Fluffy Kitten contently lying on the standing desk, directly in front of the monitors.
I was lucky(?) to get even that much of a clear shot. The current (and much more normal) situation is like this.
(I may have to wrestle with the cats just to use my own desk =)
Picture of the new standing desk next to my old sitting desk. (With Fluffy Kitten's ears peaking above the second monitor on the old desk.)
Standing desk setup is _mostly_ complete. Got some longer monitor cables showing up soon so I can tuck them away. Now I just need to get the docking station working...
Yes! The focus of (that part of) the book wasn't on how they were different, because they were practically the same mentally, but on how the mechanics of it impacted how they were born, how they aged, how they died, and how their society functioned given the limitations imposed by their biology.
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
Good news! I have assembled my standing desk!
Less good new: It took about 4 hours, and I am now too sore to stand up and use my standing desk!
Yes! The code for the 3DO version of "Star Control 2" was released by the developers and the fan community used that to make a free Windows port named "The Ur-Quan Masters"!
sc2.sourceforge.net
Life on the modern internet:
Oh, it's a Tim Curry post, that's cool
Oh, a second Tim Curry post
...multiple Tim Curry posts ...oh no?
Oh! It's his birthday! *phew*!
Post an image from a game you played as a teenager.
(This is from my late-teenage years, but i wanted to go with something unusual.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qma3...
Finished my Alien Stage AMV to Your Idol
Burt Gummer from the Tremors movie franchise saying/pointing at a text box: "Not all men" = "Not all guns are loaded." But how do you handle every gun you come in contact with? You treat it like it's loaded until you are absolutely sure it is safe.
I really appreciate the image meme that's been making the rounds which puts it in a very understandable perspective:
LA! These kitties’ human passed away, and they need a new home! Please help them find one! Spread the word!
Re-post with alt-text.
I guess this is just the kind of thing that happens when dealing with a fanatical authoritarian regime that's willing to burn down the world economy if they don't get what they want.
And now we're dealing with two of them.
That doesn't seem _too_ far off. So less misnomer and more mousenomer?
Black Cat on the hassock under the desk, Fluffy Kitten on the mini-cat tree next to the desk, Adventure Cat sitting next to the chair, and Cuddle Cat on my lap, taking a short break from rubbing her head against me up look up at the camera.
Three cats who want me to get them dinner, and a fourth cat who _really_ wants me to get her dinner, but who seems to think that sitting on my lap, purring loudly, and rubbing her head against my leg will motivate me to get up rather than preventing me from doing so.
Your initial skepticism is commendable, but it's a 25 second long single shot video with dozens of objects going in and out of frame over that time with no obvious artifacts. It seems unlikely that it was AI generated.
(Yes, i'm aware the Prime Minster of Israel isn't actually a religious leader, but he sure seems to have the hubris and influence of one?)
So it seems like Trump is doing a very high stakes religious version of fuck, marry, kill?
Kill the Ayatollah
Threaten the Pope
Get Fucked by the Prime Minister of Israel
I'm sitting in the local theatre waiting for the traveling production of Hadestown to start and just found out that the ProShot is coming to theatres in July! So now I'm double excited! =)
...seems like back in the day that would have been more than adequate justification for excommunication?
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
Huh, apparently Iran actually did agree to the ceasefire (and it's not just Trump making stuff up, per the usual.) So i guess it is _slightly_ different from before.
It seems unclear if Israel is included though, and under what conditions Hormuz will be (temporarily) unblocked for the next 2 weeks.
Is it weird that the Brent Crude price has suddenly dropped to the lowest in over 3 weeks on the news that... nothing is happening?
We were in stalemate last week and it was $105, & now that we're in a stalemate again it's $90?
The market seems untethered from reality, but i guess that's not new?
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back
Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
Not necessarily. But it's extra "fun" that between his and Vance's comments it _might_ be nuclear or it might not. Less of a hard red line and more of a smeary pink blob.
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
If it does go the way that Trump keeps saying it's going to go, i really wish that when all this is over we could send every member of Congress who voted against the war powers resolution to the Hague alongside Trump and Hegseth.
Well technically only Avalyn got sick while we were on the cruise (not covid or flu, some kind of nasty cold.) We thought i was in the clear after the first few days, but Avalyn has been sick for about 11 or 12 days now and i started coming down with symptoms last thursday =P
All the parts for my new desk are here, but i haven't started assembling them yet.
Because 1: The monitors aren't here yet,
But more importantly, 2: The other thing we did on JoCo Cruise was get sick =P
