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[pseudoid]

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Were you high on speed?

 

[pma]

 

[pseudoid]

First of this August’s two rare supermoons will be coming to a sky near you today.
It will be 222,150 miles close and goes under few descriptive names: Sturgeon Moon, Swan Flight Moon, Red Moon, Grain Moon, etc.
The second of this pair of supermoons (a rare “blue moon” on August 30th) will be even closer at 222,043 miles away (at horizon) instead of the average 226,000 miles at perigee.

 

[pma]

Above is one of them . Zoom, 1600mm/35 equivalent.

 

[pseudoid]

Above is one of them

Back in the 1970s, in some music festival in the middle of the Poconos, we thought we saw Peter Frampton's (HumblePie, etc.) face staring down at us from the surface of the moon.
To this day, every full moon I look up hoping that he'd at least give me a wink... but nothing... nothing.
So I asked Dall-E for some therapy:

You decide.

 

[mhardy6647]

 

[antcollinet]

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I think some of those are adopted.

 

[antcollinet]

Decided to not surf.
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Fair!

 

[pseudoid]

Must have meant a whole other thing back then... where dames were dames and Sci-Fi was done Lo-Fi!

 

[CapMan]

 

[Zek]

 

[CapMan]

Dog walk today - Painshill Park (Bridgerton was filmed here )

 

[mhardy6647]

 

[nobodynoz]

This is Alger... capital of Algeria, I've been there many times when I was living in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Africa.... why many times ? because instead of taking a plane from Marseille, France to Abidjan Ivory Coast - 6 hours flight - where I was living... sometimes I used to make the trip aboard an ocean liner during 6 days. The boat goes to Alger, Capital of Algeria on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea, then travels all around Africa until Yaoundé, Capital of Cameroon and back...

 

[pseudoid]

 

[nobodynoz]

Charlie Chaplin at home in Corsier-sur Vevey a village located in the French speaking part of Switzerland... depending of where you live in Switzerland you speak German, French or Italian. All the children of Chaplin are speaking English and French fluently...
His house is now a museum... it's on YouTube.

 

[nobodynoz]

Porsche 911 Production in Germany...

 

[pseudoid]

Porsche 911 Production in Germany...

I am going to violate the "No Words" rule originally requested by @NorthSky [since it seems he is no longer here]:

There used to be great story about how much manual intervention - by workers at Porsche factory - was required to finish the final assembly, followed by shaking-down each car that came off the assembly-line by driving a few laps around a track.
Workers would have to individually tweak each car after the shake-down laps.

Story gets gnarly when Porsche Management realizes that the excessive costs of the laborious 'shake-down" laps and post-fixes necessary, is putting a big dent on ROI.
So, Porsche Mgmt. is forced to invite the Toyota QA team to skool Porsche's Engineering teams on how to really build an automated assembly line.
To the embarrassment of the Porsche design/engineering teams (FFGE - Fine F'ing German Engineering), one morning at the factory, they are confronted with an unannounced visit by a posse Toyota QualityEngineering team.
Both profits and quality of each Porsche coming off the line was shown to significantly benefit from this invite.

At least, that is the way I remember this story about FFGE!

 

[antcollinet]

The Japanese got *really* good at production and production quality post WWII. As a result there is a huge industry teaching Japanese quality methods around the world. As a result of *that* most modern factories have a bunch of Japanese words and phrases built into their production processes. A couple I remember from a previous life

Kanban
Gemba Kanri

There are many many more.

 

[Nonick]

Buster Keaton as a child