mpbman.bsky.social
Reluctant musician. Horrified American. Avid reader, player of games, and stargazer. Cat dad and, after a long learning curve, a halfway decent human & partner.
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I would also apply this to airplane seats. In particular when you get 3 in a row on a redeye.
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Apropos of everything: Idiocracy
Also:
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Interstellar (time dilation counts, yes?)
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MTG will blame NOAA.
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Mercury.
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Taking off a little early for a long romantic weekend with Mela... *choke* nope couldn't finish it.
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And sounds like Mr. Hankey in my head.
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I'm not following you to pounce on typos, I'm following b/c you're doing a fantastic job. Hug your people and get some rest.
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Not even a "Be safe out there?" Even if they're waiting to see how the cards fall, you'd think that would be manageable.
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AND he's yellow-ish. Works on a couple of levels. Pooh might want to lay off the mead.
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That tracks. I can’t speak for wildlife, but our domestics (& even the semi-ferals around here) prefer drinking from the bowl with the little fountain attached rather than the static ones.
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Needs a montage over “All by Myself.”
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You can also spin it as an exercise in radical acceptance.
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I can't find one at the moment, but someone's got to have a clip of Charlotte Rae as Mrs. Garrett doing, "Girls, girrrrrls!" That's the first thing that crossed my mind when I got caught up on this.
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Masculinity Crisis
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For the administration as a whole, there’s impactcounter dot com. That’s an eye opener.
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Because only one of you gets the good conditioner?
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Dammit. I thought it was rather sweet. Now I'm going to second guess...
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Let's go one more on "impact" and stop using forms of it as adjectives. 'Impactful" bothers me to no end, and as I type this, I see my spellcheck doesn't accept it either.
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Thanks for this. So very effing sorry.
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Gen X? Adams was born 1957. Almost a decade too early for Gen Xer.
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Wow. JWST is just amazing. 😁
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Or... does power tend to attract the corruptible? I've always wondered about this and would offer as evidence the fact that a lot of the decent humans I know, if offered serious political power, wouldn't hesitate to say, "F*ck right off." Small sample size fallacy but 🤷
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My friend Audrey & I saw Bob McGrath & Loretta Long live as wee ones in Tampa and she & I played “Bob & Susan” for months afterward. Thanks for the callback!
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Little known fact: empathy, conscience, and kindness leave the body through the face which can cause swelling and splotchiness.
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Any estimate on the height of those towering cloud formations?
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"Critical Path" Buckminster Fuller. The history at the beginning is worth the price alone, but the whole book really changed the way I thought. Close behind, I have to second @irrationalwisp.bsky.social and say Sagan's "Demon-Haunted World." The Baloney Detection Kit should be required reading.
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😂
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Engineering/application advancement? Probably. But Einstein didn’t set out to make a bomb, van Leeuwenhoek wasn’t aiming for aerosolized pathogens, and Malory didn’t try for Everest’s summit to track Nepalese troop movements. Quests for the sake of discovery are now suspect. Gotta monetize. 🙁 No?
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I have found that if you can make a reasonably accurate gunshot sound with your voice they will quiet right down and move off.
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This is naive of me, but it's saddening that I can't picture any organization or country able to marshal the necessary resources to pull this off doing it for the sake of exploration, scientific discovery, and/or pride in the accomplishment.
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My gut response is "no" b/c of radiation, microgravity, & other reasons given here. However, if some far-flung body turns out to be rich in rhodium et al, I suspect the engineering challenges would get solved. In short, yes, if someone can figure out how to turn a profit.
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Evil Sam I Am. Probably enjoys green deviled eggs (and ham.)