Bring home the drama...

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A gift idea for you wife. Or your 

daughter. Or your girlfriend.

 

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Different roads...

The road pictured isn't actually in my neighborhood, but there are literally hundreds of similar streets and roads just like that throughout North Central and North Florida. They're called, appropriately,  canopy roads, created by the way the limbs of our Grand Oaks seems to cover the road beneath.

Some roads feel less like a route and more like a room you drive through. The avenue of live oaks in Floral City is one of those. The trees have been reaching toward each other for well over a century, and now their branches meet overhead in a long green tunnel that seems to hush everything beneath it. 

Late in the afternoon, especially as the first hint of fall softens the light, the sun slips through the moss and scatters gold across the pavement. Drive it slowly and you notice how the temperature drops a few degrees under the canopy, how the moss sways just barely, how the whole lane feels older and calmer than the world just beyond it.

Trees like these outlast almost everything around them, quietly keeping the shape of a place for generation after generation.

There is one tree in my neighborhood sitting in the middle of the street, and it covers both lanes. It's said to be almost 350 years old.

 

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With all the talk of hurricanes and storms lately...

In the days after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, thousands of people remained trapped in flooded New Orleans as rescue and evacuation efforts struggled to keep up.

Among them was 20-year-old Jabbar Gibson. According to Gibson and multiple contemporary reports, New Orleans police told him and others they could take an abandoned school bus and leave the city. Gibson got behind the wheel and began picking up stranded residents, including families with young children, as he drove through the flooded streets.

The passengers pooled what little money they had to buy fuel and diapers during the 13-hour journey to Houston. By the time they reached the Astrodome, around 50 to 70 evacuees were on board, making it the first busload of Katrina survivors to arrive there ahead of the official evacuation convoys.

Officials initially refused the group entry because they were not part of the organized evacuation from the Superdome. After about 20 minutes, the evacuees were allowed inside.

Gibson's journey remains one of the lesser-known stories from Hurricane Katrina, illustrating how some survivors relied on their own initiative to escape New Orleans during the disaster's chaotic aftermath.

It's kids like him that give us all hope...

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When the power goes out you can still 

charge your phone super fast.

And it's also a flashlight. 

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This stunning HillBetty...

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Man - does that suck...

This is not a repeat story - this is the second time this year this has happened to guy, and both times his freind on the boat thought recording it on his cell phone was better than trying to hep the guy get rid of that sucker.

An octopus clamped onto a fisherman’s face and sucks at his skin as he desperately tries to claw the critter off. Shocking cell phone footage - courtesy of his shipmate - shows the fisherman tearing at the sea beast - whose tentacles had wrapped around his entire head off the coast of Mexico. 

For one instant, it seems he has pulled him off - but then the beast clamps down harder and engulfs his entire face. As his friend films the sea beast attack, the tentacled fiend suctions onto the fisherman’s airways.

At one point the sticky eight-armed creature can be seen latching onto the fisherman’s nose, mouth and even eyes - gluing them shut. He finally got the sucker off, and instead of throwing it back in to the ocean, he brought it home and had a last laugh - eating it for dinner. Payback's a bitch - even for octopi...

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He wasn't even consulted...

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Coming home safe the hard way...

From the Post' sport page - Coming up through the Yankees system, George Lombard Jr. wowed as much with his athleticism and winning plays as he did with his bat and glove. One of those athletic, winning plays showed up in The Bronx last night. 

The rookie shortstop dazzled with an inventive and effective slide home in the seventh inning, then in the eighth he drilled a two-run, go-ahead home run in what became a 6-4 victory over the Rays in The Bronx.

In a game that did not matter because the Rays already had clinched the division, so the Yankees only pitched Cam Schlittler for three innings before testing a series of bullpen arms, Lombard found a way to entertain the announced crowd of 44,136 nonetheless.

It's THAT time of year, also...

Funny. They don't look like the usual suspects...

A group of masked teenagers stormed a Massachusetts McDonald’s restaurant and attacked an employee who was behind the counter during the chaotic invasion caught on camera. Four teens were arrested for their roles in the violent takeover in Lynn - about 10 miles outside Boston - on Sept. 18 after a local football game let out.

Cellphone footage recorded from inside the McDonald’s shows the massive group descending into the fast-food joint before two of the teens are seen viciously attacking one of the workers. Several teens - some of them wearing masks - circled the worker and rained punches on him before one appears to put him in a chokehold and pin him against the drive-thru window.

All four non-reparation-qualified yoots were taken into custody and charged with all kinds shit, including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, trespassing, affray (Affray is the legal term for a public brawl that terrifies bystanders,, like 'Occifer, I were affrayd) and civil rights violation with injury. Their identities were not published in the reports. Police speculated that somebody was messin' with somebody's somebody and this may have been a payback attack.

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Artificial and other intelligencias...

It's an interesting phenomenon that we (the editorial we, not actually me or anyone I know) keep inventing ways to fuck ourselves up. 

Scientists - legit or otherwise - keep inventing newer and more powerful drugs for us to get addicted to and OD on. Business folks invent newer and crazier ways for us to piss away our hard-earned dough betting on shit over which we have absoloutely zero control. 

Engineers and brain trusts keep inventing new machines that will eventually kill us all if we don't figure out when to unplug them - and that's only if they let us unplug 'em.

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The sign in this restaurant in Rome says 

"WIFI does not work - talk to each other"!

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Ever wonder how it is that those States that do not have a personal income tax almost to a one all have balanced budgets and are well run, and those - especially those with the highest rates - that impose an additional tax on the money you work hard for are fucked? The standouts, obviously, are NY, NJ, CA WA, MI, OR and Illinois. They're all corrupt as fuck, all uber-liberal, and not a single one of them has had a revenue surplus in the last 20 years or more.

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They keep talking about this AI shit as if it's some kinda contest, but think about this for a minute. In every game, there's a time limit of some sort or another. In every contest, there is a definitive winner at the end of that contest. As it relates to AI, where is the limiter? When and how do we say someone has somehow won some undefinable goal? In any sport or contest, there is an inevitable outcome, even if it is a 0-0 tie like in soccer, which is really fuckin' stupid, but that's a story for another day. 

There is now set goal for artificial intelligence - no defined end-game, so how can it be a race? I know I'm picking nits here, but I thought it was worth pondering...

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Someone must have a birthday 

or anniversary coming up.

Here's a great new gift idea...

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Still messin' around with GROK...

'Le Garde et les Ballons' is a famous 1946 black-and-white photograph by the renowned French photographer Robert Doisneau.

A humorous and striking street scene in Paris contrasting a solemn, uniformed guard with a playful cluster of passing balloons. The guard watches the balloons intently, with his rifle 'gleaming like a pin' (Doisneau's description) next to the floating bunch, creating a visual tension between official severity and lightheartedness. 

Those Frenchies sure do like their silly hats, don't they? 

Here's the original:

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