Category: Links

  • Trump is Going to Cancel the Minting of Pennies. Awesome!

    I’ve thought we should get rid of pennies for like 30 years, but I never thought anyone would do it. And that was before I knew that it cost almost the cents to mint every penny. This article (and Trump’s statement simply says that the cost is “more than 2 cents” to mint a penny,…

  • Delaware’s Government Ruined by the Actions of a Single, Girl Boss, Activist, Judge

    The consequences of a single questionable decision by a single judge is essentially going to ruin Delaware’s economy. I knew that a judge had blocked Elon Musk’s pay package from Tesla even though the share holders voted on it beforehand. It was blocked based on a law firm finding a shareholder with nine shares (out…

  • Luke Skywalker, Pinnacle Jedi-ness?

    This is an interesting character sketch of Luke Skywalker. I haven’t really taken to much of the Star Wars material that has come out lately. I loved the movies as a child. Then there were some books. The original trilogy from Timothy Zahn – which was the origin of some fantastic characters like Grand Admiral…

  • Breaking the World Record for the Largest Lego Star Wars Army?

    This is interesting to watch just to see the sheer volume of the boxes, the pieces and the assembled minifigures. We’ve all seen displays where the same box was repeated several times – on the stores at shelves. But this is a whole different scale. I think my favorite part is the very end where…

  • Twenty-Five Extremely Impressive Lego Builds

    When I first saw some of the new shapes Lego was making, I kind of felt like it was cheating. When I was a kid, I didn’t have to walk to school, 37 miles, barefoot, through the snow, uphill, both ways, as the joke goes (or did, before it was beaten to death, but that’s…

  • Panavision The Babes Strike Back

    Yoda, Jabba the Hutt, Chewbacca as, um, babes. Oh, and Darla Vader. Watch it.

  • The Phantom Menace in the Style of 1950s Panavision.

    A couple of weeks ago, I came across a trailer for Star Wars done in this style. As seems fitting, it was a bit better than the trailer for the Phantom Menace, but this one is still pretty amusing. They nailed the stylings.

  • Have I Mentioned That I Love the Babylon Bee, Lately?

    https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-becomes-first-fascist-in-history-to-reduce-size-of-government WordPress is unable to embed this link. I wonder if the software genuinely can’t do it, or if there’s something in the code that prevents embedded links to the Bee. When I hear someone call use the word “fascist” or “Nazi” or something along those lines to describe people like Trump or Musk, I…

  • Omni-Directional Bike

    Just one of those unusual things I found that I wanted to share with the world. To be fair, it’s a pretty impressive idea and feat of engineering. Watching this has made me think, once again, that I need a 3D printer. I saw something about some of the newer models which print inside a…

  • 60 Seconds of Magic

    After the guy finishes, he says it has to be worth a like and a share, and I agree with him. It’s 60 seconds well-spent.