Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick?

The Love Booooooat

I think I remember this episode of Top Gear

Watch out for hop-ons. You're gonna get hop-ons.

real

The standard Windows experience.

Oh man, I'd completely forgotten about The Power Team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

Patriot Games board of governors

Saw this (and the others on other Li’l islands nearby) in person! Very neat. Was told by a local that they’re basically man caves and the folks who own them will leave the island with a pack of groceries and some beer and live it up in the summertime. Also very near the world’s largest puffin colony, as it happens!

Ozymandias!

Go fight!

Earth: Real fucking shithole!

Where is the ice wall that surrounds the earth's disk that keeps the ocean from spilling over the edge?

@ba Mos Eisley Spaceport: It's a fucking shithole. A fucking shithole. https://www.youtube.com/watch...

I can't believe our atmospheric fuckery, when you see we are a water bag, in cold, dark, f'n space, the atmosphere and some other complicated, round, orbital, gravitational, realities, are the only things which keep us from being Mimas.

Four while fried chickens.

...and a Coke.

Dry toast

I've seen this movie, but never in one sitting. I think we may all have movies like that

"The Blues Brothers? Shit. They still owe you money, fool."

Side note - All the performers in the movie lip-synced to a studio recording, except Aretha, because she sings her songs slightly differently every time, and couldn't match her own recording, so her vocals in the Think scene were recorded live on set!

Yaaay! I bet it’s tastier.

Where in the UP? My family owned a little cottage in way up in Copper Harbor for years and years, so I’ve spent a lot of time up there.

@wombatman70 40 miles west of the bridge : Naubinway. Our friends have a beautiful little modern summer house right at the northernmost point of Lake Michigan

I'm headed to MI tomorrow for family vacation after not having been there for a few years. Super excited!!! Not getting up to the Yoop, but I'm going to be quite happy with time spent next to Sleeping Bear.

I have been feeding my sourdough starter every week or two for quite a long time as I've been too busy and it's been way too hot to bake. Looking forward to getting some loaves going in the Fall again.

@samh awesome enjoy it! Lmk if you need any recommendations… I’m in Williamsburg btw TC and Elk rapids and get over to to Sleeping Bear often…. I feel like you’ve prolly got it covered though

Our oven died a few weeks back so my starter was starving in the back of the fridge for weeks…..just woke it back up.

We got a new induction range w electric oven after being on gas all my life. This first loaf turned out awesome - the electric oven cooked a lot more evenly…and also has a proof setting which I’m digging. Another 900g of dough is in a bowl on the counter - going to make baguettes out of it in the AM

@octaneTom how WONderful! Anywhere up nort is spectacular. Especially this time of year. Spent most of my life (for better and worse) down in Holland, but still have good friends up in your neck of the woods. We never went through Naubinway, because we always took 28 heading west, since we were heading to the Keeweenaw. Hope you have the best time! How was the bread in the end?

I had forgotten you were from over there, @octaneTom but that's coming back to me. We'll spend one night at my sister-in-laws in TC then about a week next to the beach in Frankfort. I'll wave from the plane in and out!

p.s. I installed an induction range this year and it is absolutely superb for baking.

I make pizzas from scratch every week for date night. When I remember to plan ahead, I get the dough started a couple days early and let it ferment in the fridge. When I remember to do this, it is *amazing*.

Oh god, the giant space-cat has reversed Earth's rotation!
The sun now rises in the West and sets in the East!

If earth was flat, would cat knock hoomanz off it into deep space?

You say it like it's a *bad* thing

AKA "Democracy"

Sickos

That's what *she* said.

I too built gigawatts of wind power, except in my case it's terabytes of half-assed project documentation relating to marketing automation.

"no water in the Danube"

Umm...humans...are we gonna maybe fix this? Anyone?

@ba I did not expect the ending to that sentence.

That's a pretty good phone capture IMO.

ICON

Sorry for your loss, even one that's so far gone. It's a striking photo and now I'm curious to learn more about Paul's artwork

Randomly, my friend Naeem was in that exhibition in the source link.

To live in hearts that love is not to die.

@dphiffer some of Paul's work is still out there, but the online exhibits have mostly fallen away. A lot of non-theist questioning (both his adoptive parents were missionaries, and Paul spent a couple of years in Cairo with them), and some of the work is dark, but more is funny and silly. His widow also teaches art at college level, and she's been curating a lot of his work over the years.

Oh yeah? Which one?

amaze

A friend lives near Montreal and sent a bunch of photos of his woodcut prints on exhibit at the museum there. I was quite impressed by his body of work!

@snowbow If you're ever in the Netherlands make sure to go to The Hague and visit the museum 'Escher in the palace'
https://escherinhetpaleis.nl/en
Beautiful building, tons of original prints. Also The Hague itself ain't half bad. (And send me a dm and I'll join you)

I’m in Montreal! (And don’t particularly like MC Escher.) But this praying mantis is a monastery is cool.

@BennyTheIcepick nicee. I must’ve just missed it, I was in Montreal last fall :[

@waa I would love that!! I was in Amsterdam in 2023 but it didn’t even occur to me to see Escher work. I went to Rembrandts house though and that was really neat.