I got the link to this video from the Villainous Company blog. It is a video of Marines doing live-fire in Camp Lejeune, NC.
Really impressed with how well the crew works, efficiently and, more importantly, safely. I think that’s an M198 155mm howitzer, which fires a 95 pound high-explosive projectile up to 14 miles away. I’m fascinated by watching what each person is responsible for during this video. The full crew is 9 men, but I think we only see 6 of them in the video.
Hey, while you’re here, why don’t you hit the big thermometer on the right and donate to Project Valour-IT to help rehabilitate injured servicemen? You know you want to, and you know you want the Marine team to “beat” the other teams during this fundraiser.
I apologize for the generic post, which this is, as I feel like my blogging has been neglected a lot lately. So, here is a random post of bits on today’s topic: things that are quick.
I have no idea how I came across this, but here is a shoelace tying technique called the Ian Knot. You can hit the creator’s website for directions (and other stuff), but here is a video I found illustrating it.
Here is a Radical SR8 setting a speed record at Nurburgring in Germany — “widely considered the toughest, most dangerous and most demanding purpose-built race track in the world,” says Wikipedia. It’s my favorite track in racing games like Forza Motorsport and Project Gotham Racing. It’s funny, I recognize the turns from driving on it so much in those games.
Haha, I was looking for more things that were fast and came across this video, “World’s Fastest Everything.”
Wow. To quote one comment I saw on YouTube, “This is why I have an internet connection.”
A fresh-off-the-farm Israeli in Tel Aviv recently discovered the wide world of music and, apparently, loves funk and psychedelia. He decided to compose original music using YouTube videos, mixed and spliced together all sorts of ways. This isn’t even a genre of music I listen to normally, but the results are amazing. He did seven songs total, plus a little “about” clip.
The first clip is embedded here for your aural/visual pleasure.
I guess this has been around since 2006, but I just recently saw it on Raph Koster’s blog. I found a version on YouTube, which I’ve embedded here:
Crazy stuff. I remember reading in Omni magazine (I think) back in the 80s that the sum total of human knowledge was supposed to double every year by the year 2020, or something like that. Mind boggling, and now I’m living in these times. I wonder if Alvin Toffler is still around, talking about Future Shock, originally published back in 1970. He coined the term “information overload” — pretty amazing for 38 years ago, less than a year after ARPANET was first turned on and about 20 years before this new-fangled World Wide Web was invented.
One could become alarmed thinking about this exponential growth of technology/information, but this reminds me of a statement by an objectivist at a lecture I once attended at OSU, when discussing man’s impact on nature and global warming, etc. He said that if the Earth gets too hot, we’ll just build better air conditioners. A glib response, to be sure, but basically he felt that if Man makes a problem, he’ll just adapt to it or produce a solution. Likewise, I’m inclined to think that if technology grows too fast, then there will just be a collapse, or a burst bubble, and it will slow down again while everyone catches up. It might be painful for some, or even societies, but I think we’ll be alright.
I’d like to get settled on a set of tools (widgets) and design (templates and themes) before I get too far along in this blog’s life, so prepare for an onslaught of test posts.
Here, let’s try out YouTuber for embedding video. I present to you: the Large Hadron Rap.
Next: crosslinking. I get my game info on over at BGG aka BoardGameGeek. (Those should be hyperlinked automatically.)
