Carmageddon

I-5 and I-84 intersection closures
North is to the right.

ODOT is going to be working on these freeway ramps starting in couple of weeks. The work is going to bring traffic to a halt, so if you can possibly avoid this intersection, do so. Google Map here.

Via KGW and SWMBO

Pic of the Day

Bouquet of Horns - Nayyer Raza

These might be black bucks, AKA Indian antelope.

GLOW

GLOW Official Trailer (2017) Alison Brie Netflix New TV Series HD
We watched the first three episodes this evening and it's very funny. Also absurd. There are some awkward moments, but I suspect sometimes you need those to set up the punch line, if that's what you call the point in the action where it hits you.

It also gives you a little insight into what it's like trying to put together a show that might see the light of day: a whole lot of schmoozing with people who have a radically different world view than your own. People who can do that, and are lucky, might make some money, and from where I sit, they are fully entitled to it. I never had the patience to deal with most people.

And remember the untold zillions who showed up for the casting call and were turned down. I don't quite understand the drive to be an actor. I mean you hear about people doing any kind of menial work, like, god forbid, waitressing, in order to survive long enough that they can go to another casting call. Or maybe it's just that there are so few acting jobs that even if one one hundredth of one percent wanted to be an actor, it means that a thousand people will show up for any job that shows any promise at all, so with that kind of competition, only the most driven, or lucky, will survive.

On the other hand, maybe we're lucky there are so few acting roles. It might create a shortage of waitresses and that would be very bad on account of I like to go out to eat. I think now I might be able to wait tables. I never considered it when I was younger. Can't quite explain why. Probably because I started developing a gearhead mentality and I lost interest in dealing with people. So let's hear it for all those people who work in restaurants, the cooks, waiters / waitresses, busboys, dishwashers, hosts and, yes, even the managers. Hip hip hurray! I appreciate what you are doing!

Update March 2020 replaced missing video.

PillPack

PillPack dispenser and packets

Amazon just bought PillPack for a zillion dollars, never mind that I thought of it first. It's good though, saves me the trouble having to actually build a business. Also saves me the trouble of figuring out how to spend all that glorious money (boo hoo hoo).

Did I actually think of it first? Doubtful, I am sure many people have had the same thought over the years. If I wanted something to boast about, I could imagine that my blog post was the trigger that somehow got the ball rolling.

It's kind of hard to imagine that such a numb-skull idea could be worth so much money, but then lots of people are taking lots of pills, and the value of a business is pretty much defined by numbers. Multiply a zillion people taking zillions of pills times the pennies they will charge for each dose, and then multiply that by some zombie number that converts present revenue into future value and, well, somebody decided it was actually worth a zillion dollars.

Via younger son.

DEW Line

Watching for Nuclear Attack at the Top of the World
The DEW Line has always been around, at least in my lifetime. I had always heard about it, but I never got an idea of the scale, probably because it was classified, or somebody decided that no one was interested. This is the second time I've posted one of Tom Scott's videos (first time here). He doesn't dig very deep, but he does give a good overview of WTF has been going on in some very obscure places.

Pic of the Day

Dancers of the Bolshoi ballet backstage during a performance watching their national team win a penalty shootout during the World Cup.

Charles Bronson Lives!

10 Badass People Who Used Helicopters To ESCAPE

Saw this headline French robber Redoine Faid breaks free from jail in dramatic helicopter escape and immediately thought of the Charles Bronson movie Breakout where he helps a guy escape from a Mexican prison. I thought it was just an adolescent fantasy, but evidently several people have managed to actually pull it off.

Réau Prison
About 10 miles southeast from the center of Paris