Another Friday Night Cafe

Lysebotn, Rogaland, Norway

Baby elephant plays with his "toy," which looks like a small bicycle innertube.

Sky-puppy squeaks as he's petted.

I'll take Things Which are Orange, Trebek, and your mother's a whore.

Old but fun: A guy set up cameras to catch the groundhog eating all of his vegetables and found the groundhog was a camera-hog who was proud to be filmed stealing carrots.

AI video of a cliff city on another planet.

An albatross has her chick returned to her (after a medical check-up). I'm posting this because I didn't really know what an albatross looked like. Kinda cute. Definitely don't kill one while at sea.

Vertigo simulator.

Sibling slapfight.

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Working on the Movie Vault, ran into a challenge, certain files have default audio streams that are in other languages.

The version of 52 Pick-Up I acquired has Italian as the default audio track and not English, so I have to add a stream picker and memory settings.

Do I want to do this as a JSON or a table entry?

Hmm...

Oh, I think I will ruminate on this over a nice Gimlet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 07:26 PM (XV/Pl)

3 Nyah

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:27 PM (2GVsD)

4 Porcupines are native to Eastern US, never saw one in wild

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)

5 As the Danube recedes further and further into the center of the channels, more and more history is being found. From sunken Nazi warships in Yugoslavia to unexploded ordinance near a historic bridge in Budapest.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (2GVsD)

6 Happy weekend!

Posted by: Caf at August 07, 2026 07:30 PM (q+TLe)

7 I also have to do this server side as html 5 doesn't have an audio switching function.

Bother.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 07:30 PM (XV/Pl)

8 Mucho switchbacks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (wOO3z)

9 Obey the siren song of the Gimlet.

The code will wait.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:32 PM (2GVsD)

10 Slartibartfast's pride and joy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (0aYVJ)

11 As the Danube recedes further and further into the center of the channels, more and more history is being found. From sunken Nazi warships in Yugoslavia to unexploded ordinance near a historic bridge in Budapest.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Are they going to block the sites off against the return of the water and excavate them?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (vJrRc)

12 4 Porcupines are native to Eastern US, never saw one in wild
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)
____________________________

I never saw any until a knowledgable soul up in NH started pointing them out. They are, of course, nocturnal. BUT, during the day the best place to see them is very high up in the trees. They're climbers and sleep in the trees, or in rotted out logs. After that, I saw a bunch.

Posted by: Orson at August 07, 2026 07:34 PM (dIske)

13 Porcupines are native to Eastern US, never saw one in wild
Posted by: Skip

Central PA and Western NY are full of them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:35 PM (wOO3z)

14 Vertigo simulator.

I think a creditable argument can be made that it's not a simulator.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 07, 2026 07:36 PM (/HDaX)

15 >>Definitely don't kill one while at sea.

Good tip.

Also, no bananas onboard.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2026 07:37 PM (viF8m)

16 That pic of the road up top...
There's either a large artifact in the digital pic,oooorrrrr,

that's one hell of a drop just before the bottom switchback.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 07:37 PM (oyafG)

17 Porcupines are native to Eastern US, never saw one in wild
Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM (Ia/+0)

Have not seen many porcupines in the wild. I do recall seeing one in the Tobacco Root Mountains in Montana. Just sitting on a tree limb.

Buddy's dog got a snout full of spines from an encounter in Wyoming. Poor thing. Required a trip to the vet.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:38 PM (0aYVJ)

18 The ads just screw with my phone to much. Was better on tablet as could swat it away. On phone its hidden and until can swat it away won't let me comment.
Findind the off switch can be the major problem

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 07:38 PM (Ia/+0)

19 @9

>>The code will wait.

Indeed.

I am also printing a gigantic torso for a Galactus 3D print, total time is 13hrs to print this one piece, I'm under 3hrs to go.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 07, 2026 07:40 PM (XV/Pl)

20 I've spent loads of time watching the Porcupine from Philadelphia, Larry Fine.

Posted by: Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard at August 07, 2026 07:40 PM (JM9I6)

21 That pic of the road up top...
There's either a large artifact in the digital pic,oooorrrrr,

that's one hell of a drop just before the bottom switchback.
Posted by: buddhaha

Just a guess. That could be a maintenance road for the transmission line that goes down the mountain and feeds the town.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2026 07:41 PM (wOO3z)

22 My Mother In Law was born in 1921 in Norway, on a fjord like the one at top. She never saw a black person in her life until about age 25 when she went to the capitol, Oslo and saw an African diplomat on the street. She always thought black folk were exotic and fascinating. She lived to age 96.

Posted by: A Fine Lady at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM (JM9I6)

23 Bats! Bats!!! BATS !!!!!!! We have bats !!!!!!!!!!!!!

O frabjous day! Thank you, Ace! Have a great weekend!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1)

24 She never saw a black person in her life until about age 25 when she went to the capitol, Oslo and saw an African diplomat on the street. She always thought black folk were exotic and fascinating. She lived to age 96.
Posted by: A Fine Lady at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM (JM9I6)

In 1990 my battalion sponsored an R&R trip to Portoroz, Yugoslavia. One of my buddies was a black dude, and he was mystified, because many of the locals had never seen a black person. The kids would innocently rub his arms to see if it came off. He was cool as hell, and he became a bit of a celebrity for the short time we were there.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide Gen X at August 07, 2026 07:49 PM (0aYVJ)

25 I would walk the Thagus trail but my shoulder would be scrapped raw from hugging the trail wall.

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 07:49 PM (KC5Lt)

26 I could have been first but I was diverted by my pop up.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 07:50 PM (MWfyi)

27 Posted by: A Fine Lady at August 07, 2026 07:44 PM (JM9I6)

Did she finally see an Asian person before she passed?

Posted by: polynikes at August 07, 2026 07:51 PM (KC5Lt)

28 *pines*

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at August 07, 2026 07:53 PM (88C+u)

29
*gives all the Café dogs ear noogies*

Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2026 07:54 PM (O0L8i)

30 As the Danube recedes further and further into the center of the channels
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2026 07:29 PM

As it shrinks in danger of sliding into depression. It's already blue about it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:54 PM (0sNs1)

31 26 I could have been first but I was diverted by my pop up.
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 07:50 PM (MWfyi

A big breasted woman from a nearby city can show me how to be a millionaire!

I took Ralphy to the vet today for an allergy shot. He's still kicking.

Him and Snowflake were sleeping upstairs. Ralphy had to go out and when Snowflake is here she always follows her dog friend out.

It's really cute.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 07:54 PM (Sco7b)

32 It's gonna be the brown Danube.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 07:56 PM (MWfyi)

33 Penguins are invading South Africa, and the locals, who should know better, are happy about it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)

34 33 Penguins are invading South Africa, and the locals, who should know better, are happy about it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 07, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)

Wait.... Penguins are half black, half white...

So, under the new South Africa Race laws, who do they count as?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (mP0Kj)

35 Evening, Horde...How goes it?

Chloe the Bengal Kitty has really adapted well to her new home.

She's kicked Penny off the top shelf in my office.

She's found her little niche.

She also enjoys the Fancy Feast and dry kibble that I feed the other kitties rather than the expensive cat food that I was given for her.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (FZ29D)

36 I ran into porcupine on a trail near Estes Park, Co. absolutely no fear of humans, and we realized quick that he didn’t need to be scared of us , we needed to be scared of him. I, being foolishly bold for no reason, found a six foot long stick and tried to poke him with it. (To this day I don’t know why I wanted to do that). He educated me by slapping that stick out of my hands with his tail.

I got the message alright.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (6dcPw)

37 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (FZ29D

Do they shed a lot?

I'm spring cleaning the house. Wow the hair and it's just my dog and a part-time cat.

I'm combing them both now more frequently, but I don't think it'll help as much as I'd like.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:00 PM (Sco7b)

38 Watched another video series on a porcupine, the woman call him Porky. He only seemed to want apples. Brought his girl with him back to under her porch where she had hay for bedding in a snow storm.

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 08:01 PM (Ia/+0)

39 Do they shed a lot?

I'm spring cleaning the house. Wow the hair and it's just my dog and a part-time cat.

I'm combing them both now more frequently, but I don't think it'll help as much as I'd like.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:00 PM (Sco7b)
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I try not to think about it too much. Usually when I vacuum or sweep, I end up with enough fur for 1-3 more cats.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (FZ29D)

40 The late Lieut. Ruxton, R.N., speaking of the Island of Ichaboe, on the Western Coast of Africa, says, ‘Notwithstanding that the island had been occupied for nearly two years, during which time thousands upon thousands of penguins had been wantonly destroyed, on the cessation of work these birds again flocked to their old haunts, where they had again commenced laying their eggs.
The rocks round the island are literally covered with penguins, cormorants, and albatrosses. The former, wedged together in a dense phalanx, have no more dread of man than ducks in a poultry-yard, although they have met with such persecution on the island; and any number might be taken by the hand without any difficulty. The sailors eat the livers and hearts, which are exceedingly palatable, but the flesh of the body is rank and oily.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (MWfyi)

41 Lysebotn, Rogaland, Norway

I can see some idiot on a skateboard coming down that road.

Posted by: t-bird at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (KAa/S)

42 I try not to think about it too much. Usually when I vacuum or sweep, I end up with enough fur for 1-3 more cats.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:05 PM (FZ29D)

I'm glad all of you are doing well.
Everyone have a good night!

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 07, 2026 08:06 PM (Sco7b)

43 "Vertigo simulator." No effing way. Acrophobia must come with age.

Posted by: javems at August 07, 2026 08:06 PM (7EFCs)

44 Penguins are invading South Africa, and the locals, who should know better, are happy about it.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
.......

At least they're not Moroccans.

Posted by: wth at August 07, 2026 08:07 PM (oq9dX)

45 "I can see some idiot on a skateboard coming down that road.
Posted by: t-bird "

Wearing a wingsuit so he can fly off the end of the road like Wiley Coyote.

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)

46 Are the penguins setting fires and looting stores for fish?

Posted by: Skip at August 07, 2026 08:08 PM (Ia/+0)

47 Hi! Happy cafe!

Posted by: Piper at August 07, 2026 08:09 PM (ZdaMQ)

48 "I can see some idiot on a skateboard coming down that road.
Posted by: t-bird "

Wearing a wingsuit so he can fly off the end of the road like Wiley Coyote.
Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)
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As I recall, that didn't end well for poor Wile E....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 07, 2026 08:10 PM (FZ29D)

49 Wait.... Penguins are half black, half white...

So, under the new South Africa Race laws, who do they count as?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 07, 2026 07:58 PM (mP0Kj)
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Coloured.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:10 PM (ZOv7s)

50 Some tidbits from the Spanish Civil War era that folks might not know. When the King abdicated and the Republic was created, the leftists wrote the Constitution and won control of the government. They proceeded to do Lefty stuff, ban religious education, raise taxes, secularize everything, etc.

The created total mayhem, and in the two years that followed, the center-right got organized and won a plurality of seats in the 1934. By all European parliamentary customs, their leader should have been named prime minister and formed a coalition government.

Ah, but the left always cheats. The leftist president instead picked fringe parties' leaders, who then needed the center-right to form a government. So some conservative things got done, but the coalitions kept collapsing, and so a new fringe part got to be PM. Meanwhile, the Anarchists launched an armed rebellion in Asturias which was put down with the Foreign Legion. (cont)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:15 PM (ZOv7s)

51 Norway. Sure.

*eyeroll*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 08:18 PM (u/oMr)

52 In 1936 the left learned its lesson and created the Popular Front ("No enemies to the left!") and in a campaign marred by fraud and violence, won a narrow majority. Now here's the fun part you don't know.

They immediately launched a parliamentary inquiry into "election irregularities" and concluded that all the most conservative parts of Spain had committed fraud and needed to vote again. These votes were completely rigged, and they went from a razor-thin majority to a supermajority.

And what did they do with this huge majority? They impeached the president because he wasn't radical enough! Oh, and they greanted amnesty to all the captured rebels who had tried to overthrow the government, and refused to prosecute people for killing landowners and looting businesses. One giant CHAZ.

This got the Army worries, and Emilio Mola began making a plan for a coup. Franco was noncommittal until the brutal murder of Jose Calvo Sotelo, a conservative politician who was killed by a police officer - who went unpunished. It's all there - leftists eating their own, radicals pushing aside moderates and of course tearing up the rules they wrote themselves because they got in the way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:21 PM (ZOv7s)

53 My wife talks about being able to knit a new cat from fur.
Why doesn't one want to kill an albatross? Don't recall that from the O'Brien series?

Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:28 PM (q6tQZ)

54 leftists eating their own, radicals pushing aside moderates and of course tearing up the rules they wrote themselves because they got in the way.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 07, 2026 08:21 PM

Some people may have done some things.
They were done in the enthusiasm of the moment.
Old news.
What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Popular Front at August 07, 2026 08:29 PM (0sNs1)

55 "Why doesn't one want to kill an albatross? "

Bad juju. See "The Ancient Mariner".

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:31 PM (MWfyi)

56 That pic of the road up top...
There's either a large artifact in the digital pic,oooorrrrr,

that's one hell of a drop just before the bottom switchback.
Posted by: buddhaha at August 07, 2026 07:37 PM (oyafG)

Goes through a tunnel. Here's a video of people driving that road...

https://youtu.be/_Z0yEnm3D0s

Tunnel starts at ~8:00.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:31 PM (ExV1e)

57 My wife talks about being able to knit a new cat from fur.
Why doesn't one want to kill an albatross? Don't recall that from the O'Brien series?
Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:28 PM (q6tQZ)
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Way I remember it, an albatross was a good luck charm, until some idiot killed it.

Yes, I've read a poem.

Posted by: Mal Reynolds at August 07, 2026 08:31 PM (FZ29D)

58 Most of history is sad. Recall the Heinlein quote.
Lord save us from experiencing it in our lifetimes. (And our children's children's lifetimes).

Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:32 PM (q6tQZ)

59 Why doesn't one want to kill an albatross?

Killing an albatross is considered bad luck primarily due to the maritime superstition that these birds carry the souls of deceased sailors. Sailors believed that harming an albatross was an act of violence against a departed soul, which would invite the wrath of the sea, resulting in misfortune, storms, or shipwreck for the entire crew.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 07, 2026 08:33 PM (ExV1e)

60 That ai cliff city looks like a horrible place to live

Posted by: Accomack at August 07, 2026 08:35 PM (GbONR)

61 Bad juju. See "The Ancient Mariner".
Posted by: fd

TL

R
Kidding. Isn't that the "Rime of the Ancient Marner" or some such?

Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:35 PM (q6tQZ)

62 Most of the time news from Iran is tragic, but it has moments of pure comedy. Stories are being released saying that Supreme Leader young Khomeini is in very poor condition.

Apparently someone left the cardboard figure out in the rain and the magic marker started to run.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2026 08:36 PM (6dcPw)

63 Killing an albatross is considered bad luck primarily due to the maritime superstition that these birds carry the souls of deceased sailors. Sailors believed that harming an albatross was an act of violence against a departed soul, which would invite the wrath of the sea, resulting in misfortune, storms, or shipwreck for the entire crew.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Ahhh. I see. So they don't taste good?
Cause if they were tasty, all that superstitious crap would've gone out the window.

Posted by: MkY at August 07, 2026 08:37 PM (q6tQZ)

64 I was in Norway once. Once.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 07, 2026 08:38 PM (u/oMr)

65 "...and your mother's a whore."

That is why I read this blog.

Posted by: Fatty McFattington at August 07, 2026 08:38 PM (uHU6e)

66 John Cleese is the only Albatross! vendor I'm aware of.

Posted by: Gullible Gus at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (JM9I6)

67 I think I'll call the rescue hare Trudy.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (PiwSw)

68 "Isn't that the "Rime of the Ancient Marner" or some such?
Posted by: MkY ''

Yep. Where we get the phrase "Water, water, everywhere".

Posted by: fd at August 07, 2026 08:40 PM (MWfyi)

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