Day 20,543
It’s Pearl’s fifth birthday! (Mayday might be more appropriate, given her personality.)
Day 20,543
Waldeinsamkeit is a German word that refers to the feeling one has while being alone in the woods, usually a sublime or spiritual one.
(You are never alone in the woods)
Random Scotto Factoid: I know how to use a slide rule. This is only one of my many skills that have no real-world use these days, but might be handy after the apocalypse.
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Monty Python – May Day 1971 – British May Day in England Special
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Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are *Moby-Dick* (1851), *Typee* (1846), and *Billy Budd, Sailor*, a posthumously published novella.
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Refactoring…
‘Describe your experience as a programmer in one word’
Me:
Verschlimmbessern:
To make something worse by trying to improve it.
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How have we gone from,
“I’ll lower the price of groceries” to “everything is going to cost more and your kids are just going to have to have less toys,” and his approval rating is still around 40%?
So I started playing Blue Prince for a 90 min last night, and I’m going in with no knowledge of any of the puzzles or requirements to get to the end.
[No spoilers are here]
What I have discovered so far –
No colorblindness mode seems like a bad idea
No tool permanence seems rather rough.
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I think that if you show you can solve a puzzle, there should be an option to skip it after you have solved it a few times. Darts is easy, but tedious.
I’ve got about 5 hours / 4 houses in. Some very nifty rooms, and I’m glad to see there are some ways to establish a little object permanence, but man, can you get some bad luck of the draw.
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80 years ago today. If only more fascist minded leaders would follow his last example.
Walpurgis Night plans, anyone?
This Wednesday had been brought to you by Murder Mittens.
Pearl is happy to eviscerate any yarn you might have.
Bones secrete a hormone called osteocalcin, which plays a role in the fight-or-flight response and other metabolic functions. This hormone is produced by bone-forming cells called osteoblasts.
So, I guess I’m afraid of my own skeleton now.
Six years ago today at Live & Let Live Drug Store, sharing a chocolate malt and a cherry smash.
William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.
I miss the musical openings to the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson & Friends Mime The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
House got it right, re: disabilities
There is a billboard up the road that I ascribed to run-of-the-mill religious nuts until I hit the website, and it turns out they are extra loony.
They believe in speaking in tongues, snake-handling, end times hullabaloo, and an eternally broad, flat Earth being the center of the universe.
Not a parody, sadly.
I am a little reluctant to even link to these guys, but-
https://www.worldslastchance.com/directory#Flat-Earth
The image is the first billboard I saw –
Day 20,539
Many bugs are waking up along the river, so I hope to see dragonflies soon. I imagine the many peepers at night are, too.
Pearl, watching out for yellow butterflies
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