before my nephew was born, i mailed my childhood copy of the richard scarry classic to my brother as a christmas gift. this morning he texted me and said “noah has been insisting he eat blueberries and read ‘pig and momma’ this morning.” i was delighted.

my parents bought that copy of the book for me in ~1984 and the legend goes that i requested back-to-back re-readings of it on a daily basis. glad the tradition has continued.

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My new band name.

2 weeks ago, after dropping my youngest in the kindergarten I took the usual bike ride to work. While descending the office garage, probably lost control of the bike (sand?). Don’t remember as I blacked out.
After some 20min I walked into my office (in the meanwhile parked the bike 2 floors down where i crashed, passed through 3 fingertip controls/barriers and took the lift) with no memory but some pain in the shoulder and head (of course that day I swapped my helmet to cap!).

Lowriders compete to see how high they can jump in downtown Albuquerque on Saturday 6-June-2026.

The city closes down Central Ave - Route 66, the Mother Road - for a few blocks every weekend to accommodate the revelers. Here was a fenced off area for lowriders to strut their stuff.

Accidental Renaissance?

https://influence.citationneeded.news/

The absolutely incredible Molly White has updated her crypto influence watch project to include more than just crypto.

I really enjoy her work and would encourage anyone who can spare a buck to support her.

View from my backcountry campsite at Akokala Lake on the North Fork of the Flathead side of Glacier. Kintla Peak (10,092') is in the far distance, with Reuter Peak closer in. I was the only one at camp, and by the looks of it, the first to stay overnight this year.

I'm still recovering post bronchitis and planned this shorter (5.8 mi each way) hike, since I could mote readily pace myself on foot then cycling. The trail was extremely muddy about a third of the way and then tied in with my first overnighter of the year, I'm feeling it today, but hey, my lungs are still moving the right direction, so that's something.

Seen on the line..

Finallllllly got around to listing these linocut prints from like 2 years back. I like to imagine Nancy Drew as a straight up Klutz because, gosh darnit, she's TOO perfect at everything in the books!!

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Appropriates the old Icee (predecessor of Slurpee, Slush Puppie, etc.) logo. geddit?

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somewhere in the cesspool of linkedin, where everyone is wetting their pants to the latest claude code, i was surprised to see someone post this old chestnut. i cackled.

image's original mouse-over alt text:
"The pile gets soaked with data and starts to get mushy over time, so it's technically recurrent."

source: https://xkcd.com/1838/

source: https://mstdn.social/@frans...

Translated from the source:

The world has truly turned upside down.
Fear not, one day we will wake up,
Maybe because the internet has crashed
And our screens go black
Maybe because we’ll wake up from this dream.
For now…. 😴

well, not so much last week now
May 26, 1967

#MV26, #fosterjoy

Yolanda and Nigel.

Story time;

Andrea was down for the weekend and left first thing this morning. It wasn't until after she left that I saw the text from my boss that i could take tonight off, the last of these sorts of breaks we might get til Sept, and though I was initially interested in an extra night off I demurred in favor of pulling in some scratch...

Fast forward a few hours and Michael messaged that he needed to speak to me about some things and reiterated his offer and I accepted. Based on timing and logistics of ferries and buses that meant I had to leave my house almost immediately lest it cost me an extra few hours and have me home after dark.

Out the door I ran. I remembered my jewelry and forgot my wallet...

To the bus stop to make a ferry two towns over. Only the gates at the terminal are down. It's 72 with a 2kt breeze in VH where I live, It's 68 and blowing 10kts on the other side of the island. Ferries are re-routed... to the town I just left...

It happens.

I learn this upon entering the ticket office at the terminal. A smiling Yolanda says; they re-route the boats due to the weather. Do you live here? Can I give you a lift to VH...?

I mean that would be amazing(I say as I see the bus that would have got me there on time pull away from the terminal). She is sure to warn me that Nigel, a wire-haired bundle of love at her feet, would need to remain navigator on our journey.

We bounced and made it with time to spare.

We chatted and learned we had more than a hadnful of shared friends, and interests; she's a cook who spent years here on the island in catering and private chef gigs.

This sort of thing might happen in your neighborhood from time to time, too! It's the sort of thing that makes living here special and feeds the idea that there is a magic on this island that is nourished by the people here as much as the place itself.

🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

We said goodbye to one of the greatest dogs today. Lucky to have had him in our lives.

We gave him a good life after he came to us abandoned. I like to think he gave us a bit of life over the years. The epitome of “man’s best friend”, he’d follow you to the end of the earth and back. Six years is too short for the love we had and cancer just fucking sucks.

Edit: I just realized I've posted about him a few times over the years. That brings me joy. https://mltshp.com/search...

Surprise, why am I in your machine, I once was a God! I don't like having my image taken!

I've been hard at work in the last two weeks together with my colleague Ivonne (in the background). But we've been slowed down a little bit. Last week there was a heatwave of more than 30°C and this weekend it's been raining a lot. But we've got some extra time. So I'm not too worried. We're not nearly finished, although some people might think it is done :-)

By the way, the design is basically a watercolour I did a couple of years ago, with some minor alterations: https://mltshp.com/p/1N5L6

The official opening is on Saturday afternoon June the 13th. If you're in the neighbourhood of Rotterdam, drop by!

#art #painting

Waiting for another dog to come through the gates of the park I think

Ya know, it's just a high school horse. He probably just wants to sell me mulch or something to help support his riding club.

Source: yesterday

There is a young man in the kitchen this summer who replies to almost every order call/instruction set with a slow, drawling;

Awlllriiight.

That makes me want to kick things.

He has yet to peel the glue off of his hands, is what I'm saying.

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