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i m baby
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Instagram screenshot of a smug-looking green parrot bundled into a towel as though it were a baby, being held like a man.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"Everything is terrible, but the SF Fire Department recently assisted in a wild parrot rescue and the *photos*"
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"Everything is terrible, but the SF Fire Department recently assisted in a wild parrot rescue and the *photos*"
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Lol I pressed the right arrow on this for the next image.
tech conference
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a shower of hot dogs into a pool of hot dogs
Am I the only one who remembers the early-to-the-internet hotdogboy.com?
Also, "This is the year Fink beats the stomach. ...No a couple of them over here."
today's walk
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An old mill building with a clock tower in the background. A river runs in front of it and a great blue heron is on a rock in the middle of this river.
Apparently that heron (lower left) is just always hanging out around there. I remember this building from when it was Digital Equipment Corporation HQ and I moved away before it became anything different. It's now some well-maintained office park.
Is that Maynard? I probably spent an afternoon or two after school there with my mom.
Halloween Ice Whistles
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Orange and black whistles
Orange is a lovely choice.
Found in a field
I fucking guarantee it.
Down By The River...
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.
Republicanism
Peter Hook and the Light, First Avenue
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Dark photo of a band on stage with blue light showing the band members and a full audience on the floor in front.
This was an odd show. I admittedly haven't followed any of the later New Order songs, and they were performing their 2001 album Get Ready, which i didn't know at all. They played the album then took a break and came back to play a bunch of older New Order and Joy Division songs, but the sound was so muddy i couldn't distinguish much until they started Transmission.
The other odd thing (and maybe this is typical for this band, i don't know), is that Peter wore a bass the whole show but barely played it (Craig Finn-like). In the terrible photo above you can see the band's bass player on the left, but he literally stood in shadow most of the time. The other band members would get fill lights but it's like they wanted to pretend there wasn't another bassist on stage. Odd.
The other odd thing (and maybe this is typical for this band, i don't know), is that Peter wore a bass the whole show but barely played it (Craig Finn-like). In the terrible photo above you can see the band's bass player on the left, but he literally stood in shadow most of the time. The other band members would get fill lights but it's like they wanted to pretend there wasn't another bassist on stage. Odd.
Odd indeed. I'd assume it's just a bit much anymore for him to both play bass and handle vocals for a full show? Certainly sounds like a bit of a let-down. I saw him play as Monaco in '97 (and got to hang out for a bit, super nice guy) and Hooky was definitely the only one on bass.
Also with you on Get Ready, and really anything New Order-related post Republic or so. I think I bought the CD when it came out and listened through it once or twice, and was surprised to see that I added it to my iTunes library in 2005. The play count is listed as 0.
Also with you on Get Ready, and really anything New Order-related post Republic or so. I think I bought the CD when it came out and listened through it once or twice, and was surprised to see that I added it to my iTunes library in 2005. The play count is listed as 0.
I'm pretty sure its Peter's son, Jack, that plays bass with the band. At least he used to.
Love a good rail trail
wednesday
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wrestler in a sparkly jacket dancing
b'gawd, that's Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin's music!
cher if you agree
WTF IRS?
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An envelope from the IRS with a QR code. The text by the coffee says "Scan here to find missing children near you".
Are they kidnapping kids and running some kind of Hunger Games shit? Who approved the wording on this?
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 to include.
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 to include.
The funazushi intrigues me.
These look delicious. What's the texture of the rice the fermented fish was packed into?
@WikiAdam it's a soft, moist mush. Very salty. IIRC, there's not much to chew. The rice is cooked before it is combined, but I don't know if it looks like what you'd have for dinner or what. I'm guessing it breaks down more during the fermentation.
She'd choose the bear.
Do you remember?
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No idea...
I love a calendar girl
Water 💨
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Fart free water?….. don’t think that’s solely water.
Surely a tribute to turn of the century industrialist turned cult leader W. Fart Freewater
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.
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.
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.
This is clever, but I legitimately loathe this game. It's like the worst aspect of crossword puzzles (clues that end with a cutesy "?") and trying to second guess the writer at every turn.
Please note: I am a curmudgeon and I have not had coffee yet this morning.
Please note: I am a curmudgeon and I have not had coffee yet this morning.
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.
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."
I drew a silly thing
Digital Camouflage
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Several figures photographed from high up in a street scene. Everyone has a green rectangle around them with the corresponding text "Person". A man in the middle of the image is wearing a bright, dazzling shirt which helps him remain undetected by the AI camera surveillance system.
"No, I don't have terrible taste in clothing, I just don't want to become part of someone's dataset".
Of course, Flock, et al will just adjust their pattern-recognition to accommodate this sort of thing. It's sort of like how using hand-sanitizer supposedly results in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Of course, Flock, et al will just adjust their pattern-recognition to accommodate this sort of thing. It's sort of like how using hand-sanitizer supposedly results in antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Yeah he says he only knows this working against a single model and I assumed it would require updating at some point, still it's nice that someone is trying.
Brb. Heading to Dan Flashes.
meeting prep
Languid @studiomalarkey
The $250,000 Synth That Replaced Frank Zappa’s Band
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I wrote a paper on Zappa and his synclavier in my freshman year of college ('89 or '90). Probably still have it in a folder somewhere in the basement.
Raymond Scott had the same journey from musicians to machines, except he had to invent the machine along the way
I've been meaning to revisit it because my tastes have certainly expanded since the 80's but I really hated it when it came out.
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
