This is a video of a large tabby cat making its way back home in high snow, regretting its decision to ever leave the warmth of home in the first place. I know that feeling. Honestly, I don’t know why I leave home. Everything I need is right here, or can be brought to the door with the use of my roommate’s credit card. Still, this reminds me of one early morning years ago in my more adventurous days when I was doing the walk of shame back to my apartment when I was prevented from crossing the road because there was a marathon happening. I had to stand there for twenty minutes pretending to be a light pole while passing runners commented on my unseasonal Christmas boxers.

This is some archival footage from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), featuring a 1985 news segment of skiers versus snowboarders. According to the quintessential 1980’s ski patroller seen above: “Quite a lot of them are uncooperative. Some of them had a little bit to drink and, uh, smart alecks. You go up and approach them in a very calm, collected manner and they they tend to lip you off. You ask them very nicely to leave, that they’re endangering the public and possibly themselves. And they they swear at you. They tell you to get lost mind your own business. So it’s quite a problem for us really.” Fascinating. I’ve never actually skied before but I used to snowboard quite a bit in high school. Then I broke my arm snowboarding. Then I broke it again skateboarding. Now I don’t do anything physical.

This is a short video of a marten (a small carnivorous mammal in the weasel family) who’s made quite the mess in a Germany grocery store while looking for an exit. Or, who knows, maybe he just came in to break a bunch of shit and run out but forgot he didn’t come in through the SÄFTE (JUICES) sign on the wall. I feel you, little marten. I remember one time in middle school I was so excited to egg a house on Halloween I must have already chucked a baker’s dozen before I realized it was my own house and I was still in the kitchen. I tried blaming it on my little sister but she wasn’t even crawling yet. You always take her side!

This is a marten running wild in a german grocery store pic.twitter.com/SqAlGq4efk

— 🥀_Imposter_🕸️ (@Imposter_Edits) December 24, 2021

Prior to forming Nine Inch Nails with himself in 1988, Trent Reznor played in several new wave and pop bands in the 80’s, including tickling the ol’ plastic ivories for Cleveland, Ohio based Slam Bamboo, as seen in this video. Trent was actually composing Pretty Hate Machine for himself at the time, and you don’t have to look too hard at his face to see he’s ready to spread his nine inch nail-tipped wings and fly the hell away from whatever this is.

This is a video of science experimenter and TikTok user Joemyheck using a massive lens to focus the sun’s energy on a tiny pinpoint on a rock, harnessing so much power it’s able to spawl, fracture, and melt the rock, eventually cracking it in half, forming a crack rock. Wow! Now that is some serious power. Obviously, we can’t let this lens fall into the Infinity Gauntleted hand of Thanos or he’ll probably be able to destroy all life in the universe.

Keep going for the video while I try to find one of these lenses on eBay.

@joemyheck

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♬ original sound – Joemyheck

This is a video from Youtuber NASS, who took some vintage footage of Los Angeles from the 1930’s and remastered it in high definition, boosting the frame rate to 60FPS, improving the sharpness, blur, and noise, stabilizing the images, adding color (not historically accurate), and ambient noise. The result, like a tasteful nude painted by an old master, is something you could stare at for hours. Having lived in Los Angeles for ten years, I recognize a lot of those buildings. And I definitely recognize the traffic. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if you could actually find all the cars seen in this video still stuck in traffic to this very day, only a few blocks further.