Sideblog Archive
July 31, 2022
He was a hero banker, not words that go together these days ... adept256 has a great comment about a guy named Amadeo Giannini and the early 20th century Bank of Italy in San Francisco, the Great Fire, and Snow White. It will all make sense, I promise!
July 30, 2022
Dancing with myself: I like to dance to music, alone, in my room. But I don't have any moves.
July 27, 2022
When I worked on industrial robots, we had a rule, DO NOT PUT YOUR HANDS (or any other body part) IN THE ROBOT'S WORK ENVELOPE: cyanistes comments in the case of the chess robot that broke its child opponent's finger.
July 26, 2022
One Metafilter member seems to have a theory about that Brinks truck robbery ... and their username hints that they just might have an inside scoop. Hmmm.
July 25, 2022
The Metafilter Transition Team announces that self-nominations are now open for the inaugural Steering Committee
Close to You ... 🎶 Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? No, but really. Why?
July 24, 2022
Sciatrix has some excellent recs and observations for some of Eric Flint's non-1632 series books in the Flint obituary thread.
I'm on staycation in a week and want to spend a good part of my time in my backyard, off the internet and social media, with my nose jammed into a book that I can't put down.
July 23, 2022
If you are ever in my area and want to pet an emu, get in touch! birdsongster introduces Lucy and Ricky in the Emmanuel Don't Do It thread.
July 22, 2022
"You can't make this shit up": RichardP posted Inside the Mind-Boggling World of the Antiquities Theft Task Force
July 18, 2022
There have been many mystery novel questions but this one is mine...
July 17, 2022
In Metatalk, Transition Team Post #4: The team shares the initial member survey results.
ShooBoo posted Jalopnik's excellent multi-part series on the history of gasoline by Jamie Kitman
July 15, 2022
Jeszac asks, What are your favorite not-widely-known versions of songs that are themselves widely known? Great answers here.
July 13, 2022
✨ As someone who's spent the better part of the last decade working on the camera, NIRCam, that took the picture...tomorrow's images are going to be even more gorgeous, let me tell you. – RubixsQube, speaking in the James Webb Space Telescope first images thread. (!!)
July 12, 2022
Easy summer batch meals: spindrifter is looking for "ideas for summer meals or components that can be made in a batch and eaten over the course of the week for easy dinners with no or minimal cooking in the moment."
July 11, 2022
storybored posts about Trabian Shorters and "Asset Framing," a cognitive skill to magnify humanity.
July 10, 2022
Roses are red; cherries are, too
So many cherries, what do I do? 🍒
July 9, 2022
I seriously would have a read a whole book just about two fifteen year old best friends/runaways running a store with cool platform shoes: thivaia on the best thing about Go Ask Alice ... what kitten kaboodle calls "aspirational shopkeeping goals."
July 5, 2022
Episode 186 of the MeFi podcast, with cortex, Jessamyn, and loup!
How do I maintain a happy little kitchen? What are your proven tips and tricks in keeping, maintaining, and nurturing a little kitchen and pantry?
July 4, 2022
"What's it like to be a girl in a band?" Box posts about the women who built grunge.
July 3, 2022
Rhaomi entertained the Saturday night crowd in Metatalk by fulfilling requests for art by OpenAI's DALL-E 2
July 2, 2022
I work in the space and have a few observations ... Jilder shares insider insight on those bizarre free-to-play mobile games / ads.
July 1, 2022
Terrible National Park Reviews (Illustrated)
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