My only gripe about my old MacBook Pro is it doesn’t have an extended keyboard, but a few bucks in 2024 bought me a very mechanical 10-key that I didn’t open up or connect until today. Very satisfying.
#keyboards #technology #computers #goodtime #numbers
“That’s not got much spam in it.”
(Spam Hot Dish - 100 portions - from “Quality for Quantity - School Lunch Favorites” from the North Dakota State Wheat Commission, year unknown)
#recipes #cookbooks #hotdish #vintage #northdakota
Reynard — “Exactly how many packages of those Manager’s Special 𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 did you buy?”
Don’t worry about it.
“And prepared with conchigliette!?”
So?
“You have brought shame to this house.”
No I haven’t.
“Generational shame. I can’t even look at you.”
You’re looking at me right now.
Motor 𝘂𝗻𝗱 sport!? In this economy!?
(Alas, the sellers don’t ship to the US, so this is not in my collection. Great cover.)
#magazines #vintage #german #autos #cars
This is my coffee. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Bunion was voted most likely to __________.
#adoptdontshop #sheltercat #cats #northdakota cdhs.net
Can you identify the Herring Salad, Royal Jellied Veal and Spiced Tongue in this photo?
— from an early version of the “Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book”
#cookbooks #recipes #vintage #antiques #food
So here I am, a mighty honeybee,
Fueling up with fresh coffee.
To you, I offer up this warning:
It’s gonna be a darn good morning.
I tried explaining that, actually, worker bees are female and I felt more like a drone bee and NDWE snapped back with a “Shut up! It’s a metaphor! Get out of bed!”
You’d think I’d have good reason to sleep in this morning, but noooooooo — the legendary North Dakota Work Ethic was all, like, “Let’s goooo! Up and at ‘em! N! D! W! E! You’re a mighty honeybee!”
Gorgeous, and I assume that’s a radiator to the left.
She is a stunner.
I updated the driver on my Epson Perfection V500 photo/slide scanner (6400 DPI) today, but using it is a bit limited without access to Photoshop and Creative Cloud. Still, it warmed up enough to attract Whisper.
#whisper #whisperthewonderpuss #cats #pets #northdakota
Why, back in the days before AI, postcard photographers had to selectively breed pheasants for dozens and dozens of generations to get them big enough to ride, but the results speak for themselves.
#vintage #postcards #hunting #pheasant #northdakota
Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight
I wish I may, I wish I might
Adopt this cat named Hematite
#adoptdontshop #sheltercat #cats #northdakota cdhs.net
“wut.” — cowboy at his first rodeo
I wonder how many churches are preaching from The First Epistle to the Tarantinians this morning?
I got a great deal on a printer but it’s already out of plaid toner.
Some guy: Look at this amazing action sequence I made in five minutes using Seedunce 9.3 that would cost Hollywood $200M to do!
The video:
A storage box made of cardboard shouldn’t cost more than the things I’m going to store in it.
“They said they named a month after me, but how they got “April’ out of ‘Augustus’ I’ll never know.”
#adoptdontshop #sheltercat #cats #northdakota #caturday cdhs.net
A photo session at Central Dakota Humane Society was good medicine, especially when a wee wisp of a soot sprite like Poppy decided to climb up my back and be my parrot for a bit.
#caturday #cats #kittens #sheltercat #adoptdontshop
Ahh, my old rap name from my Norwegians With Asthma days.
Now that the trail cam has fresh batteries, I’ve been able to connect and review what it managed to get before the batteries died.
#cats #northdakota #caturday
“There’ll be no mock turtle soup for us tonight, darling! But first, help me find my two missing fingers.”
Seen in “Country Cooking: 2151 Recipes from the Readers of Harrowsmith Magazine”, 2009
#recipes #cookbooks #turtle #soup #snappingturtles
They had it figured out 70 years ago.
— a bit from “He-Manners” by Robert H. Loeb Jr., 1954
“As described in the Scrum Guide, the Scrum Master is accountable for establishing Scrum. They do this by helping everyone understand Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Team and the organization while serving the Scrum Team as well as the larger organization.”
I happened upon mention of a “Scrum Master” in a job listing today, and was, like, eww. After finding an official definition of what the heck a Scrum Master is supposed to be, I’m convinced it’s instead something from Temu Dungeons and Dragons.
After having read through a job listing or two and the lingo used in them, I have concluded the following…
So last week: Ideation
So very now: Solutioning
Up next: Successificationizing
While I was in Target yesterday, I heard a lot of wailing, moaning and gnashing of teeth — more than the usual amount — and tracked down the source of the problem after checking out.
