I was there! On Saturday I went to the museum to hear Ariel Waldman give a talk and see the premiere screening of two episodes of her Life Unearthed series. Which happens to feature numerous tardigrades, of course. That’s why they had the tardigrade cake.
Hadn’t ever been to that park before but one evening a week or so ago I walked through on my way somewhere and was absolutely delighted by the “shopping cart food trucks” and board game players. Was lively and fun!
Got my first car, a maybe-10-year-old Volvo 164e, in a long-ago summer. On the first really crisp fall day my behind very slowly started heating up. Panic started to set in that my car was seriously broken, but actually it turned out I unknowingly had heated seats. Luxury! LOL @aliettedebodard.com
Me holding a slightly early arrived copy of the book Unhittable, by Rob Friedman
You mean like this? LOL
Ordered from my local bookstore and it seems to have come in a few days early.
My daughter has a Litter Genie, basically a Diaper Genie but for cats.
Might also consider a leash and a harness (or two). That way you can have indoor cats but they can also be outside too. They probably won’t like a busy street but a quiet backyard could be a favorite.
Here’s Bootsy Collins teaching how to funk it up.
May your day be as funky and fresh as Bootsy would want it to be.
youtu.be/IHE6hZU72A4?...
And a friend has a Litter Robot, which is somewhat amazing. Not, uh, inexpensive though, but works great for two cats. They’re pretty large, and while not loud they’re not silent either. Did I mention they’re great but cost a good bit?
Old iPhone being repurposed as a DVR clock. An app called zen Flip Clock works well for this.
Since VCRs mostly no longer exist and DVRs nowadays don’t come with clocks I’ve taken to repurposing old iPhones. Works great! Have two of them on an iPhone 7 and 11, keeps older iPhones out of the landfills. @ohseafarer.bsky.social
The consequences of letting your internal monologue play with other people's internal monologues.
A screenshot of a series of consecutive skeets starting with Katie Mack saying she uses Fahrenheit in the summer and Celsius in the winter because F is good for distinguishing warm temps but in the cold above or below 0 in C is more useful. The skeets right above that is an example of Casey Liss’ “ongoing holy war” about why F is better, in reply to a “taps the sign” graphic showing 0 degrees to 100 degrees in Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. The F scale is labeled from from 0 degrees being really cold outside to 100 degrees being really hot outside, the C scale goes from 0 being fairly cold outside to 100 being dead, and the K scale goes from 0 being dead to 100 being dead as Casey Liss rides off into the sunset. That last bit isn’t in the image, it’s just something I added LOL
Some amazing timeline synchronicity!
A billion years ago I had a grommet punch that could make holes like that. It had a small anvil-ish die and a punch that you hammered to make the holes. I must’ve put dozens if not hundreds of perfectly formed holes in tarps and canvas. Don’t see why that wouldn’t work with masking tape.
That’s really interesting but do we know that’s true? I mean, is our octave innate to humans or was it just an accident of history that we don’t have 11 or 13 notes per octave rather than 12? Just wondering if it’s really nature or if it might be actually be nurture.
Another dang Hurley recommendation?!? Just watched s1e1, was totally bonkers (in the best of ways), and am already hooked. But, uh, smoking in the hospital? And also, not one single car parked anywhere, which is very convenient! LOL
Came here to say that also!
“America”
<names all the countries from south to north>
<many heads explode>
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
For me it’s Remain In Light. Kind of an amalgam of punk/prog/African rhythm. Still stands up today. Saw them live a few times back in the day, were truly amazing.
Just found a note from my kids teacher on Class Dojo that she got in trouble because she saw the boys playing the paper football game at lunch and asked them how to play and then bet her dessert and won 4 other kids desserts and then admitted to the teacher she's been playing with me since she was 3
I’m a good bit older so for me it was the 1972 US version of Space Oddity. So many amazing songs on that one. Cygnet Committee, Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud, and Memory of a Free Festival, that last one still in my head today after blowing my mind as a twelve-year-old.
Oldest cave painting of red claw hand could rewrite human creativity timeline. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
I have a recipe for Pancakes for 60 (!) if you need it
Every now and then you get into these discussions and folks can’t quite believe you for some reason. You can leave a drained battery out in the sun* and it fills up again for free, or put it in a box* to make new ones.
* Several intermediate steps may have been omitted here for brevity of course
The Kiev in the East Village in New York City. 2nd Ave and 7th Street. My grandmother was from Kyiv and as a child her from-scratch blintzes and potato pancakes were amazing. The Kiev was almost as good. It was near my high school in the ‘70s, and was still there in the ’90s for me to take my kids.
Ploughgate Creamery butter. 8 ounce blob of butter, kind of like if someone squished a baseball, wrapped in paper with a round sticker saying where it’s from (Vermont). Although I got mine in Brooklyn.
OK, fine. Whatever. LOL
Had to take a bus to the wilds of Brooklyn to find it. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.
Yanno, spent a good few minutes wondering what new show or book or band called Coping Butter had the kids all riled up to the point of buying sweatshirts. Have to say I was somehow vastly relieved when it turned out to be a place that sells butter LOL
But the basic problem is that 35-ish% of the country supports this.
And oddly enough, where are all the 2nd amendment gun people who have always said they need guns to defend against the federal government. Oddly silent.
Things are kind of a mess over here at the moment.
There’s also the escalation question. The president could order troops to move in. Leaving aside the legality of that, would the generals refuse? Maybe, but that would create a huge problem in itself.
There’s few good outcomes here.
https://youtu.be/fGTsYXBWQgU?si=CR6L0JfKkGZyHzDf
I am not at all a military expert but I believe the problem is that the state-controlled National Guard can be federalized if “needed.” So a governor can activate them but doesn’t “own” them. Also, as with the police, it’s a question of which side the National Guard might be on.