Saturday, December 04, 2021
from one of my favorites, an artist that is both quirky, innovative, and brilliant, John Atkinson
does anyone know the artist, or the series, or this art? Kim's a fan, but hasn't got any info to work with. It might be Anime Тохо Touhou Project by the artist Jun. But, I can't verify that just yet
Most important is the above, the below MAY be the same artist, but there are enough differences that it's also possibly another artist. 
these were found on http://anime.reactor.cc/post/1803621#comment8361263
The construction class at Westerly High School in Rhode Island built a bus stop shelter for boy who uses a wheelchair, because unlike most kids, he can’t run outside at a moments notice to hop on the bus, and had to wait in the rain sometimes
The structure sits at the end of the driveway of the boy’s home, allowing him to wait in comfort for the bus that will take him to school
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/trending/rhode-island-students-build-bus-stop-shelter-boy-who-uses-wheelchair/YR3EZ7MQHJESRE4QOFPNR2XULI/ via https://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2021/11/your-feel-good-story-of-day_26.html
Someone might ask, "what's this got to do with 'things with wheels that are cool'"?
I answer, the kid is in a wheelchair, and now people did a cool thing. Ergo, things with wheels, that are cool
Friday, December 03, 2021
playground equipment
https://strollerparking.ca/philippe-laheurte-park-part-2 Philippe-Laheurte Park
The Imagination Train at the Oscar Frazier Park playground in Bluffton
Kettering Ohio https://www.playkettering.org/departments/parks/
South Yunderup Australia
Wendel Farm's Combine
Engelberg Trübsee Switzerland https://swissfamilyfun.com/trubsee/
Bethlehem Steel, 1940, producing big guns for the Navy, 16" battleship gun
The whole barrel was made in sections the area from the breech up to cover the shell and explosive did not have any rifling. Interesting photo as it shows all the different laminations.
In 1954, all of the Battleship New Jersey's massive 16" guns were replaced.
The nine guns had been used during World War II and the Korean War.
The guns were relined and test fired in 1969.
Three of the barrels were in storage for decades at the St. Julien's Creek Annex U.S. Naval support facility in Portsmouth, Virginia.
To save these historic barrels from being scrapped, the Battleship New Jersey and the Mahan Collection Foundation transported them for permanent display in Camden and Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Each barrel is 68 feet long and weighs 120 tons. The barrels were transported north by Norfolk Southern. To support the barrels' restoration or for more information about this project, visit www.battleshipnewjersey.org/40
great photo
this is among the photos in CNN's look back at Pan Am https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pan-am-airline-legacy-cmd/index.html
Thursday, December 02, 2021
this '64 Pontiac GTO with a 389 and a four-speed has been in storage since February 1964. It has just 1,321 miles and is came from Pennsylvania, to Chicago, to Las Vegas, with a $125,000 asking price. But why isn't it at an auction?
The Pontiac Historic Services has been able to verify the mileage of 1,321, and the car even has its original title and window sticker. The 1964 state inspection sticker is still on its windshield, and the 1964 original license plate is still on the car.
talk about true potential for being spouse material in the way of good provider...
the things ya gotta do to impress a girl nowadays!
Hertz is getting a lot of bad publicity today, an assistant professor at St. John's University School of Law ain't happy
previous to this, and they haven't lived it down yet, are allegations that Hertz is apparently so bad at keeping track of its vehicle inventory that they reported cars as stolen whenever the company lost track of a rental--even when it was the companies' employees at fault.
Now? It's maybe not that heinous, but it's still pretty bad
she arrived at a Hertz location in Brooklyn on time for her rental just before noon on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and got in a line with 15 other customers. After two hours, she was turned away after the Hertz employee stopped filling reservations. Apparently, the location closed at noon, despite having customers with confirmed reservations still waiting for their vehicles.
after 49 years in a lake with the front in the mud, the elements (lack of oxygen in the mud) caused a strange contrast with the rest of the Vauxhall that rusted
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2021/11/anaerobic-preservation-exemplified.html via https://www.tv2.no/nyheter/14376554/
One night at dinner with his wife, William Lie got up in the middle of the meal, and drove off.
Ten days after the last time he was seen alive, the police linked his disappearance to the discovery of camping gear belonging to a missing man, abandoned by the mountain lake Trytetjern near Nesbyen, only 150 meters from where he was last seen.
Among the items was a travel radio with a sticker indicating that the radio had been sold in Oslo. When the police officer contacted the store, they could see in the file that the radio with this serial number had been sold to William Anker Lie.
49 years later Norway police found the answer to the disappearance, a car, using sonar and underwater drone (ROV), at a depth of ten meters in Trytetjern lake
Human remains were inside the Vauxhall, as was a letter of resignation was also found, a farewell letter and books. Some of this material was wrapped in plastic
Human remains were inside the Vauxhall, as was a letter of resignation was also found, a farewell letter and books. Some of this material was wrapped in plastic
For a good write up of the days leading to William Lie's disappearance, see https://www.world-today-news.com/in-the-middle-of-the-dinner-william-62-got-up-and-left/
