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Flashaholics
No, flashaholic take part in two, three, or even five flash mobs a night –rest assured, I will feature the world of flash mobs in the future.
Flashaholics are people who are seriously into flashlights. I once asked Google if a rechargeable battery was safe to use after it had been wet and I found an entire sub-forum dedicated to batteries on a message board dedicated to flashlights called Candle Power Forums.
This is my typical pocket dump (I’m omitting hyperlinks to purchase because this is an academic project)
Pelikan M200 Demonstrator medium nib fountain pen
Moleskine
Victorinox Classic Swiss Army Knife
Swiss-Dixon screwdriver
Shimano HG Cassette lock-ring as a keyring
Casio HDA-600 watch
iFrogz 3000mah charging stick and flashlight
Anker 3′ USB 2.0 cable
Samsung Galaxy S3
Incase Systm phone case
Wallet
Chewing gum
Burt’s Bees lip balm
Field notes, Pentel 0.7mm pencil, wallet Ninja, Kershaw Speedsafe, Kimber .45 Ultra Carry ii, Smith & Wesson M&P9c, both are loaded with Remington Ultimate Defense rounds and my beat up Dockers wallet. Not shown, Samsung Galaxy S5, Geigerig 700 water pack. Still haven’t purchased a tactical flashlight yet, but have a full size Maglite in my truck.
Although EDC may seem to be a niche community at first, potential participants include every single person in the world who carries possessions with them every day. EDC can refer to a fountain pen that’s sturdy enough to be carried around all day, a 9mm handgun small enough to be carried by a permit holder every day, and everything in between. The resulting diversity makes EDC one of the more interesting tags to follow.
His and her Every Day Carry.
I must admit my first reaction to this was strongly feminist along the lines of, “Where’s her knife? Is there a blade in one of those lipsticks or does she have to ask him every time she needs to use a scary knife?” But then I checked myself, realizing that in here in 2015 there’s no reason that all those green and blue things can’t be hers and all those knives can’t be his. Of course, being a true gentleman, he volunteered to carry her tampons so she could have room for the alan keys and cologne.
Caption: The inside of my pen case with my three favorite fountain pens.
Everyday Carry (EDC)
I posted this picture of my pens to a personal blog two years ago with #fountain pens. A few weeks later, it was reblogged by a blog called GentlemenTools, which features fountain pens among other luxury items as wells as men’s fashion. Poking around on Gentlementools, I found several reblogs from a website called Everyday Carry, which features anything that anybody carries with them everyday.
Some numbers stations have been rumored to play a role in “deadman’s switch” or “dead-hand” systems wherein a country’s ICBM’s would be automatically launched in retaliation in the event of a nuclear strike. For example, numbers stations in Moscow would be set up to continually broadcast signals to computers at Soviet nuclear launch facilities and in the event that the signal stopped coming, the numbers stations presumably destroyed by a U.S. nuclear strike, the computers would be programmed to launch missiles automatically at preset targets.
Fortunately, the rumors are just rumors. As outlined in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, because the device would only be used after its creators have perished, it would only be constructed in the first place as a deterrent to discourage enemies from striking first. Therefore, since no government has ever acknowledged the existence of such a thing, it must not exist.
Maculate | Esseks - "Human Music" (From Rick and Morty)
Some numbers stations remind me of the “Human Music” generated by aliens in “M. Night Shaym-Aliens!” in season one of Rick and Morty.
Caption: a photo of a cell phone tower disguised with tree boughs. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
Started during the Cold War, numbers stations were developed to send information to spies who can receive the encrypted messages by tuning into the stations on radio without leaving the damning electric residue left by other forms of communication, particularly digital, which could lead to their capture.
Tracking numbers stations is popular among many ranging from conspiracy theorists to radio hobbyists and who collect and share information on sites such as the numbers stations subreddit and numbers-stations.com. Journalists also take note (NPR, BBC).
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Numbers Stations
This is “Central” by my favorite band Sound Tribe Sector Nine (STS9). I searched for an explanation of the woman reading numbers heard at the very beginning of “Central” and found an article on STS9′s website detailing how they stumbled onto numbers stations in 2009 while using a shortwave radio for sound effects. Numbers stations are transmitters of unknown origins thought to be used by governments for clandestine communication with spies. Research into the origins of the particular station sampled here lead the band to an remote, abandoned bunker in California. There, they found a box containing government documents and patches, one of which the band used in the artwork for their then latest album. They called the album Ad Explorata, “into the unexplored” or “to investigate,” after the motto of the secret military unit to which the patch belonged. It is rumored that the secret unit had gathered intelligence and intercepted communications from an alien civilization.
Global warming deniers can flap their jaws all they want, but it won’t change the fact that I just killed a mosquito in December.
Car Control
The ability to judge a safe driving speed for any given road is definitely a mental health issue and not a regulation issue. People have common sense and everybody follows every rule from drivers ed, so only an insane person would want to drive too fast. Let's take down all of the speed limit signs and let the individual decide how fast is too fast. Then once we get all those pesky signs out of the picture, let's form a committee to pick a date when we will sit down to discuss the possibility of starting a dialogue about what sort of language would go into the draft of a bill that proposes a process for screening people to determine if they should be background checked to decide if they're mentally stable enough to decide how fast to drive. I don't deserve to be restricted. I'm a responsible adult and I'm entitled to drive as fast as my car will allow. Just because someone else lost control, crashed into a living-room, and killed a family of four while driving 120MPH doesn't mean that I will too. Also, the founding fathers wanted us to go as a fast as we like so we could outdrive the police and the military if the government ever becomes tyrannical.
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Just red and green with some frosty paint. It’s the least Chistmasy cup I’ve ever seen. Where’s the nativity scene? What kind of heathen would let their child drink hot cocoa from this, letting them grow up thinking it’s okay if not every corporation explicitly acknowledges one of the two holidays you’ve boiled your religious observance down to?
