Cute dog pictures to cheer you up for the start of the work week…
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- Thanksgiving dogs
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- Fashion Dog
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- Ahhh
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- Patriotic dog
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- Camouflage dog
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Cute Dogs for Your Monday Blues!
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Mythical Beast, A Jet Powered R/C Dragon That Actually Flies
Mythical Beast is a radio-controlled jet powered dragon that can breathe fire and fly at up to 100 mph. The dragon was created by Pittsburgh-based R/C plane enthusiast Richard Hamel over the course of a year. It has a nine foot wingspan and a propane fire breathing system that is ignited by a 50,000 volt stun gun. Hamel discusses the dragon in this video interview with RC Pilot Magazine. Hamel has also posted a very grainy video of the dragon in flight.
photos by Tom Cwenar
via Popular Science
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Thank You!
This blog site just surpassed 700 followers! Thanks to each and every one of you who follow my quirky, eclectic mix of posts. I really appreciate you!
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Cosplayer Pictures for Your Weekend
Cosplay is a combination of the words costume and play. People dress up as characters from comic books, film, TV, games, anime, steampunk or even create their own characters. It is dressing up and having fun. I get thousands of these pictures from my friends in the science fiction community that I see at Phoenix Comic Con and other events where I sell my novels. If you wish for your picture to be posted, just send it to me. Otherwise I randomly select out of the 5,000 or so on this flash drive.
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- The Baroness from Cobra
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- Scarlet Witch
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- Mortal Kombat
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- Winter Soldier, Captain America, Black Widow
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- Riddle’s Messy Wardrobe as Rocketeer (as seen on Heroes of Cosplay)
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- Local Arizonan Cara Nicole as AZ Powergirl
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- Batman and Robin
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- Victorian Rose
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- Wookiee
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- Twig the Fairy
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- Cheetara
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- Steampunk
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- Aurora O’Brien
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- Mike Syfrit, right, as Professor X
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- Steampunkers
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- Steampunk
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- At the comic store…
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- Lady Thor
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- Scarlet Witch
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- Game System Cosplay
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- Dieselpunk
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- Cool purple color scheme
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- Psylocke
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- Lee Anna Vamp with Stormtroopers
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- Winner Twins
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- Zatanna
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- Echo Endless
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- Deadpool
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- Wonder Woman and Miss Marvel
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- Sara Moni – Guardians of the Galaxy
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- The Punisher
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- Jessica Nigri, local Arizonan
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- Tauriel from the Hobbit
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- Toni Darling as Lady Death
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- Jessica Nigri
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- Stormtroopers apprehend Chewbacca
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- Kawaii!
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- Steampunk
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- Nicole Marie Jean, center, as an Autumn version of Poison Ivy
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Random Humor for the End of the Week
Hopefully, these will bring you some chuckles to finish the work week…
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- Ironic
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- Soylent Green
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- We could all use one of these
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- Cool Hay Bales
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- Helpful door…
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- Never skip leg day.
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Amphibious ships, cycling on water and cities with ceilings: Vintage postcards reveal how Victorians predicted future of travel
- Predictions of trips to the North Pole and ‘moving walkways’ fit with the modern day
- However moveable brick houses and roofed cities are not what we have today
- The postcards were the idea of Theodore Hildebrand and Son – a German chocolate company
While most of the ideas remain totally unachievable in the modern world, some of the concepts are not dissimilar to the lives we lead today.
The moving pavement is one that we can credit the Victorians for – just about every airport now has travelators, and even a break to the North Pole isn’t too far from reality, as more and more people begin to venture further afield for a more adventurous holiday.
It may not quite be mainstream yet, but trips to the North Pole are taken on my some explorers as we seek to broaden our knowledge
Ships that can go out to sea and then transform into a wheeled vehicle to carry on land are yet to make an appearance
The 12 drawings are based on predictions made in 1900 as to how the world would look 100 years on, and they leave little to the imagination.
Among the warped ideas are moveable houses, undersea ships and even a roofed city, each illustrated with a suitably unrealistic picture of how the idea would play out.
However, a good weather machine remains as much of a pipe dream as it did a century ago, and people seem happier to travel by commercial aeroplane rather than an individual flying machine.
Hot air balloon rides to travel the world have been somewhat superseded by aeroplanes and trains
The postcards were the idea of Theodore Hildebrand and Son – a German chocolate company – pictured here is a weather machine
A walled city, as predicted by the Victorians, might not work in this days and age with pollution from fumes being the biggest worry
But, in an era that invented the telephone, the light bulb and even the first ceramic toilet, the Victorians appear to have had a fairly good insight into what the future had to offer.
The postcards were the idea of Theodore Hildebrand and Son – a German chocolate company who decided to get in on the future-telling business with a crafty marketing campaign.
For a short time, they slipped the colourful cards depicting theoretical life in the year 2000 into boxes of their sweets, predicting how a range of activities would be upgraded for the 21st Century.
This scene is not too dissimilar to us using paragliders and handgliders to get around and explore the landscape
Individual water travel was predicted by the Victorians, but this hasn’t exactly taken off
Moving walkways to get around were predicted by the Victorians, and these are seen today in many of our airports
The Victorians looked ahead to how our states would be policed as well as how we would travel the world
The postcards predicted what life would be like in the year 2000
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2848663/Vintage-postcards-reveal-Victorians-predicted-future-travel.html#ixzz3KuWJ4rTV
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A Tale of Two Cities…
Ferguson burns, the step father of the dead Michael Brown shouts over and over, “Burn this b@#*& down!” and then cars, businesses and such are burned and looted, further damaging the community. I don’t know what happened, but from Grand Jury transcripts, it seems like the officer was threatened and probably justified, but I admit I don’t know.
Contrast that with Eric Garner in New York City. I watched the video and I have to say that police used excessive force and killed him unnecessarily. Yes, he resisted arrest, but there were so many of them, and it was for a minor crime. If you can get eight officers to show up, one or more can have tasers for goodness sake. He repeatedly said he could not breathe, and they suffocated the man.
I again don’t know what happened other than the video and the coroner’s report, but in this case, I think the policeman should be prosecuted for manslaughter. However, the father of the dead man called for peaceful demonstrations, and NYC is not yet on fire nor have their been arrests for violence or looting.
So strange, that in the case I think it was probably justified, the poor people of Ferguson burn down their own city. In NYC, a case where I think we ALL, regardless of race should be outraged, people are peacefully protesting. Nothing makes sense anymore.
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An Opportunity Lost…
We have lost a great opportunity. Going back to President George Bush, we had a second black Supreme Court Justice, a black Secretary of Defense, a black Secretary of State and other prominent positions. President Barack Obama has unique qualifications, having been born half-black and half-white, raised both as a Muslim and a Christian, raised in the third world and in the United States, raised by a single parent, grew up in the rough city of Chicago. He appointed a pro-civil rights Attorney General Eric Holder.
We had such an opportunity for such a unique person to bring together race relations, to bring together Christians, Jews and Muslims, to bring together rich and poor, to bring together urban and rural, rich and poor. But it didn’t happen… I am not placing blame. The situation is so complicated, but racial relations have deteriorated, Muslims around the world have more hatred for us not less, class warfare has worsened while the middle class shrinks…
We are such a motley mix of people, culture and races, when can we get past this? If I had a genome test, who knows who I am descended from? I have an earlier article on what Americans will look like in 2050:
If you look at the pictures, what race are we? Please, everyone, let’s focus on reducing poverty, helping people live the American dream, and can we stop labeling people by outdated racial and ethnic attitudes? How long? What has to happen for us to finally come together as fellow human beings?
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Monterey researchers take first-ever known video of mysterious black seadevil
Published November 22, 2014
Research team captured first-ever video of a rarely-seen denizen of the deep called the black seadevil while conducting a dive in Monterey Bay, Calif. (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
A research team conducting a dive in Monterey Bay off the coast of California have captured first-ever video of a rarely-seen denizen of the deep called the black seadevil.
The creature was spotted this week in the dark, deep waters 1,900 feet below the surface by researchers with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
“We’ve been diving out here in the Monterey Canyon regularly for 25 years, and we’ve seen three,” MBARI Senior Scientist Bruce Robinson told the San Jose Mercury News Friday.
Robinson said a luminescent “fishing pole” projecting from the anglerfish’s head is a glowing lure to attract prey.
Robinson told the paper they captured the fish to study, but don’t know how long it will survive.
MyFox Los Angeles posted the institute’s two-minute-long video on its website, while pointing out that although the black seadevil seems menacing as its swims towards the camera, it is only about 3.5 inches long.
Little is known about the fish. Male black seadevils have a much shorter life span than females and are much tinier in comparison. Their sole purpose is to attach themself to a female, living as a parasite.
“If they don’t find a female, they drown,” University of Washington professor and deep-sea anglerfish expert Ted Pietsche told the Mercury News. “They’re not even properly equipped to eat.”
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Cute Dogs for Your Monday Blues
Lovable doggies for you to enjoy!
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- One of my own dogs – Barclay
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- Awww
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- Stuck
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- All tucked in
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- Ear moustache
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- Shi-tzu are the perfect pet for a kid
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- Happy Dog
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