I saw this older gentlemen during the winter with his cane, and more interestingly, wearing his helmet. Winnipeg streets can be treacherous in the winter as they are covered with ice and snow. So a slip could lead to a head smack on the sidewalk. A helmet would help in that scenario.
Today I saw the old guy walking by again. And lo and behold, he had his helmet on. The sidewalks are dry and clean. Very good traction. But this fella isn’t taking any chances. He is really protecting that noggin.
At its peak, over a quarter of all male American college-goers picked up Playboy magazine every single month. And what does the patriarch of this booming empire, idolised and hated in equal measures by both men and women the world over, do to cement his status as the kingpin of the media world? He buys a private plane; and we’re not talking about a Cessna 172. Nope – in the birth of the hugely exciting jet age, Hugh Hefner bought an airliner for use at his (and several significant others’) convenience.
In February 1970, Hugh Hefner took his maiden flight…
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East Broadway area of downtown Winnipeg.
They don’t make lunch boxes, also known as lunch kits, like they did back in the sixties and seventies. The tin boxes which had a thermos inside were adorned with pop culture icons, TV shows, movies, sports heroes, historical events and many other topical subject matter.
The vintage lunch box as we think of it today was born in 1935. That’s when a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, company called Geuder, Paeschke, and Frey licensed the likeness of a new cartoon character named Mickey Mouse for the top of its oblong-shaped “Lunch Kit.” The metal container was sealed at the top with a loop of stiff wire that doubled as a handle.
From that moment on, placing a character of any sort on the side of a lunch box (or lunchbox, as it is often spelled) became the standard for the lunch boxes children toted to school. Before long, the signal a lunch box sent to your peers could mark you as a cool kid or a dork, depending on if your PB&J was packed inside a Mercury’s Space capsule Container (Universal, 1962) or a Evel Knievel lunch box (Aladdin, 1973).
Modern lunch boxes just don’t have the same eye-catching appeal of the old boxes. The lunch boxes today are more practical and cater to contemporary technology.
A three decker.
The majestic old lunch boxes:
The interior of a vintage box.
When buying a Roy Rogers and Dale Evans box on the right, included was a toy horse. It goes by the name Trigger.
Not sure where this one came from.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers may have beat the Ottawa REDBLACKS in a CFL game this past week, but during that game one moment made us all win.
After finishing off an incredible catch, run + spino-rama TD, Bombers RB Timothy Flanders displayed a great act of kindness.
How can you not expect a guy named Flanders not to do the right thing?
Architecture studio EFFEKT has designed a walkway to take hikers and Instagrammers to new heights above a forest in Denmark. The idea is to offer bird’s-eye views of the area without disrupting the environment.
The centerpiece of the construction is set to be a winding observation tower, topping out at about 150 feet (45 metres). The hourglass-like construction should rise in a luscious preserved forest an hour south of Copenhagen, in Glisselfeld Kloster, Haslev. It consists of a 2000 ft. (600m) internal ramp, which will take visitors from the forest floor, through the treetops culminating with a 360° view of the hilly landscape, characteristic for the region.
The structures that make up the route towards the tower have been split into two sections: the high walkway will extend past some of the forest’s oldest trees, while the lower path will swirl its way through the younger areas.
The one-of-a-kind project is expected to be finished in 2018.
Solar wall
Donald Trump said in July his administration is considering equipping his proposed border wall with solar panels to generate electricity, and explained why the border wall must be see-through.
A reporter on board Air Force One on the way to France, asked Trump whether he was joking about building a “solar wall.”
“No, not joking, no. There is a chance that we can do a solar wall. We have major companies looking at that,” replied Trump.
Trump added that “there is a very good chance” a solar wall could be built, and that “there’s no better place for solar than the Mexico border — the southern border.”
Trump said the wall would have to be see-through, a demand that’s been made by some Border Patrol officials who patrol the border.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly told Congress in February that officers under his command had asked for a barrier through which they could see the other side.
“You have to be able to see through it. In other words, if you can’t see through that wall — so it could be a steel wall with openings, but you have to have openings because you have to see what’s on the other side of the wall,” said Trump Thursday.
Another see through wall idea
“And I’ll give you an example,” Trump started. “As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them — they hit you on the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over.”
“As cray (sic) as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall,” Trump concluded. “But we have some incredible designs.”
Trump also admitted that his proposed wall wouldn’t cover the entire 2,000-mile border, an apparent reversal from earlier positions.
“And remember this, it’s a 2,000-mile border, but you don’t need 2,000 miles of wall because you have a lot of natural barriers. You have mountains. You have some rivers that are violent and vicious. You have some areas that are so far away that you don’t really have people crossing. So you don’t need that,” said Trump.
Current real wall in California
Turner Classic Movies had a run of 1950’s and 1960’s science fiction movies. I took a look at Cosmic Monsters, The Green Slime and Queen of Outer Space. They fit into a capital B category for B-movies. Even though the special effects are primitive, in relation to today’s standards, and funny, we have to give the film makers credit for trying. The Green Slime effects are actually pretty good.
Image below is unrelated. But it is so cool.
Now the real thing
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