Random Pics

[contrahead]

To use a tool like 'Google images', store the image on your PC (if that is what you're using). Then drag the photo over to the little camera icon. Sometimes you can find the results you are looking for.

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[Twisted Brick]

Twisted Brick nailed it. I don't know where he got the rest of his information though.

It was the sightglasses and valved plumbing that gave away that it was a pressure vessel. I tried to retrieve the site I got the historical info from but couldn't find it (was sippin'). Either way, it mirrored the lineage of Ingersoll companies you cited. There were a number of developments of the original 1890 design. Two pics below I found interesting: the Bargain 3 pic without sightglasses because of its centrifugal governor on top, and the expanded view of the machinery.

[NormandieStill]

For those of you making mezcal / tequila...

These bats are apparently threatened by the excessive demand for agave, which leads to plants being cut down before they mature enough to flower. Which means the bat gets no food. There are apparently responsible growers who leave a percentage of the plants to reach maturity. Not sure how you find out who they are though.

[Deplorable]

For those of you making mezcal / tequila...

AgaveBat.jpg

These bats are apparently threatened by the excessive demand for agave, which leads to plants being cut down before they mature enough to flower. Which means the bat gets no food. There are apparently responsible growers who leave a percentage of the plants to reach maturity. Not sure how you find out who they are though.

I showed this to SWMBO because she's into weird shit like that. "Oh my" she says. "Look at that tongue".

[Bradster68]

Found an old letter in a house I'm restoring..
Looks to be 1969.
Pretty cool

[HDNB]

For those of you making mezcal / tequila...

AgaveBat.jpg

These bats are apparently threatened by the excessive demand for agave, which leads to plants being cut down before they mature enough to flower. Which means the bat gets no food. There are apparently responsible growers who leave a percentage of the plants to reach maturity. Not sure how you find out who they are though.

I showed this to SWMBO because she's into weird shit like that. "Oh my" she says. "Look at that tongue".

Gene Simmons spirit animal

[contrahead]

[contrahead]

One BIG machine. Pictures show protestors being held at distance by police, at an open pit coal mine in the Rhineland (Germany near Bonn) in 2017.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... avator.jpg


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... ped%29.jpg

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Pretty sure that this machine inspired the very forgettable 2018 movie: "Mortal Engines".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571234/

[contrahead]

Was watching an old TCM movie (1956) last night with William Holden, Loyd Noland and Virginia Leith. Could not get over how much Virginia looked like Gia Scala (who was in The Guns of Navarone). Doppelgängers exist in real life and you run into them occasionally.

[OtisT]

The original Deathmobile.

[SW_Shiner]

This popped up in the calendar at work.

[contrahead]

Something to zoom in on...

This impressive image was produced in 1863, by the famous and prolific French print-maker and illustrator named Gustave Dore'. Dore is credited with around 10,000 illustrations. His work was in such demand that he employed full time assistant engravers and illustrators to help carry the workload.

Prints made from hand engraved wood blocks dominated book, magazine, and newspaper illustration for much of the 19th century. Looking at the level of detail in this image when it is enlarged, it becomes evident that the relief whether it was wood, linoleum or metal - must have been large. Reduction by photographic lenses might not have existed in 1863; or it might have been in its infancy.

The subject of the work is of course an imminent and founding work of Western literature, first published some 419 years ago. Don Quixote, is a work often cited as both - the first modern novel and "the first great novel of world literature". Even today it is voted and judged as being among the "best and most central works in world literature".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote
https://www.thehistoryofart.org/gustave ... strations/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Dor%C3%A9

I am I, Don Quixote,
The Lord of la Mancha,
My destiny calls and I go,
And the wild winds of fortune
Will carry me onward,
Oh whithersoever they blow!

[jonnys_spirit]

Here’s the above pic for reference. Great novel btw. Reading it now.

Cheers,
jonny

[Yonder]

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Good friend of mine has the one on the right. Damn me but it’s a beaut. A fine spot for friends to gather and sip.

[Saltbush Bill]

[Salt Must Flow]

^ ^ ^ Facts

[tommysb]

Huge bubbles on top of a flour fermented experiment

[contrahead]

In the future, some poor bastards will be unable to distinguish between fact and reality. Society might develop a new set of mental disorders, thanks to AI.

3 perspectives of three faces, looks like 9 girls. Wouldn't kick any of them out of bed on a rainy night. A computer algorithm doesn't know attractive from ugly; that's' a subjective decision. The styles and environments in such imagery are chosen by humans, but from some point, artificial intelligence takes over to complete a scene. Although I'll never fiddle with AI long enough to find out, I'm still curious to know just how much is human input and how much is not.

And someone (probably several sexually frustrated males; many European) has been obsessed with this stuff; a large quantity of similar product is broadcast online. That someone is old enough to have technical acumen and persistent work ethic, but still young enough to dream about only buxom beauties and sexy cars all day.


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