they're seating inside again! maybe the trays will return

IIRC it's something along the lines of "mortgage covenants require a certain minimum rent"; www.emptylosangeles.com/p/psa-that-l...
as usual, speculation and highly leveraged debts are why we can't have nice things

Found out today that almost all of Swedish Covenant's healthcare is covered by my HMO... *except* for SCH's pathology. WTF.

"Just over a year to develop and ship" DA2 explains so many things. (IMO it's great as a novel/VN, but pretty crappy as an ARPG)

Bring back Treasure Island!

Two hot dogs smiling and standing on a roof with a background of a clear blue sky with a couple of fluffy clouds. The roof's building has neon signs advertising superburgers, thick malts, and super sundaes. "Superdawg" is barely visible

Been a while

FWIW, I've never heard "bracketing commas" used in American English; appositives or apposition, definitely yes - especially when Oxford commas or the lack thereof come into play - but never in terms of the punctuation involved

Exterior of an old-school sweets shop at night. A neon sign above the windows reads "Margie's Candies" in a stylized script. A small line of people wait at the door at the corner, at left.

Margie's Candies, Chicago, IL, 2015.

All the pixels, open late, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/21135096034

#photography

table from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_wiring_in_the_United_Kingdom#Wiring_colours showing all the possible color combinations for AC wiring in the UK. is blue L3? is it neutral? is it something else? could be! how about yellow? could be L2, could be stripey w/ green for an earth ground! or there's black, which could be neutral *or* L2!

Wikipedia does have a handy guide to all the possible colors it could be, and it's a lot

I admit that I never actually set foot inside the store itself - only the parking lot; for food I went to Clarke's when it was on the SE corner of Belmont and Sheffield

I do have the harebrained shirt, though (www.harebraineddesign.com/collections/...)

man, I can't even go by that area anymore without being viscerally reminded how it was in the early 90s (ie pre DSW) and getting sad

skeleton's got diabetes

This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.

I strongly suspect that some folks on the bsky team had not realized the latter (or that the first 90% of coding and architecture is relatively easy; it's the second 90%, and then the third 90%, and...)

Waffles!
(also, it's hilarious that the status page is also 503ing/timing out)

at $oldjob we had a cascading failure where the failure mode was "dns server 1 got overloaded, and server 2 would often *eventually* respond, just quick enough to not trigger failover"; several people got to learn that laggy success can be super pernicious

today's technology fun: the color photocopier at the Niles library utterly refused to make a color copy of my grandfather's NM death certificate

I wouldn't even call NY a rival so much as "an annoying braggadocio that has an inferiority complex and won't STFU"; new yorkers get way more worked up over being told "eh, it's OK, I suppose" as compared to NY getting hated on

the people I still talk to? no way
the rest of the people I went to school with? way too many
GenX has always been more Alex P Keaton than Kurt Cobain

more than a little aggrieved entitlement there, which dovetails pretty strongly with right-wing libertarianism (and also jibes with my memories of late 80s/early 90s 2600 meetups)

in 2010 I visited both Budapest and Kyiv; here's to hoping I'll be able to visit them again in the not overly distant future

thread: bsky.app/profile/raha...

their brown line cheeseburger (three patties, gyro meat, pickled jalapenos, and I think grilled onions) is a fave

fyi - if you don't follow @rahaeli.bsky.social , they post semi-regularly on MCAS and EDS and research into histamine sensitivities in general

eg with statins I get sleep disruption and memory fuckups; with strattera I got consistent nausea and then flavor perversion; with allopurino I got severe itchiness. I *suspect* this is part of some subclinical-EDS/light-MCAS/AuDHD complex, but that's kind of a wild assertion

I have not had amatadine in particular; with other anticholinergics I've had severe drymouth (to a greater extent) and body temperature regulation issues (to a lesser). It does depend a lot on the particular drug - but I'm one of the lucky "only 10% experience" groups much of the time

man, I hadn't heard amantadine cited in *forever*
the possible "fixes for frontal lobe issues" sound nice, but I've had not so great luck with the anticholinergics

large bananion collider

have to admit I'm super-curious what kind of treatment you'll get/they're offering, as "H1+H2 antihistamines, maybe some modafinil, maybe paxlovid" still seems to be the extent of available palliatives

my last performance review at the bird place suggested I tone down the snark