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21 Dec 19:43

1980s Fashion-Now in Plus Size!

by Mary Kelly

fashion math coverThe Lane Bryant
Fashion Math Make-Over
The Complete Fashion Guide for Women Size 14 and Up
Lulow and Geddie
1987

If you are looking for some 1980s fashion ideas, your wait is over! Since there isn’t a lot of fashion help for the over size 14 crowd, it is nice that this book exists. However, it should probably be weeded by 2020.

All your 1980s favorites are here: shoulder pads, bulky/long sweaters, overly permed hair, dropped waists, high waist pants, weird sleeves, etc. Such a sad time for fashion.

I am still trying to figure out the math part of the the title.

Mary

 

 

 

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21 Dec 19:42

Things I Didn’t Have on My 2020 Bingo Card Bingo

by Kimberly Harrington

21 Dec 19:38

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Worst

by tech@thehiveworks.com


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Why doesn't Luke just mind-control the Rancor?


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21 Dec 13:54

Awkward Zombie - Dead End

by tech@thehiveworks.com

New comic!

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I mean...he was already dead, right? Right?!

21 Dec 06:42

My Beepin' Favorite Person

this is a diesel sweeties comic strip

You're the only one who understands me, Artoo.

20 Dec 21:03

Detergent packs are kinda wishy-washy (Dishwashers Explained)

by Technology Connections

Ever wonder how dishwashers work? Are you ever bummed by the performance of yours? Well, this video can answer your question and possibly provide you with a solution!

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20 Dec 17:56

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bored

by tech@thehiveworks.com


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We're all laughing at stupid stuff AI does, but humans will sit at a video game they don't even like and play till they're starving.


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20 Dec 04:56

Five-Minute Tours: Hedwige Jacobs at Anya Tish Gallery, Houston

by Glasstire

Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits and artist-run spaces across the state of Texas send us video walk-throughs of their current exhibitions. This will continue while the coronavirus situation hinders public access to exhibitions. Let’s get your show in front of an audience.

See other Five-Minute Tours here.

Hedwige Jacobs: Come Alive for a Few Seconds at Anya Tish Gallery, Houston. Dates: November 20, 2020–January 16, 2021.

From the gallery:

Anya Tish Gallery is thrilled to announce Come Alive for a Few Seconds, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition of Singapore-born, Houston-based, Dutch artist Hedwige Jacobs. “Everything I do starts from a drawing” she says her latest body of work. She creates enchanting animations derived from her drawings, where silhouettes of human figures “…come alive for a few seconds.”

In a simple black and white palette of Jacob’s drawings, animation and video installations, figures scurry about like tiny ants and reconfigure themselves in endless variations drawn from everyday interactions. The artist is interested in the way the characters respond to one another and how they exist in the world. She seems both overwhelmed as well as inspired by the vastness of humanity and says, “It’s about isolation. We’re all alone, but we’re all together.”

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19 Dec 22:17

Authors

by Sarah Andersen

19 Dec 13:48

Comic for 2020.12.19

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
19 Dec 13:47

Statistics

We reject the null hypothesis based on the 'hot damn, check out this chart' test.
19 Dec 05:54

My 2021 Plans - Cinemassacre Update Video

by Cinemassacre

Wanted to give you one last update this year, mostly going over Cinemassacre's plans for 2021.

Here's a rundown:

1) Definitely working on more projects next year, especially whenever things are safe enough to film together. Got some big stuff planned already.

2) REX VIPER!! That's my new band's name. You might remember the music video we did called Mighty Wings and Hadoukens: https://youtu.be/QgksfOYP0SI You'll be hearing more music from us soon, but it'll probably be on a new channel just for music. Stay tuned.

3) My autobiography, "A Movie Making Nerd" is still coming. It's done, but no new news, aside from the cover art. But, it's 100% coming out in 2021. Sooner than later. Haven't decided how to publish it yet.

4) Monster Madness is HOPEFULLY coming back full force in 2021. The theme might be "Around the World." 31 days, 31 movies, from 31 different countries. Not sure if it will be on the main channel or our second channel.

5) James and Mike Monday's will not be returning after our hiatus this year. Mike Matei has decided to leave the channel to focus full time on his streaming. So, he won't be appearing in any future videos. We wish him the best of luck on Twitch. Give him a follow here: https://www.twitch.tv/mikemateilive

6) The Screenwave Media guys will still be helping me on Nerd episodes and other reviews. Really appreciate all the help they've been giving me for years.

7) The AVGN 1+2 Deluxe video game is coming to PlayStation and Xbox really soon. Stay tuned to their social media on http://avgngame.com to get updates. And, yes, a physical edition is coming.

Thanks for watching!! I really appreciate it!!

#Cinemassacre #JamesRolfe #AVGN
18 Dec 23:27

Harris County elections were fair and secure, task force finds

by Patrick Svitek
Voters at the polling place inside the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center in Houston on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
Harris County, home to Houston, was the epicenter of the voting rights battle that led up to the Nov. 3 election in Texas. Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune

A task force formed to ensure the security of the November election in Texas’ biggest county has found no evidence of wrongdoing after finishing its work.

The Harris County Election Security Task Force was made up of the Harris County Precinct 1 constable’s office, the district attorney’s office, the county attorney’s office and the county clerk’s office. In a report published Friday, the task force said it "received approximately 20 allegations of wrongdoing that needed to be elevated to the level of a formal investigation.”

"Despite claims, our thorough investigations found no proof of any election tampering, ballot harvesting, voter suppression, intimidation or any other type of foul play that might have impacted the legitimate cast or count of a ballot,” the report says.

Harris County, home to Houston, was the epicenter of the voting rights battle that led up to the Nov. 3 election in Texas, with state GOP leaders battling the county clerk, then Chris Hollins, over his proposed changes to election procedures due to the coronavirus pandemic. The fallout is still underway, with authorities arresting a former Houston police captain Tuesday for his role in an elaborate plot to find evidence for a false conspiracy theory of widespread voter fraud across the county.

And while the task force returned no evidence of wrongdoing, the district attorney, Kim Ogg, announced last week that a grand jury had indicted three people for allegedly trying to illegally influence races in two Houston-area state House districts. Two face allegations that they submitted paperwork for a candidate under a fake name in a Democratic primary. A third was accused of sending threats to a Democratic legislator in hopes of scaring her into dropping her bid for reelection.

The task force operated from Oct. 13 through Nov. 3, which was Election Day, according to the report. Undercover officers made 6,311 visits to 122 early voting and 806 Election Day polling sites. The task force responded to 77 calls for service. And it used four explosive-detecting K-9 units to to make 323 sweeps of polling locations, as well as "continual sweeps" while voters dropped off ballots at NRG Stadium on Election Day. (The task force found no explosives.)

“We all worked together to ensure our elections, which are the lifeblood of democracy, were free and fair and that any and all allegations were thoroughly investigated," Ogg said.

The four county offices represented on the task force are all led by Democrats.

There were nearly 1.7 million votes cast in Harris County last month. The county continued to become bluer, with Joe Biden carrying it by 13 percentage points, a slightly larger margin than Hillary Clinton won it by four years earlier.

18 Dec 22:54

Opening a Big Pile of Retro Tech You Sent In!

by LGR

One last donations unboxing for 2020! Lots of vintage computer hardware, software, oddware, games, and technological goodies. Thanks to everyone who contributed -- and also made offers to do so! It's always humbling the kinda stuff that shows up.

● LGR links:
https://www.patreon.com/LazyGameReviews
https://www.twitter.com/LazyGameReviews
https://www.facebook.com/LazyGameReviews

● Music courtesy of:
http://www.epidemicsound.com

#LGR #Retro #Unboxing
18 Dec 20:27

Comic for 2020.12.18

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
18 Dec 20:26

Slow Phone

by Reza
18 Dec 20:25

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trough

by tech@thehiveworks.com


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Moms will always stab you in the back like that.


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18 Dec 07:39

She Had That One Ready to Drop. No Delay.

this is a diesel sweeties comic strip

What's the first thing you're going to do when this is all over?

18 Dec 02:13

Different Flavors

by Scandinavia and the World
Different Flavors

Different Flavors

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17 Dec 21:09

Shower cap

by Cassandra Calin

I'm a sucker for cute things. My wallet, not so much.

17 Dec 19:26

It Snowed Across America, and We’re Not Jealous. We Swear.

by Dan Solomon
texas winter snowOn Thursday morning, Texans throughout the state woke up a little chillier than usual. In much of the state, temperatures dipped below freezing overnight. The grass, however, was still green, the cars covered in nothing but, perhaps, a thin layer of frost. Our friends in other parts of the country—the Northeast, the Midwest, even as far down the East Coast as Washington, D.C.—awoke to a layer of snow coating everything. And they shared pictures! Look at all this snow! Central Park received at least ten inches of snow, with more falling. This is Belvedere Castle now, with the San Remo in the background. pic.twitter.com/x440FHcZra — Manhattan Bird Alert (@BirdCentralPark) December 17, 2020 The snow is beautiful this morning! But it is A LOT of snow.…View Original Post

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17 Dec 19:22

Atlantic City Is Offering Bidders The Chance To Blow Up A Former Trump Casino

by Colin Dwyer
Evening light illuminates the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino earlier this year in Atlantic City, N.J. The city

The Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, N.J., is scheduled for implosion next month, but the right to press the button is still up for grabs. The city is auctioning off the opportunity for charity.

(Image credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images)

17 Dec 17:36

Welcome to Texas, Elon Musk. You Don’t Have to Move to Austin.

by Michael Agresta
elon-musk-texasElectric vehicle pioneer, aspiring Mars colonist, and part-time Twitter troll Elon Musk announced this month that he’s moving to Texas, and many in the tech world were shocked. Not us. Tesla CEO Musk is his generation’s eccentric billionaire par excellence. Texas has long been a spiritual homeland for vainglorious oddballs of great wealth, from “King of the Wildcatters” Glenn McCarthy, the inspiration for Giant and Dallas, to self-funding presidential candidate H. Ross Perot. Musk, 49, may have been born in South Africa and made most of his roughly $140 billion personal fortune in California, but he belongs in Texas. Welcome home, Elon. So far, he hasn’t publicly revealed which Texas metropolitan region he’s chosen for his next chapter. As part of his house-hunting process, he’d…View Original Post

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17 Dec 15:20

Top Five: Dec. 17, 2020. Outdoor Artist Environments, With Bruce and Julie Webb

by Glasstire

This week Glasstire is joined by Julie and Bruce Lee Webb, of Webb Gallery in Waxahachie, to run down the greatest outdoor artist environments in Texas.
“They were created as people magnets. Artists living on the outside trying to draw everybody else to the inside.”
To watch last week’s Top Five episode in which Christopher Blay and Christina Rees talk about a paper show exposed to the elements, a show of sinister little dwellings, and a way to see a lot of art in one trip, please go here.
The Ghosts of Christmas Past (some favorite Texas artist environments that are no longer with us):
Australia Glenn's Blue House

Australia Glenn’s Blue House.

1. Australia Glenn’s Blue House

Dallas
Cleveland-Turner,-The-Flower-Man

Cleveland Turner, “The-Flower Man.” Photo Credit: Larry Harris.

2. Cleveland Turner, The Flower Man
Houston

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George & Ruth Ray’s Ornamental Garden.

3. George & Ruth Ray’s Ornamental Garden
Stephenville

Beatrice Valdez Ximénez

Beatrice Valdez Ximénez.

4. Beatrice Valdez Ximénez
Floresville

TexasKidWatson

Willard “The Texas Kid” Watson.

5. Willard “The Texas Kid” Watson
Dallas

The Ghosts of Christmas Present (some favorite Texas artist environments you can see today):
Rufino Loya Rivas, Casa De Azúcar

Rufino Loya Rivas, Casa De Azúcar. Photo credit: Fred Scrunton, via Spaces Archives.

1. Rufino Loya Rivas, Casa De Azúcar
4301 Leavell Ave., El Paso

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Vince Hanneman, The Cathedral of Junk. Photot: Kelly Ludwig, via Spaces Archives online

2. Vince Hanneman, The Cathedral of Junk
4422 Lareina Dr., Austin

 

Jeff McKissack, The Orange Show, 2401 Munger St., Houston

3. Jeff McKissack, The Orange Show
2401 Munger St., Houston

Beer Can House, John Milkovisch, 222 Malone St., Rice Military. In 1968, it was just a modest house in the middle of a neighborhood, but 39,000 cans of beer later, it had turned into an important stop on the tour of Houston’s great folk art sites.

John Milkovisch, The Beer Can House
222 Malone St., Houston

ndy-DonMarvinGardensYardShow

Andy Don Emmons, Marvin Gardens Art Yard.

4. Andy Don Emmons, Marvin Gardens Art Yard
1310 E. Marvin Ave., Waxahachie
Dionicio Rodriguez's Bridge in Brackenridge Park

Dionicio Rodriguez’s Bridge in Brackenridge Park.

5. Dionicio Rodriguez’s Bridge in Brackenridge Park
400 N. St. Mary’s Street, San Antonio

The Ghosts of Christmas Future:
Lower Pecos Rock Art

Lower Pecos Rock Art.

1. Lower Pecos Rock Art
Lower Pecos Canyonlands

Go here to read a 2017 article by Gene Fowler on Lower Pecos Rock Art.

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17 Dec 15:17

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Surveillance

by tech@thehiveworks.com


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Later it turns out the Dad has masterminded everything.


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17 Dec 02:58

Bum Steer Awards, 2021: The COVID Nineteen

by Texas Monthly
A group of 19 Texans who let down the state with their response to the pandemic19. It was a three-alarm blunder Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell stopped by a county firehouse in April to borrow firefighter gear to wear to his grandson’s birthday party—an act that was, as a criminal complaint pointed out, a violation of the county’s shelter-in-place order, which Gravell himself had put into effect. 18. There’s a 99.9 percent chance his fans won’t care that he got this wrong In July Allen West, the head of the Republican Party of Texas, said that he didn’t want the state to impose draconian measures “over something that has a 99.9 percent recovery rate.” As critics noted, to extrapolate the 99.9 percent figure, West used an outdated statistic for the number of COVID-19 fatalities in Texas and then divided it not…View Original Post

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17 Dec 02:27

2020 Election Map

There are more Trump voters in California than Texas, more Biden voters in Texas than New York, more Trump voters in New York than Ohio, more Biden voters in Ohio than Massachusetts, more Trump voters in Massachusetts than Mississippi, and more Biden voters in Mississippi than Vermont.
16 Dec 23:46

Comic for 2020.12.16

New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
16 Dec 23:44

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscious

by tech@thehiveworks.com


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I just don't see why everyone's so pro-consciousness.


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16 Dec 23:43

Cryptid Club

by Sarah Andersen