Got to spend some time with this cutie while her mom was away for the afternoon yesterday. She didn't quite snuggle with me, but I'm told she's a snuggler once fully warmed to you.

Saw this a while back, I sort of got it at the time but the more I have thought about it the funnier it has got.

Hi, I'm still here! My family and I have successfully moved to Sweden. It is very nice here. I got to walk on a lake.

The novelist Jack Kerouac, holds Wm. Burroughs cat, at a home in Tangiers, in a time when Kerouac was typing Burrough's manuscript of "Naked Lunch."

https://www.theguardian.com/books...

Postcard received from Japan

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Sometimes the pickings at the flea market are slim and the best thing to do is wander around seeing how egregious the knockoffs are getting these days.

And yeah I could do that on Temu any time I want but seeing them in person hits different.

Looney Tunes taught me everything I know about physics.

source: https://www.tumblr.com/curatoro...

Valentina Tereshkova landed near the Pavinskiy Collective Farms in Altai Krai, approximately 150 miles southwest of Novosibirsk, Russia, after her mission on June 19, 1963. Spacecraft: Vostok 6 (East 6)
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Continuation from here: https://mltshp.com/p/1RLRN

Woke up at 4 AM. Got the brisket on the smoker at 5. It stalled fairly early (145º-150º), but I smoked until noon, then wrapped them for three to four hours until they hit 203º, pulled them both, and popped them in a 150º oven until 6 PM and dinner time.

Turned out lovely! Thus concluded my first big packer brisket on the new smoker. It's way too much meat for the two of us, so were loading up our neighbors.

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Watched the Bourne Supremacy last night and was inspired by the women’s hair in it

What it mentions on the tin.

15 years. Metafilter loved that book so hard. So so so so hard. And the book is like what, 800 pages (looked it up, it's 480).

For years it bothered me so much, because I knew from hearing the main thrusts of the book and the reception of it that it had issues, but I had way too much going on to read it, write a treatise on it, and then defend that on Metafilter.

I came across a video on Youtube (not this one) called something like "Why white men conquered the world", clearly titled by what seems like a decent guy, as clickbait to get you to watch. Over 20 minutes, he then distills the major points of Diamond's book.

I had *feelings* about it and some specific points in mind, and then serendipitously those feelings showed up elsewhere today in regard to a different thing and so ultimately I looked for critiques of Diamond's book and found this, which is nice.

The part about why the book was so popular...chef's kiss...cause it says a lot.

It bothers me so much that so many things are completely wrong, but who has time to take someone else's argument it takes months to take in, go through it line by line and explain the issues, then put that out, and try to explain it.

And I say that because not only am I nowhere near the smartest person on this or any other site and definitely not metafilter, but that absolute fact means why cant the smart people see the obvious errors in pieces like this.

Long story short, men suck.

It's been 15 years so I suppose I should keep coming back to this post to discuss this, instead of dropping it here like the matter is finished.

A certain someone insisted on being in the photo.

Zoe wants some to give away at Tiki-A-Go-Go at the end of the month - so I’m trying to figure out the candy-colored version

My in-laws were visiting this weekend, and I realized I have never smoked anything for them. So I decided to buckle down and do a full brisket on the new smoker. Found a good deal at a Cash & Carry (5 bucks a pound!), so I got the smallest I could find (12 pounds) and trimmed it down. Ended up going the competition route and separating the flat and the point before seasoning (salt, pepper, garlic) just to save time on the smoke.

Concludes: https://mltshp.com/p/1RLRO

Trying new things in your California 50s

years ago I worked on JW, and was working on this shot, so I had a really good matchmove of the eye. I created and animated a googly eye, stuck it on the dino, and put it in dailies as a joke comp.

anyway, someone reminded me of that, and while I don't have the joke comp, as personal images don't leave ILM's computer system, I did have a blu-ray Jurassic World, a non-commercial copy of nuke, and some free time this evening to recreate it from scratch.

Previously : https://mltshp.com/p/1RKG8

So, my kitten was having a lot of struggles the last couple of weeks and was not getting better as expected. His health and mobility were declining. We went to see the veterinarian again today and there were more tests, blood work, and exams. She referred us to a veterinarian that specialized in neurology to see if there was anything that would account for the symptoms that was not FIP.

Ultimately, the new tests, exam, and recent changes in his symptoms indicated an aggressive cancer and a grim diagnosis and no viable treatments. He was very humanely helped across the rainbow bridge cuddled in my arms this afternoon.

Me and five others in my family want to get sushi and eat tuna to celebrate the bravest cat I ever met.

I did the best I could for him and gave him the best life he could have had with the cards he was dealt.

if you like printing, can make it to the Scottish Borders, and manage to coincide with the incredibly rare times the shop is open, you should try going to Robert Smail's Printworks in Innerleithen.

This one one of several sheets in a thick scratchpad I got at the shop. The manicule is a large woodcut, and the type is hand set.

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