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Will never forget our visit to JPL with a "cooks tour" from David Atkinson. Fav quote from that visit: "Everyone here pretty much believes if we can prove there was water on Mars, then there was life there too." #:')

And how about those great exchange names?? One of ours was "Orchard". I think my Mom (now at 99) recently remembered hers, in DC, was "Metropolitan". What a loss!

YouTube video by Cameron Melendez Music Django Reinhardt -Smoke Rings

Or maybe you need a deep chill out, watching smoke rings curl up from your fireplace (like we did yesterday):
youtu.be/puLLpCwOirA?...

YouTube video by Swing Blues Jazz 78 RPM When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) - Teddy Wilson - Billie Holiday - 1938

Not such a bad idea these days -- we can't let them get us down!! But I'm really posting this as one of my all time fav small group recordings, and objectively regarded that way by those who know jazz way better than I do. Listen for solos by Teddy Wilson and Prez!! youtu.be/O0UEnIBqypM?...

Or is he just admiring himself (or herself?) in the reflection??

Got the same sort of photo of the moon coming up over the beach on the US East Coast.

Note some of the runners are actually running away from ICE agents...

So what can be done about the blatant ignoring of the TRO??!!

And both Microsoft (horrid OS dominating the PC domain for way too many decades) and FB (horrid site, with bad UI designed to feed off of it's users) both also started by college dropouts.

Pro tip: see notes by that lady who started Theranos.

The GOP will go down in history as the ones that dressed the village idiot up in robes, put on a crown, took him to the castle and sat him on the throne...

Looks like we can figure out who the "worst of the worst" are now!!!

Having first gone to the "assisted writing" compartment of your desk first, right??

High street in Columbus Ohio, by any chance??

Saw birds eating berries from a tree next to our new porch the other day. Somehow I'd never managed to observe something probably so common!

There's one of two explanations here -- either there's a cat magnet under your porch, or you are a human cat magnet. #:')

I'm betting he showed up at your place when he realized he couldn't consistently make his mouse quota!

OMG -- one of the cutest cats I've ever seen. #:')

Rescue too (after many foster homes), and perhaps the most unusually affectionate cat ever. So you effectively have two rescues, which gets you into that door into heaven reserved for those that rescue cats. But I sense something you may need to see a therapist about -- only yellow cats??! #:')

I remember the "saving Weldon from the highway centerline" story! Would have gone viral on those smartphone format videos if you had been able to rescue and video at the same time! Gotta love the "showed up on my porch and stayed" cat without even a picture of him (or her). Thumper was a...

The fresh stimulating wind of freedom blows through the Infinite tonight...

Folks now need the kind of hiding spaces used by Jews during the Holocaust. (One of my relatives must have done that, and wound up disguising herself as a Christian and working for the Germans, right under their noses, because almost the rest of the entire family was lost.)

I regularly forage in all the local garage sales, so this makes total sense!!

"Peace through tariffs!!" -- why hasn't any president ever thought of this before??!

Unless you have one of those MAGA "get out of tariffs free" cards they gave out, right??

Did you ever have to be around one of those toddlers who runs around, like a whirling dervish, breaking everything in sight?? Kinda seems like we've got one we have to deal with every frickin' day...

Makes sense when you consider both temporal and spectrally based masking in the human auditory system!

Oddly shaped colliding black holes emitting Hawking radiation...

How devastating this loss can be for some. But it also reminds you there are those for whom the love for an animal is such a noble human emotion.

Thought so! Looking forward to many postings of your happy and/or mischievous cat(s) here on BlueSky (I seem to remember two). And wishing you a very long time before you ever have to say goodbye to either. I had to read stories from other cat owners afterwards, and it's heartbreaking to see...