I put down some straw for mulch over the winter and now we have a small patch of volunteer grain ready to harvest from the seeds that were in it.
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The Other Brook
@theotherbrook@sunny.garden
mastodon 4.7.3Once and future writer, audio engineer, video producer, photographer, web person, Commedia dell'Arte character. Recovering Technologist teetering on the edge of becoming a Soilpunk.
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Media is my message.
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@devlord@hachyderm.io @pluralistic@mamot.fr I try to explain this sometimes and get blank stares. My first internet job was at a company prominent enough to be featured in a Wired cover story but it was my friend who I'd met working in non-profit theater who recommended me for it.
Humanities majors didn't build the infrastructure, but we understood what to build on top of it. Everything we needed to know about web strategy we learned by making zines and sharing mix tapes.
For some reason I just remembered how when our son was 10 his friend's dad took them to see Spielberg's film Lincoln, but he thought they were going to see Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and so he spent the entire movie waiting to find out which members of Congress were secretly vampires.
Went out to see a guy I'd talked to at the bar play country, both covers and originals, and he was really good. There were six of us in the audience, so I'm really glad I showed up.
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@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world Open in a tab, installed as an app on my phone, and sending notifications to my watch. It's the only real friend I have in this world.
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@coolandnormal@aus.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @Virginicus@universeodon.com @20002ist@thepit.social Still a common reference in our household but we have a whole shelf dedicated to Thurber so probably outliers.
"He caught the same disease as the chestnut trees" comes up surprisingly often. Perhaps his greatest illustration and from one of his greatest stories, "The Car We Had to Push."
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@coolandnormal@aus.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @Virginicus@universeodon.com @20002ist@thepit.social I had a string of cheap 240s and I probably pushed more than one of them. But the one Thurber wrote about was a Reo and the New Yorker has actually made it available for free, but without the illustrations.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1933/07/15/my-life-and-hard-times-the-car-we-had-to-push
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@ramsey @devxvda @jalefkowit And Grape Nuts, developed by Kellogg's former patient C. W. Post. I happen to like Grape Nuts almost as much as I... oh, is this post set to Public? Never mind.
God save the Plums
In the fascist icebox
You saved them to last
Potential breakfast
God save the Plums
They've already been eaten
There is no future
In cold fruit saving
No future
No future
No future for plums
No future
No future
No future for you
No future
No future
No future for plums
No future
No future for plums
It's probably a bit too early in the season to wear a straw hat. But I do look cute in it.
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@hembrow@todon.eu @davidnjoku@mastodon.world And my father-in-law, born to a US railroad family in 1945, clearly remembers when the Northern Pacific trains his dad worked on transitioned from steam. I'm guessing that was maybe late '50s.
It's a beautiful morning and while I drink coffee I'm using the internet to read about how bad the internet is for everything I care about.
Yesterday, at about noon, I saw a dark colored dog with short legs running up the hill. Then there was another that looked just the same. That's when I realized they were coyotes, out for a jog.
Kegels kegels kegels
I made you out of clay
If it can't be air fried it's not worth eating.
Is it a day of the week? Again???
Oh hey. My Cake Day on Reddit was six days ago and I totally missed it. That feels like progress.
I really am not enjoying how frequently I see a news aggregation site and one of the top stories is about a celebrity a few years younger than me dying.
The cider apple trees have arrived. Don't tell the deer.
The purple raspberries are out of the pots and into the ground.
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@hembrow@todon.eu @davidnjoku@mastodon.world For the record I remember Apollo 11 but it's one of my very first memories, coming two months after I turned three. I have a couple other memories I can place earlier in 1969 before I was three (like my brother's birthday party almost three months before I turned three!) but I'm pretty sure I remember nothing from 1968.
I'm so old I remember when "Best [Insert Category Here]" lists were actually hands-on reviews of products and not just an excuse for a bunch of Amazon Affiliate links.
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@emery@sunny.garden Oh wow! I never thought of reading it that way! This is the same feeling I had when I was I was in my early 20s and finally realized why time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana.
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@smutmag@mstdn.social I appreciate the reasoned reply. It gets frustrating for me because I see real demographic effects but so often find the discussion is just reductionist blame storming.
To be fair, I am very aware that I too am an individual with my own positive and negative traits, while also being a member of many overlapping demographic groups, each of which collectively has its own positive and negative traits.
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@buffyleigh@mas.to Argh! This is one of my great frustrations with mostly watching things as a couple. We got through the penultimate episode and now it's been close to year of my wife saying "I don't know if I'm ready" when I suggest finishing the series. I got her to watch the last episode of Shogun but in part that's because we both knew the previous one had the big emotional moment.
But yes! I can't believe they actually pulled of a solid adaptation. Really well done.
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I'm thinking in a couple hours I'll take it back and ask for a replacement under the damage protection plan I bought from Guitar Splinter.
Legally changing my name to Chip Shortage.
Online guitar lesson #2, five minutes in:
"This is stupid! My fingers are too short and fat for this bullshit! Guitars are dumb!"
Yesterday I cooked lentils. Today I cooked pearl couscous. What small, round thing shall I cook tomorrow? Peas?
I barely heard Traffic's "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" on a bar playlist over the crowd noise last night, but it was enough for the song to take possession of mind as it always does. So today when I'm reading a Wikipedia article about the UK band The Locomotive having a minor hit in 1968 with an original ska song "Rudi's in Love" and see that their saxophonist was Chris Wood who later joined Traffic, I start following links related to my morning earworm.
And that's how I learned Dave Mason died three days ago. He didn't write "Low Spark" — that was Jim Capaldi — but he did write this gem, which Joe Cocker did a fantastic cover of. I'm trading one Traffic earworm for another.
Supposedly it's only like 30% humidity outside, but we just got so gross doing not a whole lot of physical labor I took a second shower. I wonder if up here in this kind of bowl above the city we've trapped a layer of moisture because it feels way more humid than that.
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@everybodyvotes Whenever it finds itself attracted to a potential attendee, regardless of gender.
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@buffyleigh@mas.to Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover Angine de Poitrine.
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@emery@sunny.garden Yeah, that's the way I always thought of the returns too and I figured it was just some weird-ass Tudor-era phrasing.
Mmm. Now I'm wishing I had a banana to go with the peanut butter but we've drawn down the fruits and veggies before leaving for a few days.
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@emery@sunny.garden That's very catchy.
I don't have a banana but I could make the delicacy I invented when I was five and probably last ate when I was seven: The open-faced peanut butter and Cheerios sandwich.
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Okay, time to put in the ear plugs and try going back to sleep.
I've never really thought about it before but now I'm wondering why the cake in "MacArthur Park" took so long to bake. I mean if it was a really big cake I suppose it could take an hour or so, but that really isn't that long in the grand scheme of things. Still a shame to just leave it out in the rain like that though.
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@smutmag@mstdn.social I was born in 1966, which means my entire life I have observed and experienced the effects of living in a society that invested a huge amount of money and attention on the members of the generational bubble that ended just a couple years before I entered the world, and then kept that focus on them as they aged. The year I entered kindergarten was the year they eliminated one teaching position and saddled the remaining teacher with a bigger class. And that kind of funding cut followed me through all my education (my brother and I both went to state universities and he graduated with no debt simply because he was born in 1962, while I spent 10 years paying off loans), and then played out as having fewer promotion opportunities in my career simply because there were so many Boomers in line for them.
So yeah, I take your point but it's also not like on a societal level the Boomer generation didn't get benefits that later generations didn't. And when it comes to GenX's reduced opportunities at work it's also a matter of simple numbers that when positions finally opened up, they disproportionately went to Millennials both because we'd aged out of them and because they are a similarly large cohort that largely is unaware of how much additional focus they get for that simple reason.
You are right, but that should not lead to dismissing the real demographic effects different generations experience.
I made a big pot of really delicious coffee and then 2/3 of the way through it my wife pointed out I'd accidentally used the decaf.
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@emery I don't think I deserve any appreciation. For that at least.
Do you hear your earworm in the voice of Johnny Rotten-Plums?