This is a dumb idea, and I want to do something similar. youtu.be/QVVHfRocgQE

kind of interesting that the last bastion of the knickerbocker in the US is baseball and football.

That's a hell of an act, what do you call it? "The Meritocrats!"

c’mon!

The peak hours charges of my local electric utility have totally inverted the logic assumed by my programmable thermostat (home/away).

I miss Borders

This is inspired by a recent podcast on THE PRESTIGE, which I enjoyed, except it was a little jarring to hear a self-confessed Nolan-head (a self-confessed JONATHAN Nolan-head) admit to never watching PERSON OF INTEREST. It's like a Shakespeare fan skipping the Henriad.

I worked with the sticker printer, who I recently discovered go to the same coffee shop as me in outer East Portland, one what was maximally reflective SEE and BE SEEN for safety BEAN SEEN?

countless generations of talent and culture

fucking hell, of course mcmaster-carr has it.

Stephenson was onto something with the "music, movies, microcode and high-speed pizza delivery" description of the US service economy.

Morning commute jam youtu.be/iBEbStvEYG8

bring these back!

Always glad to have a hunch backed up by peer reveiwed research.

what would you bake if you had a frankly ludicrous amount of previously individually frozen no longer frozen lightly sugared sweet dark cherries.

figuring out which of my longtime mufos deleted by observing the shape of the hole in search.

bring me the head of mickey the mouse.

astrology : astronomy :: theology : theonomy (?)

it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity.

evil analysts be like: Why not this? Why not now?

cabbage is the unsung MVP of the brassicas

I'm reminded of @etrigan.bsky.social 's description of a certain class of historical generals who considered a musket to be a spear that went boom. The plane has a big gun, what could be more useful than a gun?

The KLA - Justified and Ancient (feat. Tammy Wynette) (Stand by the JAMs) youtu.be/XP5oHL3zBDg

repeating my mantra of "there's nothing so expensive as a free boat" as I find someone giving away a ranger, someone else giving away an etchells, a third person giving away a nacra 15....

I am really getting a hard push for a hulu/disneyplus/tbd bundle

these pizzas turned out more like khachapuri

🔥🔥🔥🔥 🎥 josielori

Saying "luna rossa prada pirelli" like it's a sondheim lyric

This is almost as good as The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

Why call it the long running trend towards the cult of the operator and jsocization when we could call it the "just the tip" of the spear.

don't hear about syndicates so much anymore

www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2007/03/28/m... "It’s a piece of work concocting a drama about the America’s Cup. You got your challenger eliminations structure, you got your history-as-baggage, but you don’t got your evil bad guy. "

"post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score" 41% isn't terrible-terrible...

found out there's an older film (WIND, 1992) in which Stellan Skarsgård plays, basically, Burt Rutan

There may be no ethical consumption under capitalism, however this does not mean that all comsuptive choices have the same ethical valence.

its 84 degrees out and I'm walking around going 'a nip of autumn in the air!' theonion.com/mr-autumn-ma...

Used the Hiccup Cure from @diane.dianeduane.com today. Worked perfectly. Of course it was alkalotic and we had to run all 3 steps! www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2...

"Every now and again there passes through his circuits a pulse which carries the cybernetic equivalent of the phrase, "Christ, what an imagination I've got."

attributing all the quips, jokes, insights, one-liners and ideas I've picked up on social media to "the sages" or "the poet"

Me the last 3 days

again I am foolishly looking for a sailboat to buy that's - fast - fun - stable - roomy - good racing scene - quick to launch and recover - trailerable - comfortable - inexpensive

I’m losing it help

I didn't know that "Sloop John B" was a Bahamian folk song, modified and re-written, Roud 15634. ig.ft.com/life-of-a-so...

quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

spectrum.ieee.org/larry-tesler... 2020.

realizing a lot of common military adjustments (eg the military shirt tuck, the ranger roll) is from the issued uniforms being in one of two sizes: too big, and too small

A good day sailing is better than a bad day working.

we all know you can't hug with nuclear arms. What this treaty presupposes is.... you could.