The loftiest point in Angola is Mount Moco–or Morro do Moco in Portuguese–at 8,600 feet (2,620 m). Located on the Angola Plateau in the middle of the nation latitudinally, and about a quarter of the way inland from the Atlantic coast, … Continue reading Day Thread of Highest Peaks: Mount Moco, Angola (09/12)
This series previously jumped from Algeria to Andorra, but on looking at a different list specialized to elevation extremes, I decide that it was worth including American Samoa, which though a territory of the United States, has a somewhat unusual … Continue reading The Day Thread of Highest Peaks: Lata Mountain (07/09)
The 1965 film Mutiny in Outer Space features a wheel-like station designated X-7. After astronauts bring aboard a fungus in ice samples from lunar caves, well, it’s not a good situation… Arguably most interesting external feature of X-7 is its … Continue reading Space Station Night Thread: Mutiny in Outer Space (07/05)
Morning! This is the Planet of the Apes, and we’re all just living on it. How about kicking off the weekend with a trip to scenic Lake Orangatanga with our friends, the Kongs? 🍌🍌🍌 Continue reading Day Thread of Apes at the Lake (05/11)
In Gerry Anderson’s 1960s marionette-based TV series Thunderbirds, as well as related films and remakes, the organization International Rescue operates a fleet of titular vehicles designed to aid in global rescue efforts. Thunderbirds 1 through 4 more properly fit the … Continue reading The Space Station Night Thread: Thunderbird 5 (05/07)
Well, here it is, probably the last of these “H” headers. As much as we’ve all enjoyed them, the truth is that there’s not much to work with the higher the number gets. HTML heading tags do go up to … Continue reading The H4 Day Thread (05/06)
No, there’s no Star Fox news or deeper theme, but today is my cousin’s birthday. She’s a year younger than me, but for roughly two months of each go ’round, starting today, we’re the same age. I don’t really have … Continue reading Day Thread of My Cousin’s Birthday (04/26)
No, not that Kong. . . 🍌🍌🍌 Continue reading Kong Treehouse Music Night Thread (04/23)
The mountains just keep coming–Andorra is basically a mountain-country, being located in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. The highest point in Andorra is Coma Pedrosa, at 9,656 feet / 2,943 meters. It lies within Parc Natural Comunal de les … Continue reading Day Thread of Highest Peaks: Coma Pedrosa (04/14)
Does anyone else remember the Kidsongs videos? Released on VHS starting the mid-1980s and apparently also including a TV show for a while, they feature lots of kids in various singalong musical numbers. Installments included A Day at Old McDonald’s … Continue reading Night Thread of the Kidsongs Sandmen (04/12)
The phrase “Surfing the Internet” seems, based on some modest research, to have originated in the early 1990s. One person credited with its popularization is Jean Armour Polly, a librarian who used the metaphor in an article published in 1992. … Continue reading The Day Thread is Surfin’ the Internet (04/10)
A few earlier films are not easily accessible to stream for research, so here we go with the big one, Space Station Five as seen in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 behemoth of cinema, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Though not the first … Continue reading The Space Station Night Thread: 2001 (04/02)
This morning’s thread is brought to you by the letter H and the number 3. Yes, H3 will doubtlessly bring to mind the H3, the smallest in the Hummer SUV line: H3 is also the name of a launch vehicle … Continue reading The H3 Day Thread (03/28)
The second season of the Paramount+ streaming/TV adaptation of the Halo video game series has now aired in full. The eight episodes are titled as follows: So far, the series has involved a great deal of setup and as of … Continue reading Halo Season Two Discussion (TV)
Here we go. . . 🏀🏀🏀 Continue reading March Madness 2024 – 1st Round Discussion
Found in the Hoggar Mountains in the Sahara dessert, Mount Tahat is the highest peak in Algeria, reaching an elevation of 9,541 feet or 2,908 meters. It has a very photogenic asymmetrical shape about it: The Hoggar Mountains and Ahaggar … Continue reading Day Thread of Highest Peaks: Mount Tahat (03/21)
The opening credits of Disney’s 1979 film The Black Hole feature some wonderful John Barry music and a “grid in space” visual motif that’s primitive but fun: Once the movie proper begins, the singularity itself is rendered in beautiful, starry … Continue reading The Night Thread Approaches the Black Hole (03/15)
The Avocado now has a ball pit. (The space previously occupied by the animatronic band had to be filled with something.) It has been thoroughly sanitized, but it won’t stay clean forever, so jump on in now! Continue reading Get Into the Night Thread Ball Pit (03/10)
Alphabetical sovereign state #2 is Albania, which like Afghanistan has tons of mountains going on. The Wikipedia article just keeps mentioning more ranges: The country is home to extensive mountain ranges, including the Albanian Alps in the north, the Korab … Continue reading The Day Thread of Highest Peaks: Korab (03/05)
1960’s Assignment: Outer Space–aka Space-Men outside the US-sees a reporter travel to a space station called Zulu Extra 34.1 This station seems to have a cylindrical … Continue reading The Space Station Day Thread: Assignment: Outer Space (03/02)
