Thursday’s Links have Far to Go
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pyesetz(This post’s title was adapted from
a nursery rhyme.)
Dog. A four-second video of a dog having some difficulties while
licking milk out of a bowl that’s set too high for him/her.
I have dining-room chairs that look like those! From a now-bankrupt company founded in 1887 called “Pennsylvania House”. But my kids are too old now for those plastic outlet-covers in the background. And my house has a forced-hot-air heating system that apparently dates from the 1950’s — the baseboard heaters shown here are much newer.
Cat: If you look up “Electrostatics” in Wikipedia, it shows you this
picture. You also get this picture if you look up
triboelectric effect
and static cling
and 36 other articles; it’s a very popular image! From Reddit.
Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine: Derek Lowe is a research chemist who has
been in demand this year as someone who knows enough to talk meaningfully
about the fight against COVID while not being actively involved in it
himself. Unfortunately for my purposes, he does not decorate his blog
posts with pictures, so here’s his icon-photo.
Dr. Lowe devotes most of this article to the Ox/AZ vaccine, which has just been approved for use in the UK (only), as a one-dose usage for what had always been intended to be a two-dose vaccine. He apparently believes that this is an act of extreme desperation on the part of the Johnson government. His text about the Gamaleya vaccine makes it seem like that one could end up being used as the second dose for the Brits.
The director of the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow has said that their vaccine is only effective for 3‒4 months if given as one dose; if Ox/AZ is similar then this should give the UK Conservatives some breathing room to plan their next move.
Bumblebee butts: here is a gallery of 22 photos. For your Pandemic Lockdown
boredom! (Insert Furry joke here. ᴮᵘᵗᵗˢ)
Dog. A four-second video of a dog having some difficulties while
licking milk out of a bowl that’s set too high for him/her.I have dining-room chairs that look like those! From a now-bankrupt company founded in 1887 called “Pennsylvania House”. But my kids are too old now for those plastic outlet-covers in the background. And my house has a forced-hot-air heating system that apparently dates from the 1950’s — the baseboard heaters shown here are much newer.
Cat: If you look up “Electrostatics” in Wikipedia, it shows you this
picture. You also get this picture if you look up
triboelectric effect
and static cling
and 36 other articles; it’s a very popular image! From Reddit.
Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine: Derek Lowe is a research chemist who has
been in demand this year as someone who knows enough to talk meaningfully
about the fight against COVID while not being actively involved in it
himself. Unfortunately for my purposes, he does not decorate his blog
posts with pictures, so here’s his icon-photo.Dr. Lowe devotes most of this article to the Ox/AZ vaccine, which has just been approved for use in the UK (only), as a one-dose usage for what had always been intended to be a two-dose vaccine. He apparently believes that this is an act of extreme desperation on the part of the Johnson government. His text about the Gamaleya vaccine makes it seem like that one could end up being used as the second dose for the Brits.
The director of the Gamaleya Institute in Moscow has said that their vaccine is only effective for 3‒4 months if given as one dose; if Ox/AZ is similar then this should give the UK Conservatives some breathing room to plan their next move.
Bumblebee butts: here is a gallery of 22 photos. For your Pandemic Lockdown
boredom! (Insert Furry joke here. ᴮᵘᵗᵗˢ)
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Date: 2021-01-01 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-01-01 08:14 pm (UTC)For me, the Real Joke is those orange Unicode characters I snuck in. If you highlight the phrase “Bristled Butts ᴮᵘᵗᵗˢ Butts”, the first ‘Butts’ has small highlighting because I used <sup><small><small>, but the second ‘Butts’ gets the same highlighting as the third due to the use of obscure "Latin superscript modifier letters". I'm just a show-off that way.
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Date: 2021-01-01 10:25 pm (UTC)