The Dear Hunter: We got a hard frost last night. That's pretty rude. This is shot indoors.
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25.4.24
15.4.24
CRUNCHY!
Special K: "Bakery asks customers to 'check cookies' for diamond after owner loses £3,200 ring"
b1-66er: That'll give you a filling.
14.4.24
Why everyone lost four bucks at dinner today...
b1-66er: "This is where you can order a full Mayonnaise and Corn Pizza (mayo and corn is one of the most popular pizza toppings in Japan) for just 500 yen (US$3.26), which is an absolute bargain."
b1-67er: Is that a bargain? Really? I'd pay $3.26 to NOT have a corn and mayo pizza.
7.4.24
1.4.24
Pushin' the Peep limit
b1-66er: <Sour Watermelon Peeps line-up>
As hard as it is to believe, these are BETTER than regular Peeps.
<single Peep shot>
b1-67er: Jesus. What are those? Roadkill frog Peeps?
26.3.24
Take it to the bridge!
b1-66er: With video!
D4rw1n: Note the several cars on the deck as it's going down
66: Yeah. That's one you're not expecting... It's full-on Cloverfield.
...The way the lights wink out on the bridge (and the small balls of flame flourish!) is really something.
D4: It's very dramatic
Also how slow gravity looks when it's a huge structure seen from far away
b1-67er: Also the extent of damage from a low speed boat. It really shows how heavy of a battering ram that boat really is.
Seeing red
b1-66er: "Jack Black's Mom Helped Design the Abort System That Saved Apollo 13 Astronauts"
b1-67er: Are we talking about the duct tape and plastic bag solution to the carbon dioxide scrubber? That kind of makes sense.
21.3.24
Take a second and play for the millionth
b1-66er: I just learned about this 'concept' (I guess that's what it is)...
"5 second films"
b1-67er: That may be the funniest movie in history in terms of humor per minute.
D4rw1n: I liked Whoppenheimer okay. Extra credit for the title. Missing would get 5 stars. But a 5 second film i guess can only get a max of about 0.0006944 stars (assuming in average film is about 120 minutes long). So Whoppenheimer gets 0.001388 stars from me, and Missing gets a full 0.006944 stars
19.3.24
The eyes have it
b1-66er: Hong Kong Security Laws
b1-67er: So maybe it's not two systems one country?
66: Not anymore.
D4rw1n: Nah they all look pretty Chinese to me, meaning sadly raising a hand to vote unanimously for something they either do not understand or do not believe in, knowing that a "no" vote might subject them to banishment or death
13.3.24
Topper
The Accomplice: Sunset from the flight home last night.
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12.3.24
Just Ass King
b1-66er: "Our bacteria are more personal than we thought, new study shows"
Special K: My bacteria are totally fucking personal.
b1: Jesus.
K: THIS IS AMERICA.
b1: "Do you think these pants make my butt look big?"
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K: I can almost smell that photo.
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Look for his label
b1-66er: Label on organic 100% lemon juice
REFRIGERATE AFTER OPENING AND CONSUME WITHIN 30 DAYS
Begs an obvious question:
How would you know when it's gone bad?
Special K: I would ask my wife.
10.3.24
3.3.24
Watch the cat for me, will ya?
b1-66er: <Cracked pic>
b1-67er: I've got to say that double decker bus is zero deterrent for a cat that size. They are heading for a Siegfried and Roy moment.
26.2.24
Clawed in
b1-66er: (I especially like the accompanying picture)
The Dear Hunter: Next Level Role Playing. Just say 'No' to dating apps.
b1-67er: Apparently warm enough to take your dinosaur paddleboarding.
TDH: And there's that.
21.2.24
Draining your aqueous of humour
Special K: This is the statement for my hospital visit. Hospital says "That'll be $163,421. Oh, did we say $163,421? You have insurance, so we really meant $9,143.15."
Insurance company says "$9,143.15? We'll pay, let's see, 6,400.22. You get to pay the other $2,742.93."
Crazy.
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8.2.24
Iran so far away
b1-66er: Pop Life https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/29/movies/pop-life.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Dear Hunter: After reading about the river changes, I'm still not sure who is right as far as agency policy.
Frankfort area is the wealthier half of the river. Empire is a bit poorer. Unless it's all hyper developed now which is possible. Lake MI is preferable over Eastside lakes.
I spent a lot of time cleaning that fishing river. My husband at the time would fish. If I went, I picked up horrid amounts of fishing line and litter. It's a significant salmon area. I think it's planted with fish.
Evidence of illegal snagging was always present. It's a bit odd that boats have to go into the river ... I guess they don't know how to fish in the lake.
That was my husband's Go To spot for fishing. I could walk my dogs on Empire Beach, but not Frankfort's. I have not been there since the 90's. I used to order fries at the a and then go to the beach and start a seagull riot.
Flashin' the peace sign, enterin' the chopper
b1-66er: Mojo Nixon Dies at 66
D4rw1n: Damn that is a loss. The obit essentially boiled down to "died as he lived: as a rock and roll madman"
b1: Yes.
"Died of a heart attack on a cruise he was sponsoring. Go fuck yourself."
[Mojo backgrounder for the obsessive: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/29/movies/pop-life.html?smid=nytcore-android-share]
6.2.24
Seepage
b1-66er: The seepage lines on the north property wall are interesting.
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Suttonhoo: Hope it doesn't crumble like a sugar cube in an old fashioned
5.2.24
Imagine the drool...
b1-66er: 'Cresci told CNET you should think of the gut microbiome as "little pets living inside your intestinal tract."'
D4rw1n: Uh oh. That is trillions of individual "who's a good boy" I need to give every day
The Lander of Enchantment
b1-66er: https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/s/BWg6XKabZg
b1-67er: It looks like we may need to spend a 4th of July in Lander.
3.2.24
Battle yer beauty
Former Meat Man: <Shoreline pic ©2024 Ozzie Prods>
Gulf of St Vincent
Great Southern Ocean
2:14 PM Sunday Feb 4
UV Index 12.9
b1-66er: Beautiful
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Hualapai Canyon Park
Las Vegas, NV
USA
12:00
3 February 2024
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1.2.24
Going in for the kiln
D4w1n: Thinking of you, b1-67er
b1-66er: That's a great piece.
b1-67er: What I like about that video is you get a good look at his brick. That guy is right, there are big gains to be had if you are taking heat, storing it as heat, and redeployment it as heat. Taking heat, storing it as heat, then deploying it as electricity is trickier and worse efficiencies, but is much more broadly applicable. Lots of people working this problem in different ways.
25.1.24
Flip a valve
b1-66er: Datum of the moment:
2500 people die from heart related problems everyday in the US (includes heart attacks).
D4rw1n: This coming on the day my next door neighbor got diagnosed with an aneurysm of the aorta
b1: There is that, and what... Several weeks after Johnny Cabinet decided to sleep through the dance too...
D4: Yes
b1: We never tended to hang around the
Lazy and Slothful Gang
I'm guessing we'll see fewer of our personal contemporaries check out that way than the average American.
Having said that, I bet we'll be right in line with -if not a little ahead of- The Dementia Wave.
D4...
... What were the symptoms that got your neighbor checked?
(And what will they do about it? Stent it?¹)
D4: I haven't talked to him yet in detail. I do not know what the treatment is, but I'm suspecting there's some kind of operation to protect that vessel. He had no symptoms. In for a different kind of appointment, and they offhandedly suggested they could use a chest scan for that thing (whatever it was), but it was optional. He basically tossed a coin in his mind and said yes.
b1: Bold.
And I support that behavior
...One of the ways 67 and I have become divergent over time is in the way we think about medicine...
...I trend toward getting as much data as I can and, broadly speaking, trust the professionals.
67 is more automatically suspicious/questioning.
D4: My own cardiologist wasn't so lucky with his own cardiological health.
I learned of his untimely death from a mutual acquaintance, my own primary care physician (PCP). The story is startling one. In a recent appointment with my PCP. I mentioned the medications I am taking on the orders of the cardiologist (whom I will call Dr. O.).
PCP says oh, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you, but Dr. O. died suddenly in May.
The story is Dr. O was on rounds at the hospital one day when he started feeling very ill. He sat down. Looked ill enough that one of the nurses said, let's get you down to the ER.
They went to the ER and immediately strapped him onto the EEG. Dr. O personally tore off the readout strip, took one look at it, and said, "uh oh. This isn't good."
And died instantly.
66: Man oh man.
Hitting the statistical number.
Mom got a call one day, "we need to reschedule your appointment, The dentist died (heart attack) over the weekend."
b1-67er: Rescheduled to The Second Coming of Christ, I guess.
66: That is so fricken cold...
... So why am I laughing?
Special K: I have sometimes avoided dentist appointments, but not by dying, so far.
66: For you, I'd say the best strategy would be to treat it like Old Home Week.
K: Sounds right.
¹ there is an excellent PDF on the aorta aneurysm situation/procedure that I read from the Mayo Clinic website after seeing D4rw1n mention it in the TXT stream. Highly recommended if you wanna dig deeper.
22.1.24
Slave diving
b1-66er: My newest book
How to Break Up with Your Phone
Americans do over 9B phone checks everyday.
Special K: I've done 35 today.
66: Don't sweat it.
The day's not even close to over.
There's room to improve.
K: 115 yesterday.
b1-67er: Jesus. How do you even know that number?
K: It's in the Settings.
<phone data pic>
Android version:
67: I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they have that number. It looks like mine varies from about 25 to 75 over the last week or so. Still a lot.
K: They have all the numbers.
66: Mine is REMARKABLY consistent...
... Slightly > 35 unlocks.
8 hours on my phone.
day after day. Almost linear.
<Unlock pic>
<Screen time pic>
67: You do long dives.
K: My daily time is similar.
20.1.24
"Hey pal, can I borrow your llama a second?"
b1-66er: https://petapixel.com/2024/01/19/the-awesome-winners-of-the-2023-ocean-art-photography-competition/
b1-67er: The monkey image is surprising, but it does create the uneasy possibility of just chucking wild animals in the ocean and taking pictures of them.
19.1.24
The future penalty of dodging
b1-66er: En El Ocho they just said, "Dodgeball is all about integrity. About honesty."
b1-67er: I thought it was all about humiliation.
Oddly dodgeball was a game I could play ... I was very good at dodging. But, as you know, I could not throw worth a damn. So I'd last until the end, then the Casa Diver would destroy me with a 100 mph fastball.
66: That's just weirdly funny....In a "watch your little brother fall into the slush pool he just tried to push you in" kind of way.
16.1.24
Magically delicious apes
Special K: "The special charm of the first follow-up, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, is that the entire movie is out of its mind from start to finish."
Any colour you like (./?)
b1-67er: Interesting cell phone camera effect.
This picture is with no flash. <blue moonrise>
Same sky a few minutes earlier with flash <purple moonset>
I think the camera bumps up the reds when you use the fash. There is probably insufficient red in the flash led, so the software tries to make up for it.
b1-66er: That is interesting.
What make/model is that phone?
67: Samsung galaxy a53
It takes nice landscapes
66: Sure as hell does.
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Holding the GFI steady
b1-66er: Remember this number
-> 0.392 <-
{The exact number doesn't matter ... The only thing that's important is it's
"... About 0.4..."
This'll come up in a medium-term face-to-face conversation at some point.
You'll think it's funny.
{Unless the Russians start WW III. Then it might not be so funny.}
b1-67er: Ok. I think if www3 starts, general funniness may be down.
14.1.24
The word isn't, "fornever"
b1-66er: https://petapixel.com/2024/01/12/the-millennium-camera-will-capture-arizonas-landscape-for-1000-years/
b1-67er: That's a really interesting idea, but I damn sure would want something that I could verify that I was getting an image within my lifetime. I'd also like a bigger negative. And the camera shouldn't be butt welded to a handrail on a slope that will be eroding across that much time. There should be a single piece of steel all the way to bedrock. I think they should imagine a little more.
66: Great comments.
D4rw1n: b1-67er out long-now-ing the millennium guys
12.1.24
b1 series Sky Battle!
b1-66er: <desert neighborhood>
b1-67er: <not>
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10.1.24
Building the Apophenia Mound
b1-66er: Say, "hi."
The Dear Hunter: These ant pics directly conflict with my
Walk in Beauty
mission statement.
b1-67er: But the ants are beautiful in a fierce way.
•••
66: <Headspace 'fortune cookie'>
D4rw1n: I found this to be one of the most interesting daily meditations yet
66: It's easier for me to comprehend if I break it into 3 sentences:
Appreciate each moment.
Find peace in impermanence.
Keep death by your side.
That's a fairly famous taoist principle <ed: "the vinegar tasters">
b1-67er: And that ties straight across to the fire ant picture.
66: So very right.
Your index finger is on the Pulsing Jugular Vein of Life.
4.1.24
2.1.24
Ridin' The El with my best friend
b1-66er: Announcer: This is the Superbowl, it doesn't get better than this.
Guess the sport.
Special K: Not football.
b1: Partial credit.
Not football is trending correct.
Hint: El Ocho
K: I guessed that.
b1: So clever.
You gotta guess again.
"Anything on El Ocho"
is not an acceptable answer.
(Even if you say EL Ocho trying to butter me up by using the incorrect station identification...which I actually prefer.)
Again. Announcer: This is the Superbowl, it doesn't get better than this.
Another hint:
Not axes or knives
K: Cornhole.
b1: I like that answer.
Thinking cornhole-y shows both your natural affinity and understanding of mass media/sport...
The correct answer is
The AKC Agility Dog Championships
Now why that's on
Offbeat Sports Channel
I can't tell you.
It doesn't feel like a sport to me.
You point at an object and a dog jumps through it implies -to me at least- no human athleticism.
K: Me too. But there's not a dog sports channel The Perro.
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