Did You Hear They're Talking About the End of the World Again

Get ready for a cessating weekend with LUX the band.

 

A restaurant that's been around for 162 years

This is a video of a Tokyo restaurant that has been in operation for 162 years. For dinner they only serve food from the Edo period. The tables have an area, which is covered for lunch. During dinner it is opened, and charcoal is placed in it so dinners can grill their own skewers. It's a pleasant looking place.

For a Westerner it would be confusing as all hell to order food in the place, but Japanese food is quite tasty. You would just have to expect mildly aghast looks as you committed one dinning gaffe after another as you ate.   

 

Deja vu

President Donald J. Trump

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

  

Snowball fights

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This post is for my northern visitors. Apparently, when it is cold enough outside to have that disgusting form of water known as snow littering the ground, they'll go out and bean each other with balls made from the snow. Sounds completely daft to me, but I guess we have to respect the traditions of primitive tribes. So, enjoy these paintings of the snowball fighting ceremony so popular in the frigid lands. 

He’ll Have To Go

Get ready for a designating weekend with Gary Toward.

 

Electricity in wires

Earlier I did an art post about telephone poles and power lines. This video discusses how power is distributed down those lines in the most efficient manner.

 

Slavery

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Slavery is extremely common throughout human history in one form or another. The most common form being chattel slavery, where the slave was considered property of another. Other common forms were/are bond slavery and forced labor. As we can tell from the prevalence of human trafficking in the news, we are still dealing with those issues.

These are paintings of slaves in the New World.