Off topic fun

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/30/lego-built-a-life-size-drivable-bugatti-from-over-a-million-technic-pieces/ Unbelievable PR stunt: In what just might be the wildest thing anyone has ever built with Lego, the company behind the bricks has built a full-size, drivable model of the Bugatti Chiron supercar. Seriously. https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/build-for-real With LEGO® Technic we like to state that you build for real. And to prove this is more than →

https://www.boredpanda.com/art-comics-about-artists/ All artists have a lot in common. To celebrate all the artists out there, Bored Panda has put together a list of hilarious comics that maybe only artists will understand. Or maybe you can also find something funny in them also? Maybe computer or electronics expert could use this same reasoning….   →

https://inktank.fi/finnish-president-memes-sauli-niinisto-james-bond-matrix-helsinki-2018-summit/ Finns and President Niinistö go way back. Now the internet at large has noticed Niinistö’s natural frown. It seems everyone with a little bit of Photoshop skills is having a go at it. →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTFXkXp_pig RFC 6214 IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC) – IPv6 full-duplex ICMP First implementation of RFC 6214. →

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-product-instructions/ →

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax The dihydrogen monoxide hoax involves calling water by the unfamiliar chemical name “dihydrogen monoxide” (DHMO), and listing some of water’s effects in a particularly alarming manner, such as accelerating corrosion and causing suffocation. The hoax often calls for dihydrogen monoxide to be banned, regulated, and labeled as dangerous. →

http://ironsky.net/2018/06/12/__trashed-3/ Iron Sky future predictions hitting awfully close to home… And Kim Jong-Un may have noticed it, too. It seems Iron Sky (2012) movie somehow managed to lay down some quite accurate predictions of the future of 2018. →

http://www.electronicdesign.com/analog/what-s-all-prank-stuff-anyhow Who says engineers don’t have a sense of humor? Remember the WOM, inspired partly by the Umac 606 phantasatron? The DEAD diode? Many of the early analog electronic greats were inveterate pranksters – and sometimes the prank made the papers and history. This article tells the story of some famous electronics design pranks. →

https://matadornetwork.com/read/15-fascinating-untranslatable-finnish-words-need-english/ Here are just 15 examples of untranslatable Finnish words you can use to pepper into sentences and impress Finns or add to your English vocabulary. →

https://www.brothers-brick.com/2018/05/09/working-lego-pinball-machine-built-from-15000-bricks-features-benny-in-all-his-classic-space-glory-exclusive-feature/ This is a really cool LEGO project. The Brothers Brick contributor Bre Burns hits it out of the nostalgia ballpark with a fully functional LEGO pinball machine called “Benny’s Spaceship Adventure.” She spent several months perfecting the design with over 15,000 LEGO bricks, including LEGO Mindstorms NXT programmable bricks. →