{"id":344,"date":"2010-09-02T08:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/09\/02\/100902_randomthursday\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:33:39","slug":"100902_randomthursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/09\/02\/100902_randomthursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of today&#8217;s post could be &#8220;Around the Web,&#8221; as I don&#8217;t have anything noteworthy to write about, not that that&#8217;s ever stopped me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Ever wonder how a sewing machine works? How about a rotary engine or a Maltese Cross mechanism? If you&#8217;re a visual learner, <a href=\"http:\/\/mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/complicated-mechanisms-explained-in.html\">this website<\/a> has some very simple animated examples that might clear up some of those mysteries. I&#8217;m now considering the possibility of building my own constant velocity joint, as soon as I can figure out what it&#8217;s used for.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">If your vehicle is lacking charisma and charm, try applying a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlashes.com\/\">Car Lashes<\/a>. If you&#8217;re of the female persuasion, these will enhance your overall feminine wiles. If you&#8217;re a guy, however, you might want to avoid bowling alley parking lots.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">I recently had my eyes tested and was pleased to find that my vision has not appreciably deteriorated during the past five years. Fortunately, the vision test didn&#8217;t involve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bite.ca\/bitedaily\/2010\/08\/sci-fi-eye-test\/\">this chart<\/a>. I barely qualify for 20\/200 on that test. If it&#8217;s truly a measure of geekiness, then I&#8217;ll have to turn in my pocket protector. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2010\/08\/26\/eye-chart-for-geeks\/\">Neatorama<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">This is pretty cool. It&#8217;s a project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zefrank.com\/lmld\/\"><i>Like Mom, Like Dad<\/i><\/a>, where people re-create photographs from their childhoods. Some of them are amazingly successful in replicating not just the poses but also the moods.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">One of the pressing issues of our time is how to ensure that everyone on earth has access to clean drinking water. One possible solution, <a href=\"http:\/\/theaquaduct.blogspot.com\/\">the Aquaduct<\/a>, is a pedal-powered filtration system. It&#8217;s a great concept although it has some significant shortcomings for application in the poorest and most remote regions of the world. Here it is in action (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibike.org\/library\/tech.htm#Innovations\">iBike.org<\/a>):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1.25em;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-U-mvfjyiao\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2010\/09\/02\/meet-the-beatles-covers\/\">some background on the cover art<\/a> of four Beatles albums. You remember cover art, right? How about albums? Well, surely you remember the Beatles?<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">Last, but certainly not least, for those who are not from Midland and who have a mental picture of a sleepy, unsophisticated backwoods &#8211; well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywesttexas.com\/top_stories\/article_cd89f5f4-b568-11df-8656-001cc4c002e0.html\">this might shake up your stereotypes<\/a>. Or, affirm them. Take your pick. (Note: The comments on this story are pretty entertaining. My favorite is this one, from &#8220;tigerland&#8221;: <i>Looks like I DO have time to help you move this weekend after all, grandma.<\/i>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme of today&#8217;s post could be &#8220;Around the Web,&#8221; as I don&#8217;t have anything noteworthy to write about, not that that&#8217;s ever stopped me. Ever wonder how a sewing machine works? How about a rotary engine or a Maltese Cross mechanism? If you&#8217;re a visual learner, this website has some very simple animated examples&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/09\/02\/100902_randomthursday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Thursday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thursday","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9042,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}