Read this as an explanation. Then watch this starting at the 2:54 mark (everything else is boring).
Not bad for an old guy. And everyone swears that this was for real. No cheating to make him look better.
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Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron. Those interested in painting should watch the embedded clip.
China’s holdings of US debt jump 30 percent. Not really news. Just something that we would already know if Brad Setser was still blogging. Also falsifies all those stories about China unloading US debt.
Fernando Alonso has criticised his government’s decision to lower the national speed limit to 68mph, warning that it will be “difficult to stay awake” at that speed. A silly story, but we sympathize. Of course, we have trouble staying awake at any speed so what do we know?
You took too long
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H/T Hip And Thigh
Amish Man Rescues Tractor Trailer
An amish man uses his horse team to pull a tractor trailer out of the snow:
Bear Plays with Kitty-Cat
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Lead designer on Firaxis’ Civilization V talks about why he is going to Stardock.
More than 1,000 turtle doves fall from the sky in Italy in latest mass bird death case. This is been happening all over. At first we did not take it seriously. Now we are starting to wonder.
Big Cave in Vietnam
A huge cave in Vietnam. . . pretty cool:
Skiing with a Parachute
Wheee! Watch in hi-def on a wide-screen monitor.
Superior, Speed Fly from Marshall Miller on Vimeo.
Snow is coming
Trick Play
See, if I had to play football, I’d do things like this:
Maybe that’s why people don’t like to play with me, but it’s a lot more fun than doing what everyone expects. And the rules do technically allow it.