No action shots yet from the little medieval faire this past weekend but here are a few before/after the action. There were only four of us riding but it was a nice, tight show.
My horse there is Ben-Hur, who is the singularly chillest dude I’ve ever seen.
There are still some more bits to add to the armour - greaves and finish the armet (helmet) since I had to borrow Mr. Tailor’s for this event again. We’ll be riding together finally at the Brooks Medieval Faire in August and while he makes a lovely squire, I would much rather be jousting with him.
Really handsome armour, that captures what medieval illustrations were representing with blue-black and highlights. This is of the Battle of Barnet in a chronicle ca. 1475…
…though later painters (this is by Titian, ca. 1537) did it too…
Reblogging for extremely insightful commentary! We were looking at it again on the stand the other day and I was thinking aloud about what made it so legit-looking. Then I realized that the size was very similar to many ‘complete’ armouers I’ve seen in museums. (I’m 5′7″ which is preeeetty average height for men in the 15th century.)
Pretty sure “money can’t buy happiness” is meant to actually mean “don’t neglect emotional health and caring for the people in your life in the pursuit of more wealth than you need”, but instead middle-class and rich people use it to tell poor people “don’t strive to have financial security even though I have it”.
TheNarrownose chimaera (Harriotta raleighana), occurs in deep waters of the continental slopes in depths of 380 to 2,600 m in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. They are oviparous but nothing is known of spawning and reproduction and very few juveniles have been collected. It was filmed swimming 10 m above the seafloor in Hydrographer Canyon, off the coast of Nantucket Island in the US.
Over the past week, a number of Steam accounts — including those of some prominent streamers and DOTA 2 pros — were temporarily stolen courtesy of a pretty glaring hole in Valve’s security.
Three decades ago, Ove Joensen decided to row 900 miles across the North Sea from his home in the Faroe Islands to Denmark. His persistence made him a national hero.
so these producers from jurassic park needed a goat for there new movie coming out in 2015 and they happened to drive past my house and see my goats in the pen outside and now my goat named earl is going to be in a movie and is more famous than ill ever be in my entire life.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the gift that keeps on giving. After completing a historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, the spacecraft continues to provide scientists with never-before-seen views of Pluto and its five moons as well as incredible data packets. Last Friday, the spacecraft left us with some amazing science data to digest and a hauntingly beautiful view of Pluto backlit by the Sun.
Transmitting data's slow in part due to the vast distance between the Earth and New Horizons, but the probe also has to share its "talking time" with NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN)—a special worldwide network of large antennas designed to support interplanetary missions. As a result, scientists cannot download all the data on board New Horizons at one time. Over the next few weeks, mostly engineering data will be beamed back, so this is the last of the new images we'll see for a while.
Scientists have known for years that Pluto has an atmosphere but have never been able to directly observe it. The first detection of Pluto's atmosphere came in 1988 during a stellar occultation—meaning Pluto passed between the Earth and a distant star, blocking out the star's light and allowing scientists to gather data. If Pluto had an atmosphere, the light from the star would gradually fade versus being suddenly blocked out.
Japan is turning it’s unused golf courses into solar power plants. via discovery.com
By one estimate, more than 600 golf clubs across Japan now sit empty. The deserted courses remain a haunting reminder of Japan’s Lost Decade (the 1990s), when the nation’s bubble economy burst and the GDP plummeted.
In a symbolic convergence of past and present, Japanese electronics manufacturer Kyocera is now making use of several of those abandoned golf courses to harvest tomorrow’s sustainable energy.
The company recently announced two large projects that will convert deserted golf courses into massive solar power plants, one of which will cover nearly 500 acres and become Japan’s largest operating solar power plant in Kyoto Prefecture. Together, the plants will have a combined output of approximately 115 megawatts, enough to power nearly 40,000 homes.
I’m a paramedic. My job requires a broad set of skills: interpersonal, medical, and technical skills, as well as the crucial skill of performing under pressure. I often make decisions on my own, in seconds, under chaotic circumstances, that impact people’s health and lives. I make $15/hr.
And these burger flippers think they deserve as much as me?
Good for them.
Look, if any job is going to take up someone’s life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There’s a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, “These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys.” And elsewhere on FB: “I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.”
And that’s exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don’t realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It’s in the bosses’ interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it.
My company, as they’re so fond of telling us in boosterist emails, cleared 1.3 billion dollars last year. They expect guys supporting families on 26-27k/year to applaud that. And that’s to say nothing of the techs and janitors and cashiers and bed pushers who make even less than us, but are as absolutely crucial to making a hospital work as the fucking CEO or the neurosurgeons. Can they pay us more? Absolutely. But why would they? No one’s making them.
The workers in NY *made* them. They fought for and won a living wage. So how incredibly petty and counterproductive is it to fuss that their pile of crumbs is bigger than ours? Put that energy elsewhere. Organize. Fight. Win.
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Super Opinionated.
