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Things were more a touch more formal back in the day.
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Once per series they need to remind us how strong Vulcans are.
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I like the stuff they're doing with streaming these days. One of their streaming channels showed a marathon of Elvira's Movie Macabre a couple weeks back. It was great, I haven't watched The Brain that Wouldn't Die without jokes for 20 years.
I'm hoping for some Turkey Day recreations during November.
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I just don't understand why everyone is posting pictures of Devor, the trilithium thief in a Starfleet uniform.
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These aren't cutesy Clash of the Titan's krackens, these are "shatter the world as they hatch from it" krackens.
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At some points he's arguably the best diagnostician at Sacred Heard.
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Poor Bellini. I hope he pulls though.
health topics spoiler
::: spoiler spoiler In March he was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, and in July he had emergency surgery for a lower bowel issue, resulting in Bellini having to wear a colostomy bag for three months. Though he has just had a successful reversal of the colostomy issue, he still faces a long cancer battle, so once again due to lengthy recuperation times he has not been able to work as a sketch comedy teacher, or with the many other projects he is involved in. :::
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I'll bet that's the kind of place that has a popcorn cart popping away right next to the bulk nails... how late are they open?
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You've opened your inbox to a scientific debate that has raged since virology began.
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Best we leave them alone. I watched the Magicians, I know the whales are busy maintaining the sigils that the old gods used to lock away the krackens.
Do you want krakens? This is how we get krackens,
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Maybe its less about the fire and more about the neighbor. No leaf blowers before 8, Dave!
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All the fluids. Except water on Mars, he didn't like that one bit.
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I usually check Etsy, but you can often find good ones thrifting too.
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I had an eco prof who once said, "the world created humans because it couldn't figure out plastic itself." Now the world has plenty of plastic and it doesn't need us anymore.
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Nicotine, THC, and cocaine are also insecticides. And psilocybin might be an insect repellent.
Thanks poison!
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A man in a very tight suit with a blue box once told me it's more wibbly-wobbly.
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I look forward to 6 hours of BobbyBroccoli videos about this.
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They go, "Psssssss.... let me tell you about child labor working conditions in Arkansas." Then explode... because they're still minecraft creepers at the end of the day.
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Yeah, I met my (now) wife over 20 years ago. I blissfully missed app dating and I always make sure she wears her seatbelt and what-not so that never changes.
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This is the update I've been waiting for.
[Source](https://mindly.social/@alexanderdyas/113284851387575516)
I happened to notice today that the "Itchy and Scratch Land" episode of The Simpsons aired just over 30 years ago (on Oct. 2nd, 1994). That means that, for a full 3 decades now, I have checked every single gift, souvenir, and tourist shop I've been in for a Bort plate. Its not obsessive and I'm not going out of my way, but if I see a rack of novelty license plates I make a point to look for Bort. Anyone else, or am I alone in this particular pop culture predilection?
Thought about posting this to lemmybewholesome, but thought it might not fit everyone's definition.
[via](https://mastodon.world/@AaronDavid/113240135051001241)
variety.com
The weird get weirder. He apparently spent $4000 to smash a guitar that was next to a signature. > A man who for some reason smashed up a guitar with a hammer in Texas may have thought it had been signed by Taylor Swift — but it was not, in fact, an official Swift-certified guitar. > But contrary to media reports, the guitar the man destroyed had not been signed by Swift — and was not a certified official guitar used by the singer, a source close to her merch company confirmed to Variety. The organization that held the auction, the Ellis County WildGame Dinner, presented the guitar with a signed CD insert but the guitar itself was not signed.
www.newsweek.com
> Some North Carolina cities were forecasted to receive 10 times their monthly rainfall amount. > The emergency flash flood warning issued by the NWS says that at least 3,000 people are at risk of emergency flooding downstream of the Broad River and Lake Lure Dam This is in additional to the flash flood warnings happening all over the state.
Thanks to Costco fueled bulk buying, between the last time I bought deodorant and this week, my deodorant changed from the Scent of Adventure to the Scent of Cypress. So is Cypress the sum total of adventure or an overdue respite?
I've semi-recently started a career mode game that uses (among others) [Stockalike Station Parts](https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/170211-112-stockalike-station-parts-redux-august-14-2024/) and [FreeIVA](https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/210548-112-freeiva/). I finished a station in LKO and was tooling around in the command module when this screen caught my eye. Even from across the room I recognized the output from the `ps` command.  So I floated over and first noticed that it's upside down compared to other things in the room  When I got closed and looked at the post image it was obvious that this the Apache Litespeep workers serving up a wordpress site. My head canon is that one the Kerbals runs their website on the computers of Hotel Kerbalfornia.
I don't know why my brain connected Trump's "a concept of a plan" and his obsession with Hannibal (Lecter, but I went with Smith), but here you go.
I used to think Bob was right, "a lot of numbers are divisible by 3" and so its a bad mnemonic. But, on the other hand, I have an easier time remembering the Belcher's anniversary than my own.
Surprisingly good quality for something from 80's cable TV. In 2024 the first thing that struck me was that I can barely remember the last time I cared about what was in the mailbox.
A very early performance from TMBG, back when Letterman was still on NBC. February 1989 performing They'll Need a Crane I love their old TV performances. Especially the Conan appearances. If there's an audience for it I'll post the best (video/audio) quality ones I can find, from time to time.
www.bitdefender.com
I'm pretty sure this is a new sentence for me: I'm glad I haven't been to the zoo in a few years.
[Original post](https://mstdn.social/@JenniferJorgenson/112984299500248164) via [JenniferJorgenson@mstdn.social](https://mstdn.social/@JenniferJorgenson)
www.koin.com
> LED screens designed to show the current Powerball Jackpot were affected in seemingly random locations, including billboards in Coos Bay, Albany and Portland between Aug. 12 and 14. Roughly four of the affected billboards were in the Portland area. > One of the affected billboards was recorded by Reddit user “HanginWithMrPooper” near the intersection of 68th Ave. and Halsey Street in Northeast Portland.
arstechnica.com
Stratasys is claiming infringements on patents it owns (included ones acquired from Makerbot) on things like purge towers, heated beds, and force detection. Many of them things common to most FFF/FDM 3D printers. Its an interesting coincidence that this lawsuit against one printer maker is happening on the same day as a new product announcement (the [Prusa MK4s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO2MaQrUcqE)) from another major printer maker. > In two complaints, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, against six entities related to Bambu Lab, Stratasys alleges that Bambu Lab infringed upon 10 patents that it owns, some through subsidiaries like Makerbot (acquired in 2013). Among the patents cited are US9421713B2, "Additive manufacturing method for printing three-dimensional parts with purge towers," and US9592660B2, "Heated build platform and system for three-dimensional printing methods." > There are not many, if any, 3D printers sold to consumers that do not have a heated bed, which prevents the first layers of a model from cooling during printing and potentially shrinking and warping the model. "Purge towers" (or "prime towers" in Bambu's parlance) allow for multicolor printing by providing a place for the filament remaining in a nozzle to be extracted and prevent bleed-over between colors.
arstechnica.com
The SLAPP seems to working as intended. > An advertising industry initiative targeted by an Elon Musk lawsuit is "discontinuing" its activities and has deleted the member list from its website. > Stephan Loerke, the CEO of the WFA, wrote in an email to members, seen by Business Insider, that the decision was "not made lightly" but that GARM is a not-for-profit organization with limited resources. > Today, the House Judiciary GOP's official account on X called GARM being discontinued a "big win for the First Amendment" and a "big win for oversight." X CEO Linda Yaccarino also applauded the news.
www.theverge.com
Originally set to return in mid-June, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams may be on the station until February, 2025. > During a press conference today, NASA representatives confirmed they have a contingency plan to bring astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams home from the International Space Station (ISS) early next year. If they’re unable to leave sooner aboard the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that brought them there > Tests conducted at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility pointed to deformed Teflon seals being a potential cause of the Starliner’s thrusters failing, but the agency isn’t expected to make a final decision on whether or not Williams and Wilmore will return using Boeing’s spacecraft until mid-August.
I used the phrase "the unusual one" this morning, and half way through I started to hear it in Jen's voice. What are some other favorite Jen moments?
Back in the 00s there was a Canadian nature show called The Nature Nut (hosted by John Acorn) that did an episode of dedicated to beavers. It featured a catchy kids tune [Big Wet Rodent Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzLB3LDNCXA) that got some internet attention back then... mostly in kids music circles- never mind what age I was. At some point people decided this celebratory day was July 26th and we'd celebrate the beavers, nutria, [coypu](https://retrieverman.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/happy-big-wet-rodent-day/), and alike every year. [Full Episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF6QwnkY6gY) of the Nature Nut episode in question\ Same episode, [timestamped to the original song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF6QwnkY6gY) *With beavers large and muskrats small\ We stop to celebrate them all\ The glory of a beaver dam\ That makes you say I am (that makes me say I am)\ A big wet rodent fan.*