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Okay May sucks. It’s got to be just about the busiest time of year for me. This cuts into my mailhiot.com time but I insist on forging ahead. So this weeks image is a tad less imaginative than my usual stellar entries. So for this week I have shot a picture of where the magic happens. That’s right folks a snapshot of the highly secretive mailhiot.com command center and lab. Now don’t tell a soul you have seen this or I might have to put a hit out on you.

So for the quick tour. To your upper right the command center brain. 4 gigs of RAM and a Quad-Core. Hand built by yours truly. A 24″ Samsung LCD. At the bottom the ultra thin illuminated keyboard. just perfect for typing away in super dark, blue light, command center conditions. And at the far left those red lights belong to the 25 year old JVC tape deck I have been using to digitize hours of audio cassettes for the rock & roll section.

Well that’s all I can discuss. If I tell any more it might compromise national security.

Masto.

This one goes out to G. He turned me on to a giant stash of government comics, pamphlets, and posters that is a goldmine of awesomeness. This little example of 50′s propaganda is from a 1951 Duck and Cover comic that schools passed out to the kids to educate them about what to do in case of a nuclear attack. Ah the good old days. No ridiculous color coded terror threat. No rush on duct tape to seal your home against bio terrorism. Just a simple duck and cover to protect yourself from the horrors of the communist nuclear attack. As long as you could toss your ass under a desk or table or maybe a drainage ditch there was nothing to fear. You would still be able to shake off the debris and launch everything you had at the godless russkies. Nothing like putting a good spin on it. Of course if you weren’t incinerated into the great beyond in the initial blast the radiation poisoning would have mutated you into a shapeless mass of flesh and bone, covered in open wounds. But that didn’t quite make for such a upbeat comic for the kiddies.

Masto.

Below is some helpful info about nuclear attack from the Department of Defense.

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This week is a photo I ran across from a set of early 60′s shots of Disneyland. Back in the day they had these colored light fountains in front of the buildings in Tomorrowland and other various places. Now maybe it’s just me but as a kid it seemed that every fountain had colored lights and lots of places had fountains. You just don’t see this any more except for maybe Vegas. I got to admit, after seeing this photo, I kind of miss it. It’s a cool look. A little other-worldly and relaxing.

Wow I must have had a stressful week if I am waxing poetic about color lighted fountains.

Ah….. look at the pretty lights.

Masto.