Also worth noting that the red line was shovel ready back in 2015 and could be complete by now, but Larry Hogan killed it because he’s a corrupt clown

New blog post: Ellen Russell and her husband worked summers in Maine to save up for their beautiful (mid-century!) dream house on Lake Ashburton, which they lived in until their deaths in 1985 and 1990. oldlineplate.com/strawberry-r...

in other grouchiness, while AI writing/art seems pretty obvious now, I will allow that it might not always be, and so I preemptively think people shouldn't be shamed for being tricked by it, just like I dont think we should blame people for being scammed. Because that's what it is, a scam.

In early 2025 I had a real "go for it" phase, applying to grants and scholarships/fellowships and even writing a book proposal. Eventually I got tired of rejection and moved on.

I accidentally made this stuff invasive in my backyard but it seems to have died down a bit after a few years

Ever since I started doing research I've been of the opinion that newspapers should become public domain after a certain (relatively short compared to works of entertainment/art) amount of time

i searched through and read all the Maryland ones and I am proud to say that the narcs in our state appear to have much better spelling and grammar skills than elsewhere. Except the one from Westminster.

I mean no shade to this specific library, and I'm grateful to have digital documents at all -really I am-, but this kind of thing drives me INSANE. Sharing your collections in an annoying javascript heavy viewer is not conducive to research louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/ob...

Today’s morel report: mostly big and not worth keeping but make nice photo ops. Had to crop my face out because I’ve had a cold and look like death.

i hate that smoking is so cool. im glad a lot of people switched to vaping which is not. theoretically, lighting someone's cigarette for them should be like holding the door open, but when someone does it in a movie they're usually about to ruin your life

i have a million but Cryptid Dog, my place where I sell all the regional hot dogs named after their local cryptids is the big one

TONIGHT ON PBS!! MOON CRAB My studio partner's lovely short film MOON CRAB will broadcast TONIGHT, Monday, April 20th at 9:20 PM on Maryland Public Television MOON CRAB will then be available on the PBS App, so if you don't catch crabs tonight, there is always tomorrow!!

this thread caused me to spend too much time reading newspaper articles about people getting "nausea, rapid heart beat, stomach cramps" after eating Tuna Twist

this dog is pouting because the toy he was fetching went under the couch. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

i had to make a linkedin because apparently having a decade plus old website isnt legitimate enough for google, anyway i dont plan to regularly haunt linkedin but if you do, add me there to make me look more real.

🎵 Wouldn’t it be nice if he were older, then we wouldn’t have to wait so long 🎵

as much as I hate losing more money to Old Line Plate, I sprung for a $5/month Railway project hosting to mirror my database. There's something thrilling about "logging in" to it. Currently it wont work on my ipad which defeats my purpose (viewing my database in bed lol) but i'll get there

i assume he's talking about office ladies who make like 35k. I have spent decades watching wave after wave of stupid men who have no idea what we actually do trying to make our jobs obsolete and only changing the particulars of the crazy workarounds that make us irreplaceable in the first place

i havent used grammarly in a good long while because it already gave me the creeps but I have no editor and I would like a tool that would point out to me when I overuse certain words, I miss that especially.

maintaining a website in 2026 feels like maintaining a lawn. Its a total waste of space that nobody cares about or notices unless its really bad, so you have to put in effort anyway. I need the website equivalent of woody shrubbery.

I host my site with bluehost, and unfortunately its paid up through 2028. i've had my issues with them before but the other day they crossed the line and if I could afford to I'd cut my losses and transfer immediately.

It’s a hybrid so it’s only partially powered by Jesus

all the people being like "they have no right to criticize" are playing into the entire problem with all of this. nobody powerful has the right to criticize anyone else powerful because theyre all corrupt. ok great.

Kinkling day. I definitely don't adapt naturally to video editing or hearing my voice but my goal for the year is to make 4 cookbook videos. This one is kind of a bonus side tangent. www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0Piv...

love @nicmiller.bsky.social paczki roundup here - I had logged in to comment before even realizing my recipe is mentioned. tales-from-topographic-kitchens.ghost.io/its-tlusty-c...

This is quite an AI summary

2026 is my pivot to video year I guess, only a decade plus behind the times. I just somehow finally have the capacity to learn new things (badly) www.instagram.com/p/DUQq9xejeGj/

January is rough but so far this year I got to throw rocks through surface ice on a river AND poke puffball mushrooms with a stick, on two separate hikes so who knows what joys await.

optimists "the public is in agreement on this"! me, glass-half-empty person:

if I shot every driver I felt threatened by—hell, every driver I *was actually* threatened by—I'd be the biggest mass murderer in history

me: ok January time to hunker down and cut back on spending, save some money health insurance company: lol no

apparently its faded to white anyway but I think it'd be a hilarious flex with all the NASA cuts if some country went to the moon and removed the american flag

I spent a lot of last winter/spring reading/transcribing letters like this. I messed around a little with AI transcribers and I think it is one of the few useful applications (although such uses will never be prioritized or funded) but obviously a human eye can never be fully replaced

no, its verraylich a confpiracie

started my week off with a basement organizing rampage that I couldn't quit. "I'll just go put a few more things away." Listening to the Britney autobiography and finally clearing out all the tools and garbage. Waiting for the sign to be done.

Hasperat Guys, obviously

I have my ingredient parser working so well but I feel like I spend way too much time noting all of the bajillion ways people name things like "soda" for "baking soda" or "Crisco oil" vs shortening, its fun turning this stuff into data... to a point.

New post up: tribute to longtime Sun columnist Virginia Roeder, who died in late November oldlineplate.com/crab-cakes-c...

I spent a lot of 2025 reading letters like this and I am glad I will not be spending much if any of 2026 doing so.

Started trying to do reporting on my cookbook extractions and it became apparent that I finally needed some unit conversions. Doing so instantly made things so much more interesting. I checked for typos but the ginger ale thing is solely due to recipes for large volumes of punch

I'm not aging it a year but it'll have to do.

can vouch for this; tried to take a picture but it was too much to capture!

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i've had two people in the past week tell me my public speaking has become much more professional and relaxed. One who first saw me in 2022 and thought I was new to it then (started in 2018 actually!) But needless to say.. nice to hear!! Old Line Plate, now with 30% less "um".

i was intrigued to try this place (and get sufganiyah) but all the weird AI food photos.. idunno www.croustillecafe.com/online-order...

I was looking thru my fb archive and got reminded of this fun fact

I decided we are going to make the damn train garden map next year so please feel free to help me gather locations: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

people always bring up that cheesy Die Hard/Christmas movie debate when Lethal Weapon literally has a carton of eggnog getting shot from a helicopter

i thought this was one of those things anyone would do but maybe not: to find out if an item is really on sale or just a fake markdown you can sometimes look its page up on archive.org wayback machine

for black friday I'm selling books and tea towels for the same price I always do because its the cheapest I can sell them already. oldlineplate.com/shop/