it’s Spring Sick and you’re the least sick person in your household, so it’s time to make chicken soup for everybody. First, you’re gonna brown a couple bone-in skin-on legs in a big pan

I have no problem with this (it's a reshipper that I used 3.5 years ago IIRC) but I just like the phrasing of the subject line

Odysseus: we now set out in our Odyssey Sailor: what's an odyssey? Odysseus: a family-focused minivan known for its versatile interior

I had an extremely weird experience yesterday, which is that I woke up with an absolute conviction that it was the superbowl. Like, I planned my day around avoiding places that were going to be potentially crowded, and said aloud to at least one person that I was avoiding the superbowl? ???

bulk bin build

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

get in loser, we’re decorating eggs

excuse me I am trying to read my book and go to sleep in peace

Meatball investigates Neuschwanstein Castle

Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.

OK, I did a bad thing. I just won this Auction. I need to pass the hat. Please DM me if you want to throw money at this so I can actually make bill payments.

Took the kid to the Lego bulk bins today and he found maybe the two creepiest BeatBits tiles. He's now made a "television" that he's using to identify where in the house ghosts may be haunting doors.

Don't trust these companies to do right by any films, but especially radical ones. Preservation is important. Art and media that challenges the status quo too often appears to be forgotten on purpose by those who have the power to make those decisions.

it is my great regret to inform you that the salty sea air finally consumed the mounting brackets for this dish and hurled it unbidden to the roof beneath (it had also been deprecated for some years so the primary impact is to myself)

My coworker left me a datacenter surprise

And the strict master Death bids them dance. He wants them to hold hands and to tread the dance in a long line.

Everyone should go and immediately read the subsection Property under the Themes heading in the Wuthering Heights wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wutheri...

Thank you @davidcel.is for pointing out that I named one of the @pbotinfo.bsky.social snow plows! Please welcome "Keep Portland Cleared": www.portland.gov/transportati...

Volcán de Fuego from the edge of Acatenango, less than a mile away

ok fine I’ll climb the other one

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

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.