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it has definitely been a "getting to know you" experience; it's been much harder on weezyl than elwood or me

a dog lying on his side on a rug, getting his belly rubbed, mouth open, delighted, and zero thoughts in his noggin. goofus looooooves wandering around outside sniffing at everything, and mildly whining when he can't go and sniff some more, dammit. too bad this same whining is what he also uses to indicate he needs to go out and crap

today's excitement/milestone: roommate had first "poop on the rug" incident

it makes me wonder if the ground plane is glitchy, shorting somewhere, or both. northwestrepair on youtube has some impressive videos where he grinds out shorts and reconnects traces, so it's certainly possible to fix - but my skills certainly ain't at that level, either

uff da - that looks like several layers deep

Excellent question! We're still trying to figure that out (after trying out a couple of names that just didn't stick); the current leader is "Elwood"

A white Korean jindo dog looks uncertain at being on a staircase. He is momentarily refraining from being a goofball

New housemate

I'd ask Kibo, but he's completely disappeared

the former: weather.gc.ca/firework/fir...

even millennials seem to have fallen victim to "seemingly unable to remember what it was like to be a teenager and how people treated you" that a distressingly large number of folks exhibit

Large-scale processing of within-bone nutrients by Neanderthals, 125,000 years ago Neanderthals intensively processed a minimum of 172 large mammals for grease and marrow fat, 125,000 years ago.

So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts.

Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible?

Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

not too far from the Bronze Fonz

I suspect part of the problem is that (from what I've seen) there hasn't any real nuanced, not terribly partisan assessments of how Johnson has actually been in his turn as Da Mare. The Trib's takes are garbage, the Sun-Times has been too quiet, and that leaves... Block Club? bsky commentary?

YouTube video by jessiqua1974 David Byrne w/Extra Action Marching Band, June 26, 2009

the best version of Road to Nowhere (which only seems to exist in multiple fragmented videos with varied levels of sound quality; I'd give my eyeteeth to get a dvd quality recording of the entire show): www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNog...

YouTube video by bobevansmry Extra Action Marching Band with David Byrne

although not my favorite Talking Heads song, this is the best version of Burning Down the House www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJMs...

Even the fairly sober Wikipedia article is pretty wild: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carniva...

like, yeah, dude

I would very much like for Dead Kennedys songs to stop being relevant. Like, any of them

Costco has frozen Detroit-style pizza (from Motor City Pizza Co) and it's really pretty good

hell, I wanted to do nearly that when I worked at google
(there are only two things that google cares about: ads and promotion packets)

Different budgetary bucket, too

I imagine the dog beach will be hoppin'

Cluj-Napoca (which I thought was way more fun than Chișinău)

Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, Batman!
(well, hair spools, not snoods - but still)

worry if you see ammunition and health packs on the floor nearby

the worst part for me has been the previous owner's DIY nonsense, which has ranged from "painting landlord grey over the walls and windows (and painting them shut in the process)" to the horrors of code-violating electrical work

got my inner theater kid on and did Vampire LARPing for the first time in close to thirty years; it was set in 1993, and so was weirdly nostalgic. fun, though

Little miss is relaxing and doing her utmost to enjoy herself

Saw a Malört truck on the way to my parents' house

I hadn't been back in Chicago much since the early 90s, so when I stopped by Qvimby's in 2019 and it felt like SF's Upper Fillmore circa 2005, it was greatly distressing: way too fancy, fussy, expensive, and precious. and like you said, more like a skit depiction than a neighborhood

needs an ice sculpture