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Just saw a picture of the shack and I’m thinking about this again

I keep trying and failing to find a quote I read many years ago from a vehicle accident investigator. Something like "Given the choice between executing a half g turn and hitting a tree, most people choose to hit the tree."

I called an electrician today and they told me they "were not accepting new clients" this year. Wow. I knew there was a labor shortage in the trades but I thought it was a "wages are a little high" situation not a "finding a therapist in Calabasas" situation.

This is amazing

the powerful human brain allows us to do an incredible array of swipes, taps, and even very complex, delicate maneuvers such as the two-finger pinch, which scientists believe allows us to zoom in

Brutalismbot on pins and needles waiting for my photos from jury duty

Real art

One summer in high school I saw a concert at Darien Lake (B-52s and Violent Femmes (!!!)) and part of it included being in the park after hours somehow. Anyway I rode the Predator like 5 times in a row with no lines which you can only safely do at 14.

scott's casino porch, deposit, new york, 1987

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

I can tell what time it is because my coworkers' laptops are chiming like churchbells for their upcoming meetings. Ten minutes to the hour. Five minutes to the hour.

I'm finally reading Into Thin Air and my brain is like when I got really into the nurburgring 20 years ago. Just names rattling around. Boukreev. Adenaur Forst. Lhotse. Dottinger Hohe. Gammelgaard. Flugplatz. Ang Dorje. Aremberg. Beidleman. Hatzenbach. Khumbu.

God why do they always schedule parent teacher conference night the same time as the windsurfing finals …

There is a spider running around the floor in my kitchen, and I’m like you’ve gotta get out of here man, they’ll kill you. It’s not safe for you here.

Went full Sheldon Brown mode at lunch while changing an ancient tire on a favorite old bike, wound up repacking the axle bearings in an empty tofu tub ✅✅✅

In a little vacation community and popped on Craigslist to look for something … first page of listings has “Ninja tools” and a crossbow scope. 🤙

The night at a bar in Brooklyn where they played Is It You Girl? by Betty Wright like 5 times in a row. I couldn’t believe how good it was and I was scrambling to remember some part of it for later, then they just kept re playing it. Was better every time.

Major milestone this week, after 30+ years on the internet I had a creepy stranger offer me money for feet pics. (I carelessly left a transaction for street cart tacos public on Venmo)

We are clean on opsec

A movie where my character, an intellectual, has this mounted on the living room wall of his implausibly large New York apartment

It’s such a drag. Nice to see someone else mad at it though, maybe it will trigger my rarely activated Spite Centers

Strange things are afoot at the circle k

✅ Tasteful, period-correct use of a 928 ✅ Another win for two-color printing

This is how Jack Nicholson works out after having coffee up on the strip

ABSOLUTE CHIMNEYS from Uruguay

Today, most cars come in white, silver, and black. That’s pretty much it. It is truly sad to see how far the typical car has fallen from the colorful options that even basic cars had. Just look at these colors from cars on the road in 1973! www.beautifulpublicdata.com/san-diego-ph...

Putting little dots of hot sauce down the middle of my burrito like the buttons on a shirt

Five big lads with ruddy cheeks and thick accents in kilts strolling up seventh avenue. World Cup fever is here

The office has replaced the old "ancient grains" granola with new "kiss my oats" granola. Struggling to muster up a Bad Boy attitude for breakfast at my desk but I'll try.

When I was younger I liked side skirts and all that but then I grew up and now I know you have to Tuck. That. Rocker. In. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child" etc.

Just saw an artist on instagram using a solar panel as a drafting table. 😎🤙

RIP to one of the first artists to be fully printed onto my brain stem.

I’ve got todos on my mind

These things are always a dice roll but sometimes you get a Winner

with the caveat that I'll believe anything spoken in a thick enough scottish accent... I believe this bicycle philosopher man is spitting truth

Big fan of take your child to work day. All these people on the train, at grand central, on the street, and in the office are full of tender gestures, tender voices. Everyone’s having a Big Day. It’s good.

On and on. Apr 10 2018