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Shutdown: How To

Amazing, isn’t it, that these instructions would probably be needed just as much now as back when they were printed?

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Shutdown: Ooo, Twirly!

See, this way the flight path and trjectory will be harder to predict.

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Shutdown: Surely This Makes Sense to Someone

Oddly enough, the thing that bothers me most about this is why the glasses need those straps hanging down?

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Shutdown: Here Puff!

I think that this just goes to show no matter how absurd you may look, if you are chewing on a stogie like a boss, no one will question you.

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Shutdown: Michelin Men

Changing a tire is so easy, exploited child labor can do it!

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Shutdown: Gone Fishin’

Why wouldn’t a robot fish with a bamboo pole?

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Shutdown: Derelict Elevator

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Here we see Silo #5 on the Pointe-du-Moulin in Montréal, a rather large derelict grain elevator built between 1903 and 1906 and was in service until 1994 when, after losing a bet, the Canadian Wheat Board sold it to the Montreal Port Authority for a crate of used toques and [...]

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Shutdown: Beautiful Tools

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Dèárthàír’s post talked about how some tools are an absolute joy to use, so much so that you dream up jobs to do just so that you can use that wonderful tool again. Here I’d like to point out that tools can also be beautiful, to the point that they [...]

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Shutdown: Two Coats of Wax

The finest Bavarian automobiles should come with only the finest accessories.

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Shutdown: Closed Bridge

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Bah, phooey! I’ve been trying for an hour to write some sort of pithy text to accompany this wonderful picture that I found, but everything I come up with is so horribly pretentious that I can’t bear to look at it. So, to hell with it. Imagine your own story [...]