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E. C. Bigribs
@eedly@mindly.social
mastodon 4.5.18Tester of software.
Servant to cats.
Rider of motorcycles.
Adequate spouse.
Recovering malcontent.
Occasional assembler of words and images.
Sometimes deliberately obtuse for comedic effect, other times accidentally obtuse for bathetic effect; rarely but not never both at the same time.
Possibly five raccoons in an Aerostich suit.
Sancho Panza to a thirteen-year-old Doña Quixote.
Still bad at boosting.
179 Followers
121 Following
50 Posts
Joined November 14, 2022
Location:
Oregon, North America
Current Bikes:
Moto Guzzi V85TT, BMW F650GS (Single)
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Pronouns:
Mostly he/him so far
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Many years ago, one of us left the butter—nearly a whole stick—uncovered in the kitchen, and the next morning it was gone. We both looked at the cat to see if he'd drop dead from hardened arteries or something before our eyes.
A few minutes later, I discovered a greasy sluglike trail across the counter and found most of a well-smoothed former stick of butter behind the microwave, where it had been nudged, inexorably, one lick at a time, over the course or the night, until the cat could no longer reach it.
@lemay@mastodon.social
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@futurebird@sauropods.win The phrase "slop gap" springs to mind.
@maxleibman@beige.party
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@zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net Honestly, if Mitch needs to extend his life by devouring the essence of other Republican senators, I'm kind of ok with that.
@LRRRonEarth@beige.party
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@stavvers@masto.ai A while back, on my commute in to work, I encountered a clog in traffic. Yep. A wooden shoe, right there in the middle of a freeway onramp.
It was a clear case of sabotage.
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@fesshole@mastodon.social
Waiter: [brings card reader to table]
Diner: [taps slice of ham against card reader with a wet smacking noise]
Waiter: ...
Diner: [slaps ham against card reader more forcefully]
Waiter: Maybe try swiping it?
The council has convened.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space I think robins (the North American, Turdus robins anyway) would be on Twitter, along with any other species known for relentlessly attacking their own reflections.
Chaos roosters (ahem, Steller's jays), on the other hand, are on one of the more shitpostery Fedi instances with the rest of the corvidae.
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@bruceturner@toad.social I mean, it was technically the Greater Xanadu Metro Area, but the zoning requirements for pleasure domes were a lot more lenient in suburbs like Grassy Steppe and Yuansboro.
@RickiTarr@beige.party
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Sometime about a decade ago (i.e. before COVID/WFH), a coworker did something similar in the break room microwave.
Long story short, burning eggshells smell a lot like burning hair, and I discovered that I'm a "run toward the gunfire" person.
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@RickiTarr@beige.party Just watch out for the pestle with the vessel—er—vessel with the pazzle... um...
Earlier today I made a remark somewhere around here about how the teenager rarely wants to do errands on the #motorcycle. Then the planets aligned—which is to say she had some homework she wanted to postpone—and we went to the store.
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@astro_jcm@mastodon.online Despite the language barrier, the neighbor—an American—eventually grasped the situation, apologized, and then subsequently kilogrammed the schnitzel at an appropriate volume.
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@amiserabilist@beige.party @revndm@queer.cool Anybody else feel like the rocks are all the same size and the guy is getting progressively smaller with each lift?
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@bitterkarella Look, I'm perfectly happy to talk about Kevin, but it'll have to wait until I'm done not talking about Bruno.
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@thegaffer@hobbitwhispers.social Is it because the alternative is an alert, healthy, engaged JD Vance?
Nobody, absolutely nobody, who isn't named JD Vance wants that.
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@CuriousMagpie I'd heard about ravens in Vermont when I lived on the east coast (I'd have to get up to check, but I also think Bernd Heinrich studied ravens at UVM when he wrote Mind of the Raven). So, not too far from western Mass. Never saw them in Connecticut though.
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@Pepijn I have picked up a barred owl and a red-tailed hawk (not at the same time). However, I have never been in a situation where either I or a swan/duck/goose would benefit from me putting hands on it, so I've kept them to myself.
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@dgar@aus.social Speaking as an American who is incapable of using any sort of standardized unit of measurement, I'd 16.97 silver dollar coins the shit out of that. I'd give it a good three and a half bananasing.
@astro_jcm@mastodon.online
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@artwaw I had an earlier ride yesterday, alone, checking out a new-to-me road that other riders have recommended (it was not my cup of tea). I ended up following another bike, and I saw something fall off the bike and roll down the embankment. I pulled off, and saw the other bike stop and turn around after about 300m. It was a guy and his son, bringing home two bags of hamburger buns on their Tenere 700, and they dropped one. We all walked up and down along the embankment for a few minutes until finding the bag (intact), and then I headed out.
I was a little disappointed that they did not invite me to whatever cookout they were bringing sixteen hamburger buns to, but whatever.
I like the #PWHL innovation of Jailbreak Goals. I think if you score in an even-strength shorthanded situation, they should call it a General Amnesty Goal and let everyone out of the box.
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@Pepijn There was a bug in the cloaking device that day.
The actual story is that the swan was too old/tired/injured to fly south with the rest, and was wintering over in snowy/icy conditions. I guess animal control and the fire department flipped a coin, and the fire department lost, so they sent their guy out on a slushy lake with a net to be made a fool of.
Three days later, there was a photo in the newspaper of four firefighters grimly holding the swan.
@fzer0
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I like how the fake coyote sign is outside the fake coyote's field of vision, so as not to exacerbate the fake coyote's crippling impostor syndrome.
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@fesshole
If you load this CD-ROM on a Mac and open the Get Info window, the comments field contains the phrase "Fun With A Porpoise". Whoops.
https://www.neverdiemedia.com/products/highlights-fun-with-a-purpose
So Getty Images has a few photos of my grandmother as a young woman. They were fashion photos published in Vogue in 1927-28; we've come down a bit in the world since then.
You would think that, for an exorbitant fee, I'd be able to order a print or two, n'est-ce pas? Non!
I could license them temporarily for a specific approved purpose (i.e. not hanging on a wall in my house), or—and this is the kick in the groin—I can pay to have Getty's AI make a picture based on the existing photos, which I would then own.
Is it worth noting that works from 1927-28 are in the public domain? I don't know, is it worth elevating my blood pressure right before bedtime?
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@stelepami I've always loved it. I don't think it would work well at the mediocre-even-by-amateur-standards level I've played, but in the PWHL where there's some amount of parity, I think it works well. It feels like the jailbreaks are rare enough that the risk of getting out of position outweighs the temptation of scoring shorthanded. I do agree that No Escape improves it significantly.
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@kimu@wandering.shop Also, if you're like I was and you forgot to get the second shot and you feel like it's too late and you're a bad person for forgetting and and and...
Just. Get. The. Second. Shot.
The window for getting the second shot is a LOT bigger than what the recommendations say. Get it done.
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@pippa@famichiki.jp Was sitting in the school parking lot waiting for track practice to finish, youtubing it on the phone.
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@adhdeanasl@beige.party Universal healthcare would be a hell of a distraction. I'm just saying.
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@Catvalente@wandering.shop Not exactly a folk tale, but The Seventh Seal (which I was going to just playfully refer to as "that Ingmar Bergman film" until I realized I couldn't actually remember the damn name of it without Wikipedia).
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@bruceturner@toad.social It's where Alph, the sacred river flows together with Motherfucker, the profane river, to form Malph, the mediocre river. Zoning's pretty flexible.
@RickiTarr@beige.party
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@neauoire@merveilles.town I have something along the same lines, but less so: a small steel ruler with centimeters and inches on one side, and centimeters and *decimal* inches on the other side. Superficially each side is the same, but one side's inches are divided into sixteenths, while the other side's inches are...
[surfer voice] totally in tenths, dude.
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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social I don't say anything, but if I'm working on something that is at an odd angle relative to the rest of me (the oil drain plug on the bottom of a motorcycle, for example), I'll hold the tool in front of me, turn it the direction I'd want it to go, and then visualize what that motion would look like rotated 90 or 180 degrees.
@RickiTarr@beige.party
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@TheNeedling I forgot that Fife was a real place (I know I know, debatable). For the past several years I've come to believe FIFE WA was some cryptic USPS acronym for "we decided to keep your package".
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@inherentlee@flipping.rocks Enough time to make my therapist feel inadequate for not being able to address it.
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@inherentlee@flipping.rocks I usually try to reserve at least six minutes at the end of a session for the big thing that's wrecking me.
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net Can't wait to watch this. DeBabelizer was my meal ticket through much of the '90s.
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@0xabad1dea I am hearing the voice of Abe Simpson coming from the wild-haired gentleman on the right.