Showing posts with label 1966. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1966. Show all posts
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11/13/18
Up Your Decor - Holiday decorating!!!!!!!
Woooo hoo, decorators! You know what time of year it is??? Yes! That's right! It's Almost Holiday Time of Year! It's a time when everyone comes to your house and looks around and judges you based on your decorating force! You don't want your house looking all crazy and bad, do you? Decorate that shit or I will kill you!!!! That's the spirit!
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| If you've ever seen a window, you know they can be a real challenge to decorate! They're pretty much a glass hole with nature poking through. That's not festive! You should gather all the objects in the room in front of the window in a big pile, then frame the whole deal in some tastefully restrained flowered drapes or something! Shew! Crisis averted! Hahahahahahah!!!!! |
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| Now that your windows are all covered, you'll want to find a way to remind yourself that there's nature out there. Decorative nature! Start with a garden-themed wallpaper in a subtle red-pink-green colorway. Then, allowing that to be your thematic touchstone, simply collect objects around, using this rule of thumb: If there's nothing within eight inches of a given object, move something to within six inches of that object. Cozy!!!! |
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| It's not all restraint and self-control, though! In some living spaces, you can really kick up your heels and have some fun, like this dining area with a fun black motif! Start by painting the walls black, then do the floor in black things! The classical Romangreekitalian sideboard is ready to be useful, all decked out with four apples, a nine-ounce gravy tureen, and two teacups. Now you're ready for any number of guests! Also, there are things on the wall, at a distance of no greater than five inches from any other thing! Intimate!!! |
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| And when you need to get away from the teeming crowds of holiday revelers, you can come to this little sanctuary! A shrine to Ziffsabanbel Ur, your lion god and spirit guide of decorating! He's made from fabric scraps and tea-dyed hemp! The Worship Shelf has everything you need to supplicate yourself to His Divine Whiskers: a lamp, a pot of baby's breath, a snuff box of tea-dyed hemp, a brass urn filled with the ashes of your previous, now heretical god, and various manuals on decorating and sacrificial rituals! Oh yeah, keep those windows covered, too! The light of day is a hated foulness that dims the voice of interior design! There! Isn't that better????!!!!!! |
4/23/18
Popular Science, 1966 - "Electric Autos - They're on the way!"
Great news, citizens! It's 1966, and electric cars are almost here! When is "almost"? Non-specific shrug! Hooray! Please enjoy this complete article from the December, 1966 issue of Popular Science. Let's all get super cranked about the electric cars we'll all have in our garage as soon as 1970 or something!
Of particular interest is the fact that, in '66, keeping the car's battery warm enough was an issue, instead of the concern we now have keeping the batteries from overheating.
Also, we'll all suffocate by the year 2000. Read on!
Let's pause the tape for a second there. Popular Science seems to be assuming that automotive technology would stagnate in 1966, and that cars would remain filthy and inefficient forever. In their defense, maybe they had little to no evidence to believe otherwise or something? Sure, but here in The Future, we have the benefit of Actual Data from the intervening decades to check their assumption. NOAA tracks this kind of stuff. It's kind of their thing. Los Angeles is a pretty polluted city with a huge traffic problem as bad as any city gets. So, what does the data on LA say?
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/news/2012/119_0809.html
Hey, pretty cool. We're not dead yet. This is very likely due to the introduction of catalytic converters, which the editors of Popular Science wouldn't have had a clue about, way back in '66. Will electric cars become the norm? Of course, and they'll be great. However, PopSci's predictions about doom and gloom are just as questionable as their exciting predictions that we'd all have a wall-sized OLED television by 2005, and that they'd be so cheap that even the smelliest of hobos would be able to afford one (something I recall reading in a PopSci issue circa 2003 or so). Anything Popular Science says "will happen soon" should be taken with a massive grain of salt.
Of particular interest is the fact that, in '66, keeping the car's battery warm enough was an issue, instead of the concern we now have keeping the batteries from overheating.
Also, we'll all suffocate by the year 2000. Read on!
Let's pause the tape for a second there. Popular Science seems to be assuming that automotive technology would stagnate in 1966, and that cars would remain filthy and inefficient forever. In their defense, maybe they had little to no evidence to believe otherwise or something? Sure, but here in The Future, we have the benefit of Actual Data from the intervening decades to check their assumption. NOAA tracks this kind of stuff. It's kind of their thing. Los Angeles is a pretty polluted city with a huge traffic problem as bad as any city gets. So, what does the data on LA say?
https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/news/2012/119_0809.html
Hey, pretty cool. We're not dead yet. This is very likely due to the introduction of catalytic converters, which the editors of Popular Science wouldn't have had a clue about, way back in '66. Will electric cars become the norm? Of course, and they'll be great. However, PopSci's predictions about doom and gloom are just as questionable as their exciting predictions that we'd all have a wall-sized OLED television by 2005, and that they'd be so cheap that even the smelliest of hobos would be able to afford one (something I recall reading in a PopSci issue circa 2003 or so). Anything Popular Science says "will happen soon" should be taken with a massive grain of salt.
4/17/18
11/29/17
11/27/17
"You will drive 120 m.p.h. -legally"... BAH hah hahha! Oh man...
In 1966, Popular Science thought the legal highway speed limit would somehow climb to 120 m.p.h. Did you enjoy your hyperspeed commute this morning? Was your breakfast meal-in-a-pill delicious and filling? Lean back in your hoverchair and enjoy this complete article explaining how we did it.
10/26/17
"Electric Autos... They're on the Way!" ... in 1966.
Yep, in 1966, the electric car was an "any minute now" proposition. Well, five to ten years, if the Popular Science article is to be believed. So, your mom and dad must have had an electric car, then. How was it? Did you learn to drive on mom and dad's electromobile? Did they hand it down to you when they eventually replaced it with their hovercar in 1973? Please leave your nostalgic electric car memories down in the comments. I'm sure we'll all be able to relate to them.
Be sure not to miss the part about the best-at-the-time sodium-sulfur battery that had to be maintained at a temperature around 500 degrees at all times or it wouldn't work at all.
We now present the full article from the December 1966 issue of Popular Science in living color (all three of them- black, yellow, and sort of other yellow). Each page has been posted at the largest-size-Blogger-will-allow size of 1600 px. You know the drill. Click it to big it, baby. You're welcome!
Be sure not to miss the part about the best-at-the-time sodium-sulfur battery that had to be maintained at a temperature around 500 degrees at all times or it wouldn't work at all.
We now present the full article from the December 1966 issue of Popular Science in living color (all three of them- black, yellow, and sort of other yellow). Each page has been posted at the largest-size-Blogger-will-allow size of 1600 px. You know the drill. Click it to big it, baby. You're welcome!
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10/22/15
The billiards hall.
Time is a little short today, but we can still manage to do a few funny make-em-ups for this picture from a 1966 copy of LIFE magazine.
Joke #1 - "Man, that was one hell of a break. Only sunk five balls, though."
Joke #2 - "Wait. I need a do-over."
Joke #1 - "Man, that was one hell of a break. Only sunk five balls, though."
Joke #2 - "Wait. I need a do-over."
[Commenter jokes will be added to the post. -Mgmt.]
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