i hope the interview went well and you were boosted by ✨magical forest vibes✨

Norway is known for it's strong Forest WiFi system.

@nikkuneko It went well! I’m doing my damndest to not get too excited/get my hopes up, but would be so so so excited if I landed it.
I think the Norse forest magic DID help, thaaaanks!

@homerj The funny thing is that my phone died halfway-through and I quick plugged it into a mobile charger and got back on. They said they were surprised by the fact that my reception held up as long as it did - I explained I had full bars, just didn’t pay attention to my battery level. 😂

I wanted a job
Or should I say it wanted me
They set up a Zoom
Isn't it good Norwegian wood?

Everybody should visit the San Juans

@mcmjolnir just … not all at once, okay?

Well, hello from Anacortes!

Trivia: Contrary to its name, not very Spanish.

When I was going to college in Bellingham, up the road from the ferry to the San Juans, I got it in my mind once to hike down there and camp. Most of my chosen trail was along a railroad, which turned out to be a huge mistake (not because of trains, but because of big rocks and too-new boots). I was able to limp onto the ferry and solo camped around the islands for a week, meeting a few fellow travelers and a fascinating biologist who shared some amazing fresh oysters with me, cooked over a campfire. It was a pretty magical visit, overall, lumped in with some early-20s social awkwardness. Still, fond memories, thanks for the reminder.

I know Pine Island! Good luck to Tosca and her campaign!

Good luck in her race!

✊️

You raised her right. 🇺🇸

My Mom got her elementary school teaching career started in Pine Island in the 70s. Go get 'em, Tosca!

Good luck to her! Is she running as anti-data center? It sounds like Google has kicked the hornets nest there

So long as she promises to keep Cheesefest running she has my support

Woohoo!!!

@jpk Yes she is!

I’ve been to that spot! I was very tempted to recreate this.

Philip Johnson eat your heart out

I recently read a collection of the first year of Olivia Jaymes's "Nancy", and in her version of the Nancy universe there is anime and fandom, so this would not only be plausible, it would actually be a pretty appropriate gag.

Nancy is Jagannath.

Scatan

My hometown’s nickname

I played <insert instrument here> for <recursive device>.

that was definitely what we called this random toilet in the woods below the elementary school playground

michigan rn?

"Get behind me, Satan"

when the campground has "rustic" facilities

@ardgedee +++

Coincidentally, also called pot

@m3moellering HARHAR

@me3dia 👏

Washington, D.C.

What model CRKT is that?

@LocalStain I looked through my email for a receipt to no luck.

I love it though and hope to never have to replace it. It replaced a good, but not quite as, that I forfeited to event security.

I got this one through a later event security metal detector through my only ever real-life sleight of hand trick. So it is even more cherished.

@LocalStain @artwells CRKT Pilar looks like a close match

@hertz I think you got it

Same vibe as Pendleton Ward’s Midnight Gospel.

This actually reminds me of my favorite Rumi missive called The Guest House. I actually bought a carving of it a few weeks ago. I can see how it could sound facile but the way Rumi says it is reassuring, to me anyway.

"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond."

@drurystephanie that's lovely, keeping

@drurystephanie I discovered Rumi in my 40’s through his saying
Be a lamp, be a lifeboat, be a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your home a shepherd.
I realized that was an essential part of how I taught and I began to develop it even more with that lens.

This.

I also love the idea of sitting at a bar and instead of watching screens...you're looking at art!

<3

Very cool!

That’s so cool! And I hope it puffed up your chest a bit to be of enough renown to be called out of the blue!

Affirmation!

I'll drink to that!

Who knew the devil dressed so Fab!

@Argie “Curses! Foiled again”

how did I miss that he had a new album last year?

Taking the advice and direction of all three doctors on getting sterilized, the hillbilly lit the fuse of the stick of dynamite and started counting to ten. "One two three" he said, raising one finger for each number on one hand.

He got to five and needed his other hand to keep counting, so he tucked the dynamite up between his legs to free his hand and began holding up fingers on his now unoccupied hand, "six, seven, eight..."

Every time I scroll past this I’m struck by how effectively the paint is used. Those waves are outstanding.

One thing I love about art is you’ll have someone who uses meticulously curated animal hairs to make the finest most realistic images you’ve seen. And then someone else can take a palette knife and make something like this. And both are incredible and make my brain feel deceived in ways that seem implausible.

The Concorde was one of those 20th century things that looked really cool, held the promise of an amazing future, and in hindsight was actually pretty worthless and astonishingly wasteful.

@ardgedee sure... but sexy

In the late 70’s me and my friends would watch it as it passed over the town we grew up in on Long Island.

I got to sit in the pilot's seat once. A guy I knew worked as an immigrations officer at La Guardia. It was pretty amazing.

@Lockjaw I googled Concorde cockpit, these images are amazing
https://imgur.com/a...

This very plane flew only a few hundred metres above me in the school grounds, possibly on this day 😁

My folks took me and my sister to Europe once in the 90s, and I had the privilege of seeing one fly overhead while eating a croissant at a Parisian cafe. A sound unlike any other plane I’ve heard.

I was in London on my first European vacation, days away from returning home, when that one crashed. mildly terrified young me

That's an amazing piece of work.

They put a lot of effort into making a stereo cabinet that looks like a scrotum.

@dreyfusslugado If you encounter one that looks like this, I'd suggest seeing a medical professional. https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects...

Anybody want a peanut?

*drooling intensifies*

In no sense, nonsense

“ Below the removable stereo housing, the cavity of the chest retains Castle’s chisel marks, intentionally left as part of his working process.” 🩷🩷🩷

In my building there is a marble sculpture that is beautifully smooth, but on the back there’s a rough bit, a rectangle about the size of a hand, that still bears the chisel marks from when it was hewn, and it’s such a special detail that most people would miss.

@BennyTheIcepick In this age of mechanical reproduction (both physical and digital), I wonder if we're going to see more 'Persian flaws' as a deliberate stylistic choice to show the human hand behind the art, which will then be ingested and imitated by ML.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

@bezt
Ooooh new idiom to me! Thank you!

I used to play bass in Green Murder Salsa.

Now I’m hungry!

Every now and then, there is a glimmer of the Intnernet we were all promised, and still yearn for.