Maybe a little creepy but it is not my fault. For nearly a decade now, Google has been making street-level maps. You may have seen their little cars poking around. They have nine cameras and are called “Nine Eyes.” This Tumblr feed collects some of the odd sites the nine eyes have stumbled upon. While board in the new lockdown, take a gander. The trip will take hours. Oh, the humanity – this is like some sort of meta-participatory photojournalism created by an algorithm and its unintended consequences.
Wacky Friday Fotos
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The Friday Fives
1. What is your favorite thing to drink on a hot day?
Ice tea is a fav. Lot’s of ice and with some artificial sweetener (the pink stuff) yeah, yeah, I have heard it all about the Sweet and Low connection to cancer in rats, but I am not a rat and I don’t drink gallons and gallons of tea in a day so I think I am good. It is odd, though – I only use sweet and lo in iced tea but not for anything else.
2. What superstitions do you have?
I am not too superstitious. Really at all.
3. What is your favorite pen to write with and why?
I am really fond of the Pilot Precise P-500 gel pen, fine point.
4. What books have you read or been reading during the Pandemic?
“The Great Influenza” a history of the 1918 flu and the maturation of American medicine and science. And John Scalzi’s “The Last Emporex.”
5. MTV has decided to resurrect playing music videos and they’ve decided to give you a two-hour space to program your favorite music on air. What do you air? Bruce Springsteen, Life from Passaic, NJ. A classic early videotaped Boss concert that all of the world should see.
Wacky Friday Fotos
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The Friday Fives
The Friday Fives
1. What’s a kind of food most people hate that you actually like?
Frozen pizzas. Specifically Totinos. It’s comfort food.
2. What food do you just refuse to eat?
Mammals and birds
3. What’s the best cooking advice/tip you ever received?
Don’t cook anything on a stovetop on high. Low and slow will make a meal.
4. If you were a chef and restaurant owner, what kind of place would you operate?
A vegan taco truck.
5. What are some food + drinks combos that people should try out?
Good old fashioned Root Beet floats with ice cream. It has fallen out of favor but still a great simple sweet snack.
I ain’t been nowhere, man
Wacky Friday Fotos
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The Friday Fives
1. If you could pick one fictional item to use in your daily life, what would it be?
The transporter from Star Trek. This is one life-changing device right there. Imagine the uses. And according to the Trek lexicon, it would remove any viruses and diseases from your body upon being recombubulated.
2. How do you tell if the screaming children outside are having fun, or being chased by an ax killer?
Right outside my window is an elementary school and the darlings will be out at the various times so of the day for recess. There is always a blood-curdling screen being emitted. I almost think they are scheduled – like after little Tina screams it must always be followed by little Justin and on down the line. I actually find it quite endearing.
3. Which TV show has had the best pilot episode?
Season 1, Episode 1 of “Lost.” In fact, the first four episodes form an amazing story arch.
4. If booby traps were legal how would you protect your home?
Pulling up “Home Alone,” the ultimate DIY bobby trap training video i go with the iced up steps with the removal of any and all handholds or leverage.
5. How would you fix America?
Two things – get the big corporate money out of the elections and let citizens vote proportionately – allowing for perhaps 10% of a vote to this person, 30% to this one, 50% to another, and so on. It would change the tradition “First past the post” system and drastically alter the way the traditional two-party system works.
Wacky Friday Fotos
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The Friday Fives
1. What’s the best cereal?
I don’t eat much breakfast cereal nowadays and if I do it is some sort of multi-whole-grain muesli kind of thing.
But in my cereal eating days, I really dug “Golden Grahams.” Just enough crunch to milky sogginess.
2. If you could de-stress the nation by saying only one thing, what would you say?
The titles to my soon to be completed best selling business tomes:
Volume One: “Chill The Fuck Out!”
And
Volume Two: “Get Your Shit Together!”
3. What’s your ‘HOLY SH!T IT WORKS!’ moment?
I look at this question as a validation of a life hack that I use.
It’s this – eat your Cheetos from the bag with chopsticks – still yummy but no cheesy powdery goo on your fingers.
4. Who would you call if you caught bigfoot?
Who I always call, Julie.
5. Which scar on your body tells the best story?
My five-year-old self running through the glass part of a storm door headfirst and cutting up my face and hands. Four scars that are still quite visible 50 years or so later.