{"id":22669,"date":"2021-04-20T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22669"},"modified":"2021-04-20T18:46:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:46:38","slug":"what-you-gonna-do-when-you-get-out-of-jail-part-385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=22669","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat you gonna do when you get out of jail?\u2026\u201d part 385"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s my birthday, so I&#8217;m queuing this up in advance. I thought I&#8217;d try to do something a little different today, maybe go back to some things I haven&#8217;t done in a while.<\/p>\n<p>Like trains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last of the Giants&#8221;. This appears to be a Union Pacific documentary about their &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Boy<\/a>&#8221; steam locomotives, which they operated in &#8220;revenue service&#8221; until 1959. UP still operates one &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.up.com\/heritage\/steam\/4014\/index.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Boy<\/a>&#8221; and one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.up.com\/heritage\/steam\/844\/index.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;800 Series&#8221;<\/a> locomotive for promotional purposes.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M4BWsYbJROQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the &#8220;Big Boy&#8221; has actually been converted to run on oil:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Up1UaMVnv4M\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bonus: Do you like people speaking with Russian accents? Do you like Zippos? I like Zippos. Most of the time, I can take or leave Russian accents.<\/p>\n<p>By way of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCe_vXdMrHHseZ_esYUskSBw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CrazyRussianHacker<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;7 Zippo Gadgets You Did NOT Know Exist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mSUCqf1M6Ls\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t (generally) get that cold in Texas, but I kind of want one of those Zippo hand warmers anyway. I remember my dad used to have something similar kicking around, but he didn&#8217;t use it much in my memory, because it doesn&#8217;t (generally) get that cold in Texas. There have been some New Year&#8217;s Eve&#8217;s when we&#8217;ve been setting off fireworks, though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WE-b2LjRW5E\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bonus #2: Here&#8217;s a bit of a time capsule for you. It could also fall under &#8220;Travel Thursday&#8221;, but I&#8217;m not putting it there for two reasons. One, this is different.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Museum of Automata&#8221; in York. Apparently, this was filmed sometime in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SzOgsaXO7BE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Reason number two is that, sadly, from what I&#8217;ve found on the Internet, the museum closed quite a while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus #3: I will freely admit, I am posting this one to tweak someone who says &#8220;&#8216;Godzilla vs. Kong&#8217; f&#8211;king ruled!&#8221; (My own personal opinion: the monster fight scenes were pretty good. Unfortunately, there was an excess of humans and human interaction in the movie, and I really didn&#8217;t like any of the humans. The kaiju film that would &#8220;f&#8211;king rule&#8221; for me would be the monster equivalent of &#8220;The Raid: Redemption&#8221;: maybe two minutes of introductory setup, two minutes of epilogue, and 116 minutes of giant monsters fighting.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyway<\/strong>, C.W. Lemoine ruins the first fight scene from &#8220;Godzilla vs. Kong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b7mm43mtnro\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I thought the movie looked a lot better on the screen at the Alamo than it does in this video. Also, to be fair, it is just a <del datetime=\"2021-04-19T22:00:19+00:00\">TV show<\/del> movie: I should really just relax.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add 4\/20: Hand to God, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=19742\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I had no idea Lawrence was even working on this<\/a>, much less planning to post it today.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus #4: I see a lot of folks talking about minimizing their lifestyle, and stripping away almost everything to the point where they can live almost completely out of a van. (I see very few of these folks who have toilets in their vans: apparently, when they need a bathroom, they find one at a gym, gas station, store, or other place of public accommodation. But I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever listened to these folks talk, or read any of their praises for van life, and asked yourself, &#8220;Self, what do these people do when it is -20 degrees? -20  Communist Centigrade degrees, too, not -4 American Fahrenheit degrees.&#8221; (See, by converting from Centigrade to Fahrenheit, you&#8217;ve already made yourself feel warmer. If you go a step beyond and convert to 455 degrees Rankine, you&#8217;ll probably give yourself heat stroke.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, here you go.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gd_TskONYLU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bonus #5: Okay, I know I&#8217;m posting a lot of stuff today. Consider this a present on my birthday to you, my loyal readers.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever asked yourself, while stoned on your couch, &#8220;Self, what ever happened to all those paintings Bob Ross painted?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to guess: probably not, because I don&#8217;t think most of you are stoners. But just in case, the <strong>NYT<\/strong> (who probably <strong>are<\/strong> a bunch of stoners, judging from some of the crazy (stuff) they publish these days) investigated. Here&#8217;s what they found.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rDs3o1uLEdU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s my birthday, so I&#8217;m queuing this up in advance. I thought I&#8217;d try to do something a little different today, maybe go back to some things I haven&#8217;t done in a while. Like trains. &#8220;Last of the Giants&#8221;. This appears to be a Union Pacific documentary about their &#8220;Big Boy&#8221; steam locomotives, which they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,97,31,21,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-movies","category-planes","category-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22669"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22686,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22669\/revisions\/22686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}