Mildly interesting

[bachophile]

[taiwan_girl]

@bachophile The hero of every Year 6 student!!

[mark]

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2020/04/14/norman-timbs-streamliner-to-literally-rise-from-the-ashes-after-malibu-wildfire-that-destroyed-it?fbclid=IwAR0KiHLNiAww7hg8OrIqlTzqzG39XV_ac4bSDGFEl20DuqvJK37X9k_uBM4

[taiwan_girl]

@mark
"Cerveny's still mapping out the project and doesn't think he or Rogers will get started on the streamliner's resurrection until sometime after January 1, 2021. Once they get started, he anticipates the restoration will only take 18 to 24 months this time, with another post-restoration debut of the streamliner at Amelia Island."

Wonder if he ever got it finished?

[Jon]

Opening day pictures of Disneyland, July 17th, 1955.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/07/opening-day-disneyland-photos-1955/594655/

[mark]

3D model of a 2D frequency map.

[Copper]

Lando Calrissian's place

[LuFins Dad]

@Jon said in Mildly interesting:

Opening day pictures of Disneyland, July 17th, 1955.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/07/opening-day-disneyland-photos-1955/594655/

These pictures take on entirely new meaning in light of Disney’s Grooming Ways

Why are they running?

Good lord! Run kids, run! Otherwise you will see

The first Pride Parade…

And some weirdo named Mr. Toad will invite you to his wild ride…

I don’t know what the hell was happening here

Somebody call Tim Ballard!

[Mik]

I think the last pic is from Sound of Freedom.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

I think the last pic is from Sound of Freedom.

Everybody forgets about the 5th DisneyWorld Resort…Epstein Island…

[George K]

Boot Repair

[Jon]

Always nice to see an excellent craftsman at work, but I can’t imagine that many hours of labor being worth it except for the most expensive boots.

[Copper]

I have had leather half-soles replaced on a pair of Florsheim Imperial wingtips. Probably at least a few times, I remember it being a reasonable price.

Of course this is 40 or more years ago. I don't think this kind of cobbler's shop exists much anymore.

[Mik]

We have one. Old Chinese guy, Mr. Wing. Great guy, great work. But I no longer wear that type of shoe.

[Aqua Letifer]

@mark said in Mildly interesting:

3D model of a 2D frequency map.

Mark, I expect 1x model of the Wow! Signal, please and thank you.

[Mik]

[George K]

[Horace]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

That's interesting. Reminds me of the pictures of people with two sets of eyes, and how profoundly disorienting it is to look at. It's all because we have so much software to interpret faces. It's a complex and huge bit of code, and it's relatively easy to make it crash.

[Jon]

@Copper said in Mildly interesting:

I have had leather half-soles replaced on a pair of Florsheim Imperial wingtips. Probably at least a few times, I remember it being a reasonable price.

Of course this is 40 or more years ago. I don't think this kind of cobbler's shop exists much anymore.

I had shoes resoled too, also 30 years ago or so, but I doubt it was as much work as was put into those boots.

[Jon]