My Favorite Shooting Stars Memes

As I explained last month HERE, one of the latest crazes in the world of internet memes is the coupling of  the track "Shooting Stars" by Aussie band Bag Raiders with an assortment of funny GIF images. Below are some of my favorites. If I have to explain why these are funny, you wouldn't understand. Either you "get it" or you don't. But if you must know then you must suffer through THIS.

Running Doom Where It Should Not

Tonight on Twitter, dascho posted this image above with the following Tweet comment: "Look, I'm not saying ATMs are trivial to hack, just that lots of them seem to run Doom okay. Infer what you will 😏". This is both funny and disturbing as it cuts to the heart of an underlying anxiety I have for using ATM's and card payment terminals at gas stations. I always check payment terminals for card skimmers. Image courtesy of dascho (all rights reserved).

Visiting Sculpterra

This afternoon after church, I headed over to Sculpterra Winery (over on the east side) with my sister by another mother, Chris, to attend the performance of our mutual buddy, Nick Brittan, who was in the lineup to perform there today. He did not disappoint as he did his usual fine job, most notably performing a song he wrote about spiders taking over his house and he having to hunt then down. While I was here, I made a point of joining the very affordable wine club to share with Chris. Each of us will get one bottle per quarter of the year.

This is one of my two favorite sculptures and is situated out in front of the tasting room.

This is my other favorite sculpture here which I captured here and below from opposite angles.

This visit I did not make it out into the rest of the surrounding gardens to view the other sculptures so I might end up having more favorites.

The primary reason I came here today was to attend the performance of this guy, my friend and local musician and songwriter and singer, Nick Brittan.
All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

King Tiger

I started this month mentioning something relating to the World War II-era German military (Wehrmacht) and in particular, the Germany Army (Heer). I'm finishing this month on a similar note. For reasons I cannot fathom, I have been obsessed with the World War II German-era Tiger II or Königstiger (King Tiger in Anglo-American English). In idle moments I find myself regularly imaging myself commanding one such tank in a final futile battle somewhere in western Europe towards war's end destroying a lot of American (esp. M4 Shermans) and British tanks (esp. Cromwells) and tank destroyers (such as M10 Wolverines) before being forced to surrender after running out of ammo. I have a strong feeling this is a metaphor for something. I sure hope I'm not engaged in a lost cause at present and don't realize it. Below is a sample of the tank to which I refer. It was the best tank in the world up into the 1950s and some are still being used in the Syrian Civil War right now as a measure of how great they were and still are.

A Last Supper Where Nobody Survives

Usually studios put out trailers, previews, and advertisements for upcoming movies soon to be released. However, this is something new to me: a nearly-five-minute segment of the soon-to-be-released movie Alien Covenant, intended to hook audiences with a more powerful connection to story and characters. It works for me! I am looking forward to this movie's release this coming spring. As goes with these movies ongoing themes and patterns, there will be few survivors of this crew.

Halcon Road Blow-out

Today I took a break from my regular responsibilities and took mom out to see the post-storm damage to Halcon Road in rural unincorporated Atascadero from the opposite side of the Salinas River (east side) as we did last month from the west side HERE.

All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

Picture of the Day - Louise Judd

This evening early, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reinstalled the headstone of the late Louise Judd at the residence of her son, our Dennis, in his backyard given the stone is no longer useful at the locality of her interment. We gathered around our friend and moved the surprisingly heavy stone into its new resting place. Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).