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That just is so cool. And, fucking rocks...
posted by Windopaene at 12:50 PM on March 11 [2 favorites]
posted by Windopaene at 12:50 PM on March 11 [2 favorites]
There’s a certain community with a pretty famous open source software engineer who has the handle “tenderlove” and I have say that if you are a person that is in a position of authority because of your technical expertise in a field that regularly decries not having many women in it, possibly having a handle that is suggestive and unprofessional might at the very least seem not very self aware and kind of gross. And, like, he’s had years to change this but instead doubles down on it with every given occasion. It’s great. Also it’s disillusioning to me that not a single person in ten years of working in this field has ever seemed to realize how bad that is, from a PR standpoint.
But, anyway, the good things: I was busking on Friday night and it was really cold so I was only out for an hour but I got home and realized that two people gave me twenty dollar bills. Every once in a while, I’ll get one of those. Two just absolutely floored me. I try to thank everyone who I see but it’s tough to play and talk at the same time, and sometimes I don’t get the timing right. So if you were one of those folk, thanks! I am so grateful.
My singer found a backup gig for Saint Patty’s for us since our original was cancelled! And they’re also promoting us for parties now, despite the fact that they’ve actually not yet heard us play at all.
posted by wurl1tzer_c0 at 12:50 PM on March 11 [17 favorites]
But, anyway, the good things: I was busking on Friday night and it was really cold so I was only out for an hour but I got home and realized that two people gave me twenty dollar bills. Every once in a while, I’ll get one of those. Two just absolutely floored me. I try to thank everyone who I see but it’s tough to play and talk at the same time, and sometimes I don’t get the timing right. So if you were one of those folk, thanks! I am so grateful.
My singer found a backup gig for Saint Patty’s for us since our original was cancelled! And they’re also promoting us for parties now, despite the fact that they’ve actually not yet heard us play at all.
posted by wurl1tzer_c0 at 12:50 PM on March 11 [17 favorites]
Still plugging away at my Apple II peripheral card project. The exciting thing I got working this weekend… boot injection.
On reset, the 6502 loads whatever 16 bit address is at 0xfffc in its connected memory, and jumps to that address. In Apple computers, that address is in ROM and not changeable (and jumps to another location elsewhere in ROM).
However, it is possible for a card to assert the INH line during a bus cycle, which tells the motherboard “do not respond to this address, I will handle it”. When my card detects that the CPU is going through the boot sequence (there is a telltale sequence of accesses to other addresses), I assert INH on the read of FFFC and FFFD, and substitute my own location to tell the CPU to jump to.
And then, at that location, I continue to assert INH and feed the CPU my own code sequence to, effectively, run before the very dawn of time as far as anything else on the machine is aware. And at the end of my sequence, I call JMP ($FFFC), which is the command to do exactly what the original reset vector does- read the actual contents at that location and jump to there, without anything downstream even having any idea of what just happened in the middle there.
I have a lot to do to get my preboot code doing what I want, but this weekend I tested the process and it indeed works as expected!
posted by notoriety public at 1:11 PM on March 11 [17 favorites]
On reset, the 6502 loads whatever 16 bit address is at 0xfffc in its connected memory, and jumps to that address. In Apple computers, that address is in ROM and not changeable (and jumps to another location elsewhere in ROM).
However, it is possible for a card to assert the INH line during a bus cycle, which tells the motherboard “do not respond to this address, I will handle it”. When my card detects that the CPU is going through the boot sequence (there is a telltale sequence of accesses to other addresses), I assert INH on the read of FFFC and FFFD, and substitute my own location to tell the CPU to jump to.
And then, at that location, I continue to assert INH and feed the CPU my own code sequence to, effectively, run before the very dawn of time as far as anything else on the machine is aware. And at the end of my sequence, I call JMP ($FFFC), which is the command to do exactly what the original reset vector does- read the actual contents at that location and jump to there, without anything downstream even having any idea of what just happened in the middle there.
I have a lot to do to get my preboot code doing what I want, but this weekend I tested the process and it indeed works as expected!
posted by notoriety public at 1:11 PM on March 11 [17 favorites]
I'm too tired today, so I'm glad I'm on leave. I only just got out of bed. I have no energy. Presumably one might blame the time change or doing 9 hours of show plus a party on that. I still haven't heard anything about my car yet. Grrrrrr. I may take the day off from job hunting today under the circumstances.
Still no official word on Joann going bankrupt, but seems like that's still circling the drain.
I am fascinated with the Kate Middleton Bad Photoshop Drama today. I dunno if I think it's worth FPP'ing, but seriously, Kensington Palace and company are going to be lessons in What Not To Do In PR Handling. Between two "that might be Kate in the car" photoshots and a Frankenphoto and making Kate claim she did some minor Photoshop, they only make the problem worse and worse. I was inclined to be all "leave her alone, she's recovering and probably not terribly photogenic right now and god knows everyone would nitpick her if she wasn't perfect," but sending in a photo that's obviously 'shopped and going to be nitpicked to hell and back only made shit worse.
posted by jenfullmoon at 1:34 PM on March 11 [7 favorites]
Still no official word on Joann going bankrupt, but seems like that's still circling the drain.
I am fascinated with the Kate Middleton Bad Photoshop Drama today. I dunno if I think it's worth FPP'ing, but seriously, Kensington Palace and company are going to be lessons in What Not To Do In PR Handling. Between two "that might be Kate in the car" photoshots and a Frankenphoto and making Kate claim she did some minor Photoshop, they only make the problem worse and worse. I was inclined to be all "leave her alone, she's recovering and probably not terribly photogenic right now and god knows everyone would nitpick her if she wasn't perfect," but sending in a photo that's obviously 'shopped and going to be nitpicked to hell and back only made shit worse.
posted by jenfullmoon at 1:34 PM on March 11 [7 favorites]
Months ago I posted an image of my doggo "helping" with the car I'm working on for a customer. He's at it again. One of the reasons I work alone is I tend to shout a lot when doing things. ("No!" is most often heard, but extensive diatribes about the lineage of whatever I'm working on, and the world in general, are not uncommon.) Anyway, I now have a hard deadline to get this thing done, and while that deadline seemed easy-peasey weeks ago and still doable today, I'm a bit nervous that the "easy-peasey" feeling has faded.
Everything takes at least twice as long as I expect. Has all my life, not sure why I think that would change now...
posted by maxwelton at 1:41 PM on March 11 [10 favorites]
Everything takes at least twice as long as I expect. Has all my life, not sure why I think that would change now...
posted by maxwelton at 1:41 PM on March 11 [10 favorites]
Film student update: it's Spring Break, so I get to go to work at my day job normally all week, yay!.....?
Our final project for 16mm film class is a solo profile of a place; to force us to do non-sync sound (thus forcing us to think harder about what we're doing), we have to record the sound we're going to use first, and come up with a shooting script, and when we turn the audio and plan in and it's approved we can check out a camera and then go film it.
This weekend I went to the place I'm filming, a foreclosure that I've been working on for quite a few years, which is all crumbling plaster walls and torn out ceilings and has lots of visual texture. I set up my microphone, recorded everything I could hear, walked around to make the floors creak, and documented my shots.
If you saw my AskMe, I'm working on a personal project of my professor's, which I was already on board in different capacities, but we found a grant that was only available to people living in certain counties, of which I do, and after a conversation with their grant wrangler confirmed this project fits the grant requirements -- so with a week of meetings to fill out the grant application, I've been upgraded from "editor" to "executive producer" (that is, if I get the grant). His work has a history of being accepted to film festivals (one of his works is currently available on The Criterion Channel) so this could be a big boost for me if it all plays out well.
But, there's no homework due this week so my weekend was more open than usual, and this week looks like it's continuing to be quiet, so hopefully this will be a nice 'reset' week for me to get caught up at work and not have any emergencies (knock on wood).
On another front, my 67-year-old dad drives twice a year to visit my sister in Denver; she doesn't get back here much so I haven't seen her in something like a decade, and in the past we've thought about me going along with dad to see her but it never fit in my schedule -- but it might happen this summer! My summer semester is only 4 weeks long and should be done by end of June (and is online so could be done anywhere), so it should be fun.
posted by AzraelBrown at 1:52 PM on March 11 [10 favorites]
Our final project for 16mm film class is a solo profile of a place; to force us to do non-sync sound (thus forcing us to think harder about what we're doing), we have to record the sound we're going to use first, and come up with a shooting script, and when we turn the audio and plan in and it's approved we can check out a camera and then go film it.
This weekend I went to the place I'm filming, a foreclosure that I've been working on for quite a few years, which is all crumbling plaster walls and torn out ceilings and has lots of visual texture. I set up my microphone, recorded everything I could hear, walked around to make the floors creak, and documented my shots.
If you saw my AskMe, I'm working on a personal project of my professor's, which I was already on board in different capacities, but we found a grant that was only available to people living in certain counties, of which I do, and after a conversation with their grant wrangler confirmed this project fits the grant requirements -- so with a week of meetings to fill out the grant application, I've been upgraded from "editor" to "executive producer" (that is, if I get the grant). His work has a history of being accepted to film festivals (one of his works is currently available on The Criterion Channel) so this could be a big boost for me if it all plays out well.
But, there's no homework due this week so my weekend was more open than usual, and this week looks like it's continuing to be quiet, so hopefully this will be a nice 'reset' week for me to get caught up at work and not have any emergencies (knock on wood).
On another front, my 67-year-old dad drives twice a year to visit my sister in Denver; she doesn't get back here much so I haven't seen her in something like a decade, and in the past we've thought about me going along with dad to see her but it never fit in my schedule -- but it might happen this summer! My summer semester is only 4 weeks long and should be done by end of June (and is online so could be done anywhere), so it should be fun.
posted by AzraelBrown at 1:52 PM on March 11 [10 favorites]
Twice now I've spoken to people who purchased those aftermarket bidets you install with your existing toilet and I get the distinct feeling they are not just committed bidet users, they hold a revulsion for "the old ways" (toilet paper) and view all us wipers with a measure of disgust. Shit-hooks indeed.
Is this true, bidet users?
posted by elkevelvet at 2:03 PM on March 11 [4 favorites]
Is this true, bidet users?
posted by elkevelvet at 2:03 PM on March 11 [4 favorites]
Yes, you filthy heathen. Now, may I introduce you to my Lord and Savior, Toto Washlet?
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:15 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:15 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
I am getting my car back at 4:30 and got another job interview for next week.
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:25 PM on March 11 [14 favorites]
posted by jenfullmoon at 2:25 PM on March 11 [14 favorites]
I finished a quilt! It took 21 years, but 20 of that was procrastination and guilt. It was intended for my mother's 60th birthday, and I finished the quilt top in time but was stymied by the actual making it up. As she is 80 today, I thought I ought finally to get over myself. Here it is, and with cat. I'm now undecided between making All the Quilted Things and Never Again.
In other news, I found an article from 1962 about the price of rail journeys for mice.
In other news, I found an article from 1962 about the price of rail journeys for mice.
The National Mouse Club have called for urgent round-table talks with the British Rabbit Council and representatives of the country's guinea-pig clubs. They are going to demand "a square deal for travelling pets." ... Mr. Ashley added: "It costs me 1s. 3d. to make the seven-mile trip from Burbage in Manchester to Wilmslow Cheshire. But it costs 1s. 10d. to send a mouse on the same trip." A British Railways spokesman said last night: " There is a lot more paper work involved in carrying a mouse by rail than in carrying an ordinary passenger."posted by paduasoy at 2:34 PM on March 11 [26 favorites]
The bidet I ordered for my new place was back-ordered for a month, and when it finally arrived, I realized that some crucial part of the tank system on my toilet was also broken. I had to wait another week (and lost the use of that bathroom) until the maintenance gent could make it out ... and then it turns out he had to custom-order that broken part ... so if there's some kind of karmic bidet wheel, I've apparently been stretched on it. They are absolutely worth the trouble, though. I was bound to the old methods for the last few months and it felt so wasteful.
My podcast comes back on Wednesday, and perhaps I'll make a Projects post about it. All the other seasons have ended up there at some point, I think.
I've been in a perfectly lovely and unexpected FWB situation for the last six weeks. I'm a heart-forward person, and I very much enjoy having romance-infused friendships, but I understand a lot of folks are more binary in their friend/boyfriend delineations. So I instigated our first "emotional check-in" conversation yesterday to make sure we're still on the same page. So far, so good, I think, and hopefully I've made him feel safe enough to say otherwise. I feel like I'm beyond my years of intermingling finances and dealing with people's families and all that craziness. I just want to have fun adventures and good sex and hang out indefinitely in this affectionately detached space.
posted by mykescipark at 2:41 PM on March 11 [6 favorites]
My podcast comes back on Wednesday, and perhaps I'll make a Projects post about it. All the other seasons have ended up there at some point, I think.
I've been in a perfectly lovely and unexpected FWB situation for the last six weeks. I'm a heart-forward person, and I very much enjoy having romance-infused friendships, but I understand a lot of folks are more binary in their friend/boyfriend delineations. So I instigated our first "emotional check-in" conversation yesterday to make sure we're still on the same page. So far, so good, I think, and hopefully I've made him feel safe enough to say otherwise. I feel like I'm beyond my years of intermingling finances and dealing with people's families and all that craziness. I just want to have fun adventures and good sex and hang out indefinitely in this affectionately detached space.
posted by mykescipark at 2:41 PM on March 11 [6 favorites]
Happy My Car Clock Is Right Again Day, everyone!
(I finally managed to update my car clock about a week ago, just in time for it to be wrong again as of yesterday.)
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:49 PM on March 11 [14 favorites]
(I finally managed to update my car clock about a week ago, just in time for it to be wrong again as of yesterday.)
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:49 PM on March 11 [14 favorites]
Oh Oh labhair Gaeilge liom, a créatúr gnéasúil. Last week was Seachtain na Gaeilge [speak Irish if you can, even a little, week] here. So the state broadcaster RTE trots out the same 15 words of Irish slang, just like they did last year. But +1 for TG Lurgan.
posted by BobTheScientist at 3:08 PM on March 11
posted by BobTheScientist at 3:08 PM on March 11
I started doing yoga a month ago. I was in a class on Saturday, and next to me was someone who was decked out with fancy clothes and clearly practiced at warmup poses (which is just to say they were clearly experienced). I wasn't paying attention to anyone else during class, but during one particularly difficult sequence I was struggling both to balance and breathe. I happened to look over and see that her standing leg was trembling a little bit. I thought, "ok, this is hard, it's not just me".
In other news, "The Great North" on Hulu is lovely and weird and hilarious.
posted by Gorgik at 3:09 PM on March 11 [6 favorites]
In other news, "The Great North" on Hulu is lovely and weird and hilarious.
posted by Gorgik at 3:09 PM on March 11 [6 favorites]
Love The Great North. Cute show. :)
Friday marks 28 years since I first saw the late Mr. Nerd in person for the first time. Sigh.
posted by luckynerd at 3:24 PM on March 11 [12 favorites]
Friday marks 28 years since I first saw the late Mr. Nerd in person for the first time. Sigh.
posted by luckynerd at 3:24 PM on March 11 [12 favorites]
I am fascinated with the Kate Middleton Bad Photoshop Drama today. After five years of not getting sick even once (thank you masking and social distancing!) I came down a few days ago with an utterly god-awful bastard of a cold, which has laid me out braindead and feverish on the couch, and I tell you what, the Kate Middleton Drama has been a godsend, something utterly remote from and irrelevant to my own reality, requiring no actual engagement or caring on my part, full of diverting conspiratorial rabbit holes, with an unending flurry of odd details and weirdnesses. (I will of course feel horrible about this if it turns out something really bad has happened to her.)
Also, I am a total bidet evangelist; I do not regard the bidet-less with disgust or revulsion, but certainly with compassion. Come, ye unfortunates, and be cleansed!
posted by Kat Allison at 3:30 PM on March 11 [8 favorites]
Also, I am a total bidet evangelist; I do not regard the bidet-less with disgust or revulsion, but certainly with compassion. Come, ye unfortunates, and be cleansed!
posted by Kat Allison at 3:30 PM on March 11 [8 favorites]
When finished using a bidet, how do you get rid of the dripping water from your bunghole?
posted by Czjewel at 3:34 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
posted by Czjewel at 3:34 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
And if you haven't seen this previously, it's worth a watch.
posted by Windopaene at 3:34 PM on March 11 [2 favorites]
posted by Windopaene at 3:34 PM on March 11 [2 favorites]
I did a three day hike a couple of weeks ago and covered over 50 miles. While I was gone my wife moved a dresser to clean something and… hey, why is the wall soft and damp? The shower faucet had broken and was spraying inside the wall. A friend helped me get the new faucet installed and since then I’ve been working on getting the tile fixed up. I think I’m about done with that, fingers crossed. Next thing up is replacing a bunch of drywall. Oh joy. If you’ve never done it, you attach the drywall to the wall studs and then you need to tape and mud it and then sand the mud down so that everything is level and the joints don’t show. It’s that last part that is no fun. If you want to simulate it, take a pound or two of flour, and dump it over your head and the floor and every flat surface in the room.
posted by azpenguin at 3:42 PM on March 11 [7 favorites]
posted by azpenguin at 3:42 PM on March 11 [7 favorites]
I had a hearing test today, three years after the last one, and yep — it's getting worse. But ENT doesn't think the pulsatile tinnitus that's actually more noticeable to me than hearing loss above certain frequencies is actually fixable. It switched from ambient whooshing to a screech a few years ago, pulsing along with my... pulse.
On a more fun note, we've been watching Resident Alien here, which showed up in my Netflix queue and is just delightful.
posted by emelenjr at 3:49 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
On a more fun note, we've been watching Resident Alien here, which showed up in my Netflix queue and is just delightful.
posted by emelenjr at 3:49 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
I was amused/saddened to see a reference to jumping the shark in a recent FPP.
The website Jump The Shark has been gone for at least 13 years now.
posted by JHarris at 4:14 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
The website Jump The Shark has been gone for at least 13 years now.
posted by JHarris at 4:14 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
I'm currently dithering over whether to build a dedicated setup for culturing Californian blackworm (Lumbriculus variegatus). It's a fascinating creature than also happens to be a really good tropical fish food, both nutritionally and because it'll survive indefinitely in the aquarium until eaten, helping to consume excess food and any decaying plant matter until an enterprising fish digs it out. They're in short supply in many places, so being able to grow a couple of hundred grams of them every month with minimal effort would be game-changing for me.
You can culture them in a tray with a couple of inches of water, a thin layer of sharp gravel, and an airstone to oxygenate the water. My design would stack these trays (Ikea Trofast would be ideal) and trickle water down from the top, through each tray via an overflow, and into a filtration system with beneficial bacteria to break down ammonia and nitrite. The water then gets pumped back to the top. A second small pump with a float switch tops up the water lost by evaporation from a reservoir, so it'll all continue to work if I'm away for a week. I'm itching to build it, but it's yet another 'where the hell will I put it?' to add to my house in a country where the per capita floorspace is less than that of a New Yorker.
Anyway, the worms will reproduce slowly in the conventional way (eggs) or by regeneration after injury. Each of the body segments can regenerate a new head or anus, so as they move through the sharp gravel, they break into smaller pieces, each of which survives to become a whole worm. You can giddy the whole process up by hacking at a bunch of worms with some scissors if you like. In theory, the worm colony should double in mass approximately every 30 days. I'd have to experiment with temperature, lighting, water parameters, foods and so on.
Fishkeeping is such a great hobby if, like me, you need something very open-ended that rewards lots of tinkering and DIY-ing.
BTW, If anyone needs freshwater fishkeeping advice, or is thinking of getting an aquarium for the first time, I'm always happy to help.
posted by pipeski at 4:14 PM on March 11 [4 favorites]
You can culture them in a tray with a couple of inches of water, a thin layer of sharp gravel, and an airstone to oxygenate the water. My design would stack these trays (Ikea Trofast would be ideal) and trickle water down from the top, through each tray via an overflow, and into a filtration system with beneficial bacteria to break down ammonia and nitrite. The water then gets pumped back to the top. A second small pump with a float switch tops up the water lost by evaporation from a reservoir, so it'll all continue to work if I'm away for a week. I'm itching to build it, but it's yet another 'where the hell will I put it?' to add to my house in a country where the per capita floorspace is less than that of a New Yorker.
Anyway, the worms will reproduce slowly in the conventional way (eggs) or by regeneration after injury. Each of the body segments can regenerate a new head or anus, so as they move through the sharp gravel, they break into smaller pieces, each of which survives to become a whole worm. You can giddy the whole process up by hacking at a bunch of worms with some scissors if you like. In theory, the worm colony should double in mass approximately every 30 days. I'd have to experiment with temperature, lighting, water parameters, foods and so on.
Fishkeeping is such a great hobby if, like me, you need something very open-ended that rewards lots of tinkering and DIY-ing.
BTW, If anyone needs freshwater fishkeeping advice, or is thinking of getting an aquarium for the first time, I'm always happy to help.
posted by pipeski at 4:14 PM on March 11 [4 favorites]
The website Jump The Shark has been gone for at least 13 years now.
Wait until you hear how long ago the episode of Happy Days that featured Fonzie jumping over a shark was on the air!
posted by hippybear at 4:15 PM on March 11 [6 favorites]
Wait until you hear how long ago the episode of Happy Days that featured Fonzie jumping over a shark was on the air!
posted by hippybear at 4:15 PM on March 11 [6 favorites]
I was thinking of putting together a Middleton FPP if I weren’t laid out with my premiere case of COVID and incapable of doing more than watching old Carol Burnett sketches and drinking tea.
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 4:21 PM on March 11 [5 favorites]
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 4:21 PM on March 11 [5 favorites]
It switched from ambient whooshing to a screech a few years ago, pulsing along with my... pulse.
Thanks to being in a loud rock band in my 30s and having stupidly forgotten my earplugs at home for a few performances, I now have a permanent steady ~12kHz sawtooth-type whine in both ears (also my hearing drops off entirely somewhere between 14-15kHz). Sometimes I notice it, sometimes I don't, but it doesn't bother me too much under most circumstances.
Also, I keep wanting to call it tin-EYE-tis instead of TIN-ih-tus, which sounds wrong to my (tinnitus-ridden) ear.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:23 PM on March 11 [8 favorites]
Thanks to being in a loud rock band in my 30s and having stupidly forgotten my earplugs at home for a few performances, I now have a permanent steady ~12kHz sawtooth-type whine in both ears (also my hearing drops off entirely somewhere between 14-15kHz). Sometimes I notice it, sometimes I don't, but it doesn't bother me too much under most circumstances.
Also, I keep wanting to call it tin-EYE-tis instead of TIN-ih-tus, which sounds wrong to my (tinnitus-ridden) ear.
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:23 PM on March 11 [8 favorites]
My hearing is wildly out of whack in so many ways. My favorite ? is how white noise can and WILL be used to generate any kind of audio experience for me. I'm generalizing here when I say "white noise" but I've gotten symphonies, episodes of Gilligan's Island, entire two-person conversations coming from a box fan running in the back room. At this point, if I think I'm hearing something coming from the other room, I assume there is nothing there because these weird audio hallucinations are so entirely frequent.
If anyone out there has heard of this being a diagnosis for something, please let me know!
posted by hippybear at 4:27 PM on March 11 [4 favorites]
If anyone out there has heard of this being a diagnosis for something, please let me know!
posted by hippybear at 4:27 PM on March 11 [4 favorites]
I will evangelize the bidet until the cows come home. Use a wee wad of TP to dry the drip, by the by.
We put a hilariously lowball bid on a condo in our favorite neighborhood and because we were preapproved and the seller had already had three people finance-flake on her, she was like fuck it, I'll take it, so we're getting a place for about $60k under market value, and yes, it's been thoroughly inspected and there's nothing wrong with it. We've been renters since the house we were living in while looking for a place to buy burned down and nearly killed us all in 2020; the kitchen collapsed on me while I was trying to save my daughter's cat. All this made us gunshy, but now we'll be homeowners again.
But the real reason I'm commenting is because the singer in the black dress in the Gaelic Thunderstruck video is an Exact. Dead. Ringer. for a woman I dated for about a year back in college. As in, she's truly a doppelgänger: I thought it WAS her for an instant. We're still friends, she's a boring 50something parent just like me, and she was like holy shit. It's freaky! My ex couldn't sing to save her life in any language, though.
posted by outgrown_hobnail at 4:39 PM on March 11 [8 favorites]
We put a hilariously lowball bid on a condo in our favorite neighborhood and because we were preapproved and the seller had already had three people finance-flake on her, she was like fuck it, I'll take it, so we're getting a place for about $60k under market value, and yes, it's been thoroughly inspected and there's nothing wrong with it. We've been renters since the house we were living in while looking for a place to buy burned down and nearly killed us all in 2020; the kitchen collapsed on me while I was trying to save my daughter's cat. All this made us gunshy, but now we'll be homeowners again.
But the real reason I'm commenting is because the singer in the black dress in the Gaelic Thunderstruck video is an Exact. Dead. Ringer. for a woman I dated for about a year back in college. As in, she's truly a doppelgänger: I thought it WAS her for an instant. We're still friends, she's a boring 50something parent just like me, and she was like holy shit. It's freaky! My ex couldn't sing to save her life in any language, though.
posted by outgrown_hobnail at 4:39 PM on March 11 [8 favorites]
I'd love to remodel my bathroom with a Toto Washlet - that's my dream. But until I am earning money, it's going to stay a dream, alas. Speaking of which, this whole changing careers thing is as scary as fuck and I've had moments where I've been severely tempted to throw it all in and just go back to event management. The therapy side of my brain, however, has gained a very interesting understanding of why people stay in horrible relationships - the old is known, the new is unknown. Known is comforting, unknown is scary. I am stressing so much I'm starting to have problems sleeping. Therapist - heal thyself!
posted by ninazer0 at 4:53 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
posted by ninazer0 at 4:53 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
I got another job interview, same day, a few hours apart. And got my car back, yay. Whew. The nightmare is mostly over! I hope.
I'm still disappointed that hotel bidet didn't work in the place we were staying at in SF in February. The one time I tried one years ago in a restaurant, I was deeply unimpressed and I'm still unclear on its magic working miracles. Well, more specifically, its aim on lady ass.
I was thinking of putting together a Middleton FPP if I weren’t laid out with my premiere case of COVID
In that case, I'll consider it, but I have an online seminar pretty soon so we'll see if I can get to it after that.
posted by jenfullmoon at 4:55 PM on March 11 [7 favorites]
I'm still disappointed that hotel bidet didn't work in the place we were staying at in SF in February. The one time I tried one years ago in a restaurant, I was deeply unimpressed and I'm still unclear on its magic working miracles. Well, more specifically, its aim on lady ass.
I was thinking of putting together a Middleton FPP if I weren’t laid out with my premiere case of COVID
In that case, I'll consider it, but I have an online seminar pretty soon so we'll see if I can get to it after that.
posted by jenfullmoon at 4:55 PM on March 11 [7 favorites]
We've had an unseasonable heat wave. Sat/Sun/Mon were all high 30s (that's over 100F to the metrically-challenged) and the worst part was it didn't particularly cool off at night. It's currently around 21 (70ish) and I am WFH with windows and doors open to try coax a little bit more relative coolth inside - so of course this is the day when the vacant unit diagonally opposite me is having lots of interior work done with noisy power tools. The lesson here, there is no escaping the migraine.
That video is very cool though (no pun intended) even though I am unfamiliar with the source material. I checked out a couple of others I did know and they were great too!
posted by Athanassiel at 5:30 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
That video is very cool though (no pun intended) even though I am unfamiliar with the source material. I checked out a couple of others I did know and they were great too!
posted by Athanassiel at 5:30 PM on March 11 [3 favorites]
I'm now undecided between making All the Quilted Things and Never Again.
My mother briefly took up quilting when I was in my early teens; the biggest thing she made was a baby quilt for when my cousin was just born. She asked Dad to take a picture of it for posterity before she wrapped it, and posed with it, holding it up for his photo. However - Dad got a bit confused, and instead of zooming in to photograph the quilt alone, he also included Mom's face in the photo.
She looks absolutely exhausted. It's not any surprise why she never quilted anything after that.
....We started this free thread in Irish - I have a story about another loss to the Irish-American community.
In 1992, literally the day after I graduated college, I got a paid internship - working as playwrights assistant to Leon Uris, for a group of people trying to make his book TRINITY into a play. That production never got past the workshop stage, but it involved a whole lot of people I vaguely realized were Actually Kind Of Famous (and even more who didn't become famous until later) - and that drove me to show up on days I wasn't even supposed to, to try to Do Right and Prove Myself. However I was only 22 and scared to death at first.
One of the people who finally helped me settle in - without knowing he was doing so - was an older man named Malachy McCourt, a silver haired red-faced fellow who looked like he was straight out of a casting agent's office for "Irish Grandpa". He would always greet me (nervously sitting in the box office) with a grin and a cheery, "hello, how are ye, darlin'?" One time when I was a bit more relaxed and answered him asking how he was, he grinned even bigger and said, "ah, darlin', if I were any better, God would be jealous!"
I didn't really find out who he was until later, after the show closed and I had started in on a full time job with the producer. That's when I learned about Malachy's regular role on a soap opera, his 1970s stint on the radio, the odd TV role. His big brother Frank later wrote a book called "Angela's Ashes", and that is how I learned about his childhood's rough edges. But then I learned they'd previously written a play about the same material - and in 1998, when i was on a trip to Dublin, I learned he was performing it there, along with another actor.
He ran into me in the lobby as I was buying my ticket, recognized me, and invited me to hang out with him after the show. We were talking so long at the bar after that when he had to leave - he was booked on a late night radio show - he invited me to come along. One of my best travel stories ever is that night in the control room of RTE Radio 4, me splitting a bottle of merlot with the producer as Malachy and his co-star hung out in the studio with the host, everyone laughing uproarious at Malachy's stories.
Malachy died this afternoon. Others are remembering him for his career, his writing, his politics and his art - I am remembering him for helping a green and young woman feel welcome, wherever she was.
His son reports that as he died he was listening to this song.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:51 PM on March 11 [27 favorites]
My mother briefly took up quilting when I was in my early teens; the biggest thing she made was a baby quilt for when my cousin was just born. She asked Dad to take a picture of it for posterity before she wrapped it, and posed with it, holding it up for his photo. However - Dad got a bit confused, and instead of zooming in to photograph the quilt alone, he also included Mom's face in the photo.
She looks absolutely exhausted. It's not any surprise why she never quilted anything after that.
....We started this free thread in Irish - I have a story about another loss to the Irish-American community.
In 1992, literally the day after I graduated college, I got a paid internship - working as playwrights assistant to Leon Uris, for a group of people trying to make his book TRINITY into a play. That production never got past the workshop stage, but it involved a whole lot of people I vaguely realized were Actually Kind Of Famous (and even more who didn't become famous until later) - and that drove me to show up on days I wasn't even supposed to, to try to Do Right and Prove Myself. However I was only 22 and scared to death at first.
One of the people who finally helped me settle in - without knowing he was doing so - was an older man named Malachy McCourt, a silver haired red-faced fellow who looked like he was straight out of a casting agent's office for "Irish Grandpa". He would always greet me (nervously sitting in the box office) with a grin and a cheery, "hello, how are ye, darlin'?" One time when I was a bit more relaxed and answered him asking how he was, he grinned even bigger and said, "ah, darlin', if I were any better, God would be jealous!"
I didn't really find out who he was until later, after the show closed and I had started in on a full time job with the producer. That's when I learned about Malachy's regular role on a soap opera, his 1970s stint on the radio, the odd TV role. His big brother Frank later wrote a book called "Angela's Ashes", and that is how I learned about his childhood's rough edges. But then I learned they'd previously written a play about the same material - and in 1998, when i was on a trip to Dublin, I learned he was performing it there, along with another actor.
He ran into me in the lobby as I was buying my ticket, recognized me, and invited me to hang out with him after the show. We were talking so long at the bar after that when he had to leave - he was booked on a late night radio show - he invited me to come along. One of my best travel stories ever is that night in the control room of RTE Radio 4, me splitting a bottle of merlot with the producer as Malachy and his co-star hung out in the studio with the host, everyone laughing uproarious at Malachy's stories.
Malachy died this afternoon. Others are remembering him for his career, his writing, his politics and his art - I am remembering him for helping a green and young woman feel welcome, wherever she was.
His son reports that as he died he was listening to this song.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 6:51 PM on March 11 [27 favorites]
Desire without Lyrics.
today's favorite Google algorithm: what's the song that goes: na na na na na na na na na na na na na na.
nuh na na na na naha na na
posted by clavdivs at 6:57 PM on March 11
today's favorite Google algorithm: what's the song that goes: na na na na na na na na na na na na na na.
nuh na na na na naha na na
posted by clavdivs at 6:57 PM on March 11
Malachy died this afternoon.
Wow, this stings, but also is a weird feeling because I could have sworn he passed away ages ago.
posted by Literaryhero at 8:25 PM on March 11 [2 favorites]
Wow, this stings, but also is a weird feeling because I could have sworn he passed away ages ago.
posted by Literaryhero at 8:25 PM on March 11 [2 favorites]
AzraelBrown - thanks for the updates on film school.
I haven't gotten anywhere yet with finding some amateur/indie film sound involvement on my own. But in a few weeks a local independent film collective is going to host a one-day intro to location sound, and I might just check that out, if only to network with the youngs, and maybe wave a boom for a few minutes.
The Winter That Wasn't is almost over. I've been biking at least once a week since late February. Hoping for a good cycling year, maybe even doing some touring.
Among our friends, 2024 has so far brought: prostate cancer, cervical cancer, colon cancer, and two brain bleeds. All the affected are currently on the mend, but fuuuuuck. Don't get old, kids.
posted by Artful Codger at 8:28 PM on March 11 [2 favorites]
I haven't gotten anywhere yet with finding some amateur/indie film sound involvement on my own. But in a few weeks a local independent film collective is going to host a one-day intro to location sound, and I might just check that out, if only to network with the youngs, and maybe wave a boom for a few minutes.
The Winter That Wasn't is almost over. I've been biking at least once a week since late February. Hoping for a good cycling year, maybe even doing some touring.
Among our friends, 2024 has so far brought: prostate cancer, cervical cancer, colon cancer, and two brain bleeds. All the affected are currently on the mend, but fuuuuuck. Don't get old, kids.
posted by Artful Codger at 8:28 PM on March 11 [2 favorites]
Just as a followup on blogging from last month, I outgrew Glitch and now have an Eleventy blog on neocities.org. I'm considering switching to Zola, and perhaps moving to Digital Ocean or Netlify. But I also kind of want to use Eleventy Notes. But maybe it would just be simpler to use Quartz?
Point being, I had a "I want my stuff off billionaire-owned platforms" problem and thought, "I'll solve it with a blog." Now I have two problems.
posted by ob1quixote at 8:52 PM on March 11 [5 favorites]
Point being, I had a "I want my stuff off billionaire-owned platforms" problem and thought, "I'll solve it with a blog." Now I have two problems.
posted by ob1quixote at 8:52 PM on March 11 [5 favorites]
That quilt is gorgeous, paduasoy! "Closet projects" are normal in quilting -- you get bored and frustrated, toss the project in the closet, and hope that the next time you bring it out you remember what you were doing to it.
Also, cats and quilts are a natural match. Good job!
The continuing saga of Another Six-Year Construction Project is on its sixth month.
The good news - we live here, so I insulated the south wall of the master bedroom at 4:00 a.m. while the sweet husband was out of town. My hands still feel itchy in spite of showers and scrubbing.
All three bedrooms are under construction/remodel status/storage units and so every space in the house is filled with a random collection of boxes and furniture.
Any progress takes us closer to getting that part of our home back to normal.
The bad news - we've been sleeping on pallets on the floor for a couple of months and the rain forecast this week means more delays in window installation. The thrill is gone, so gone....
But the husband is back home after wrangling with his parents' computer (too windy to be on the shop building roof repairing broken skylights).
And we may have company on an Eclipse 2024 road trip if Honorable Youngest Offspring gets time off from work. I need to find the eclipse safety glasses from years ago, but that means tracking down the box that was in the corner bedroom... sigh....
posted by TrishaU at 1:44 AM on March 12 [5 favorites]
Also, cats and quilts are a natural match. Good job!
The continuing saga of Another Six-Year Construction Project is on its sixth month.
The good news - we live here, so I insulated the south wall of the master bedroom at 4:00 a.m. while the sweet husband was out of town. My hands still feel itchy in spite of showers and scrubbing.
All three bedrooms are under construction/remodel status/storage units and so every space in the house is filled with a random collection of boxes and furniture.
Any progress takes us closer to getting that part of our home back to normal.
The bad news - we've been sleeping on pallets on the floor for a couple of months and the rain forecast this week means more delays in window installation. The thrill is gone, so gone....
But the husband is back home after wrangling with his parents' computer (too windy to be on the shop building roof repairing broken skylights).
And we may have company on an Eclipse 2024 road trip if Honorable Youngest Offspring gets time off from work. I need to find the eclipse safety glasses from years ago, but that means tracking down the box that was in the corner bedroom... sigh....
posted by TrishaU at 1:44 AM on March 12 [5 favorites]
pipeski I wonder if I can get hold of Californian Blackworm over here, that sounds fascinating.
I have two small freshwater tanks that aren't doing as well as they should be. Small tertras and loaches, and some danios.
They used to be flourishing planted tanks, but the combined effects of moving to a new house and the water restrictions we had for a few years knocked them hard.
Also I made a fatal mistake of not realising that not all "apple snails" sold by pet shops are actually the same snails, and my plants were destroyed.
Now I've got a fair number of annubias and some floating plants (I forget what they're called). Also quite large pothos and philodendron growing out of the top of the tanks.
I need to spend get the tanks back to something more than "just existing" but I'm struggling to find the mental energy for that right now.
And the memory of water restrictions haunts me a bit.
posted by Zumbador at 2:03 AM on March 12 [1 favorite]
I have two small freshwater tanks that aren't doing as well as they should be. Small tertras and loaches, and some danios.
They used to be flourishing planted tanks, but the combined effects of moving to a new house and the water restrictions we had for a few years knocked them hard.
Also I made a fatal mistake of not realising that not all "apple snails" sold by pet shops are actually the same snails, and my plants were destroyed.
Now I've got a fair number of annubias and some floating plants (I forget what they're called). Also quite large pothos and philodendron growing out of the top of the tanks.
I need to spend get the tanks back to something more than "just existing" but I'm struggling to find the mental energy for that right now.
And the memory of water restrictions haunts me a bit.
posted by Zumbador at 2:03 AM on March 12 [1 favorite]
It's autumn in this hemisphere and good apple climate at this latitude, so I have taken 10 kilos of free apples from various places and my own crab apple tree (full of tannins you know) and smashed them with a piece of 4 x 2 in a bucket. The pulp is macerating overnight and tomorrow I will press it, in my improvised press made from a car jack and a plastic bucket with holes in it. I expect to get about 5kg of juice and I'm going to take a chance on a wild ferment. There may or may not be some pretty decent cider in a few months.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 2:10 AM on March 12 [3 favorites]
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 2:10 AM on March 12 [3 favorites]
I texted Shepherd to ask if it would be considered code-switching when I deliberately thicken my Southern accent for my office's rural clients. I have to say that when I do, they are more at ease in our office.
posted by Kitteh at 7:13 AM on March 12 [2 favorites]
posted by Kitteh at 7:13 AM on March 12 [2 favorites]
I got to go to a real, official Star Trek convention this weekend (as opposed to a generic geek convention with Star Trek bits, like Comic-Con). One of the highlights was getting to meet and speak with Michelle Hurd, from whom my partner got me a Cameo video for my birthday last month.
posted by hanov3r at 9:07 AM on March 12 [4 favorites]
posted by hanov3r at 9:07 AM on March 12 [4 favorites]
Point being, I had a "I want my stuff off billionaire-owned platforms" problem and thought, "I'll solve it with a blog." Now I have two problems.
I bought a domain name last year, then last month I set up an account with Dreamhost. I'm playing with Hugo right now, and figured out how to use rsync and ssh to update a blog. The process is relatively sustainable as-is, but I feel as though I'm falling further down the rabbit hole. So much to learn about Markdown, CSS, the various open-source varieties of cloud services, and and and...
posted by pianoblack at 9:09 AM on March 12 [2 favorites]
I bought a domain name last year, then last month I set up an account with Dreamhost. I'm playing with Hugo right now, and figured out how to use rsync and ssh to update a blog. The process is relatively sustainable as-is, but I feel as though I'm falling further down the rabbit hole. So much to learn about Markdown, CSS, the various open-source varieties of cloud services, and and and...
posted by pianoblack at 9:09 AM on March 12 [2 favorites]
Wow, this stings, but also is a weird feeling because I could have sworn [Malachy McCourt] passed away ages ago.
He was 92. His brother Frank died in 2009.
Also, Malachy was admitted into hospice care a couple years back, but got kicked out in 2022 because "he wasn't dying fast enough".
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 9:17 AM on March 12 [3 favorites]
He was 92. His brother Frank died in 2009.
Also, Malachy was admitted into hospice care a couple years back, but got kicked out in 2022 because "he wasn't dying fast enough".
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 9:17 AM on March 12 [3 favorites]
Malachy claimed he was one of the few men who was able to get past security at the Barbizon Hotel.
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posted by luckynerd at 10:16 AM on March 12 [1 favorite]
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posted by luckynerd at 10:16 AM on March 12 [1 favorite]
Me: I am going to have a good day today and focus on positive things. I've been too morbid and sad since my high school friend died last week.
Email: But here are his funeral arrangements.
Me: That is fine. He would want me to have a nice day.
Facebook: Ten years ago today... [college roommate died]
Me: That was a long time ago. And today, I'm having a nice day.
Email: Hey when you're in Memphis next weekend, we're gonna have a thing to honor [friend who died in November].
Me: That will be nice. But I'm gonna go to lunch. No more thinking of death today.
Universe: [traps me behind a long funeral procession]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:08 PM on March 12 [14 favorites]
Email: But here are his funeral arrangements.
Me: That is fine. He would want me to have a nice day.
Facebook: Ten years ago today... [college roommate died]
Me: That was a long time ago. And today, I'm having a nice day.
Email: Hey when you're in Memphis next weekend, we're gonna have a thing to honor [friend who died in November].
Me: That will be nice. But I'm gonna go to lunch. No more thinking of death today.
Universe: [traps me behind a long funeral procession]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:08 PM on March 12 [14 favorites]
And now The Eras Tour has appeared on YouTube. I don't know if Renaissance is still up.
posted by hippybear at 12:17 PM on March 12
posted by hippybear at 12:17 PM on March 12
Metafilter: It took 21 years, but 20 of that was procrastination and guilt
posted by theora55 at 12:32 PM on March 12 [8 favorites]
posted by theora55 at 12:32 PM on March 12 [8 favorites]
Well, they remain, so here:
Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé
The Eras Tour Slime Tutorial
posted by hippybear at 12:52 PM on March 12 [1 favorite]
Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé
The Eras Tour Slime Tutorial
posted by hippybear at 12:52 PM on March 12 [1 favorite]
Intook my American telecaster in for it's first setup in over twenty years. They're gonna rewire the pickups so I can play them in series and get more output, as well as fixing a grounding issue and give it a general going over.
Exciting!
posted by signal at 10:29 AM on March 13 [3 favorites]
Exciting!
posted by signal at 10:29 AM on March 13 [3 favorites]
Paduasoy, that quilt is beautiful; well done.
posted by theora55 at 11:48 AM on March 13 [2 favorites]
posted by theora55 at 11:48 AM on March 13 [2 favorites]
Urgh: the local tree guy has been hit by a sneaky spammer. Seems that his email has been compromised, and the scammer is sending out fake quotes and direct payment links as replies to clients. I don't know of anyone who could take a small non-techy business by the hand and sort this out. The scammer's in another country, so that likely means our local police (who are useless at the best of times) would just go "Welp!" and continue munching on their 23rd donut of the day
posted by scruss at 1:07 PM on March 13 [1 favorite]
posted by scruss at 1:07 PM on March 13 [1 favorite]
the scammer is sending out fake quotes and direct payment links as replies to clients.
99 times out of a hundred, the spammer is simply spoofing the 'from' email address. It doesn't automatically mean the tree guy's email was hacked. Now, if you/they know for a fact that the spam quote emails are in response to emails sent to the tree guy's email address (or in response to online quote requests from their site)... then yes there's a problem. They need to get in touch with their email provider (and/or website host) ASAP and change their access password(s), at a minimum.
posted by Artful Codger at 2:16 PM on March 13 [1 favorite]
99 times out of a hundred, the spammer is simply spoofing the 'from' email address. It doesn't automatically mean the tree guy's email was hacked. Now, if you/they know for a fact that the spam quote emails are in response to emails sent to the tree guy's email address (or in response to online quote requests from their site)... then yes there's a problem. They need to get in touch with their email provider (and/or website host) ASAP and change their access password(s), at a minimum.
posted by Artful Codger at 2:16 PM on March 13 [1 favorite]
Urgh: the local tree guy
I like how it looks almost like you're suggesting the tree guy is named Urgh! :)
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:45 PM on March 13 [1 favorite]
I like how it looks almost like you're suggesting the tree guy is named Urgh! :)
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:45 PM on March 13 [1 favorite]
In Gaelic? Irish? that's just Georg...
posted by Windopaene at 3:15 PM on March 13
posted by Windopaene at 3:15 PM on March 13
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I do. My boss almost paid the tree guy's invoice via Interac, but noticed the email address for the payment wasn't the same as the tree guy's own address.
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They did. They were first attacked a couple of weeks ago. They did all the change password things, but the spammer came back this week. They don't know what to do next, because they've done everything that they can do.
posted by scruss at 7:13 PM on March 13
Now, if you/they know for a fact that the spam quote emails are in response to emails sent to the tree guy's email address...
I do. My boss almost paid the tree guy's invoice via Interac, but noticed the email address for the payment wasn't the same as the tree guy's own address.
→
They need to get in touch with their email provider (and/or website host) ASAP and change their access password(s), at a minimum.
They did. They were first attacked a couple of weeks ago. They did all the change password things, but the spammer came back this week. They don't know what to do next, because they've done everything that they can do.
posted by scruss at 7:13 PM on March 13
If they're just referencing/spoofing the tree guy (TG)'s public email address in their spam (from a different real email address) but without access to his actual account (which is common and what it sounds like since he's changed his password), there's not much he can do about that...it's like grabbing someone's phone number out of a phone book - remember those? - and using it on their letterhead.
About all he can do is take extra steps to make sure each of his customers know that this is going on and instruct them to watch out for any return email addresses that aren't TG's, and to not use any payment methods other than [only the legit one(s) TG specifies]. If the spammer doesn't have access to those emails (assuming none of your customers have been compromised, which is NOT a given), they won't know what the legit methods are and won't be able to fake them.
It's a hassle, and he and his customers have my sympathy.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:40 PM on March 13
About all he can do is take extra steps to make sure each of his customers know that this is going on and instruct them to watch out for any return email addresses that aren't TG's, and to not use any payment methods other than [only the legit one(s) TG specifies]. If the spammer doesn't have access to those emails (assuming none of your customers have been compromised, which is NOT a given), they won't know what the legit methods are and won't be able to fake them.
It's a hassle, and he and his customers have my sympathy.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:40 PM on March 13
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They do seem to have access: it's not purely spoofing.
Anyway, it was lovely down at the lake this morning for sunrise. Lots of beavers swimming laps around the ponds
posted by scruss at 8:09 AM on March 14 [1 favorite]
without access to his actual account
They do seem to have access: it's not purely spoofing.
Anyway, it was lovely down at the lake this morning for sunrise. Lots of beavers swimming laps around the ponds
posted by scruss at 8:09 AM on March 14 [1 favorite]
So, I am at a big-deal conference that my company and 5 others have all jointly coordinated. I "volunteered" to assist (read: I got signed up) and so I am here all day at the registration table.
My boss has also been working with a branding consultant, and two of their reps also turned up. One of them...looked strangely familiar. And when he gave me his name...that also sounded familiar. But it wasn't until later that I put it together.
I can only imagine what went through the poor guy's head - there he is at a conference on the child welfare system, and suddenly one of the volunteers comes up and asks him: "so strange question, but did you once direct a production of Strindberg's DREAM PLAY with a guy named Steven?"
We went to college together- not the same class, but "Steven" and I were in the same studio for 3 years, and was (and is) one of his good friends. He is also tight with the CEO of that company, whom my own boss has been trying to schmooze with. We schmooze a bit and talked some.more shop, and they teased me about "now we know who to talk to about getting on B's calendar" as we parted. My boss responded to me "I went to college with A from the brand team" with an all-caps response.
Every so often I know how to network.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 10:43 AM on March 14 [4 favorites]
My boss has also been working with a branding consultant, and two of their reps also turned up. One of them...looked strangely familiar. And when he gave me his name...that also sounded familiar. But it wasn't until later that I put it together.
I can only imagine what went through the poor guy's head - there he is at a conference on the child welfare system, and suddenly one of the volunteers comes up and asks him: "so strange question, but did you once direct a production of Strindberg's DREAM PLAY with a guy named Steven?"
We went to college together- not the same class, but "Steven" and I were in the same studio for 3 years, and was (and is) one of his good friends. He is also tight with the CEO of that company, whom my own boss has been trying to schmooze with. We schmooze a bit and talked some.more shop, and they teased me about "now we know who to talk to about getting on B's calendar" as we parted. My boss responded to me "I went to college with A from the brand team" with an all-caps response.
Every so often I know how to network.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 10:43 AM on March 14 [4 favorites]
Today in Pittsburgh Sports News: What if they had a Jaromir Jagr bobblehead night and no bobbleheads were to be found?
posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 11:31 AM on March 14
posted by theBigRedKittyPurrs at 11:31 AM on March 14
I got my tele back. The noise is down significantly, the grounding issue is solved, and it has a toggle to put the pickups in serial, so a kind of large humbucker, plus they checked frets, trussbar, lowered the action, etc. Cost about as much as buying a cheap guitar, but so worth it.
posted by signal at 11:35 AM on March 14 [5 favorites]
posted by signal at 11:35 AM on March 14 [5 favorites]
Here's a legitimately nice thing: the Dodgers renewed the contract for Andrew Toles, which is not a sports story, it's a story about human kindness.
The Dodgers did this for a seventh year in a row, even though Toles has not actually played for them since 2018. Andrew Toles left baseball in 2019 because of serious mental health issues, eventually being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. His father says Andrew cannot so much as watch television, because the overlap between the voices on the TV and the voices he hears in his head is terrifying.
Each year, the Dodgers renew his contract then place him on the restricted list. This status does not come with a salary but it does come with top shelf mental health care. Toles is in-patient care and the Dodgers are making this happen.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:19 AM on March 15 [7 favorites]
The Dodgers did this for a seventh year in a row, even though Toles has not actually played for them since 2018. Andrew Toles left baseball in 2019 because of serious mental health issues, eventually being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. His father says Andrew cannot so much as watch television, because the overlap between the voices on the TV and the voices he hears in his head is terrifying.
Each year, the Dodgers renew his contract then place him on the restricted list. This status does not come with a salary but it does come with top shelf mental health care. Toles is in-patient care and the Dodgers are making this happen.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:19 AM on March 15 [7 favorites]
Well, I don't know exactly how this happened, but I awoke this morning with a DEEP AND FERVENT NEED to bake shortbread - but, like, PREMIUM shortbread, using the Absolute Platonian Ideal Of Butter. I started looking for possible recipes....and that ended up sending me down a rabbit hole when I found recipes for peach shortbread, and rosewater shortbread, and chocolate shortbread, and pine-nut-with-rosemary-honey shortbread, and whole-wheat-with-preserved-lemon shortbread, and apple-and-carrot shortbread, and....
....and in a moment I'll be getting up and getting dressed, and then going out on an expedition to buy about FIVE POUNDS of butter and some fancy cookie cutters before coming back home and going BUGNUTS in the kitchen for the rest of the day. ....I also may sneak in these far simpler cookies as well - they're a more basic drop cookie with stuff mixed in, but the batter has both chocolate and peanut butter and the "stuff mixed in" includes chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, AND some of those mini peanut butter cups.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:18 AM on March 16
....and in a moment I'll be getting up and getting dressed, and then going out on an expedition to buy about FIVE POUNDS of butter and some fancy cookie cutters before coming back home and going BUGNUTS in the kitchen for the rest of the day. ....I also may sneak in these far simpler cookies as well - they're a more basic drop cookie with stuff mixed in, but the batter has both chocolate and peanut butter and the "stuff mixed in" includes chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, AND some of those mini peanut butter cups.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:18 AM on March 16
I recently made cookies that had a combo of Butter Finger Bits and mini chocolate chips. They turned out perfect too. Chewy but not doughy and GBD.
posted by kathrynm at 9:33 AM on March 16
posted by kathrynm at 9:33 AM on March 16
I'm not big on cookies, but I plan to make a batch of New Mexico green chili tomorrow.
Today is going to be a gorgeous day and I'll be meeting friends for an al fresco afternoon meal at a local food cart pod.
Monday will be nice too, so I plan to play hooky from work and do some sort of photo-safari day trip. Gotta enjoy the anomalous beautiful weather before it reverts to the more typical 50s and rainy/overcast.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:53 AM on March 16
Today is going to be a gorgeous day and I'll be meeting friends for an al fresco afternoon meal at a local food cart pod.
Monday will be nice too, so I plan to play hooky from work and do some sort of photo-safari day trip. Gotta enjoy the anomalous beautiful weather before it reverts to the more typical 50s and rainy/overcast.
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:53 AM on March 16
Shopping for butter took a bit longer than anticipated - I bumped into an old co-worker at a local coffee shop, and then made a Trader Joe's pilgrimage for the peanut butter cups and one of the Premium Butter brands. I ended up getting a half-pound of butter each from three different nations (except for the Kerrygold, I got a full pound of that), and picked up two new cookie cutters in my travels.
The chocolate-and-peanut-butter-loaded-with-stuff cookies were first, and then I made a batch of classic straight-up shortbread that didn't require rolling out, I just needed to slap it into a baking pan. I mixed up the dough for some super-fancy Breton Butter Cookies next and stopped there - that needed a rest in the fridge anyway, and I needed to shift to dinner instead (I discovered I still had some kimchi and bacon in the fridge, threw together kimchi fried rice with a fried egg on top because HOLY SHIT do I also have a lot of eggs right now).
Today I will roll out and bake those Breton Butter cookies, and make up some lemon sables and some chocolate sables....and some chocolate financiers, which will use up some egg whites I had left over from the Breton cookies. Maybe some rosewater shortbread as well.
But first - a quick run to the market up the street at some point for a tomato and some portobello mushrooms, to go with the Irish Breakfast fixings I have been thawing overnight. (Years ago a dear friend sent me an "Irish Breakfast kit" that served eight people, but this apartment is too tiny to have eight people present all at the same time so I broke the contents up into 8 single-serve freezer bags and have been eating through it slowly.)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:24 AM on March 17
The chocolate-and-peanut-butter-loaded-with-stuff cookies were first, and then I made a batch of classic straight-up shortbread that didn't require rolling out, I just needed to slap it into a baking pan. I mixed up the dough for some super-fancy Breton Butter Cookies next and stopped there - that needed a rest in the fridge anyway, and I needed to shift to dinner instead (I discovered I still had some kimchi and bacon in the fridge, threw together kimchi fried rice with a fried egg on top because HOLY SHIT do I also have a lot of eggs right now).
Today I will roll out and bake those Breton Butter cookies, and make up some lemon sables and some chocolate sables....and some chocolate financiers, which will use up some egg whites I had left over from the Breton cookies. Maybe some rosewater shortbread as well.
But first - a quick run to the market up the street at some point for a tomato and some portobello mushrooms, to go with the Irish Breakfast fixings I have been thawing overnight. (Years ago a dear friend sent me an "Irish Breakfast kit" that served eight people, but this apartment is too tiny to have eight people present all at the same time so I broke the contents up into 8 single-serve freezer bags and have been eating through it slowly.)
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:24 AM on March 17
I plan to make a batch of New Mexico green chili tomorrow.
For anyone who's interested in the details of why my house smells SO AMAZING right now, here's the recipe I'm using for New Mexico Chili (Chile?) Verde:
2 lb pork butt, trim off the fat and cut into 1 1/2-inch thick slices
2 Hatch peppers, halved and seeded
2 Poblano peppers, halved and seeded
1-2 jalapeno peppers, halved and seeded
1-2 serrano peppers, halved
1 lb tomatillos, husked, rinsed, and halved
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
2 Tbsp ground cumin
2 Tbsp ground coriander
2 Tbsp oregano
4 cloves garlic, minced
2-3 bay leaves
1 bunch cilantro (large), chopped (save some for garnish)
2 C chicken stock, beer, or water
Lime wedges and cilantro for garnish
1. (Do simultaneously to step 2 to save time, or do separately to save sanity) Spray a large baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Place the tomatillos and peppers cut side down on the baking sheet. Place under the broiler and broil for 5-10 minutes, until well browned. Flip the vegetables over and brown the other side. Blend the ingredients until smooth and set aside.
2. Meanwhile heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the pork, salt and pepper generously, and brown on both sides. Remove from the pan, let rest. Deglaze the pan with a little bit of water, scraping to loosen all the brown bits, and set aside. Once the pork is cool enough to handle, cut into rough cubes. Transfer to a Dutch oven with all the juices from the pan and cutting board.
3. Stir the blended salsa verde in with the meat. Cover and simmer over low heat for 2 ½ - 3 hours or until the pork is tender. Shred the pork with 2 forks. Salt to taste.
====> Because I am not a Morning Person, I started a bit late and here's where I am at the usual "dinner time". Good things are worth waiting for, right? That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
4. In another pan sauté onion, cumin, coriander, oregano, and a bit of salt over medium-high heat for 10-15 minutes, then add the garlic, bay leaves, and cilantro and sauté another 3-5 minutes.
5. Add all that to the Dutch oven along with the stock/water/beer, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low. Cover and simmer for another hour, stirring occasionally, to let the flavors meld.
6. While the chili/chile is finishing up, make cilantro lime rice.
7. Serve in a bowl over the rice. Garnish with lime wedges, diced green onions, an extra handful of chopped cilantro, a dollop of sour cream, and/or shredded or crumbled cheese.
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:57 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
For anyone who's interested in the details of why my house smells SO AMAZING right now, here's the recipe I'm using for New Mexico Chili (Chile?) Verde:
2 lb pork butt, trim off the fat and cut into 1 1/2-inch thick slices
2 Hatch peppers, halved and seeded
2 Poblano peppers, halved and seeded
1-2 jalapeno peppers, halved and seeded
1-2 serrano peppers, halved
1 lb tomatillos, husked, rinsed, and halved
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
2 Tbsp ground cumin
2 Tbsp ground coriander
2 Tbsp oregano
4 cloves garlic, minced
2-3 bay leaves
1 bunch cilantro (large), chopped (save some for garnish)
2 C chicken stock, beer, or water
Lime wedges and cilantro for garnish
1. (Do simultaneously to step 2 to save time, or do separately to save sanity) Spray a large baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Place the tomatillos and peppers cut side down on the baking sheet. Place under the broiler and broil for 5-10 minutes, until well browned. Flip the vegetables over and brown the other side. Blend the ingredients until smooth and set aside.
2. Meanwhile heat oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the pork, salt and pepper generously, and brown on both sides. Remove from the pan, let rest. Deglaze the pan with a little bit of water, scraping to loosen all the brown bits, and set aside. Once the pork is cool enough to handle, cut into rough cubes. Transfer to a Dutch oven with all the juices from the pan and cutting board.
3. Stir the blended salsa verde in with the meat. Cover and simmer over low heat for 2 ½ - 3 hours or until the pork is tender. Shred the pork with 2 forks. Salt to taste.
====> Because I am not a Morning Person, I started a bit late and here's where I am at the usual "dinner time". Good things are worth waiting for, right? That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
4. In another pan sauté onion, cumin, coriander, oregano, and a bit of salt over medium-high heat for 10-15 minutes, then add the garlic, bay leaves, and cilantro and sauté another 3-5 minutes.
5. Add all that to the Dutch oven along with the stock/water/beer, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low. Cover and simmer for another hour, stirring occasionally, to let the flavors meld.
6. While the chili/chile is finishing up, make cilantro lime rice.
7. Serve in a bowl over the rice. Garnish with lime wedges, diced green onions, an extra handful of chopped cilantro, a dollop of sour cream, and/or shredded or crumbled cheese.
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:57 PM on March 17 [1 favorite]
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For those just learning about this for the first time: TG Lurgan is an Irish-language school and language immersion summer camp in Ireland, and one thing the school started doing about 10-15 years ago is translating the lyrics of pop songs into Irish so the kids could sing them that way (some such schools are super strict about the kids not speaking ANY English at all ever, and separating kids from pop music is just way too cruel). They made videos of some of their rewrites and that became a thing.
Another song from 2019: Old Town Road.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:47 PM on March 11 [10 favorites]