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Poor little Jolene
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Been a rough week. First she losses her nemesis, Dolly. Now she's on her 5th wash and still smells a little like skunk.
But she’s exotic!
She could have any man she wants.
My happiness depends on you, Jolene.
She'd choose the bear.
Languid @studiomalarkey
Dishes from Nagahama, or A Few Good Things I've Eaten Recently
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Three pictures of plated food. The first shows slices of fish arranged in a circle around rice. The second shows thick noodles with beef, grated daikon, thin slices of egg, green onions, a tomato, and half a green citrus fruit. The last image shows a bowl of thin noodles with a dark fish on top, and above that there is a plate with three pieces of sushi with the same fish on top.
Yoko and I visited a town near Lake Biwa, Japan the past two weekends.
1. Funazushi. This is a fish from the lake that has been fermented. It tastes like fish salami. I like it. This one has eggs in it, which makes it about 4x as expensive as without eggs. The stuff in the middle is the rice that it is packed into to ferment. That tastes good, too.
2. Cold udon noodles with local beef. The beef is warm and tender and slightly rich. I'm not sure if the broth picks up flavor from the beef, or if the broth is made from beef, but it is delicious and sticks to your lips. The citrus fruit is a sudachi; it adds a lot to the whole dish.
3. Grilled saba (mackerel) somen and sushi. Also delicious. This restaurant is popular and this somen dish is pretty much all they sell.
Not pictured: Ayu (smelt) so fresh it is still kicking when brought to your table for you to grill and eat. I thought it might be too graphic.
1. Funazushi. This is a fish from the lake that has been fermented. It tastes like fish salami. I like it. This one has eggs in it, which makes it about 4x as expensive as without eggs. The stuff in the middle is the rice that it is packed into to ferment. That tastes good, too.
2. Cold udon noodles with local beef. The beef is warm and tender and slightly rich. I'm not sure if the broth picks up flavor from the beef, or if the broth is made from beef, but it is delicious and sticks to your lips. The citrus fruit is a sudachi; it adds a lot to the whole dish.
3. Grilled saba (mackerel) somen and sushi. Also delicious. This restaurant is popular and this somen dish is pretty much all they sell.
Not pictured: Ayu (smelt) so fresh it is still kicking when brought to your table for you to grill and eat. I thought it might be too graphic.
The funazushi intrigues me.
Water 💨
Spinner problems
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Bundles of dried flax awaiting processing into yarn. Among the bundles are 2 flaxy bird nests, one with a blue egg in it.
A weaver on Facebook shared a discovery in her flax pile. These bundles will be retted (waterlogged to loosen the outer layer) and then cracked to access the thin golden fibers inside. The end result will be linen fabric.
This just delights me.
FFFFFFFFFFU
your project postmortem
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comic panel with a woman saying "THAT SOUNDS AWFUL, HOW MANY OF THE CLOWNS DIED?"
"The count keeps rising. They've been pulling them out of the car wreck for hours now."
Expialidocious!
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First row of Connections words are Super Caliph Fragile and Lipstick
Via Threads
Connections is often maddening, but honestly one of the better puzzles they do, and once in a while the editor sneaks in something good like this.
One Pound Of Wax From Baby Bel Cheese
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In Re: https://mltshp.com/p/1RV7L
I can't remember when I started this. Sometime in January maybe? Anyway,I decided to make a big ball from the wax at work just so when customers ask me what that is, I can say "That's the whole ball of wax!"
I'll see myself out.
I can't remember when I started this. Sometime in January maybe? Anyway,I decided to make a big ball from the wax at work just so when customers ask me what that is, I can say "That's the whole ball of wax!"
I'll see myself out.
I've made much smaller versions of this, and it's satisfying, respect for carrying it through to this size.
After a few more pounds, make a sculpture of the cow's head.
^ what Art said.
frenz
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sigorney weaver smiling with the alien
meeting prep
It's the best.
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May I suggest *5* am for a wake up time?
@bencmeissner My alarm is set for 5 AM. For over two decades I have been waking up before the alarm.
@ardgedee Nice! I love the morning time to do stuff for me before the world gets a hold of me.
Killing the vibe
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A 3D printer on pavers on a bench.
Decided to see if many pounds of concrete would suppress the sound the vibrations getting to the bench surface, cutting the noise.
Results: Worth the fifteen bucks and all the old man noises I made setting it up.
Results: Worth the fifteen bucks and all the old man noises I made setting it up.
Damn, that's some disco macrame.
takes care of cd jitter, too
Did you start with one slab and keep adding until you were happy with the results? Just curious because this is totally something I would do
Whip of the week
I drew a silly thing
constant bagel therapy
your presentation
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Don Martin illustration of a man dancing with a lampshade on his head with a bored audience of three watching from a couch
Spiff Muad'dib
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Three Calvin and Hobbes strips repurposed to be Paul undergoing the test of the gom jabbar from "Dune". In the first, Calvin on the examination table at the doctor's office is approached by the doctor, bearing a box. "What's in the box?" "Pain." In the second, Calvin's mom in the waiting room recites the litany against fear. In the third, in the first panel Calvin yells, "You can contain my body but you can't chain my spirit! Walls can't confine it! Laws can't restrain it! You can try to leave a message but my spirit screens it calls!" In the second panel, loud screaming is heard; Calvin's mother jumps out of her chair. In the third, she asks a disgruntled Calvin, "What did the Reverend Mother say?" He replies, "All history up to this point has been spent preparing the world for my presence."
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
Based on how expertly the text is arranged, I’m guessing this is the work of Jeff Rupp, legendary and prolific contributor to the Spiffposting Facebook group
@BennyTheIcepick i love this intel!
I'll be snack
"Damn. That's some disco macrame"
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women in a disco in macrame captioned "Disco Macrame"
I need to say that at least ten times this week.
"disco macrame!" is my new angry interjection for 2026
Macramé! at the Disco
More fun if you pronounce it as if it rhymes with 'fame'. DISCO MACRAME
for reference
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baby's face
the guy with me in this photo only, like, yesterday
https://mltshp.com/p/1RVAW
https://mltshp.com/p/1RVAW
Stacks of Hatch
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My son and I in a kitchen holding bags of peppers
Skinned, chopped, and bagged a bushel and a half of hatch chilis with my son
I don't remember this episode of Breaking Bad.
The best smell on the planet is Hatch, NM on a crisp morning when you fire uo the propane burner and roast up a bag in a random parking lot.
@1f2frfbf they were roasting up a bushels down by the tracks in Portland Oregon today. Brought me back to Santa Fe
awesome TV moment
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James Burke pointing at a rocket launching
Seriously. In a series full of cool things, this is probably the coolest.
The last of which could also change the meaning of the whole
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A quote in white text on a black background that says: ""A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to
an inner architecture."
- italo calvino" with a picture of Italo Calvino below the quote
an inner architecture."
- italo calvino" with a picture of Italo Calvino below the quote
One of the greats. _ source: https://www.are.na/block...
I just finished watching the movie Linoleum (2022) and this quote fit perfectly into understanding it’s theme.
The Only Appropriate Response
Aunties Intelligence
finally
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finally, racist password manager
For anyone else not quite following - same guy as here https://tekin.co.uk/2025...
@hertz Still pretty opaque to me, even tho I know who DHH is and his 'I didn't want to be a nazi, wokeness forced me to be' bullshit.
@ardgedee 1password is funding omarchy, dhh's Arch-based distro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Story Time...
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"About twenty-five years ago, I made an offhand and somewhat uncharitable remark about the Red Hot Chili Peppers. There was no malice intended, it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then to piss people off. I was a troublemaker, a shit-stirrer, feeling most at ease in the role of a societal irritant. Perhaps it’s an Australian trait among people of my generation, I don’t know, but that comment has followed me around for the last quarter-century. But the most interesting aspect of all this is not what I said about the Chili Peppers, but rather the response from Flea, their bass player. On Facebook, Flea expressed how hurt he felt by my remark, but went on to say, in great detail, that he loved my music regardless. He wrote a profoundly generous and open-hearted love letter to Nick Cave. I remember being genuinely moved by his words and thinking what a classy guy Flea was, and feeling on some subterranean level that I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre, indeed, of a higher order.
Over the years, I would run into Flea at music festivals where both our bands were performing and see him backstage when we played in Los Angeles. Although we didn’t become close friends, my encounters with him were always pleasant – there was a presence to Flea that felt genuine and oddly affecting. On the Push the Sky Away tour, we asked Flea if he could assemble a children’s choir, from the Silverlake Conservatory of Music he founded, to accompany the Bad Seeds at the Coachella Festival. When Warren and I were on the Carnage tour, we asked Flea to join us and play the song ‘We No Who U R’. Watching Warren and Flea perform together with such heart and mutual regard was a glorious sight.
Last week, Flea sent me a song and asked if I’d like to add some vocals. It was for a “trumpet record” that he is making. It is not for me to divulge what the song was, only that it is a song I cherish more than most, with arguably the greatest lyric ever written, a song of such esteem that I would never have dared to sing it had Flea not asked me to. I went into the studio on Wednesday and recorded my vocals. The track emerged as a beautiful conversation between Flea’s trumpet and my voice, filled with yearning and love, the song transcending its individual parts and becoming a slowly evolving cosmic dance, in the form of a reconciliation and an apology.
My friend, the artist Thomas Houseago, recounted a story involving Flea. A couple of years ago, Flea, his daughter, Thomas, and a guide were hiking through the backcountry of Yosemite. They had been hiking for five days and were walking along a densely forested trail when a bear appeared on the path before them. Everybody froze. The bear was about ten feet away from them. It was a large black bear with a reddish hue. Thomas and the guide gripped their tent poles, perhaps to defend themselves in case the bear attacked. Flea, however, stepped forward, stood before the bear, and spoke to it. He acknowledged they were visitors in the bear’s territory, expressed his love for the bear, and requested permission to continue along the trail. The bear stepped off the path and allowed them to pass."
Nick Cave
Over the years, I would run into Flea at music festivals where both our bands were performing and see him backstage when we played in Los Angeles. Although we didn’t become close friends, my encounters with him were always pleasant – there was a presence to Flea that felt genuine and oddly affecting. On the Push the Sky Away tour, we asked Flea if he could assemble a children’s choir, from the Silverlake Conservatory of Music he founded, to accompany the Bad Seeds at the Coachella Festival. When Warren and I were on the Carnage tour, we asked Flea to join us and play the song ‘We No Who U R’. Watching Warren and Flea perform together with such heart and mutual regard was a glorious sight.
Last week, Flea sent me a song and asked if I’d like to add some vocals. It was for a “trumpet record” that he is making. It is not for me to divulge what the song was, only that it is a song I cherish more than most, with arguably the greatest lyric ever written, a song of such esteem that I would never have dared to sing it had Flea not asked me to. I went into the studio on Wednesday and recorded my vocals. The track emerged as a beautiful conversation between Flea’s trumpet and my voice, filled with yearning and love, the song transcending its individual parts and becoming a slowly evolving cosmic dance, in the form of a reconciliation and an apology.
My friend, the artist Thomas Houseago, recounted a story involving Flea. A couple of years ago, Flea, his daughter, Thomas, and a guide were hiking through the backcountry of Yosemite. They had been hiking for five days and were walking along a densely forested trail when a bear appeared on the path before them. Everybody froze. The bear was about ten feet away from them. It was a large black bear with a reddish hue. Thomas and the guide gripped their tent poles, perhaps to defend themselves in case the bear attacked. Flea, however, stepped forward, stood before the bear, and spoke to it. He acknowledged they were visitors in the bear’s territory, expressed his love for the bear, and requested permission to continue along the trail. The bear stepped off the path and allowed them to pass."
Nick Cave
That "Trumpet Record" was one of the nicer music surprises as of late.
Flea and Chad seem cool
Nice. Adult behavior redeems. Although I do turn the channel when Red Hot Chili Peppers come on the radio. In Southern California, it's like every ten minutes. I just don't ever need to hear them again.
choice vs. prime
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Two packs of the same cut of beef, New York strip, at Costco. One is graded USDA choice, the other, USDA prime. The prime has much more inter-muscular fat and costs $3 more a pound.
Meat is too expensive.
Here you can see the real difference between Choice and Prime graded beef. It's been rare (hahaha) for me to see an easy comparison like this.
Here you can see the real difference between Choice and Prime graded beef. It's been rare (hahaha) for me to see an easy comparison like this.
Our household has decided to go for prime-grade. And eat smaller portions of beef less often. It's easier to stretch it out like this when it tastes better.
Worth it!
I took my kid to the grocery store this evening. Kid loves bacon. Kid is lazy. This is how I somehow bought 25 pre-cooked strips of bacon for $14. oy.
