The guy at One Red Paperclip has been bartering his way up the food chain, starting with the eponymous paper clip and eventually to reach a house. Or a genuine General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard.
Right now, he’s traded through items such as a generator, a snowmobile, a box truck, and now a KISS snow globe by way of an afternoon with Alice Cooper.
Milk it for all it’s worth, kid.
(“eponymous”: 10 points.)
Believed to be the oldest and/or tallest reinforced concrete building on the West Coast, the building at 1423 Pacific Ave in Tacoma, WA once spent a decade or three covered in brown aluminum siding.
Now, it’s been restored to its original 1907 look with the exception of the seismic retrofitting that’s all the rage these days. Or maybe those metal studs are remnants of the siding. Whatever.
Look closer:
Those are trailer hitches.
The Hungry Cabbie, a New York cab driver / food blogger, is saddle sore after weeks of traveling through Vietnam by bus. On the way back he finds a back pain remedy and a dinner to be remembered.
You may have seen these on the Starz cable channel, while the rest of us get to see them on the Internet in glorious Flash. 30 second re-enactments of classic movies, starring bunnies. Like the movies, not all of them are kid-safe.
I may have to start a ‘bunnies’ category if this keeps up.
BirdMan, Inc. sells special skydiving suits with flaps under the arms for gliding. From their About Us page:
Anyone who’s logged 200 jumps can buy one of these getups for $618 and experience an entirely new kind of skydiving. According to Kuosma, wingsuiters can slow the downward speed of a free fall from 120 mph to 37 mph and fly horizontally through the clouds. This nearly triples their time in the air before pulling the rip cord. About 2,000 people have experienced the wingsuit since the company was founded in 1999. Only four have died.
Those odds may not have been good enough for this man (still alive), who saw fit to jump out of a hot air balloon wearing a wing suit and rocket boots.
Either I’m messing with your head or I got tired of the old page design. Your choice.
The Nonist mourns for the celestial and other wonders denied to urban dwellers in today’s city skies.
NPR columnist Bonny Wolf offers recipes for dandelions and ferns in Weed Eaters: Enjoying Springtime Greens.
…But where am I going to find a gallon of dandelion blossoms?