Pygmania

Last night I caught part of a Seinfeld episode that I had never seen before. TBS was airing "The Apology" and specifically I turned it on at the segment where Jerry and George are in the coffee shop and Elaine enters... and out of nowhere come the highlighted lines below. Elaine's delivery is magnificent, and copypasta doesn't do it justice, but here you go anyways (plus prior scenes for context): Melissa, [naked on the couch]: "What are you doing?" Jerry, [naked, carrying a belt sander]: "I found a rough spot on the kitchen floor, I thought I'd polish it up with this belt sander I have here." Melissa: "No, not that. Why are you naked?" Jerry: "I thought naked is good." Melissa, [eyeing him]: "This isn't good naked." Sponsor, [seeing George at the meeting]: "George, here, have a seat." George, [sitting down]: "Where's Hanke?" Sponsor, [motioning to the leader]: "Shhhhh."

Jill Dillard (née Duggar) recently birthed her first child, a boy named Israel David Duggar. Emma conscientiously shared the happy news and requested my opinion on this name choice. I really had no comment on the matter. My only form of response was to begin speculation on what Israel's little brothers and sisters will be called; in the course of making my list of name possibilities, it struck me that such content truly ought to be housed on vospymies rather than hidden in an email thread... predicted + suggested given names for future babies of the Dillard variety [  f   m n  ] : predicted: suggested: irish ;  ireland innuit indiana imagine infinity identity independence isabella isaac isaiah/isaias ian ida ivy; ivory isadora iris ice-cream i nferno india immigrant icon impulse irregardless implication itchy iGod insomnia innu

There's a good chance you saw this on Gothamist, but I wanted to put it here anyway for like Posterity 'n' Stuff, Inc. History of the New York City Subway system: an animated GIF starts with a blank subway map and draws each line in the sequence in which it was built. [source: very-appealing.com ]

What follows is an impressive catalog of departure sounds and next-station announcements of subway systems around the world.  Courtesy: mic-ro.com/metro/table.html © 2004-2015 metrobits.org Amsterdam An electronic "ding-dong" signal. There is also a "ding" and in a pre-recorded voice the next station name. At the terminus, the voice says "Endpunt". Ankara "Booop! Ding-dang" sound when the doors close. Athens There is a series of beeps that starts when the doors start closing and stops when they are closed. Then when a train reaches the next station there is a ding-dong and a station announcement in both Greek and English (English added for the 2004 Olympics). Lines 2 and 3: There is a continuous beep when the doors start closing until they are closed. Atlanta The MARTA subway in Atlanta has a 1 kHz beep going off four times on the newer trains, like: "boop-BOOP-BOOP-BOOP". The old trains have a loud "PONG".