My Pewter Persian (White) Chico would sleep like that. Fortunately I didn’t have white rugs…
My hallway has brown carpet, and dark cats are tricky to see in the dark on it. When I tripped over the first one, I installed a night light so there was low level illumination so I could see when one was laying in the middle of the floor if I got up in the night.
Poorly drawn over by me, are the main visible ‘Outside Third’ power rails as used by the Southern Region in the UK. The SR was an early adopter of third rail electric pickup over here. Good thing that the EMU’s are quite long, there are some very large ‘Gaps’ in the pickup rails.
I’m not too familiar with the electrical rail set-up in Europe concerning third-rail electrification, but I am very comfortable in the railway industry in the new and old worlds. I spent my life there.
Found usually on bridges or anywhere as required, to keep a derailed car/locomotive from careening off and doing damage to local environment (buildings, rivers, other rolling stock).
Yes, we have them in the UK as well, unlike check rails that are there to prevent derailments, as you say, these are to prevent a previously derailed wheelset from leaving the confines of the track.
Well…. I was just trying to be funny, above… my usual mode.
But yeah… I actually thought the artist may have applied fire retardant to parts of the individual matchsticks, to get such even lengths.
The problem with burning the whole thing at once is that fire is very hard to control, even carefully using a torch…. and matchstick wood is especially chosen to burn easily.
It might work, but you might have to make several before you get one that didn’t burn unevenly, perhaps leaving an almost unburnt match here while losing a bunch of heads there, or even a whole stick or two completely gone….
Kind of like wildfire does to a stand of trees.
Interesting, though, to think about how it might be done.
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“Are you all right? Should I fetch the firemen?”
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I can’t shake the idea that the horse trainer is riding a unicycle…
It took me far too long to figure out what i was looking at.
Another kitty-chameleon!
I couldn’t tell if it was something real or a toy, until I realized it was lying on its back.
Makes an entirely different creature when you think it’s on its tummy and its front legs are its ears.
My Pewter Persian (White) Chico would sleep like that. Fortunately I didn’t have white rugs…
My hallway has brown carpet, and dark cats are tricky to see in the dark on it. When I tripped over the first one, I installed a night light so there was low level illumination so I could see when one was laying in the middle of the floor if I got up in the night.
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Got two, and not the movie.
Better’n me.
Definite yes on the former.
A Christmas classic (hint)
My previous post vanished. Peculiar.
So who moved Mount Rainier to Japan?
Because of the color, and the clash with the classic environment, the focus seems to shift to that little blue structure on the right.
Is it storage, outhouses, garden sheds, utility services??
My curiosity is piqued.
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Ugliest chick i ever saw.
Officer Muldoon?
Alice Cooper in “Dark Shadows”?
I think those women passing by can read “her” at a glance.
But her “customers” can’t?
Klinger!!!
I’m thinking that he was a bait for a purse snatching sting.
Do they do that?
I thought it was only hookers, which IMHO often treads a very fuzzy boundary with entrapment.
I’d think a purse snatching decoy would be small, wearing a gray wig, and using a cane…
Not a healthy 6’2″ crazy lady 😁.
That’s got uncanny valley all over it.
Why isn’t she guest starring in Frog Applause?
Cos she still has some expression in her eyes.
And you thought a Rubik’s Cube was hard…
Now that’s some complex trackwork!
With third rail electrification on some routes as well.
I don’t see the third-rail electrification, what I see are track guides (to limit wheel hopping over the rail).
Poorly drawn over by me, are the main visible ‘Outside Third’ power rails as used by the Southern Region in the UK. The SR was an early adopter of third rail electric pickup over here. Good thing that the EMU’s are quite long, there are some very large ‘Gaps’ in the pickup rails.
I’m not too familiar with the electrical rail set-up in Europe concerning third-rail electrification, but I am very comfortable in the railway industry in the new and old worlds. I spent my life there.
Found usually on bridges or anywhere as required, to keep a derailed car/locomotive from careening off and doing damage to local environment (buildings, rivers, other rolling stock).
Yes, we have them in the UK as well, unlike check rails that are there to prevent derailments, as you say, these are to prevent a previously derailed wheelset from leaving the confines of the track.
Who put a switching yard on a bridge?
It’s the entrance to one of London’s large stations, not a yard, but I can see why it would look like it.
The caption in the attachment comes from HERE.
I don’t know about any of that technical railroad stuff…
Looking at the picture, I just want to comb out all those tangles and braid them.
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I’m not coming out until “___” goes away…
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Got it.
Then i remembered the puzzle. 😀
But not in eleven seconds.
I can’t even find the Eleven Seconds…
Darn! – Found it quicker.
I kinda wanted a chance to redo this some day….
Yup, got it. About double the target time, though.
The times given are always ridiculous.
Sometimes you just happen to see them instantly; other times you have to search, which you can’t do in any organized fashion in 11 seconds.
It’s just a form of click bait, to goad you into trying.
Ignore the time goals.
Everyone should know the big guy.
I might even know the movie.
He was in quite a few…
this was the first
Oh yeah…. A great one!
Oh yeah, got the movie and the “actor” on the right.
I’m glad I’m not holding the short match…
How many did he or she have to light to end up with just the right number of each, burnt heads intact?
How I would have done that:
Well…. I was just trying to be funny, above… my usual mode.
But yeah… I actually thought the artist may have applied fire retardant to parts of the individual matchsticks, to get such even lengths.
The problem with burning the whole thing at once is that fire is very hard to control, even carefully using a torch…. and matchstick wood is especially chosen to burn easily.
It might work, but you might have to make several before you get one that didn’t burn unevenly, perhaps leaving an almost unburnt match here while losing a bunch of heads there, or even a whole stick or two completely gone….
Kind of like wildfire does to a stand of trees.
Interesting, though, to think about how it might be done.
Strike them, burn a few seconds, add Sharpie to get the desired pattern.
Shou Sugi Ban?
I posted this kinda late today, so i.m going to post it again.
That was interesting, thanks for posting.
Railroad Building, built 1900. Skagway, Alaska.