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❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
we're not kids anymore.
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occasionally subtle
YOU ARE THE REASON
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Andulka

Love Begins

JBB: An Artblog!
Sade Olutola

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Discoholic 🪩
cherry valley forever
todays bird
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Three Goblin Art
trying on a metaphor

祝日 / Permanent Vacation

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@tumbledanny
Stan Lee’s cameo in Deadpool looks hype as fuck
Holy frick Stan: YOU SAW NOTHING! Say it! SAY IT OR I SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE! Deadpool: HEY LOOK! SPIDERMAN! *runs*
Screw the future.
And if I’m the only one, then so be it.
for sgtbarncs!
I dreamt my grandpa the other night, he was happy and smiling to me. I hope you're in a better place, wherever you are now gramps.
"I’m so incredibly honored to be recognized by the Academy, and even more thrilled to share this honor with the entire family of filmmakers, cast, and crew of ‘The Theory of Everything..’ This role was a once in a lifetime experience. Congratulations to my fellow nominees, thank you to the Academy, and thank you most of all to Stephen and Jane Hawking."
-Eddie Redmayne, Best Actor Nominee for The Theory of Everything
WHY IS ROBERT DOWNEY JR. BEFORE THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE
This May, time has run out and Secret Wars, the landmark 8-issue event, is ready to shake the very foundations of the Marvel Universe as you know it. But first, on Tuesday, January 20th 2015 at 3 p.m. Eastern, we’re hosting the ground breaking SECRET WARS LIVE KICKOFF!
Streaming live from New York City’s own Midtown Comics next week, fans can head toMarvel.com/secretwars to get their very first Secret Wars info straight from Marvel’s Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso and SVP, Executive Editor Tom Brevoort! Prepare for the coming of a new Battleworld and learn the first details of the strange, patchwork realm playing host to countless separate realities!
HERE’S THE THING THOUGH
I used to work for a call center and I was doing a political survey and I called this number that was randomly generated for me and the way our system worked was voice-activated so when the other person said hello you’d get connected to them, so I just launch right into my “Harvard University and NPR blah blah blah” thing and then there’s this long pause and I think the person’s hung up even though I didn’t hear a click
And then I hear “you shouldn’t be able to call this number.”
So I apologize and go into the preset spiel about because we aren’t selling anything, etc. etc. and the answer I get is
"No, I know that. What I mean is that it should be impossible for you to call this number, and I need to know how you got it."
I explain that it’s randomly generated and I’m very sorry for bothering him, and go to hang up. And before I can click terminate, I hear:
"Ma’am, this is a matter of national security."
I accidentally called the director of the FBI.
My job got investigated because a computer randomly spit out a number to the Pentagon.
This is my new favourite story.
When I was in college I got a job working for a company that manages major air-travel data. It was a temp gig working their out of date system while they moved over to a new one, since my knowing MS Dos apparently made me qualified.
There was no MS Dos involved. Instead, there was a proprietary type-based OS and an actually-uses-transistors refrigerator-sized computer with switches I had to trip at certain times during the night as I watched the data flow from six pm to six AM on Fridays and weekends. If things got stuck, I reset the server.
The company handled everything from low-end data (hotel and car reservations) to flight plans and tower information. I was weighed every time I came in to make sure it was me. Areas of the building had retina scanners on doors.
During training. they took us through all the procedures. Including the procedures for the red phone. There was, literally, a red phone on the shelf above my desk. “This is a holdover from the cold war.” They said. “It isn’t going to come up, but here’s the deal. In case of nuclear war or other nation-wide disaster, the phone will ring. Pick up the phone, state your name and station, and await instructions. Do whatever you are told.”
So my third night there, it’s around 2am and there’s a ringing sound.
I look up, slowly. The Red phone is ringing.
So I reach out, I pick up the phone. I give my name and station number. And I hear every station head in the building do the exact same. One after another, voices giving names and numbers. Then silence for the space of two breaths. Silence broken by…
"Uh… Is Shantavia there?"
It turns out that every toll free, 1-900 or priority number has a corresponding local number that it routs to at its actual destination. Some poor teenage girl was trying to dial a friend of hers, mixed up the numbers, and got the atomic attack alert line for a major air-travel corporation’s command center in the mid-west United States.
There’s another pause, and the guys over in the main data room are cracking up. The overnight site head is saying “I think you have the wrong number, ma’am.” and I’m standing there having faced the specter of nuclear annihilation before I was old enough to legally drink.
The red phone never rang again while I was there, so the people doing my training were only slightly wrong in their estimation of how often the doomsday phone would ring.
These are my two favorite stories
IT GOT BETTER
I SALUTE YOU, RED PHONE PERSON
This is great
Magic: the Gathering - Tarkir Lands
If you have not yet, you gotta check out the epic illustrations of basic lands for Fate Reforged on the mothersite today (linky here).
We’re keenly aware of the differences in the arts by Sam Burley showing an Abzan fortress in Fate Reforged with towers equipped with ballistae to defend against dragon incursions. In the ‘dragon free’ era of Khans of Tarkir, the Abzan have replaced the weapons with roof-top gardens (kin trees).
100 Favorite Movies ↳ 14. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)