This is delightful. I’m now ready for Christmas
(h/t elgecko
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Chair of Georgia Filkcon; musician, songwriter, essayist & dilettante-at-large. Almost certainly not what you expect. (they/them)
Absolutely awesome
British team send paper plane to the edge of space before it flies back to Earth | Mail Online
NASA, eat your heart out. Who needs a multi-billion-dollar spacecraft to study the Earth when you can use a paper plane?
Pictured here is the incredible British mission to send the plane 17 miles into the atmosphere to capture images of the curvature of the globe using a miniature camera.
The plane, which has a 3ft wing span and is made from paper straws covered in paper, was launched using nothing more powerful than a large helium balloon.
The craft soared to 90,000ft before the balloon exploded, freeing the plane to glide back down, taking photographs as it descended.
And the cost of Operation PARIS (Paper Aircraft Released Into Space)? A modest £8,000.
This is pretty awesome. (Note that he used *damaged* records to do the roof — no useful music was destroyed *grin*)
Nashville Musician Shingles His Roof With Records : TreeHugger
Nashville Musician Matt Glassmeyer is, according to Jazz.com, a bit of an inventor. Now we learn that he is a repurposer, using 350 damaged records to build a roof on his porch.
“The only scenario I can think of in which it makes sense to stockpile a lot of gold is one where you and your household goods are unexpectedly teleported into the sixteenth century. If you worry a lot about this, then by all means, stockpile gold. But you should also probably take the precaution of stockpiling antibiotics and how-to books on dentistry.”
—Megan McArdle
The Goats Must Be Crazy… (h/t to epi_lj)
Gutsy Goats Caught Scaling Super-Steep Dam (Pics) : TreeHugger
Dams are among the most daunting examples of mankind’s engineering savvy, and they’re also perhaps the most environmentally impactful, too — but none of that could keep this brave herd of Ibex goats from scaling the sheer face of one such dam in Italy. While it may be a testament to the impressive climbing prowess of the goats, such displays also speak wonders about nature’s ability to overcome some of the toughest obstacles we can throw at her.
Living in the slow lane: Hundreds of orphaned sloths given a new lease of life at Costa Rican sanctu
“The Real Sloths of Costa Rica” is my new reality TV show….
Tucking into a tasty carrot snack, this bright-eyed baby sloth is making a happy recovery after being orphaned just days into its young life.
The adorable creature is just one of 100 being cared for by volunteers at the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica, Central America.
Some are barely the size of a human hand and wouldn’t have stood a chance if left alone in the wild.
But they have been given a new lease of life thanks to the centre which was set up by married couple Luis Arroyo and Judy Avey-Arroyo after an orphaned sloth was brought to their door by neighbours 18 years ago.
Lots of adorable photos with the article.
Black Lipstick Rodeo: 7 Goth Songs That Would Make Great Country Songs :: Blogs :: List of the Day :
I’m half tempted to work some of these up.
It’s hard to name any two genres that seem more innately opposed than goth and country. Country celebrates wide open spaces, the stylized echoes of cow culture, shared mythology and sketches a seemingly-firmly-rooted mode of simple mainstream American living that resonates with much of its wide audience base. Goth music is intentionally arch and occult in its trappings, naturally celebratory of social outliers and intensely nocturnal as it indulges in chilling introspection, and tends to draw listeners from iconoclastic corners.
Pare it down, though, and you’ve got parallel and maybe even complementary traditions of songwriting. Swap out some synthesizers for mandolins, take the vocals up an octave, kill the reverb, put some fringe on the vampire jacket, and suddenly the transformation is complete.
Here, then, are seven goth songs that would actually make great country songs:
Right on.
My son is gay « Nerdy Apple Bottom
And all I hope for my kids, and yours, and those of Moms ABC, are that they are happy. If a set of purple sparkly tights and a velvety dress is what makes my baby happy one night, then so be it. If he wants to carry a purse, or marry a man, or paint fingernails with his best girlfriend, then ok. My job as his mother is not to stifle that man that he will be, but to help him along his way. Mine is not to dictate what is ‘normal’ and what is not, but to help him become a good person.
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