“Whoa, Tumblr.”

– literally everyone

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Talking Marriage with Ryan Bailey: Talking Scarriage

(Warning: linked video includes scary clips from horror movies.)

More than once someone has asked me whether Talking Marriage is worth watching. I always have a hard time answering. There’s a superficial level on which it would be easy to answer no, because if you’re looking for the kind of work Sean has done with Yulin, it’s not that.

But I’ve come to appreciate the show a lot. There’s an honesty to it. Even when it seems like it’s just being silly, there’s a layer of truth running underneath. Or sometimes right out on the surface.

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wee-little-things:

1:12 scale miniature by 2smartminiatures by ankanka on Flickr.

This picture makes me ever-so-slightly hungry.

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Navigator Wouter Verbraak fist bumps crew member Nicolai Sehested aboard Team Vestas Wind. Source.

Here’s what I love about this clip. Vestas is in the process of making a huge gain, such that as of the latest update (0040 UTC on October 30), they’ve gone from being in the middle of the fleet to essentially being in a three-way tie for the lead. They made that gain because of a high-risk strategic decision that must have been Wouter’s call (along with Chris Nicholson, the skipper).

As a former offshore racing navigator (not on anything like Wouter’s level, but still) I think I have a degree of insight into what was going through his head in this moment. And yeah, he’s sharing the joy with Nicolai, and complimenting his good job on the helm.

But Wouter knows, and I know (and Nicolai and the unidentified crewman filming and probably everyone else on the boat knows), awesome driving at most gets you a fraction of a knot over the competition. You want a 6-knot advantage over a 6-hour period? That takes a navigator.

Go Wouter. :-)

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dduane:

“Groundhog Day” near Saturn: the moons cast their shadows across the planet’s rings as the Saturnian equinox approaches. (Click on the image to see a short movie of the phenomenon.)

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lonelyetntomologist:

Hanging jewel wasp by Nikola Rahme on Flickr.

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sexpigeon:

Not against modern dance, just want to understand it better.

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Are you kidding me? This isn’t an actual race. It’s a cheesy movie plot. In the wind map you can’t even distinguish the three lead boats; they’re all merged into that one triangle.

It looks like they’re trying to get to the stronger wind of that weather system south-southeast of them, but I’m not sure they’re going to reach it; it may outrun them.

There doesn’t appear to be anything really good rolling in from the west at the moment, so it may be that they don’t end up running downwind in full-on storm conditions on this leg after all. In which case they’re all going to be getting kind of hungry. The boats don’t carry extra food (because even freeze-dried, it weighs too much), and the generally light conditions have made the race take longer than usual. Some of the boats have already begun rationing.

The other thing that could slow them down is that red line on the wind map. It’s an exclusion zone at 42°S announced by the race committee a few days ago. Usually they don’t have exclusion zones until leg 5, when they use them to reduce the risk of boats running into icebergs, but with the Saint Helena high having pushed the boats so far south they apparently decided it was prudent to have one now. The boats won’t be allowed to sail south of that line.

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majagray:

#Repost from @team_sca —- What sailing hands look like after 18 days at sea. All the pictures in our flickr gallery! http://ift.tt/1vhVKbC #teamsca #volvooceanrace2014 #extremeworkconditions @yourpartnertork #hands #sailors #weareteamsca

But I don’t want to get out of the bath yet. I’m having too much fun with my toy boat.

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Oh, wow. There is so much going on in the VOR.

The three lead boats are emerging from the high into the northern fringes of the westerlies. And get this: Vestas, who went way west, such that at least one team in a video from a day or so ago had written them off, made out bigtime. They’ve had better wind and have been sailing faster than every other boat in the fleet for the past day, such that now, when the lead boats have gybed back to cover, Vestas and ADOR are fighting for the lead less than four miles apart.

There are a bunch of great videos that have come out in the past day:

• An audio interview with Carolijn Brouwer of SCA (she of the adorable photo on the dock in Alicante, saying goodbye to her son) in which she talks about their awful night of falling into a hole while the rest of the fleet kept going.
• An awesome on-board interview of Dongfeng skipper Charles Caudrelier by OBR Yann Riou, talking about their strategy over the past few days, and about those nutty guys on Vestas throwing away distance by sailing so far west (though me of the future suspects he might have a different view now).
• An on-board interview with Vestas navigator Wouter Verbraak by OBR Brian Carlin, talking about their strategy, and including a really funny moment I think I’ll talk about in a separate post when I have more time later.

After 18 days and 5,000 miles of nonstop racing, the two lead boats are practically within hailing distance of each other, a third is nipping at their heels, and two more are within striking distance. I have no idea who’s going to win this.

This race has been awesome.

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llbwwb:

Waxy Tree Frog (by San Diego Zoo Global)

He (she?) is thinking deep thoughts.

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bobak:

Earth is the only planet that has wifi

Common misconception, we have orbiters at Mars that are basically like Wi-Fi for the landers (though technically do not use the same protocol).

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“Ah, yes. Another day of I don’t know what the hell I am doing so I will make it all up and hope for the best.”

– imaginarycircus​

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I Ship It, written and directed by Yulin Kuang.

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just-breezy:

Lost Lake hike, Tok, Alaska 

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ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi:

Chris Van Allsburg Illustration from ‘The Widow’s Broom’.

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thedeannatizer:

After watching I Ship It about nine or ten times, I thought it was time to share it on my Facebook and show its wonderfulness to all of my friends. I did not expect my dad, who only ever watched Harry Potter when I dragged him to the theater, to watch it, love it, and show it to my mom, who loved it too! It just goes to show that a film with good writing, great actors, and terrific directing appeals to everyone. Now please excuse me while I go listen to Horcruxes for the hundredth time.

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creatures-alive:

Cerulean-Warbler – upside down by Corey Hayes on Flickr.

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