 - Because people in war zones are buying them to power their drones.
3. At Least There was a New Truck 😂
4. Alistándose Para Despegar De La Campana Tamazula Durango - Getting Ready to Take Off from La Campana, Tamazula, Durango
5. That cow had no chance. - Cowboys rounding up strays
6. Widgeon - flying boat takes off from water
7. Howard DGA-15P - Landing
8. 400 TONS REVERSED IN TWO SECONDS - River Don (UK, not Russia) engine powers rolling mill
9. The First Carrier Strike in History; Tondern, 1918
10. The Reindeer Cyclone