CIRCLE WITH A DOT

"The nocturnal screams of possums were used for the screeches made by the Orcs in the Mines of Moria." (trivia in the X-ray)

I said to my adult kid today that most of my negative opinions could be summarized as follows

(a) "effing capitalism"
(b) "effing double entry accounting"
(c) "effing bad design."

I went to a museum exhibit today that epitomized all three.

The Colbert Talarico interview, in case you were looking for it.

https://youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Do not ask me how I happen to know there is a subreddit named r/Sinbiscuits.

Uncle Louie is responsible. #cats

@alienghic Interesting idea, but it is stored in a cabinet in my living room where I use it.

No, it's something wrong with the threading, as usual, and I have to hunt down the manual. They are simple creatures, sewing machines, but recalcitrant.

@clew I suspect if I told my sewing machine that, it would be complimented to think that it is a musical instrument of sorts. Maybe an accordion.

Explain to me why I can put away a sewing machine in excellent working order, and then when I pull it out again it insists that the tension is wrong wrong wrong. I am not threading it any differently than I ever did. Now to go unearth the manual.

In my experience, it is the act of attempting to fix it that solves the problem. It's a sort of propitiation of the sewing gods. Nothing actually gets fixed, the swing machine just forgives you.

Did my taxes on Free Tax USA this year. Recommend. I don't have a lot of deductions but it is complicated nonetheless.

I am recliner years old. Golly this is comfortable. I may never get up again.

Working my way through all the Bourne movies is not necessarily good for my paranoia about the government.

@tagir_valeev That happened Tuesday at my senior citizen program, and no AI was involved. I was the only person who left the building. I wrote an angry email and the office responded that they just wanted us to know where the fire exits were.

Dear God people do not realize how FAST fire is.

@meganL Could be? It IS painful. I’m 74. My knees and my hip often hurt. Some of the other people with me in class are more frail than me, some much less, but I went down those damn stairs, holding onto the banister.

Oh sure, I agree that senior citizen classes should probably be on a lower floor.

But none of the young people in the building went downstairs either.

We had a fire drill in the university building where the senior citizen classes are meeting, and everyone assured everyone else they didn't have to go down the stairs. They just hung out in the hallway or on the landing.

I have seen how fast fire moves. My husband once tipped some incense ashes into his wastepaper basket because he thought they were cold. We had to renovate that part of the house even though we caught it within only. a few minutes.

So, yeah, I walked down five flights of stairs and out the fire door, and stood outside until the lights stopped flashing.

There were only a few people standing outside with me. One of them used to work near the World Trade Center on 9/11.

That's the point of a fire drill. It's not just to see if the lights and the alarms work. It's to see if the human beings can get out in time to stay alive.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mediabiasfactcheck/116046369979027558

Hey, Philly, here's an idea?

Amtrak is not having a good day today.