(CavemanCircus.com)
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
An Interesting Idea
When You Really Only Care About Your Bumper
Look, the rest of the car—I can take it or leave it. Just attach the tow hook to the bumper. That’s all I want back if I get stuck out on track.
Don’t bother attaching the hook to anything structural on the car
itself that might accidentally pull the whole out of harm’s way, as a
tow hook is really intended to do.
(Jalopnik.com)
Look, the rest of the car—I can take it or leave it. Just attach the tow hook to the bumper. That’s all I want back if I get stuck out on track.
(Jalopnik.com)
This Is The Only Way I Can Afford These Cars
Just over a month ago, we got a look at one of the latest Lego Speed Champions sets when Ford revealed the GT and GT40 kit. Now we get to see the rest of the lineup, and it's chock full of F1 and supercar goodness. The official Lego images show that the Bugatti Chiron, Mercedes-AMG GT3, Ferrari FXX K, and F1 cars from Ferrari and Mercedes all made the cut.
Each set gets some unique features and most include interchangeable wheel covers. The Chiron comes with some tiny cones suitable for desk slaloms and the Mercedes-AMG GT3 gets an alternate nose. The FXX K comes has the most impressive selection of accessories, though, as it includes a dyno and engine run stand.
(AutoBlog.com)
This Is Not Surprising News
Japan's once-dominant carmakers face big pay hikes to lure tech talent
TOKYO -- Headhunter Casey Abel spent four months trying to hire a data-center architect for a Japanese automaker, including five meetings with the client -- one with the top executive. In the end, the IT specialist joined an e-commerce company abroad for significantly more money.
“There’s just a massive mismatch in salaries,” said Abel, managing director at recruiter HCCR K.K., who has spent as long as a year trying to land some IT candidates. “You’ve got some engineers making 20 million yen ($170,000) a year. Then you try to fit them in the traditional manufacturer-based salary structure where it should be 7 to 9 million yen.”
(AutoNews.com)
TOKYO -- Headhunter Casey Abel spent four months trying to hire a data-center architect for a Japanese automaker, including five meetings with the client -- one with the top executive. In the end, the IT specialist joined an e-commerce company abroad for significantly more money.
“There’s just a massive mismatch in salaries,” said Abel, managing director at recruiter HCCR K.K., who has spent as long as a year trying to land some IT candidates. “You’ve got some engineers making 20 million yen ($170,000) a year. Then you try to fit them in the traditional manufacturer-based salary structure where it should be 7 to 9 million yen.”
(AutoNews.com)
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Every Important Dim Sum Dish, Ranked
3. Pan-fried chive or leek dumplings (gow choi gau)
- Crispy, juicy, intensely earthy... you can skip the Chinese broccoli if you eat your fill of these veggie dumplings.
4. Sticky rice in lotus leaf (lo mai gai)
- Speckled with bits of chicken, sausage, and mushrooms, this is pretty much everything you love about fried rice, minus the grease, plus gift wrap.
7. Potstickers (guotie)
- Similar to the old truism/meme about sex and pizza, even bad potstickers are worth having now and regretting later.
9. Open-face pork-and-shrimp dumplings (siu mai)
- What har gow could be if they just made a little effort.
14. Deep-fried shrimp balls
- Though mixed and bound with other ingredients like all meatballs, these taste purely of mildly sweet and juicy shrimp. Salty and greasy fried shrimp, but shrimp all the same.
Monday, January 2, 2017
So That's What Happened To The Music Industry
How did the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ruin popular music?
That law enabled corporations (Clear Channel, Cumulus Media, etc.) to buy as many radio stations as they wanted. Think about it, I bet your favorite station changed formats some time between 1997-2001. So now there’s a monopoly on radio. That’s why there are no more radio DJs playing anything they just feel like listening to. It’s all formatted, and these days usually a computer running everything. There’s a good documentary about it .
But there were other effects from this, I think, in that now there is no real such thing as bands starting from nowhere, getting popular within a scene, then getting signed. These days the labels just put together the groups they want, and they collude with the radio stations, and if you plug something into the top 40 and play it over and over again, people will get used to it and buy it because most people aren’t really that discerning anyway . I also think this is why rap and pop stars have been pushed over bands and groups, because you only have to pay one person to be famous. So they don’t even bother sending out scouts to find cutting edge music anymore, they just pick somebody and make them popular. People who are actually into music are just going to find their niche stuff online anyway these days and buy direct, so the pop market is a total charade with no real ground level culture involved whatsoever.
p.s. This is just my own opinion, but I think the early 90s was the most raw era for popular music with things like grunge, gangsta rap, metal, alternative, afrocentric hip-hop, horrorcore and hardcore hip-hop, all that Subpop type indie rock and dream pop and shoegaze and whatnot, a lot of things from the late 80s to mid 90s was pretty serious stuff… Not that there wasn’t some bubblegum dance stuff too, but it was actually interesting to see a huge portion of mainstream music dealing with serious topics and moods rather than the usual upbeat jams or sappy love songs that have dominated every other decade before and after.
(CavemanCircus.com)
That law enabled corporations (Clear Channel, Cumulus Media, etc.) to buy as many radio stations as they wanted. Think about it, I bet your favorite station changed formats some time between 1997-2001. So now there’s a monopoly on radio. That’s why there are no more radio DJs playing anything they just feel like listening to. It’s all formatted, and these days usually a computer running everything. There’s a good documentary about it .
But there were other effects from this, I think, in that now there is no real such thing as bands starting from nowhere, getting popular within a scene, then getting signed. These days the labels just put together the groups they want, and they collude with the radio stations, and if you plug something into the top 40 and play it over and over again, people will get used to it and buy it because most people aren’t really that discerning anyway . I also think this is why rap and pop stars have been pushed over bands and groups, because you only have to pay one person to be famous. So they don’t even bother sending out scouts to find cutting edge music anymore, they just pick somebody and make them popular. People who are actually into music are just going to find their niche stuff online anyway these days and buy direct, so the pop market is a total charade with no real ground level culture involved whatsoever.
p.s. This is just my own opinion, but I think the early 90s was the most raw era for popular music with things like grunge, gangsta rap, metal, alternative, afrocentric hip-hop, horrorcore and hardcore hip-hop, all that Subpop type indie rock and dream pop and shoegaze and whatnot, a lot of things from the late 80s to mid 90s was pretty serious stuff… Not that there wasn’t some bubblegum dance stuff too, but it was actually interesting to see a huge portion of mainstream music dealing with serious topics and moods rather than the usual upbeat jams or sappy love songs that have dominated every other decade before and after.
(CavemanCircus.com)
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