Five-year-old had a dream/nightmare about “the long owls” (which he emphasizes by stretching his hands apart vertically).  They: - are nocturnal (sure) - are taller than anything - are also known as the “virtrix” (sp?) - can assume human form - have, and I'm quoting here, “hundred-pack abs”

giving my small son unfettered access to the Lego has resulted in seraphim, please advise

big deal, I can do that

A few substitutions, a few missing pieces. Rebuilding my childhood Lego sets

North, in Providence. Opened in a formerly-loved space, kept it, served some of the most complex but straightforward food I've ever eaten. The "Almost Boneless Whole Fried Chicken" is one of the best presentations I've ever had in my life. I think about it all the time.

This device was invented by Wilson Call, who, according this 2016 article leading up to his 100th birthday (he passed away at 100 in January of the following year): - was an architect who designed 3000+ structures - mined uranium and skinned skunks for $2 a pelt www.bakersfield.com/archives/arc...

MOST T.V. SETS ON TODAY’S MARKET ARE ALWAYS ON AND ARE ACTIVATED BY AN ELECTRONIC BEAM. SINCE THE T.V. IS ON BUT ASLEEP, THE COMPONENTS ARE WIDE AWAKE.

I’m at the Hot Dish Competition

Today's vintage find -- a Hugh J. Hayes printing block from 1948 (image flipped horizontally for your benefit):

to celebrate his fifth birthday we experimented with Barry Lyndon-style illumination

WANTED TO STAY UP AND SEE SANTA! WANTED TO SEE AND I SAW! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK, DAD! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK!

My father has outdone himself in the realm of whaling-themed serveware

If you're looking for a nice fireplace video tonight, or really anytime, we have an excellent three-hour fire with lots of crackling on @archive.org -- streaming, or to download for later: archive.org/details/TheB...

the machine translation of the tracklist of the CD of the songs from the play based on the kid's book series about "the world's oldest motorized regular public transport system in continuous service" (Kristiansund's Sundbåten, which I do recommend you ride if you are ever in Kristiansund)

when you're doing Networking™

The kid has developed a serious interest in carnivorous plants so I picked up a few easy ones. Now, to lure bugs into my home, I guess?

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke, and a grateful nod to the noble porpoises that saved him after he fell asleep on a surfboard and drifted out to sea fifteen years ago, without whom he might not be with us today www.theguardian.com/film/2010/no...

New on Flickr Commons -- magic lantern slides from meteorologist and theosophist Clement Lindley Wragge, who invented naming tropical storms web.archive.org/web/20171118...

in the ~hour of sleep I got (ref bsky.app/profile/arch...) I had an incredibly vivid dream in which the plot was that we had to stop some group who were instantiating an ancient evil by "killing ghosts" in order to produce a computational resource that they were using to mine bitcoin? Much to ponder

A THANKSGIVING TALE According to the earliest record I can find, about fourteen-and-a-half years ago, I wondered: Does anyone know if I can buy a gravy boat that has a little sculpture of a boat in the center, so when it's full of gravy the little boat appears to be sailing on a sea of gravy?

the traditional depiction of the pilgrim hats is a nineteenth-century fictionalization of seventeenth-century pilgrims and puritans and such a depiction is properly called a “spurious buckled capotain”

Two weekends left! It's so cool!

TODAY Kid (4 years old): "DAD! DAD!" Me: "What is it?" Kid: "I will never die." (goes back to playing with his Oscar the Grouch outfit, which is a fuzzy grey sweater and a plate for a hat)

Abridged notes from the hdparm man page

as another update we now know the exact leather used in the construction of the 1979 Arion Moby Dick

I'm on CNN (with a light bulb in front of my face)!

I've revived my old @treestoknow.bsky.social account, semi-regularly posting text and the amazing illustrations of Hugh J. Hayes ( keeporegongreen.org/archive/ ) from an old edition of "Trees To Know In Oregon", if you're into that sort of thing.

Happy Halloween!

This was fun. This is one of my old boxes (“vortex” — everything from that era is named after swirling things) and I’m very grateful that I remembered the root password.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Goodbye, San Francisco. Back soon.

Happy Internet Archive Day! Join us tonight—online or IRL—for The Web We’ve Built! If you visit the Archive in person, grab a free copy of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE from our BIG Free Library! 🎟️ ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h... #Wayback1T

As an update, I now have the box of scrap leather from the construction of the 1979 Arion Moby Dick

I'm not going to post a picture of what my small son brought home from his "where I live" school project because it's where I live but it's exactly what you'd picture when I say "a poor quality monochrome printout of your house with what looks like blood smeared all over the doors and windows"

it’s extremely obvious where Frank Herbert was going with Dune if you read the books and think about it (but I will only reveal my thoughts on the subject in person for Secret Reasons)

ok I get it geez

spooky season is upon us (and thank you @joshmillard.bsky.social for the amazing print!)

buying my fall candles got me like

Action Shot

unparalleled aesthetics

I got a template in the mail! Clever marketing from the direct mail company there? But NCOA makes me think that the National Council On Aging, the Non-Commissioned Officer's Association, the National Change Of Address program, or the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia is trying to get in touch.

just in case you wanted to play the MS-DOS-based hacking game that came on a floppy disk in the Sneakers press kit, we've got it emulated in-browser over at @archive.org: archive.org/details/Snea...

Getting The Gang Back Together

we are once again having the conversation about what is and is not a sandwich

Exciting update!

There's a great chance to see some aurora tonight! A few tips for the casual observer in this thread. First off, this forecast shows potential overhead aurora (green band) and the edge of where you might be able to see it near the horizon (green line) www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aur...

At this point I think I've dreamed enough weird food over the last couple years that I could open a food cart that serves only food that came to me in dreams. Last night's is a foodstuff called "Performance" which, in the dream, I was told is "a San Diego thing". Here is how Performance works:

uh he just plucked this, scrambled, out of a toy pile and did this. I have never seen him touch a Rubix Cube before in my life (video is just of the last bit after I realized what was happening)

I bet these would taste amazing with the Cesium Shrimp www.vice.com/en/article/s...