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Heat-Seeking Laser

There was that telly show, Street Hawk (1985). The theme music is grand — "Le Parc" by Tangerine Dream . The Intro He was a motorcycle cop, injured. Now, he's riding a more deadly motorcycle. A top secret government mission to ride... Street Hawk. ... designed to fight urban crime. Capable of an incredible speed up to 300 miles an hour. 🤨 And a Minsk firepower. 🤔 (PVCs tumble. The wall loses them. Plung. Dung. Tung. One rolls. Clonk. ) The Guest Star I ride a motorbike. If I rode a papaya plant, then I wouldn't ride the bike. It's either the plant or the bike. Officer Jesse Mach, the main lad, rode a motorcycle with a jet engine shoved inside. Jet. Engine. The phrase "motorcycle with a jet engine" should raise instant alarms, like shouting "flamethrower in a nursery" or "chainsaw ballet". Let's see here: Motorcycle ➡️ Two wheels. Balances by physics, gyroscopic motion, and rider finesse. Je...

Chess: Zukertort Opening: Tennison Gambit with ?! and ??

I played offence here in 3 minutes Super Blitz on Lichess as Anonymous. The board looked like it was littered with landmines of ?! and ?? . The battle roar should sound: Mistake, inaccuracy, mistake. Forward! It ended with a checkmate. I did that checkmate. If it were the opposite side, well, it would like plunging myself into a carburettor. Usually, I can't fit... in. Physics. 🤷 You can use your left and right arrows on your keyboard or use the mouse scroll to see the moves back and forth on the chessboard. But first, click the board.

Elders Drinking Song

Listen on YouTube Music As if your bones heard something familiar from before you were even born. That song is from the Amis (阿美族) people of Taiwan. 老人飲酒歌 or Elders Drinking Song is a traditional Amis chant, famously performed by Difang (郭英男) and Igay (郭秀珠) who were Amis from the Maran (馬蘭社) settlement. The vocals were lifted straight from a 1988 recording of Difang and Igay singing during a French government-backed ethnomusicology project — meant for research. With EMI as the outsourced vault. EMI (Electric and Musical Industries), a commercial British label. Because even "non-commercial" academic recordings were often pressed to vinyl/CD by big labels, just for reach or preservation. EMI probably saw it as just another folk catalogue item. The original singers never expected their voices to hit global charts — through Enigma. Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Michael Cretu. They were under Virgin Records. Aside f...

Handketchup

I was watching a gameplay of METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER on YouTube by MKIceAndFire . I "read" that, handketchup , in the inventory. I thought, oh, that's probably just a condiment for his ration. What I'm saying is, there's "snake eater" bit in it — ketchup for eating a roasted snake, juicy rat, tingly spider, Russian false mango, and goblin perhaps? 🤔 Hm, alright. It would mask the uncharted taste. Never mind the possibility of poison — looks edible, ketchup. Russian false mango is fictional. It's like Saharan false snow. But, handketchup? Is it like hand grenade? One word? Really? So, squirt squirt to the face? Oi you! You enemy, aye? (Squirts ketchup from the handketchup to the face. The opposite side's face. Not his own face. 🤦) ... opposite side's ... 🤔 It's possessive, but it's abstract. It's got that unhingedness to it. Who refers to a person or group as "the opposite side" in casual speech,...
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