SwingingTheLamp

For fun, here’s a link to the 10,000-year clock, built by The Long Now Foundation. The level of modern engineering, and planning, that it takes to build a clock that will operate for 10,000 years is fascinating. When you stop to think about, say, the trope of a mechanism that will slide back a 20-ton rock door reliably after 2,000 years is quite ridiculous.

Take a look at the works of David Sedaris. Those fit the description, and are funny.

Big Brother in the book was menacing. Best JD can pull off is bratty and annoying.

I just learned recently that he actually died from the COVID-19 vaccine. That’s what caused his neck to that.

Indeed, never try to outrun a bush fire. Stand your ground, make yourself look big, and intimidate it by staring it down.

Correct, I am privileged not to live in Oklahoma.

Only been to Oklahoma briefly, but I think you have to harbor a deep, deep self-hatred to love there.

Does it now? Prove it.

Same reason spree shooters choose gun free zones.

LOL. Might wanna get acquainted with what reality says 'bout that…

Hey, is this the 500/10 guy?

Long-press (or long-click) on the “Home Assistant” title at the top of the sidebar. That brings up a dialog box in which you can hide the items you don’t want to see. (It’s available in user settings, too, but this is a shortcut.)

Moving regime officials into quarters on military bases. They clearly have… plans.

Homonyms.

The real question is how many atmospheres of pressure can a Bird-of-Prey withstand? (If we want to fish it out of San Francisco Bay.)

*Probiotic protein bar.

As I haven’t tired of pointing out, rising anti-Semitism around the world serves Israel’s interests by encouraging Jewish people to move there to escape it. I’m pretty sure that stoking anti-Semitism is intentional on Likud’s part.

If it makes you feel better to believe that, go ahead. For my part, I think it’s a pretty obvious truth that when the government makes an open-access highway for everybody to use, everybody is going to use it, even in ways you may not like. Especially when it makes driving the fastest and most convenient way to get around. (Making driving on the highway faster than public transit requires lots of infrastructure, and was a deliberate policy choice.)

For 15 years I lived in an apartment with the bathroom shelves directly above the toilet. It’s a corollary of Murphy’s Law that anything dropped in the bathroom somehow will land in the toilet bowl. Hence, the lid stays closed.

You might think, but a couple of weeks ago, uhh, a friend was sitting on the toilet at work when m…, I mean his equipment retracted and shot a stream of urine over the rim, which fortunately(?) was contained by his pants and underwear. Reportedly, he had to drape them over the vents in his urine-smelling office until they were dry enough so that he could go home and change clothes.

Reminds me of that time I felt old when the local historical society had a display of a 1990’s living room.