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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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Slow Horses — Season 6 - Apple TV Series

Slow Horses — Season 6 Official Trailer | Apple TV
Apple TV

We started watching season 6 a couple of weeks ago, but it's new so only one episode is released every week. This doesn't work with our usual mode of binge watching two or three episodes a night, so after a couple of episodes we decided to go back and watch some episodes from previous seasons because it's been almost a year since we last watched this show and our memories are a little rusty. We ended up re-watching the entire previous 5 seasons which took us a couple of weeks and it was glorious. Not only was it just as good as the first time, there were all kinds of things we picked up on that we completely missed the first time through. For example, River's father, Frank Harkness shows up in one of the early seasons, but he is not identified until we get to season 6. Also, re-watching them all I realized that they all have a common thread - the rise and fall of First Desk. I don't remember who we started with (maybe they weren't part of the story in the early seasons), but there was Ingrid and then Whelan, the buffoon, and now Diana Taverner.

Jack Lowden as River Cartwright (left) and Christopher Chung as Roddy Ho (right) in front of Ho's computer work station.

Roddy Ho is the Slough House resident hacker extraordinaire. He is also a socially inept, obnoxious jerk. I can relate. I was also a computer nerd, very good at my job and socially inept. I don't think I was an obnoxious jerk, but I probably rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

Wall of Computer Equipment

I often dreamed of buying up a bunch of obsolete test equipment and building a wall of them and somehow hooking them up so they would look like they were doing something. While that might be entertaining, it's not really going anywhere, except maybe movie prop land, and that ain't me.

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10 Short Videos #6291

10 Short Videos #6291

1. This Town Is a Glitch in Reality- Lüchun County, China
2. They know exactly what’s inside 😳😳 - Semi-truck scanner
3. The coolest barrel run I’ve ever filmed, what a cat of a horse
4. Is The 4th amendment still in our Constitution?? - Flock Blocker
5. Ship propeller manufacturing factory process.
6. Dom DeLuise's Magic Trick Goes HORRIBLY Wrong - eggs & Johnny Carson
7. Yoğurt satırı bakraç sıvama!! - Yogurt line, bucket coating!! - Spin forming sheet metal
8. From Molten Aluminum to a Powerful Engine Part! - Casting pistons
9. Some of the process of making a ship propeller by pouring molten brass into a clay mold
10. I Found the ULTIMATE 3-Wheeler!

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