1887. Georges Bouton and Baron Dion with the Type-III steamer at the Neuilly-Versailles race.
https://hogyantortent.com/napi_erdekes_63/
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
racing cars 132 years ago
1887. Georges Bouton and Baron Dion with the Type-III steamer at the Neuilly-Versailles race.
https://hogyantortent.com/napi_erdekes_63/
Nick Howes, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, told SkyNews he is “98 per cent convinced” that his team has finally tracked down the Snoopy module from Apollo 10
Apollo 10, which involved a mock mission with everything but the actual landing. Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan flew a lunar module, nicknamed “Snoopy” by the agency, nearly all the way to the Moon during Apollo 10, and then shot the module off into space once they’d completed their task.
There was never any intent to return Snoopy to Earth — it was sent into an orbit around the sun beyond the Moon after the astronauts completed their maneuvers and returned to the command module, and NASA did not track its trajectory. The effort to discover its location began in 2011, undertaken by a group of amateur U.K. astronomers led by Nick Howes — the same who now claim they’re “98 percent convinced” they’ve discovered where it ended up, according to Sky News. Howes’ further speculated that if they confirm its location,
For now, he says “we have 102 observations… some good orbital data… some ‘interesting’ radar (observations) and a very small manmade object hurtling through space.”
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/nasas-snoopy-lunar-module-may-finally-have-been-found-50-years-after-it-disappeared
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/10/nasa-snoopy-lunar-module-likely-found-50-years-after-being-jettisoned-into-space/
Thank you Daniel B for clinking my tip jar!
It's getting impossible to find new tip jar images... and why are all tip jars going on about Justin Beiber, Cows, and Ninjas? Sure would be cool to find tip jar ingenuity! these two are new to me, and birthday lobster? That's some ingenuity all right - I'd rather get car parts than eat lobster - but that's just me, to each their own, right?
Gary just brought a sheriff to my attention, who actually treated his subordinates like people when they committed crimes, he fired them. Well, he still didn't arrest them and throw them in jail, like, oh, everyone else in his jurisdiction, but it's a start!
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/article/BCSO-deputy-arrested-off-duty-faces-DWI-charge-13696735.php
Sheriff Javier Salazar gets some respect for firing these 7 assholes, but, clearly, they were mostly given special treatment because before they got drunk on duty, or drunk while driving, they 1st became sheriffs deputies, and Lady Justice seems to be pretty sweet on any asshole in a sheriffs uniform, and so is the Sheriff, evidently.
Hey, anytime you only get fired, and not thrown in jail for this shit? You're on a lusky streak as far as I'm concerned. The rest of us mere mortals get arrested, beat up by cops (oh, yes, really, you did read the above where 3 inmates were assaulted, someone was sucker punched by a cop, and a couple people were hazed - to the point were cops got fired. That's cop speak for assault. Plus one more assault by Flores to round that all out to 7 assholes fired, 4 assault charges, at least 2 hazings charges - aka assault, and one sucker punch) That is 7 fired, 7 assaults. THAT is one sheriff dept, in one week, 7 cops that are willing to drink and drive, beat on inmates, beat on rookies, and be all around fuck ups.
Why fuck ups? Because they swore an oath to be professional police, and do a job, where they are promising to abide by all laws, and enforce all laws.
Instead, they knew they were getting immunity from being drunks, and beating on inmates and rookies.
That's your police force in action, in San Antonio Texas, where at least they were fired.
Jesus Christ, does ANYONE know a cop that is professional? Does the job? Isn't a fuck up, an asshole with immunity from prosecution and arrest? Knows what the hell their oath of office is?
There are over 18,000 Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies around the United States, and it is estimated that there are between 750,000 and 850,000 sworn officers.
I'm guessing less than half are respectable and without corrupt behavior that hasn't yet come to light.
Seriously, how many could you trust around your 16 year old kids? Not Robert Davies of San Mateo Police Dept - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/12/snapchat-robert-davies-arrest-san-mateo-cop-gender-swap he was just arrested for trying to get a 16 year old alone for sex.
- drunk while on duty
- hazing scandal and was subsequently arrested in September 2018 on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.
- He is also accused of assaulting at least two inmates (you see what I mean? If I went and assualted two people in his jurisdiction, I'd be arrested. But the asshole working in the sheriff's dept? Nope, he was instead, accused, and investigated, probably while on admin leave)
- fired after allegedly "sucker punched" someone
- found guilty of tampering with evidence, also accused of assaulting an inmate
- arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Involved in an off-duty street brawl and involved in the 2017 hazing scandal.
- involved in an assault, plus arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated in October 2018. Prior to the October arrest, Flores was arrested for driving while intoxicated in 2011, but the charge was reduced to obstruction of a highway. (obstruction of a highway, this is what cops are given instead of DUI. Another bullshit charge is known as "Wet and Reckless"
Hey, anytime you only get fired, and not thrown in jail for this shit? You're on a lusky streak as far as I'm concerned. The rest of us mere mortals get arrested, beat up by cops (oh, yes, really, you did read the above where 3 inmates were assaulted, someone was sucker punched by a cop, and a couple people were hazed - to the point were cops got fired. That's cop speak for assault. Plus one more assault by Flores to round that all out to 7 assholes fired, 4 assault charges, at least 2 hazings charges - aka assault, and one sucker punch) That is 7 fired, 7 assaults. THAT is one sheriff dept, in one week, 7 cops that are willing to drink and drive, beat on inmates, beat on rookies, and be all around fuck ups.
Why fuck ups? Because they swore an oath to be professional police, and do a job, where they are promising to abide by all laws, and enforce all laws.
Instead, they knew they were getting immunity from being drunks, and beating on inmates and rookies.
That's your police force in action, in San Antonio Texas, where at least they were fired.
Jesus Christ, does ANYONE know a cop that is professional? Does the job? Isn't a fuck up, an asshole with immunity from prosecution and arrest? Knows what the hell their oath of office is?
There are over 18,000 Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies around the United States, and it is estimated that there are between 750,000 and 850,000 sworn officers.
I'm guessing less than half are respectable and without corrupt behavior that hasn't yet come to light.
Seriously, how many could you trust around your 16 year old kids? Not Robert Davies of San Mateo Police Dept - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/06/12/snapchat-robert-davies-arrest-san-mateo-cop-gender-swap he was just arrested for trying to get a 16 year old alone for sex.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Once, when Bill Murray was in Bali, he was riding a motorcycle and got completely lost when the sun went down
But Bill rode a motorcycle into the interior until the sun went down and got totally lost. He goes into a village store, where they are very surprised to see an American tourist, and starts talking to them in English, going ‘Wow! Nice hat! Hey, gimme that hat!’ ” Ramis’s eyes were lighting up. “And he took the guy’s hat and started imitating people, entertaining. Word gets around this hamlet that there’s some crazy guy at the grocery, and he ended up doing a dumb show with the whole village sitting around laughing as he grabbed the women and tickled the kids. No worry about getting back to a hotel, no need for language, just his presence, and his charisma, and his courage. When you meet the hero, you sure know it.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/04/19/comedy-first
http://advjoe.ca/2015/12/bill-murray-yamaha-yg1-moonrise-kingdom-ebay/
https://publicinsta.com/media/ByQJFMXp82r
Neil Armstrong used to tell dull unfunny jokes about the moon
When nobody laughed he would follow with, "Well, I guess you had to be there"
He also got his pilots license before his drivers license
He also got his pilots license before his drivers license
this is what a show off looks like... hell, ANYONE can land it on the wheels. It took the Stig's grand dad to land it upside down, perfectly able to fly if returned to an upright position.
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2019/05/i-think-idea-is-to-land-it-other-way.html
30 years later the Stig's father repeated the accomplishment, keeping the family reputation alive
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2019/04/dirty-side-up.html
this is so weird... have you ever seen or heard of that before? A drunk 31 year old from Fröndenberg blocked the underground traffic in Dortmund for hours. Thanks Shas!
The recovery of the vehicle was extremely difficult, as the area for the recovery vehicles was difficult to reach. For five hours all rail traffic was rerouted.
About 3000 euros of damage to the car occurred.
https://www.derwesten.de/staedte/dortmund/sued/betrunkener-faehrt-mit-auto-in-u-bahn-schacht-in-dortmund-id10405382.html
https://theinturnetexplorer.tumblr.com/post/138555764640/is-this-not-the-highway#notes
6 foot 5 inch country music star David "Stringbean" Akeman was on Hee Haw, and played at the Grand Ole Opry. His only indulgence was a new Cadillac each year
This was his last car, a 472 cu in Cadillac with the Maharaja cloth upholstery, and it only had 3000 miles on it when he was murdered.
David “Stringbean” Akeman fashioned his first banjo from a shoebox and a piece of thread. He was born in 1916 in Annville, Kentucky. They were so poor his mother would give him rocks to throw at birds, and, if his arm was good, they’d have whatever he'd hit for supper.
When he was 12, he traded two bantam chickens for his first real banjo.
Stringbean landed his first gig in Bill Monroe’s band. He played in the Blue Grass Boys from 1943-45, and his old-timey, “clawhammer” style of banjo picking can be heard on Monroe’s records from this period. Stringbean was replaced by a young picker named Earl Scruggs, who revolutionized the way the otherwise-primitive instrument was played.
I know I've seen him perform this following video clip in the past couple years,
Then he married, and the following year he befriended Grandpa Jones, another banjo playing comedian who started playing the Grand Ole Opry that same year. Grandpa and String shared an appreciation for the old-time songs and a love of hunting, fishing and simple country life.
but until now, I had never heard of the car and him being murdered
They were said to not trust banks-- and there were many rumors around town about "all of their buried money" as Stringbean’s upbringing in the abject poverty of the Great Depression conditioned him with two incompatible impulses that would ultimately bring about his demise: he felt the need to let others know he had made a success of himself by flashing his roll, and he openly distrusted banks.
They lived in a small cabin off of Baker Station Road with outdoor plumbing and no heat. (A larger house on the property with central heating sat empty, as the Akemans preferred the smaller, simpler structure.) His only modern comfort in the cabin was a color television set.
But he allowed himself one luxury, mostly for appearances to and from gigs – he bought a brand new Cadillac every year. Stringbean never learned how to drive, so Estelle would chauffer him to road gigs and the 30 minutes each way from their cabin north of Nashville to the Ryman Auditorium downtown for the Opry on Saturday nights.
On November 10th, 1973 swhortly after purchasing this Cadillac, they returned home after a performance at the Grand Ole Opry and were murdered by waiting burglars.
The killers got away with a chainsaw, some guns and a mere $250 they pulled from Stringbean’s pocket. In their haste, they missed the $3,000 roll in Stringbean’s overall bib pocket – now stained with blood – and the $2,000 Estelle had pinned to her bra.
Having just executed the Opry star and his wife in cold blood, John Brown’s cruelty was not satisfied. He was frustrated he hadn’t found the hidden fortune he had come for, and put Stringbean’s will (which he found earlier while tossing the cabin) and the murder weapon into Stringbean’s gig bag, loaded it down with rocks and threw it in the lake. Stringbean had no kin, in his will he left everything to a charity for underprivileged children.
John Brown figured if he couldn’t have Stringbean’s money, nobody would.
Grandpa Jones came over the next morning to go bird hunting, and found his friends dead.
The money was found 20 years later, behind a brick in his fireplace, deteriorated beyond use, the cash the killers never found hidden in the fireplace was chewed and shredded by mice, withered over the decades.
The man renting the place went to light a fire in the large fireplace. Small bits of paper escaped from its mouth, softly falling from the brick façade like volcanic ash in the still cabin air. It was money. Tens of thousands of dollars floating in worthless portions, gathered gently on the cabin floor.
the car was in a museum for the longest time in Pigeon Forge, but was then sold at Sotheby's in May 2016 for $26,000
One of the songs that Akeman sang was Herding Cattle in a Cadillac Coupe de Ville
(Jack Logan)
Well, I live out in the valley, the valley which is green
I've got the finest neighbor that you've have ever seen
I've got a honey pot and a fritter tree and I'm really doing well
I'm herding cattle in an air-conditioned Cadillac Coupe de Ville
Well a honey pot and a fritter tree is where I spend my time
Eating country ham and biscuits, drinking elderberry wine
Three cents a week is all I spend but I get my biggest thrill
When I'm a herding cattle in and air-conditioned Cadillac Coupe de Ville
Well I wouldn't hardly say I'm rich, I'm living like I should
I'm living the life of Reilly, Reilly ain't never had it this good
Well, I like this kind of living and I guess I always will
I'm-a herding cattle in an air-conditioned Cadillac Coupe de Ville
Well I've got science baffled, also the blue-eyed world
I fish when I get ready and I love to hunt them squirrel
You'll find me every morning when the sun comes over the hill
Herding cattle in an air conditioned Cadillac Coupe de Ville
Yeah, I'm a-herding cattle in an air conditioned Cadillac Coupe de Ville
where I have the video begin gets right to where they talk about him and Hee Haw. They talk about the night he was murdered at about minute 21:45
http://www.remarkablecars.com/main/cadillac/cadillac-00046.html
https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=158207
https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/as16/auburn-spring/lots/r0215-1974-cadillac-coupe/553770
https://en.wheelsage.org/cadillac/deville/78035/19688/pictures/kujoxq/
https://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/scarecrow-the-music-and-murder-of-stringbean-akeman/
The 1974 Cadillac had a big variety of frou frou named upholstery... I hadn't realized before why Caddy's were so popular with the rich and mobster. Now I get why their interiors were, if not the mediocre engine ratings
there was the regular leather
and they called this, Mimosa
this was Maharaja cloth
this was Medici Crushed Velour
Morocco Matelasse
Mardi Gras Velour
Medici Shirred Crushed Velour
http://automotivemileposts.com/cadillac/cadi1974interiortrim.html
propellers, used to make bars, dens, and livingrooms look better since WW1.
The metal variable pitch prop has a cool history:
This particular propeller was from a Lockheed Vega airplane owned by the Crosley Radio Corporation and flown by Ruth Nichols.
Flying in that airplane in 1931-32, Nichols became the only woman to hold simultaneously the women's international speed, altitude, and distance records for flight. She set the distance record in October 1931 when she flew 1,977 miles between Oakland, California and Louisville, Kentucky. Nichols' records proved the effectiveness of the new controllable-pitch propeller.
Just above that, the dark wooden very old prop;
This propeller is from a Curtiss Model D pusher biplane flown by Eugene B. Ely on January 18, 1911 for the first landing on a ship, the battleship USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay, using the first ever tailhook system.
https://airandspace.si.edu/collections/propulsion?page=2
https://www.westlandlondon.com/antiques/decorativeitems/other/
https://riseofflight.com/forum/topic/31992-wooden-ww1-aircraft-propellers/
https://www.historicpropellers.com/woodenpropeller-ebora
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