Midwesterner in South Jersey, tired Gen Xer, sometime Perl developer, doing weird things with sewing robots. Once and future gamehawk.bsky.social She/her, generally. (Header image: cropped Tragic Prelude, John Steuart Curry for the Kansas Capital.)
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Tofukatsu is pretty great for the same reason: freeze xfirm and thaw it and slice it thin, dredge it in cornstarch and egg and panko and quick-fry it in oil; the garlic is in the sauce (though sometimes I get fancy and marinate the tofu beforehand and/or season the cornstarch).
Local Pakistan joint is cheering on the Fightins, apparently.
(it's now ~ half a century older than when I bought it)
Hmm. Offhand, I have at least one gelatin-silver family picture (1890-1900ish?), and I have a netsuke that was probably pre-1900 (antique dealer guessed 80-100 years old, tiny Karen was incredulous that they could sell such an antiquity, and at a price an elementary-school kid could afford).
Have you seen this, @cheatlines.co ?!
Also: there's Manhattanhenge and Phillyhenge but apparently today was the magical sun angle at which our car actually looks blue. (Manufacturer classes it as a blue but it's a very dark slate blue-gray, usually looks gray or even black.)
Me: Excuse me, this is my car! Spider: Excuse me, this is my HOME!
And the "calculate how many hours it took to make something and multiply it by the hourly wage you want" without taking into account the amount of time it takes to buy materials, do clean up, photograph work, maintain a shop listing, promote on socials, ad infinitum... 😱
I am eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to write the obituary.
I scrolled around and learned "deadass" was like 1964!
On Saturday at least, they were keeping the pool photographers far away, even in the mostly-handpicked state the pool is in. So yeah, anybody who might uncover anything doesn't have much access. (I still feel like somebody should be pushing a little harder though.)
I mean you said "up to," it was unlikely to be wrong
They're in the shop, I'm pretty sure. I picked up this one matched with the All The Weyrs cover and I really need to get them framed (and then buy a larger house because that is rather more wall space than I had really considered).
It's a little freeform text note that nobody but you sees. Doesn't have to be on blocked folks even, but "uses the r-slur" or "met IRL at Philcon" or "works at Cloudflare" or just whatever you need to remember about somebody. It's super-handy!
Me too and I don't either. WE NEED THE "PRIVATE NOTE ON ACCOUNT" THAT MASTODON HAS
What the actual? Got this with my order confirmation from Michaels. The craft store. The craft and gambling store now, apparently.
One last "laced." Not identifying the book because it's perfectly lovely, and I don't want to spoil anyone's enjoyment of it just because my brain got hung up on a pattern. (Were I am author I would write some Perl to look for overuses, then discourage myself with its findings and give up writing.)
(actually there was a couple of "lace" incidents but they were not metaphorical so I let them slide)
Not sure if the "nestled" and "laced" took a break or if I just managed to tune them out, but at 84% I got a double whammy.
YOU CAN'T SPELL DRAGON WITHOUT D O G apparently
Yeah, "elective" just means you get to pick the time. I'm getting "elective" knee replacements this year but I do not expect a cosmetic improvement... though I might have a gnarly incision to show off for Halloween, which could be considered a benefit I guess.
Yep! There are not much more than two million people in this area. That's a lot of open space to maintain rail lines through, but not many people to sell train tickets to (especially given half of them live in one city, so: a little over a million people who need to travel any train-like distance).
If the physical therapist asks me what my post-knee-replacement goals are, remind me to tell her "to be able to get to the top of the stairs without my seltzer detonating because I have to flail my arms around a lot when I don't have a spare hand to haul myself up the railing with." 🍾
They're really nice little pots, with generous drip trays for wick watering (also good for succulent soil that will drain right through), and I gotta pick up more (and one even larger one for the snake plant) when I go to IKEA next.
While cleaning up, I realized the IKEA instructions for these pots were particularly bulky and discovered they contained a strip of terry cloth. Most of what I put in them were succulents who would not really appreciate keeping their feet damp but I did think the spider plant could use a wick. 🤦
I have what I think might be one of these: worldofsucculents.com/curio-articu... because that's kind of what it looked like when I got it but then it did... whatever this is. Think I'm gonna move it under a plant light (it's been in a south window though).
I repotted most of my plants! Propagated the jades and whatever the heck this thing is, and put the aloe vera in something less top heavy. That all I got, though.
They turn up occasionally in the touristy areas of Philly and the urge to mess with them is strong, I gotta admit. Dudes walking briskly down the block in front of Independence Hall pontificating into a chest rig while wearing a plastic smile kinda need to be stuffed into a trash can or something.
TFW neither you nor Merlin can ID a bird call and you're not sure if it's just passing through or a wandering pet. 😬 (It's just a single note BOOP! so it may not be enough for Merlin to go on. Nor me.)
You might as well have enough to actually grow up, I GUESS
I mean I guess I can't be mad, but I had sort of hoped the milkweed would manage to reseed. 😆
Somehow, yes! And for quite awhile now. I fully expected it to be a little short-time novelty thing but apparently they caught on.
Diane Wynne Jones' Dalemark Quartet is on sale at Kobo (and presumably other places) for $2 ($1 for #4). www.kobo.com/us/en/series...
I was starting to think the "nestled"s all got used up, but found one at 63%.
I should just find the "find" function and count all the "nestling"s but I have now noticed that "lacing" things is very popular. Lacing a voice with sarcasm, lacing a bond with enchantments, and so forth.
(also I remain mad that when Family Dollar and Dollar Tree (briefly) merged they did not open stores called Family Tree *or* Dollar Dollar)
How about DIETZ NUTS? store.dietzandwatson.com/products/ori...
South Jersey folks: is there an AA-type thing around Gloucester City for families/teen kids of an alcoholic? Preferably not a religious-oriented thing but something is better than nothing.
(with that said: one of my favorite Texas-style BBQ places in Wichita was a joint you introduced someone to by taking to-go to them, because I remember standing in line and watching roaches scurry up the extension cables to the "open" sign and going "ehh, they're extra protein." It was that good.)
I am not sure how accurate it is but I've been told a mouse may be a good sign, because mice won't stick around where there are rats.
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
They're fine(ish) if you get an innerspring one. We had one for a lot of years: folded down into a queen-size bed that was surprisingly comfortable, though the fold point (which ran head-to-foot) is not exactly sleepable. But this pre-dates memory foam so I have no idea if that kind is still around.
I legit contemplated asking for champagne recommendations. We're not into it much but that seems like a valid occasion.
I believe the Ewok dance is most appropriate for me, given my bodily dimensions.
21%! We had a stretch of Drama so there wasn't much nestling for a little while.
I am reading Bluesky hopium posts to spouse who is watching YouTube videos on how to retire to Central America and sharing tidbits about it with me, just a typical Friday night in our household.
I like the occasional "cozy" book but I have noticed this author's love of the word "nestle" and now I can't focus on the story because I keep looking for the next occurrence. 😬
Almost certainly... unless everyone involved benefits from scrambling to do whatever they can get away with before the party's over. That doesn't seem likely but I can't begin to imagine (1) what it's like in there and (2) what goes through those people's heads, so 🤷
This is a good point (though they kind of *are* mobilizing the Guard; "I got to idle around DC for a week picking up trash and waiting for the mfer to actually kick off" would certainly be quite a story to tell your grandkids... but I guess the cities/distribution might be different in that event)
stable of Commodore 64s and Color Computers and the occasional Holy Grail of graphics machines, Apple ][+ (and the occasional peasant with a TRS Model I doomed to chunky *black and white* graphics)
Oh hmmmmmmmm, "Targa" certainly rings a bell but that might have been because it came up so much later on (after the Meeg died the death of gronking and I switched to a PC-compat). I also remember PCX but not when; this would have been ~1985 but a bunch of high school and college kids with a weird
Right? Also I think I had a scanner by then so it was a good way to rub people's noses in it which, in honesty, I must confess would have been absolutely in character; Young Karen was a jerk.
Might be. It doesn't ring a bell but neither does the other contender (ILBM/IFF, ty Abigail) so I guess that info is gone from my brain forever, driven out by later memories of battles over whether GIF or JPG was better. (I do not remember what side I was on. Possibly Team TIFF out of contrariness.)
some RPG-related pictures. I still have some floppies but those would have been post-GIF era, and even if they're readable (dubious) a modern 3.5" drive won't read Amiga format (a hardware limitation).
text-only and "messages" were literally sectors on the 156K floppy; I loaded the software on one floppy and you could write 1024 characters, less a bit for your username and date, and they circled around and overwrote, BUT I DIGRESS) and I didn't have much of a download section, but there were
Okay, I think we've established that GIF came before BMP (I do remember GIF eating everything else's lunch but not everyone being able to read it at first, including me) and maybe everything before that was just proprietary files? My BBS was Amiga-based (well, it was Tandy Coco first but that was
Yep, I remember GIF taking over like wildfire because it was so much smaller (though IIRC I was left out for awhile because I couldn't afford anything on Amiga that read it) but I feel like there was something short-lived before that.
On the BBS itself, sure, but pixel-art images made the rounds in download sections.
Spouse is trying to remember what graphics formats we used back in BBS days, pre-BMP, and... we can't remember? Was everything just proprietary stuff before that? Like was Amiga stuff all Deluxe Paint and nobody else could see the pictures or... ?
@catsofyore.bsky.social Molly plz send up the bat^Wcat signal!
WOOP WOOP 💉📅 I'm sure nothing will happen between now and the appointment next week.
We don't have a dog (at this stage in our lives it might outlive us!) and if neighbor does, I've never seen it. I just like the @weratedogs.com videos. 😆
found my "tell your dog I said hi" decal so I'm gonna put it on my car window (which we park in the driveway) so the neighbor who has one on his car window (which he parks in the street) will see it and maybe we'll actually meet them. introvert strategies!
Broadsword Class! wiki.travellerrpg.com/Broadsword_c...
42 seemed only slightly busier tonight when I went to get the kid ~9:30 but hoo boy there were some aggressive folks with PA plates out there.
I should have taken before/during/after photos though I guess I'm not to "after" so here's a "during" of the [stuff in front of the] Game Wall so much stuff
We're kinda in the same place. Gotta replace the water heater, gotta replace the HVAC, would really like to put up some solar but I think we're going to eat enough tariff as it is... at the same time as we're going "okay are we fixing up a place we'll have to flee or...?"
Okay there's a marching band named gladiators so I'm not going to sift through that to find one playing this, use your imagination:
Dear whoever plans my funeral: in the unlikely event you have a graveside service, please arrange for a marching band to "accidentally" practice something super-inappropriate next door. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSTc...
Up next: culling the ttrpg/board game shelves. Again, got a lot of this in electric format now but some of them have memories in the physical version.
Me neither. I think Carl may have seen at least some of them (because he watches EVERYTHING, albeit generally not in theater).
Oh look @jayhawk88.bsky.social and @ravenx99.bsky.social , you guys could do another movie-series marathon!
Up next? The 41 cubes of board/ttrpg KALLAX.
Now I "just" have to fit two bookcases worth of books onto the single remaining bookcase, no problemo. Gonna cull again. And paperbacks are gonna end up double-shelved, BILLY is deep and I have enough series to just leave the front halves on the outside.
BILLY 2 has been relocated, just from the dining room to the living room (where it only had to go under the colonnade which it can do without tipping if you're really careful about how high you lift it (original hardwood floors are battered but we still don't want to drag furniture across it)). 💪
I think it's more store-by-store (maybe franchisee?) Ours (NJ) is out but expects the new ones in a couple weeks. (Am I holding my breath? nnnnope)
And they were literally named "Sugar Frosted Flakes"!
(I'm sorry, I know it's been over ten years since I moved out of the Great Plains but the novelty of this not being minimum six hours from me will apparently never wear off) (only... I don't know how to behave at a release party)
"Thursday, Sept 11th from 2-5pm we’re hosting award-winning fantasy novelist Sebastien de Castell for an afternoon of exploration, magic, anti-heroes, and blood-thirsty marsupials at the release party and book signing of his new novel The Malevolent Eight!" That's my bookstore and an author I read!
🥺
Amazon should have a DMCA takedown form, file a complaint against their use of your images.
... had to clear the colonnade, then the doorway into the "hall", then stand it up enough to turn it WITHOUT hitting the boob light (the hallway ceiling is lower for retrofitted plumbing) and then back it up and tip it over enough to clear the bedroom doorway. Dirk Gently was mentioned. 😅
We were really excited to finally live close enough to an IKEA and have the budget for and the large-enough car for BILLY bookcases and, uh, those are not well scaled for bungalows, I'm just saying. We assembled them in place a coupe years ago but just moved one into the office (ex-bedroom) and...
It never stops being funny to me that Donkey's is so good everybody who's had one is like "it's fine that it's round, and in Jersey." I'm guessing if they put it on a hoagie roll and opened a South Philly location it would be too powerful, the tri-state area would collapse into a black hole.
If you know of a room for rent in Morningside Heights/UWS that I could use for an office for awhile, hit me up
Either or both!
The greatest trick Skynet ever pulled was convincing the world it would send killer robots.
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I was wondering about whether deciding "it [probably] happened but isn't a felony" was classified as jury nullification or what, thank you.
PUT YOUR SHOP LINKS IN YOUR POSTS PUT YOUR SHOP LINKS IN YOUR POSTS PUT YOUR SHOP LINKS IN YOUR POSTS I have ADHD, if you say "link in bio" or "link in comments" I am extremely likely to lose interest before I manage to click three times (doubly so if said link is just to your homepage).
Okay I almost posted "what happened to the share icon on the Android app?" but first did a search on it and okay I guess sharing is kind of "forwarding" but... clearly despite it being IN THE SAME PLACE it did not speak to me.
"Freeze-dried water ice" is not a phrase that would have made any sense to me before moving to the Shore/Philly.
