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This is the second floorish (maybe 1.5 floor, it's a house on pillars) kitchen window right now. This is the standard view from all the windows on 2/3rds of the house. The other windows are legit 2 floors up and the snow is level with the bottom of the windows. However, this is the most legit place for snowfall measurement because some of the snow at the other windows is from the roof except for here. (It's the one spot on the roof we can't access to shovel snow from so it's built up there over the winter (so there's a giant cornice that's apt to come tumbling down any second now)).
As a lifelong westerner (in North America) who *constantly* thinks about weather, water, and wildfire, I never ever ever thought I'd say this but
STOP.
SNOWING.
As a lifelong westerner (in North America) who *constantly* thinks about weather, water, and wildfire, I never ever ever thought I'd say this but
STOP.
SNOWING.

mashcan
For a second I thought it was a wave on a beach! Yikes!
@mashcan it *does* look like a wave! That would definitely be worse.
ahhh the beach though. . . . wouldn't that be wonderful right now
ahhh the beach though. . . . wouldn't that be wonderful right now
Have you considered just building a big flamethrower?
omfg!!!
[Morricone's "The Thing" theme intensifies]
@wjcstp Funny you say that as we have the biggest salamander heaters we could find aimed at the 1.5 foot thick ice dam on the roof at this very second hahaha!
Wow that's ... That's a LOT of snow! ❄️
Living in a place where even the coldest night of the year is above freezing, I say ... NOPE.
Holy hell!
@wjcstp Nahh, then you'd just have to shovel a bunch of ashes
Dayum! Is it due to melt any time soon?
At least you got citrus, you're not getting scurvy 🤘
So wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully,
Wonderfully, pretty!
Wonderfully, pretty!
Alternate: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
I'm kind of an idiot, does that count?
source: https://twitter.com/RobDenBl...
Yay!
Yaaaaaassss
I did so much better at this than I did at the chicken game
I DID IT
Wait, what frog? OH NOOOOOOOO
PS i'll find my frog
My kind of challenge.
from "true stories", d. david byrne, 1986
screenshots stolen from a criterion instagram post, stitched together in PSexpress
screenshots stolen from a criterion instagram post, stitched together in PSexpress
Shopping is a feeling
Love that movie sooooo much
In my experience, lying on the floor helps you listen to music better
My first ever Criterion DVD buy
"Today Metcalfe was named the winner of the A.M. Turing Award, an annual prize considered the highest honor in computer science, for his part in ushering in our hyperconnected age. Fifty years ago, Metcalfe helped invent Ethernet, the local networking technology that links personal computers around the world to the global internet. He also played a central role in standardizing and commercializing his invention." https://www.quantamagazine.org/bob-metc...
Caption for pic from article: "As a graduate student, Metcalfe built this interface to connect MIT’s mainframe computer to Arpanet, a precursor to the modern internet."
Also, the article has a good bit of early networking history.
Caption for pic from article: "As a graduate student, Metcalfe built this interface to connect MIT’s mainframe computer to Arpanet, a precursor to the modern internet."
Also, the article has a good bit of early networking history.
One of a series of long-exposure photographs that another post had me thinking about again this morning:
http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/cityofsh...
http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/cityofsh...
Haunting
Ham Salad
I love that The Last Jedi references this movie.
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll kiss three bucks goodbye.
For the uninitiated: https://youtube.com/watch...
Idris Khan
2007
2007
well that's fuckin' gorgeous
Khan's _thing_ is superimposing works - every Beethoven sonata, every Turner painting stacked up on top of each other, etc. One of the striking things about the Bechers is their variations on industrial structures, and the stark ways they are the same but different, so it's a pretty deep well for Khan to pull water from. Consequently, there's a whole series of these: "every… Bernd and Hilla Becher Spherical Type Gasholders", "every… Bernd and Hilla Becher Gable Side Houses", and so on.
You know, now that I think about it, Khan's stuff hits a little differently in the age of Stable Diffusion.
It made me think immediately also of some photographs I have thought about many times in the last fifteen years despite not having had the sense to go back and LOOK at in a very long time: this "City of Shadows" series by Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko:
http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/cityofsh...
Not multiple exposure but rather long-exposure, but capturing some of the same energy of the median whole described by the march of individual more distinct elements.
In particular this one (and its cousins), was etched into my brain at the time, I've realized:
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content...
http://www.alexeytitarenko.com/cityofsh...
Not multiple exposure but rather long-exposure, but capturing some of the same energy of the median whole described by the march of individual more distinct elements.
In particular this one (and its cousins), was etched into my brain at the time, I've realized:
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content...
Fifteen years is probably long enough to get away with reposting this to MeFi again and putting new eyeballs on it, really.
@joshmillard I’ve always maintained the statute of limitations on web content is no more than 7 years. Even if 5% of the readers have never seen it, you’ve reached them for the first time.
@MackReed Oh, for sure. This is entirely my own hangup and in this case not even a hangup it turns out. I could make the same post twice two days apart and it'd be mostly new to the people who saw it the second day. (Though on MetaFilter, specifically, we'd all lose our minds about it being a double. This is probably the core of the hangup.)
@joshmillard here's to hangups with an honorable legacy.
literal LOL/LLOL
* C R Y I N G*
sheer perfection/genius
sheer perfection/genius
this is a masterpiece
👏😭👏
👏😭👏
wow
*chef kiss*
perfection
All. The. WIN.
These are all so infinitely clever in ways that I know I’d never devise, and so expertly crafted. One of my favorite things about MLTSHP
I remember playing this game as a kid in youth group.
how perfect
Perfect.
!!!!!!!
Anyone know what book this comes from? I remember an old (1930s??) book with lots of one-page descriptions of games - and I think this was in it. Would love to find a copy somewhere.
*bows deeply*
The landing was rough, but I'm in a better place now. It's like, when I'm here I rule but up there I'm just serving.
Bad Omens Season 2 spoiler.
source: https://twitter.com/ComicNer...
"This is the opening splash page of a 90s Grant Morrison comic"
"This is the opening splash page of a 90s Grant Morrison comic"
Baby I know it's serious
Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out
… and drawn by Frank Quitely
Gorilla! At The Dentist
I'm still getting over the horse in the hospital
Okay but were the nipple clamps really necessary?
Last year because I was an idiot and forgot to lock it up, someone stole my beautiful steel road bike (https://mltshp.com/p/1MUSU). I was nothing short of devastated. It took me a year to even think about getting a new bike. Test rode a bunch of candidates at my Local Bike Shop, and finally settled on a Kona Rove DL, made possible in large part due to the insurance money. Perhaps not as nimble as my old Bianchi but it is stable and versatile, and I anticipate a lot of fun miles ahead of me.
TWO WHEELS GOOD FOUR WHEELS BAD ARE WE NOT MEN
cool ride!
I love the joy in this picture. happy new bike.
Happy new bike day!
They sold you an upside-down bike!
THIS PHOTO IS SO WONDERFUL
YEEHAW BIKE STOKE!!!!!!
i see you are of the roll-up school (as opposed to the trouserleg-in-sock school)
You're supposed to keep the rubber side DOWN!
Seriously, though: a nightmare. Glad you have awakened from it.
Seriously, though: a nightmare. Glad you have awakened from it.
@mbjj I am more of the school of “wear spandex down the street to the grocery store you freaking weirdo” but yes, when wearing “civilian clothes” I am definitely on Team Rollup.
And already in the yellow jersey. Most impressive.
Except I think this is straight from the book.
@mcmjolnir it is.
Linked in this piece- https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-lone...
via- kottke
I absolutely loathe being touched by people I don't know. In point of fact it makes participating in my favorite activity, live music performances, downright dicey on occasion.
It's kinda difficult to explain how being in the middle of ~3500 people and standing next to a person I love like a brother makes me feel as if I'm the only person in the world, but there it is.
via- kottke
I absolutely loathe being touched by people I don't know. In point of fact it makes participating in my favorite activity, live music performances, downright dicey on occasion.
It's kinda difficult to explain how being in the middle of ~3500 people and standing next to a person I love like a brother makes me feel as if I'm the only person in the world, but there it is.
the hardest thing i did while living in Japan was to touch seven strangers simultaneously for a prolonged time.
Wow this spoke to me a lot. Sometimes I just have to tell myself "loneliness right now may just be a feeling and not something based on objective fact. Reach out to a friend, even if you don't want to" and it helps.
Currently my kitten is pretending to devour my hand. I don't mind. Someone else tries this...uh...
I take a neighbor of mine for drives. He is 75 and a Sinatra era gay married man, misogynist, alfa type, and ill, and is home alone a lot, as his partner works still, and has a long commute. It is like having the power in the fifties and early sixties to push back against the mistreatment of young women endemic in that generation, and rearing it's ugly head in our society now. For him, I am like his sister, he thinks is overeducated, and stupidly living her life. For him a conversation is a barely submerged arguement, he is alone, way too much, and I am his link to anyone else besides his husband, who is watching him fall apart, in every way. He constantly plays the they're so stupid game, and I drive because he knows he lapses and can't remember where he has been, and how long he has been gone. I bring them treats. His husband is very nice. Their house of cards is hard to watch, at least they were able to marry. ♡ I gave up being lonely, I am back to just being myself, alone time is necessary for me to put myself first, live in my own skin, generate my own joy. I have to consciously remember I am happy. That is the trick of tricks.
I take a neighbor of mine for drives. He is 75 and a Sinatra era gay married man, misogynist, alfa type, and ill, and is home alone a lot, as his partner works still, and has a long commute. It is like having the power in the fifties and early sixties to push back against the mistreatment of young women endemic in that generation, and rearing it's ugly head in our society now. For him, I am like his sister, he thinks is overeducated, and stupidly living her life. For him a conversation is a barely submerged arguement, he is alone, way too much, and I am his link to anyone else besides his husband, who is watching him fall apart, in every way. He constantly plays the they're so stupid game, and I drive because he knows he lapses and can't remember where he has been, and how long he has been gone. I bring them treats. His husband is very nice. Their house of cards is hard to watch, at least they were able to marry. ♡ I gave up being lonely, I am back to just being myself, alone time is necessary for me to put myself first, live in my own skin, generate my own joy. I have to consciously remember I am happy. That is the trick of tricks.
@wmo this is a story I'd like to hear
@0y3ahSansAcut3 that is a pretty great story... glad they have you.
@HellsDonutHouse crowded train commute during the holidays when the guys in the green uniforms with white gloves get on the platform and tuck y'all into the train.
@0y3ahSansAcut3 ♥️
source: https://twitter.com/tmbg...
Prices as song times is genius.
@dogwelder time is money
It’s a brand new album for 1990!
@zekkerjah A brand new album for $19.90.
Please send some to Montana: (