The Latest Buzz About: May 2015

Sunday, May 31, 2015

What This Guy Did After A Storm Destroyed His Fence Is Totally Brilliant. Take That, Nature! - News

Sometimes, Mother Nature can get the best of us. Floods can ruin the engines in our cars and lightning our television receivers. Oh, and high winds can tear down a beautiful fence. That’s what happened to the fence line at a new house this man bought. Only five months after his initial purchase, this fence came down. Instead of mourning the strong spring storm, the homeowner decided to take his lemons and make lemonade.

A storm with high winds tore down the fence the homeowner hoped would last a few years.

After having it taken down, he saw it leaning against a wall and got an idea.

“I ultimately decided the gate as-is wasn’t as great as I wanted for a headboard, but now had piles of old fence post to work with and sketched out some rough plans to create a similar-ish design.”

“Cut the would randomly to rows of my specified. I added in some new fence posts I had and pallet wood to add some diversity.”

“Sanded down very, very lightly to keep all of the imperfections and added some random stains from my pile of various stains.”

Attempting to straighten the boards a little…

He was thinking of attaching the headboard with cleats…

“I decided to not go with cleats and rather screw the headboard directly to the studs. Stability and security was my number one concern.”

“I added cross boards on the back to keep the boards together and align with the studs in my room. I used a pocket jig to attach some of the horizontal boards, but in some places I used metal plates to reenforce. I also drilled holes for my semi-decorative lights I was going to include. “

Overall, the owner was happy with the headboard…

It looks so cool, we can understand why.

Source: Reddit This is how you take the lemons life hands you and turn them into lemonade. This should be a lesson you remember forever… and share with others!

Grandma Finds The Internet - News

Grandma Finds The Internet

Wired’s nipple slip early contender for correction of the year - News

Instant classic! Wired: We "quoted Dropbox co-founder saying 'anyone with nipples' sted of 'anyone with a pulse.' via @maragrunbaum

— Rami Grunbaum (@rgrunbaum) September 17, 2013

Wired’s interview with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston is a good read, but you might want to skip right to the correction at the end for the very best part.

“Correction appended [2:37 P.M. PST/9/17]: A previous version of this story incorrectly quoted Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston saying “anyone with nipples” instead of “anyone with a pulse.”

The obvious question: how does one mishear “pulse” as “nipples”? You can’t even try to blame that on autocorrect.

Who needs Dropbox? "[A]nybody with nipples." –> Inside Dropbox's Quest to Bury the Hard Drive http://t.co/AtidJSnTQI #longread

— Jeffrey B. Paul (@jeffpaul) September 17, 2013

"Incorrectly quoted Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston saying 'anyone with nipples' instead of 'anyone with a pulse' http://t.co/sP4zMCXx2Q

— Kim Bhasin (@KimBhasin) September 17, 2013

Uh, @wired @sdadich @MarcusWohlsen?!?! Please write story on how corrections like that happen. please please please http://t.co/sYnDgUo95w

— Jennifer Daniel (@jenniferdaniel) September 17, 2013

http://twitter.com/#!/jank0/status/380102611065532416

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Sound the alarms! Bloomberg View writer says ‘climate migrants’ need our help - News

Oh FFS… https://t.co/9LW0iNJJLj

— CounterMoonbat (@CounterMoonbat) September 23, 2014

If you thought rebranding “climate change” as “climate disruption” was ridiculous, you’ll enjoy this offering from Bloomberg View editorial writer Christopher Flavelle:

If rich countries won't make deeper cuts or pay for adaptation, why not take in climate migrants? http://t.co/BjwHy6sE9F @BV #Climate2014

— Christopher Flavelle (@cflav) September 23, 2014

Bless his heart:

Today’s United Nations climate summit is a reminder that rich countries still aren’t ready to make deep cuts to their carbon emissions or make significant payments to help poor countries cope with the consequences of those emissions. Which raises the question: For countries that want to be good global citizens, is there a third option?

How about giving the people displaced by climate change somewhere else to live?

If anyone needs us. we’ll be over here. Clutching our aching sides.

Climate migrants?! RT @CounterMoonbat: Oh FFS… https://t.co/k3Lnm1yCtq

— Heather (@hboulware) September 23, 2014

Ye gods. RT @hboulware: Climate migrants?! RT @CounterMoonbat: Oh FFS… https://t.co/MQTL5sYUxD

— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) September 23, 2014

@CounterMoonbat Climate migrants?!! Lol

— Carl Gustav (@CaptYonah) September 23, 2014

Friday, May 29, 2015

One Does Not Simply - News

One Does Not Simply

And It Was My Son Who Was Doing It Wrong… - News

And It Was My Son Who Was Doing It Wrong...

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Good News! Eventually The Universe Will Become Too Cold And Everything Will Just Die - News

Something to keep in mind the next time the long, cold winter has got you down.

Sunday, May 31, 2015

A storm with high winds tore down the fence the homeowner hoped would last a few years.

After having it taken down, he saw it leaning against a wall and got an idea.

“I ultimately decided the gate as-is wasn’t as great as I wanted for a headboard, but now had piles of old fence post to work with and sketched out some rough plans to create a similar-ish design.”

“Cut the would randomly to rows of my specified. I added in some new fence posts I had and pallet wood to add some diversity.”

“Sanded down very, very lightly to keep all of the imperfections and added some random stains from my pile of various stains.”

Attempting to straighten the boards a little…

He was thinking of attaching the headboard with cleats…

“I decided to not go with cleats and rather screw the headboard directly to the studs. Stability and security was my number one concern.”

“I added cross boards on the back to keep the boards together and align with the studs in my room. I used a pocket jig to attach some of the horizontal boards, but in some places I used metal plates to reenforce. I also drilled holes for my semi-decorative lights I was going to include. “

Overall, the owner was happy with the headboard…

It looks so cool, we can understand why.

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Friday, May 29, 2015

Thursday, May 28, 2015

1. Let’s assume that about 13.7 billion years ago, there was a sort of biggish kind of bang. Let’s call it the “Biggish Bang.”

2. Naturally, a bang that biggish would produce a lot of energy. In fact, it produced all the energy. As you might imagine, having all the energy and matter all at once in one place gets a little toasty.

3. Which is great! The universe needs energy and heat! It’s what makes things do things. Without energy, matter would be pretty useless.

4. And here we are, 13.7 billion years later. The universe is still pretty hot, and there’s still plenty of energy to go around.

5. We can think and move and everything is great, and we can all look at this video because our fingers and eyes and brains and computers all work:

6. All processes — mechanical, chemical, electric, nuclear — even life — require a hot universe brimming with energy. WHICH WE HAVE! The universe is lousy with energy. The universe is literally a hot mess.

7. But, we’re not done exploding yet. That “Biggish Bang” is still happening, and everything is still pushing outward and expanding from that one point in space and time 13.7 billion years ago.

8. And here’s the thing, as we expand, more and more of that precious heat and energy is dissipating. The heat and energy is getting lost to entropy. Things are getting colder.

9. Think of the universe as a hot, steamy bathroom in an apartment where the heat doesn’t work. When you open the door, all that hot steam rushes out, and all that cold air rushes in, until the two spaces become about the same temperature. (Cold.)

10. Scientists think something along those lines might be happening in the universe. As we expand, the hot, steamy energy from the beginning of the universe is rushing out into entropy.

11. We’re exploding our way to an equilibrium, where the whole universe is evening out to the point where everything is the same temperature. (You know… cold.)

12. And as the explosion dies out, and everything cools off, there’s less and less energy and heat to go around.

13. So all those processes that use energy and heat — mechanical, chemical, electric, nuclear, and yes, even life — won’t have the stuff that makes things do things.

14. The universe will slowly freeze, and everything in it — everything that has been and will be — will die. It’s totally unavoidable and inevitable.

17. Everything will just sort of… fade out. As T.S. Eliot put it in his poem, “The Hollow Men”:

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

1.) He does have a great jawline.

2.) It happens when you’re an amazing actor.

3.) I’m not sure that even Jake Gyllenhaal could have saved that movie.

4.) Go Keanu!

5.) She doesn’t even have an accent.

6.) It must be nice to have all the money.

7.) Robert Pattinson’s lucky break.

8.) Either way she’s still a badass.

9.) That would be one heck of a family reunion.

10.) She certainly proved her teacher wrong.

Monday, May 25, 2015

1. So lots of people are willing to pay lots of money to live in West London.

2. For some reason everyone is convinced it’s lovely.

3. Which is crazy.

4. Because let’s be honest…

5. West London is the absolute worst.

6. First of all, it’s so crowded.

7. It’s the most boring area of London by far.

8. Nothing happens there.

9. Honestly, the culture is completely non-existant.

10. There’s just nothing particularly special about it.

11. Summers in West London are truly pathetic.

12. And when winter hits, the whole area is completely useless.

13. I mean, who wants to see this?

14. West London is like the most boring guy at a party.

15. It has no character.

16. And even less style.

17. Everybody there shops at Waitrose.

18. It’s just the worst.

19. Every square inch of West London is stressful and unpleasant.

20. Getting a breath of fresh air is pretty much impossible.

21. This otter can not even BELIEVE it’s stuck in West London.

22. Kew Gardens is nothing but a massive mud hole.

23. And what’s so special about Richmond Park anyway?

24. It’s impossible to escape the eyesore that is Hammersmith Bridge.

25. You have to go central or east to do anything interesting.

26. West is basically just a wasteland at the edge of the city.

27. How sad is it that some people actually have to live here?