🎼The Wonder Ball goes 'round and 'round.
To pass it quickly, you are bound.
For if you're the one to hold it last,
then for you the game has passed.
You.
Are.
Out.

Pry bar sticking out of, and wedged into, a locked city trash can.

Did somebody lose a pry bar?

Concrete parking block, with a graffiti tag, in cursive, reading “dope shit.”

That's some dope shit, yo.

Motorcycle digital instrument cluster, showing 1,000 miles.

Hit 1K on the motorcycle pulling into the driveway today.

🎼🎵"She wears a 2-way, but I'm not quite sure what that means."🎶

This is a large and difficult to browse archive. I've written some scripts to turn it into static HTML files for each channel, including inline attachments. There's also some analysis on channel names, sizes, and attachment type counts. github.com/BrianEnigma/...

No wonder this validation script is getting hung up in places, with source files to process like this:

> # size C02RN305LJ0.json
> 20G

Green is the best flavor. Yellow is the second best. Fight me.

Two different label variations of the same drink.

I thought the market stopped carrying this months ago. It turns out I was just looking for the wrong font.

U.S. strikes Iran’s Kharg Island as Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply.

When 8pm rolls around will it be T.A.C.O. Tuesday or WWIII?

www.washingtonpost.com/world/...

Would this be a Penultimatum?

theonion.com/trump-warns-iran...

Lap desk with small London journal, brass Space Pen, reading glasses.

Catching up on my journaling. It's been a wild few weeks.

Gas pump showing $7.48. Dashboard showing 135 mile range.

It turns out that ~70 mpg doesn't kill the wallet in these pre-apocalypse times. #vespa #scooter #gasoline #petrol

I pushed through 19 hours of travel so that when arriving home, at midnight, I'd pass out. I was nodding off toward the end and hopeful I'd crash when I hit the bed. But now my body suddenly has different ideas. "It's only 8am on the body clock! Time to be awake and do things!"

Me, “ducking out of the way” of a statue of a sword-wielding soldier.

Survived the battle of Hastings

The London Eye with Big Ben in the background

Eye

A plate of hot cross buns

One-A-Penny, Two-A-Penny
I've never had hot cross buns before.

Espresso pod machine with the letters SMEG emblazoned across the front. (The manufacturer?)

SMEG

Parking structures sign with black+yellow chevrons and the text “Max Headroom, 4.2 mtrs”

Paranomia

Package of Cheshire cheese

Is it made from the milk of Cheshire Cats? #cheese

View as described

How often do you have an actively inhabited castle out your bathroom window? #alnwick #northumberland

Trump's Iran Briefings Are Mostly Videos Of Sh*t Blowing Up, So That Explains A Lot! Strait of Hormuz remains closed, so there's that.

The manbaby in the White House wants TV and picture books. Word books are too long and boring. www.wonkette.com/p/trumps-ira...

We are in central London until the 5th. Christine’s latest play opened Friday and we’re here to support that. There will be a quick day-ish train trip to Northumberland to a poison garden later this week, but def not going as far as Edinburgh, alas.

Sparkling water bottle with lid just barely still attached.

I feel like The Incredible Hulk every time I rip off a plastic bottle cap, forgetting they're tethered here.

“£1,000 fine for selfish dumpers.”

Don't Selfishly Dump. Share your dumps with friends and family.

This is, of course, omitting any delays caused by intimidation and fear (and possible “incidents” that lead to lockdown) caused by their presence.

ICE agents will be deployed to US airports on Monday to ease long lines Trump and border czar Tom Homan confirm plan to assist TSA agents amid partial government shutdown standoff

"ICE agents deployed to airports to ease long lines" doesn't ring true. The article admits they're not trained in the TSA skillset and will guard exits. Example: PDX has a shared exit between the two terminal wings, meaning they can rotate in a single TSA screener.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...

Confusing shower valves.

I appreciate the Myst-like challenge of a weird set of shower valves when I'm half-asleep in the morning.

Portland airport carpet shoe-selfie

pdx✈️lhr

Sticker that looks like a traffic warning sign. “Watch for ice” with a silhouette person choking another.

Watch for ice #pdx #portland #sticker #stickerArt