elquixote’s statuslog

I put a little stain remover in my coffee so, when I spill it on my shirt, it's pre-pretreated.

R.I.P. Steve Albini

Astrologer recommends that during Mercury retrograde we heighten our commitment to saying precisely what we mean and meaning exactly what we say.

The State sent me an email in Comic Sans, saying see page 2 of attachment. .. very phishy. But it's legit.

On this day in 1839 was the first recorded use of O.K. (for "oll korrect"). OK in its various forms is considered the most frequently spoken or written word on the planet.

I decided my first principle would be to reevaluate everything from first principles, and now I'm stuck in a loop

On this day in 1662, the first public transportation service in the world began, in Paris. The service was developed, promoted, and organized by the mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. With five routes linking multiple historical quarters of Paris, the new service was met with a positive reception by the general public.

oh no a hard frost but what about the C I C A D A S 😭😭😭 /s

This caught my ear on Hearts of Space, and I was excited to find it on YouTube, where apparently I had already liked and saved it to a playlist. 9 min ambient

I'm getting text messages saying the F site and maybe Messenger are down.

Ultimately, all plastic is disposable. And, no plastic is disposable.

This is giving me chills. 8 min of dramatic thunderstorm footage from near Chicago, yesterday.

There's snow on the ground, and I turned off the heat and cracked some windows before I went to work, bc 60°F and breezy later today.

My friend Shovlbrakr is showing us Grunch Grunk Glove on the Internet archive

"It was one of those portable handsets for hardwired phones that were still common in the 2000s before everyone started ditching land lines." Or, what we used to call, a cordless phone.

Tuesday I saw a dandelion that had sprouted, bloomed, and gone to seed; Friday we got 6 inches of snow.

80's flashback industrial Valentine YouTube playlist MLWTTKK Front 242 Skinny Puppy

On this day in 1990, Voyager 1 turned around and took the Pale Blue Dot picture of Earth, from 4 billion miles away, at the request of Carl Sagan, who wrote some lovely words about it.

People grow through stages of development where they're deeply embedded in their belief systems and have narrow, exclusive identities/circles of care. Many people don't grow beyond that stage. The actual contents of the belief system is almost irrelevant.

Happy birthday Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and Judy Blume! Coincidentally, Darwin learned taxidermy in 1826 from a freed slave.

"Repel negative energy": New Age fluff "...with programmable antimatter": perfectly plausible Star Trek concept 😂

The journey is to the within as far as it is to the without, or it is for nothing.

"Feels nice, doesn't it? If nothing matters, then all the pain and guilt you feel for making nothing of your life, it goes away. 🎶 Sucked into a bagel 🎶" Jobu Tupaki

I just have to ✨let go✨ of the internalized shame and judgements, OK, let go again, and again, keep letting go, keep on letting go....

Trying to imagine how an aro/ace couple would work... they were roommates?

Happy birthday to a man who released several jazz records, played piano on the Peter Gunn theme, scored incidental music for Gilligan's Island, and scored films like Gidget Goes to Rome, Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters, Superman, E.T., Home Alone, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, and Harry Potter. John Williams (1932)

Happy birthday Emo Philips, Eddie Izzard, and Laura Ingalls Wilder!

The 🐊🥁 finally understands me, I saw an ad for Time Bandits action figures! 😻😻😻

Someone said autocorrect was changing the CERN Supercollider into the Corn Supercollider. I hereby propose to rename the collider at Fermilab in Illinois, the Corn Supercollider.

I just learned that John Cage knew Marcel Duchamp. This should not surprise me.

On this day in 1998, the term "open source," for free software with code structure open to the public, such as Firefox, Android, and Linux, was invented by Christin Peterson (of the Foresight Institute) at a strategy session held in Palo Alto, California. (Good News Network)

15 years ago I stumbled into a temp job in a small-or-medium financial institution doing back-office payment processing, where I still work as an employee; this lil corner of the economy is obscure, byzantine, and intriguing to me. .

Notice your triggers and calm yourself while still being aware of and communicating your own and others' emotions and needs (simple, LOL)

On this day in 1964, Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, premiered in American cinemas.

On this day in 1958, Godtfred Christiansen filed a patent for a design of interlocking plastic bricks, now known as LEGO, which means "play well". Six bricks of 2 × 4 studs can be combined in 915,103,765 ways.

I've been living each day like it's my last, but I can't afford to keep eating pies at this rate.

soothing ambient flugelhorn, I heard it on Hearts of Space 0967 "Interlude" .

Watching Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series, but enjoying the mythology rabbit holes it sends me into on Wikipedia.

Finished Star Trek: Discovery season 3 with friends, wow! Discovery is intense but I love it.

I love stuff like this. 12 minutes. .

Main roads are salted and slushy, everything else is a sheet of ice. Seems a little early in winter for this.

"There are many graver actions that are happening without anyone ever saying anything offensive" Eula Biss on On Being

Native Americans of the culture we call Cahokia built and rebuilt miles of defensive walls, but that didn't stop a changing climate and a diet of too much corn from destroying their society.

"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" Christopher Hitchens (Hitchens's Razor)

interesting . #UFO #UAP #skeptic

yak socks