Scandal

The Scandal | Official Trailer | Netflix [ENG SUB]
Netflix K-Content

We've been watching The Scandal, a Korean series set in the Joseon era (1400 - 1900). We have people scheming to either bed someone, or get other people into bed, and yes, we are talking about having sex, so all kinds of lies and double dealing going on. Also considerably more skin than any other Korean show we have seen where there is absolutely no skin besides hands and faces.

Anyway, it's a little hard to follow, mostly because I have a hard time telling the older women apart. Sometimes you can tell similar looking characters apart because they behave differently, but these gals are all stone faced liars. Is that the mother-in-law, or the tobacco lady. No matter, the gist comes through.

Anyway, I'm watching this show and suddenly this old movie pops into my head. I couldn't remember it right off. It took asking Google mutliple questions before I finally hit on the right combination of key words.(hit movie middle ages scheming woman revealed by her lover when he dies).

Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Official Trailer - Glenn Close, John Malkovich Movie HD
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Make an Icosahedron

How to Make an Icosahedron
Pepper and Pine

Came across this while looking for replacement images for an old post about World Maps and I just thought it was cool. Fabric tape (4:40). Who'd a thunk it?

Map of the World

Equal Earth Projection

The UN has passed a resolution encouraging people to use an equal area projection instead of the Mercator projection for maps of the world.

Mercator Projection

Supposedly the Mercator projection is better for navigation, something about you can draw a route from one place to another as a straight line. Of course anyone plotting a ship's course is going to use a map that only shows the relevant portion of the world. Area doesn't even enter the question.

Eckert IV projection

The Eckert projection is another equal area projection. If you can tell the difference between Eckert and Equal Earth you are better man than me.

Mercator Projection Versus True Size

This true size is not a coherent projection.

Mercator Projection Versus Eckert IV

All these maps reminds me of a scene from Strategist Kanbei where some Jesuit priests show Oda Nobunaga a map of the world which kind of blew his mind. It took the priests some absurd length of time to get from Portugal to Japan, like two years.

Fra Mauro Map of the World

The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian (Venetian) cartographer Fra Mauro. Note that 1450 is before Columbus sailed to the New World.

My Low Distortion World Map

You'd think that after all this time I could have produced a better version of my map, but I've been busy.

Spilhaus Projection

This is the one that got me started on this post. Text from above image:

MANY SEAS, ONLY ONE OCEAN

Invented in 1942 by oceanographer Athelstan Spilhaus, the cartographic projection of the same name allows us to see the world through the eyes of a marine organism. The 70.8% of water on Earth forms, clearly shown here, an immense continuum, a large continuous body of water, varying in temperature and salinity according to currents and the ebb and flow of the seasons.

P. S. Ocean Currents

Ocean Currents Spilhaus Projection

Headline of the Day

How Strange It Is (Dash Welch)

Headline:

Portland Band How Strange It Is Takes on Everyday Evil and Infrastructural Decay - Willamette Week

Side note about image formats:

AVIF seems to be the image format of choice for some big time web sites. Blogger can't handle AVIF images. I was loading AVIF images into Windows Viewer and then edit and save as a JPG, but now I find that I can just change the file name suffix to jpg and now Blogger will accept it.

Rocket to the Moon

Soviet LK-3 lunar lander engineering test unit (1968) - Andrew Gray

My Daily Kona is talking about the 1960s race to the moon:

Still desperate to beat the Americans, the Soviets made one final play: a robotic sample return probe. On July 21, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were still on the Moon, the Luna 15 probe crashed into a mountain just 500 miles away, definitively concluding the space race.

The Soviet Moon Rocket N1 has appeared here before. 

10 Short Videos #6292

10 Short Videos #6292

1. The Ultimate Reforge: Ship Anchor to Tractor Axle
2. This is how we seal barrels with steel cable..
3. Old Ship Steel Turned into Heavy-Duty Chaff Cutter Blades – Incredible Blacksmith Craft!
4. Apparently even cement mixers aren’t safe around here 😂
5. Incredible Manufacturing of a Giant Industrial Pinion Gear
6. Incredible process of making fuel from waste tyres
7. Amazing Village Tube Well Installation 💧 | Traditional Water Boring Technique
8. राजस्थान में पानी के लिए संघर्ष😢 - The struggle for water in Rajasthan
9. Pedestal Fan Manufacturing – The Incredible Engineering Behind 360° Airflow
10. Chinese Nunchaku Master Girl

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