Friday Ephemera
A keyboard drama unfolds. || Cheeeldren of the night. || Heat conductor of note. || Today’s word is Italian. || News to me. || Spare room. || An inexpensive scientific demonstration. (h/t, Noah Carl) || A stretching definition. || The jeans you’ve always wanted. || Just like normal people, a thread. || “Of the 86% of white liberals that have heard at least ‘a little’ about Antifa, 59% think it’s been a ‘somewhat’ (41%) or ‘very good’ (18%) thing for the country.” || Somewhat related. || Bling. || Big leggy. || The displays of Infinity War and The Expanse. || A present for doggo. || Pig versus vacuum cleaner, the eternal struggle. || Meanwhile, in fashion news. || And finally, if they learn to make fire, we’re, like, totally screwed.
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Woohoo ! US Math Team beats China !
Apropos of nothing, A Passage to India is pretty lame, almost stupid film. Odd that I never knew that until watchingit.
. Dammit…fixed?
At last. The site was down for hours.
And… we’re back.
Afternoon, all, and apologies for the outage. A Typepad-wide issue. Been kicking my heels all morning. I ended up reorganising the bathroom shelves and binning expired medicines.
#MyGlamorousLife
How I feel when David’s site is down.
And finally, if they learn to make fire, we’re, like, totally screwed.
LOL. And that reminded me of a famous sf novel.
A present for doggo.
That *almost* makes up for the outage.
*wipes eye*
Educators, baby.
Via Darleen.
‘Flattering’ is possibly not the best term.
“The displays of Infinity War and The Expanse.”
Looks like they could have saved themselves a fortune and just used this instead.
If only this had been the UK entry in the Eurovison Song Contest.
Pig versus vacuum cleaner, the eternal struggle.
If they learn to make fire…
If they learn to make fire…
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Thought the patrons seemed unnaturally quiet this morning, save for Muldoon of course.
Pour one for yourself and pop this behind the bar, would you?
In his new book Fake History, the anti-Brexit firebrand Otto English [ … ] explains, history “has been written by white males, about white males, for white males”.
You’ll no doubt be simply shocked and amazed to discover that this gentleman here is the very same ‘Otto English’ who so fulminates against everything white and male.
Fake History is one of the worst books about history I’ve ever read [ … ] It’s so shoddy, so abject I feel a bit guilty even writing about it, like a grown man punching a toddler. Yet it’s important not to let it go.
Indeed.
Pour one for yourself…
Bless you, sir. May your bathroom floor mat be spared the toothy attention of a certain aforementioned hamster.
and pop this behind the bar, would you?
Vanity is a powerful drug.
Words fail me…
3….2….1….back in the room!
Not clicking on ‘Big leggy’! It might be a spider!
Found this in the ‘doggo’ thread….
https://twitter.com/ginacarano/status/1397616171642363907
That.
I ended up reorganising the bathroom shelves and binning expired medicines.
*checks bathroom cabinet*
*checks bathroom cabinet*
As I was rooting through the long-expired tinctures and salves, and attachments for shavers I haven’t owned in over a decade, I half expected to find the Ark of the Covenant. It looked like a scene from one of those when-hoarding-goes-too-far reality shows.
binning expired medicines.
I have been told that many medicines retain their potency long past their printed expiration dates. (Although this depends on storage condition.
Educators, baby.
When I was a teenager my mother volunteered with the school board, which meant I encountered a fair number of teachers, all female, usually at the elementary level. Their contempt for parents and the parents’ desires/opinions for their children was palpable and vocalized regularly. That was 30+ years ago and its only gotten worse.
the long-expired tinctures
For some reason my sleep-deprived brain parsed that as “long-expired triremes“. Which, of course, aren’t they all?
Not for as long as you might think.
Which, of course, aren’t they all?
Ha! Regressive! Triremes are the Green sea-power of the future!
Not for as long as you might think.
The website notes that the Trireme Trust had decided to close its doors due to the deteriorating condition of the ship, even though it still exists and is being maintained. You can even volunteer to row it a bit, which is pretty cool.
More worthy of note, this is probably the first organization in the history of the world to decide “we’ve fulfilled our mission, we’re out.”
More worthy of note, this is probably the first organization in the history of the world to decide “we’ve fulfilled our mission, we’re out.”
But not their full and proper mission, which includes Golden Fleece, fair maidens, gods, and monsters.
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This is quite common in SE Asia; Hitler and WWII simply don’t have the same cultural resonance to them.
In the 1990’s, a Chinese-owned whitebox PC components store near my university stirred up quite the controversy by advertising that its OEM PCs were built “to strict Nazi standards”. The owner legitimately did not understand the vehemence of the reaction.
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The Buddha nature cannot be captured by yes or no questions.
Today’s word is Italian.
Well, in fact it is physically accurate if over enthusiastic about performance.
Which came first, the size or the personality ?
Which came first, the size or the personality ?
Both, in a positive feedback loop?
due to the deteriorating condition of the ship
Well, if you leave the thing beached on the shores of Ilion for ten years the hull’s going to need some work.
… beached on the shores of Ilion…
What ? They got there by way of the Erie Canal ?
Village of Ilion
Where the ratings buster of the year will be;
National Water Main will be lining & televising the sewer pipes thoughout the Village.
Well, as a male, I can tell you that there is no guarantee that anyone whom you would want to do so will find you attractive.
In some cases, you can remove the “[…] anyone whom you would want to do so […]” bit as well, and the result would still be true.
YMMV.
Indecisive.
Well, the dog drifted towards the one that probably fed it more often.
According to Imdb the series Fringe is either amazeballs or typically shallow Jar Jar Abrams garbage.
I don’t want to actually go to the trouble of watching it to find out, so … opinions?
@Karl: it’s in my top ten of ‘Series I rewatch periodically’ and I’m actually doing so now – half way through season 3. Unlike some long running series (Yes, ‘X Files’, I’m looking at you..) it never loses its way, right up until the end.
And you never get the feeling that the writers didn’t plan the ending, unlike other shows (yup, ‘Lost’ you too..).
“Well, as a male, I can tell you that there is no guarantee that anyone whom you would want to do so will find you attractive.”
In my experience, it’s more or less guaranteed that they won’t. How our species has managed to survive for so long is nothing short of miraculous.
What ? They got there by way of the Erie Canal ?
And on to Sunny Ithaca, too.
the size or the personality?
A warning to feminists that while the sighing, eye-rolling, “mommy is tired of always having to explain” tone gives a rush of moral superiority and of putting someone in his place, it can be addictive for that reason, and this is what a late-stage addict looks and sounds like.
See also Caleb Moonsize…
And on to Sunny Ithaca, too.
Greece is the word.
Pronouns, inevitably.
Because the game must never end.
Maybe it’s just me…probably just me…but the back and forth between black men and black women on this thread is absolutely hilarious. Seems a few black men getting woke to the woke. Swap female/male for black/white…heh. Though tbf it is possible a number of these black men, and maybe a woman or two as well, understand this. The odds being ????
Greece is the word.
The Peloponnesian War, coming soon.
Because the game must never end.
I won’t take her seriously unless she uses a perpetual Julian calendar, AD, Hebrew, Chinese, and Islamic years, and all time in Zulu.