The Difference Engine (Gibson, Sterling; 1990)

Fred Willard and Jim Piddock in Best in Show

"The biathlon, a lot on the line here, dreams of Olympic gold slipping away—it's gotta be tempting, Trevor Beckwith, to just aim the gun at the competition."

"Oh, no, there are regulations against even pointing—"

"You know, just wing him, don't take him out entirely. Even the playing field a bit."

in retrospect this kind of thing is kind of an obvious consequence when you think of how people handle owning dogs

A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"

Ferbruary #oldknees

Oh, you're an engineer? Where's your esoteric ritual authored by Rudyard Kipling?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

ooooh big stretch

a dumptruck taller than six men pulls a dragline boom for field disassembly of the overall Bucyrus 1570 shovel unit

Pacific Rim 3: Night time repair scene

a flock of baby cranes with their mother

getting rolfed by a giant dumptruck must feel so good if you’re a four thousand ton stripmine excavating crane

towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2025/10/la-l...

actually a remake of SOCIETY (1989)

jude law and jason bateman astroturf some lightpoles for a reporter - ‘i feel like an outlaw” bateman said

ship kayak trespassing creek

interests:

oh this? i got it from an equipment dealer near boston

a power wagon pulls a big boat overland

FITZCARRALDO (1982)

towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/2025/09/shel...

Minna Alander, a fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis based in Stockholm [said about US allyship] “This is literally all the kids coming together and trying to figure out what to do about the drunk dad.”

mood check, geopolitics:

RE-VECTOR STANLEY

went to the school bus races only one got wrecked but they did make the buses frot

shit yeah tsunami still rips

learning there’s a fancy way of saying ‘budgie’

anyway this is proof that human culture peaked with simple machines both in engineering and indie music

www.nan.usace.army.mil/portals/37/d...

a photo of an obstruction in hellgate channel being exploded by miss mary newton, age 12

we used to be a proper country, where children ceremonially exploded hazards to navigation

Yeah. Never tell Bjork your full name or where you're going. Don't answer any of her questions. Don't follow her anywhere.

this book was delivered yesterday lol

siddartha (1922)

what is going on with people who listen to podcasts or audiobooks sped up more than like 1.2x. i get maybe wanting to take some pauses out. but … it makes me itchy to think about it any faster than that

The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food Pigs whose DNA makes them resistant to a virus could be the first big consumer product using gene editing.

Oryx and Crake (2003)
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/02/1...

the existence of markov chains implies markov whips

how old am i? every time i mention a system's D: drive i feel like i'm expressing horror

subprime collateral dumpling obligations

an angel figurine with blue wings and violet robes.

a flower held by the angel reveals a blue doll's eye at its center

angel figure from behind, blue wings most prominent

🎵it's spring again, i can hear the birds sing again🎶

auntie at korean takeout has started calling me 'mackerel man' not beating the creature of habit allegations