Old Man Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 1 hour ago, L. Marcus said: Too close to Stephen King. The Langoliers is fiction! ...Right? Starlord 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 Duane Eddy dies aged 86 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68940716 Cancer and Tom Cowan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 2 hours ago, Old Man said: The Langoliers is fiction! ...Right? Rrrright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 6 hours ago, L. Marcus said: Too close to Stephen King. Ohhh, would that I had the money... Stephen King’s House to Become Archive and Writers’ Retreat L. Marcus and Starlord 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 (edited) Stephen King is a favorite author of mine, but I have not read anything new from him in about 20 years. Nowadays, if I'm in need of sheer terror and absolute horror I just watch the news. Edited May 2 by Starlord L. Marcus, Old Man and Tom Cowan 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted May 2 Report Share Posted May 2 Well now you never did see such a terrible thing As was seen last night on the T.V Maybe if we're lucky, they will show it again Such a terrible thing to see me - oh But there's nothing you can do when you're next in line You've got to go domino rravenwood and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted May 3 Report Share Posted May 3 This is interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/02/orangutan-seen-treating-wound-with-medicinal-herb-in-first-for-wild-animals-max-planck-institute-sumatra Maybe the apes will take over before the AI apocalypse? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 3 Report Share Posted May 3 ... said General Ursus hopefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted May 3 Report Share Posted May 3 On 3/12/2024 at 6:42 AM, Starlord said: Boeing whistleblower found dead of apparent suicide days after testifying Second Boeing whistleblower dies after short illness Ranxerox 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 4 Report Share Posted May 4 Gee, I hadn't realized that Vladimir Putin was on the Boeing board of directors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 5 Report Share Posted May 5 Bernard Hill, Titanic and Lord of the Rings Actor, Dies at 79 Tom Cowan, rravenwood and Old Man 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 5 Report Share Posted May 5 6 hours ago, Cygnia said: Bernard Hill, Titanic and Lord of the Rings Actor, Dies at 79 "I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed." Farewell, Mr. Hill. You were metal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 6 Report Share Posted May 6 For many they will know him as Theoden but for a certain section he will always be Yosser Hughes. 'Gissa Job' was his catchphrase and this was emblematic of Thatcher's Britain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 6 Report Share Posted May 6 Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames Quote The depths of the river Thames in London hold many unexpected stories, gleaned from the recovery of prehistoric tools, Roman pottery, medieval jewelry, and much more besides. Yet the tale of the lost (and since recovered) Doves typeface is surely one of the most peculiar. A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump every piece of this carefully honed metal letterpress type into the river. It was an act of retribution against his business partner, Emery Walker, whom he believed was attempting to swindle him. The pair had conceived this idiosyncratic Arts and Crafts typeface when they founded the Doves Press in the London’s Hammersmith neighborhood, in 1900. They worked with draftsman Percy Tiffin and master punch-cutter Edward Prince to faithfully recall the Renaissance clarity of 15th-century Venetian fonts, designed by the revolutionary master typographer Nicolas Jensen. With its extra-wide capital letters, diamond shaped punctuation and unique off-kilter dots on the letter “i,” Doves Type became the press’s hallmark, surpassing fussier typographic attempts by their friend and sometime collaborator, William Morris. The letterforms only existed as a unique 16pt edition, meaning that when Cobden-Sanderson decided to “bequeath” every single piece of molded lead to the Thames, he effectively destroyed any prospect of the typeface ever being printed again. That might well have been the case, were it not for several individuals and a particularly tenacious graphic designer. Old Man and DShomshak 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted May 10 Report Share Posted May 10 Star Trek Wins Peabody Institutional Award Pariah, Ranxerox, Starlord and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 10 Report Share Posted May 10 https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/09/uk-toddler-has-hearing-restored-in-world-first-gene-therapy-trial Quote A British toddler has had her hearing restored after becoming the first person in the world to take part in a pioneering gene therapy trial, in a development that doctors say marks a new era in treating deafness. Opal Sandy was born unable to hear anything due to auditory neuropathy, a condition that disrupts nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to the brain and can be caused by a faulty gene. But after receiving an infusion containing a working copy of the gene during groundbreaking surgery that took just 16 minutes, the 18-month-old can hear almost perfectly and enjoys playing with toy drums. wcw43921, rravenwood, Hermit and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 The Northern Lights seen from California? I can see some of it from home, although the trees are obscuring much of the view. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 That's a hell of a storm. I'll look for it later when it's dark, though I have to say if the Northern Lights reach all the way down here to 22 degrees-and-change of latitude, civilization might have ended. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 Pat St. John reported that a man was arrested for flushing his girlfriend's fish. While he was in the lock up, he was recognized for an earlier road rage incident by his tattoos and charged for that too. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 I doubt that the aurora can beat the extreme glow of Las Vegas at night. I'd probably need to go out to Valley of Fire to see anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 (edited) I can't see much of it anymore. Here's a livestream: You can also use your phone or a camera to snap a photo if you can't see it with your eyes. The glow will be picked up. I set my phone camera to night mode. Edited May 11 by tkdguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 I just got back from an hour of watching the aurora. Great view from the bridge to the island where I live, even with the streetlight and house lights. It was right overhead. Still gpoing on when I left. Worth the 59-year wait. Dean Shomshak Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 I do hope none of you guys whistled at it. That's some major bad juju. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 Very impressive display here, considering I'm well inside a major metropolitan area (admittedly further north than most in North America); by far the greatest I have witnessed personally. Once dark adapted I could see the colors and lots of structure, which changed on timescales of a minute or so. I missed the other such storms in my lifetime mostly because of local terrestrial weather. Would have been fun to get spectra, but I had nothing like a suitable instrument for that. It's enough for me to take the night of 10/11 May off my list of Days of Ill Omen (it was on that night in 1983 that my apartment burned). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 Not my pic, but from someone local. In Cruces. Wow. tkdguy and Old Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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