Morcheeba - Blood Like Lemonade

Morcheeba - Blood Like Lemonade (official)
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Awake in the middle of the night and this tune popped into my head. Only lyrics I remembered were 'moral code' and 'tastes like lemonade', which isn't quite right, but beating on Google enough I finally tracked it down. Released in 2010. Wikipedia page. Lyrics here. 

Park

Automatic Transmission Park Gear & Pawl

Masked men, presumably ICE agents, pulled two guys out of an Uber last week. Okay, that's ICE doing their job, or some cartel thugs doing theirs. But this is what caught my eye:

"They ordered her to unlock the doors, which the car did automatically when she put it in park. The agents then opened the back doors of the vehicle and ordered the men to get out."

Seems to me most cars will unlock the door when you open it from the inside. I've encountered a couple of cars where you had to specifically unlock the door before you could open it, but I don't think I've ever encountered a car that unlocked the doors automatically. Strikes me as the very opposite of safe. On the other hand, when I get out of the car and I go to get something out of the backseat, I have to unlock the doors and half the time I've already closed the driver's door so I have to open the driver's door back up, or I have to root around in my pocket for the stupid key fob.

Ask Google about this and I get this back:

Many modern cars can be programmed to automatically unlock doors when shifting to PARK, but it is not universal and depends on the vehicle's make, model, and settings. While some cars unlock upon shifting to Park, others only unlock when the engine is turned off or when the driver's door is opened. This feature is often configurable in the vehicle's infotainment settings menu. 

I suspect this is just another bit of marketing twerps trying to accommodate people who are not in tune with the mechanical world, i. e. the vast majority.

Joachimstein Water Castle

Joachimstein Water Castle

(Pałac Radomierzyce)

Baroque palace in Radomierzyce, Poland. Built in 1728, one of the most beautiful in Upper Lusatia.

Baroque palace in Radomierzyce

This palace is just part of a larger compound. The building shown in the top image is at the top of this image.

Joachimstein Water Castle Map

The palace is:

• 70 miles north of Prague, Czechia
• 55 miles east of Dresden, Germany
• 125 miles southeast of Berlin, Germany
• 165 miles south of Szczecin, Poland - Terminal for doomed ferry Heweliusz
• 200 miles south of Swinoujscie, Poland - location for excellent Polish crime series The Thaw
• 35 miles west of Grodziec Castle
• 270 miles west-southwest of Warsaw, Poland

Oder-Neisse line between Germany and Poland

The palace is right on the river Neisse, which forms part of the border between Germany and Poland.

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1937 Model 8 350 Sports Sunbeam

1937 Model 8 350 Sports Sunbeam

More pictures of this bike here.

Sunbeam Cycles made by John Marston Limited of Wolverhampton was a British brand of bicycles and, from 1912 to 1956 motorcycles. - Wikipedia

1937 Sunbeam Model 8

Wolverhampton History & Heritage Website has a bunch of pages about Sunbeam Motorcycles.

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