Iggy's new home address and the frequency for an armed military drone...

A Hand of Glory is the dried and pickled hand of a hanged man, often specified as being the left (Latin: sinister) hand, or, if the person was hanged for murder, the hand that "did the deed."

Old European beliefs attribute great powers to a Hand of Glory combined with a candle made from fat from the corpse of the same malefactor who died on the gallows. The candle so made, lighted, and placed (as if in a candlestick) in the Hand of Glory, would have rendered motionless all persons to whom it was presented. The process for preparing the hand and the candle are described in 18th-century documents, with certain steps disputed due to difficulty in properly translating phrases from that era.

If you go to the Sports Illustrated archives and search my maternal grandfather's name, there are a half dozen or so articles that mention him with regard to deep sea fishing off the coast of the Outer Banks.  Kinda cool.

Paris from Star Trek Voyager (Robert Duncan McNeill) is getting married today. I was listening to the Voyager podcast published yesterday and he said how he's getting married "Tomorrow" but there seems nothing in the news. I mean is Robert Duncan McNeill not a big enough celebrity for news sites to cover?

This iconic scene





Was actually inspired by this, from 54 years earlier.





It seems we owe Thomas Edison even more than we thought.

Boru

Rodents comprise 40% of all mammals.

I know a thing or two about her
I know she'll only make you cry
She'll let you walk the street beside her
But when she wants she'll pass you by

If you ever need to transport a sedated rhinoceros by helicopter, the preferred method is to have the animal upside down, suspended by its feet and snout. This helps to ensure better circulation and breathing.



Boru

That Criterion really needs to do a better job of informing when certain titles are going out of print. Apparently Harold and Maude (among other titles, like Nashville, Rosemary's Baby, Don't Look Now, Days of Heaven, and La Dolce Vita) went out of print less than two weeks ago for Paramount Plus-related reasons and now it's impossible to find a Blu-ray. To be fair, the first three parentheticals I already have and the latter two I'm largely indifferent to as of now, but the Harold and Maude one's really depressing me. There has to be a meme for this.

(March 18, 2021 at 12:32 am)Angrboda Wrote: Rodents comprise 40% of all mammals.

On one of our walks, my best buddy, Colby(my dog) and I saw a strange, very tiny version of a beaver running around my neighbor's driveway. Its back had that same curved/hunched look and it was brown. Looking it up, muskrats and Coypu/Nutria and the beaver, all look very similar but are different sizes(muskrat being smallest and beaver being the biggest) with different tails(beavers have that flat paddle, coypu have a long skinny tail, and muskrats have a long slender tail with a wideness to it that resembles the beaver paddle but not as wide and flat) and live in different regions.