my sister (massive hotd fan) didn't appreciate me saying that tom glynn-carney "looks like the someone they'd cast as young wormtongue in a lord of the rings prequel" so i had to quickly whip out canva to prove my point
Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, James Doohan guest stars in "The Warriors," episode 21 of the single season of The Gallant Men (original air date February 23, 1963).
In this WWII drama, Doohan plays Captain Blagdon, a stranded British officer the main characters, a trio of embedded war correspondents, pick up on their way to R&R before their Jeep is destroyed by enemy fire. They meet up with a ragtag band of other stray Allied soldiers - American, British, and Canadian - and hole up in a farmhouse near a bombed-out radio post where they can signal for aid.
Blagdon, starchy, middle-aged, and by-the-book, has just been transferred to the field from an administrative post and admits he is out of his depth, but as the senior officer present he assumes command of the group. One man is killed and another wounded due to his unpopular decision to stay and radio vital information they discover about the enemy's position instead of seeking deeper cover. However, when rescuing forces come they learn that many more lives were saved as a result. The news is cold comfort to Blagdon, who is feeling the burden of command very heavily.
Other Trek connections under the cut:
John McLiam plays a cheerful British private in "The Warriors," and went on to portray Fento, the storyteller of the Mintakan village in the Next Generation episode "Who Watches the Watchers?" (He keeps saying he doesn't mind the war as it gets him away from his wife and kids, which is exactly what my Grandma accused my Grandpa of feeling!)
Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!
It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey
They are, of course, named after Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street!
Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!
Hooray for science and hooray for S. snuffleupagus !
I saw this and thought “there’s no way in hell this thing is real” and it turns out it IS real and it’s called an aerial saw. Here is the beginning of the fifth paragraph of the wikipedia article:
So that’s comforting, but here’s the kicker: It was invented in 1983 by a man named Randall Rogers. The wikipedia article for the aerial saw mentions that following his death, the patent was sold to another company who holds it today. It does NOT mention how he died, but thankfully the Chicago Tribune has an archived article with this little nugget:
He was KILLED BY HIS OWN INVENTION. And this company sees this absolutely insane machine, hears that it killed its own inventor, and goes “yeah I’ll buy that”.
if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills
where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*
this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques
oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?
and we're still building them?
while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?
uh. okay then
(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)
Reading someone from India and someone from the US complain about this, while being from Spain and also facing this problem makes me realise that what op meant with "increase our heating or cooling bills" is way more widespread than I expected.
I stayed at a French villa from the 1850s and it had the most amazing windows with slatted shutters on the outside *and* solid wood shutters inside. The inside shutters folded into the deep window casing so they were invisible during the day. It kept the rooms really cool all day despite full sun and high temperatures.
I get liking the large glass windows and open floor plan but it really doesn't work any more even in an area with formerly temperate climate.
We had 30C weather and no rains in May already, the lilac was done blooming in March, and my colleagues still complain about it being cold again. It's early June, I don't want more than 22C on a sunny day!
Actually I do have a problem with those cartoony style cover for hyper sexual romance books and it’s like the inverse problem for me of people referring to everything as porn
Becauase my god those covers are so fucking unhorny they should be ashamed
Like ok ok ok half the time I see the discourse around this it’s people getting mad because they seem like they’re marketing “porn” to kids with those covers and like, that’s a stupid “think of the children” argument to shame grown adults for liking sexual content. And they’re clearly marketing to adults who have previously only ever been comfortable reading YA but that’s not even what I’m talking about and a whole other issue
What I’m talking about is those cartoony ass covers are so fucking bland that I would never pick one up randomly and give it a try knowing nothing about it, because it looks like such a bland hallmark romance and I want to read about fucking
Like we used to be a society. We used to have full painted bodice ripper covers with like tits and cock about to bust out of clothing. And it doesn’t even have to be that blatant you can make it horny and be subtle about it but modern every hyper sexual romance is giving 2010s indie graphic novel in the worst way. We used to make horny covers for porn and you knew it was gonna be horny porn when you looked at it. Now it’s so fucking boring and no one is finding that hot babes
No but the history behind this picture is really interesting
The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn’t that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.
It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.
But one time some British dudes went to china to go on an anthropological expedition, and they met some rural Chinese farmers and decided to take their pictures. Now, these people weren’t exposed to the weird culture of the time around getting your photo taken, so this guy just flashed a big grin during the photo because he was told to strike a pose and that’s the pose he wanted to strike.
I think painted portraits and old photos give us the idea that in general people were just really unhappy because those are the visuals we have. This is so refreshing.
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