You know how product listings on Amazon / AliExpress / etc., often have badly-photoshopped images which depict the product in use?

Here is the product illustration for a 250 foot long coil of corrugated orange plastic tubing, of the sort one might run fiber optic cable through.




I'm convinced.

 

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Part of the anchor from the SS Grandcamp, which was blown 1.62 miles from the ship when it exploded in the 1947 Texas City Disaster. The ship was carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer. The anchor landed in a residential area.

 

Navy humor

 

 

 

May the fourth be with you

 

^ I'm not sure what I expected when I clicked on that.

Maybe I'm just turning into a grumpy old man, but that did not tickle my pickle.


I do wish that this was a real product:

 

It wasn't fantastic by any stretch but it was amusing to me that someone would go to the trouble to mix in so many Star Wars audio samples.

Pic unrelated

 

 

^ I'd forgotten how cringy that was...


Anyway, "One Desert Eagle long" is about the most American unit of measure there is.

 

 

Nice, like that one a bunch.

Meanwhile, a spring snow event absolutely obliterated a tree I have been caring for for the last 25 years. We had an emerald ash bore infestation in the area that killed nearly all of the White ash, but I kept this one alive and healthy. Pretty bummed.

 

^ That sucks to hear, man.



I do not know what this is, but I don't hate it:





(The fun begins roughly halfway through)