Christopher O.

This sounds incomplete, is there an assumed population-per-district constraint here?

The album tour was one of the best concerts I've gone to -- Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, that bass player from the album. It was a magical night. We all sang Nkosi sikelel i Afrika. The choreography for Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes, there's a YT video of this

In the food manufacturing biz, sometimes cheese substitutes are called "analog cheese".

Just thought everyone needed to hear about this

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but ... WHO?

same... my cat friend has a spur-of-the-moment appointment at 5PM. Senior cat with thyroid issues. She's been on another one of her hunger strikes.

An industrial electrical equipment supplier's schedule of price increases, listing manufacturers, dates, percentages, and reasons

I work for an OEM (Original equipment manufacturer), and every few weeks our suppliers send us a schedule of price increases. It didn't used to be like this.

Imagine trying to quote projects in this environment. Imagine our customers trying to budget for capital equipment purchases.

Up with People! tried to recruit me when I was in college in the early 80s. They thought I seemed like one of them.

Watching this clip in 2025, with 2025 things happening, I almost wish I'd said "yes". I could be living in a happy parallel universe now.

So, going by the recent examples, we're supposed to keep our chests waxed, too??

I'm bald and gemstone-free 😢

the 2566 N. Bush Ln parcel from the county's online map https://apps.geocortex.com/webviewer/?app=00d9853f922845a5841e0123918a449a

County-owned land, classified as "Commercial Land" possibly for historical reasons. Old Sanborn maps show a few boat houses on this property, aerial photos going back to 1937 don't show anything.

Detail of a 1934 map of Milwaukee showing the location of N. Bush Lane. Map found online at https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/5826/rec/1

Bush Ln shows up on maps, between Clarke and Wright, on the other side of the RR right-of-way (now the Beerline trail). The online Milwaukee County GIS and Land Info Map actually shows a valid parcel at the address if you click in the right spot

my god it's full of stars

No this is 5th & St Paul

I miss the days when Ambrosia had a factory store in downtown Milwaukee...

...the kitchenaid vessel but then I'd have to futz around to figure out how much to offset the setpoint.

But then again doing it open loop with a variac I'd have to futz around anyway to figure out where to set it at various chocolate levels.

This why I'll probably never get around to trying it

I've considered something like that, and I'm a controls guy for a food industry OEM so I'm familiar with the hardware and that's a really nice price. But like you say the issue's going to be getting that t/c in contact with the product somehow. I could tape just a t/c junction to the outside of

It's gotta be difficult to implement closed-loop PID temperature control with such a tiny batch that changes in mass by (I'm guessing) up to 70% while you're working with it.

If you're working with a huge batch of several hundred pounds, temperature control would be a piece of cake

I have dreams of making a cheap chocolate tempering rig from my KitchenAid with the scraper paddle, a $20 electric blanket-style heating element from an auto parts store, some good tape, and one of my garage sale Variacs to control the temperature.

I'll probably never get around to doing this

I stand corrected, occasionally there are superheroes

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I, for one, look forward to the Seth Abramson court

/s

the urbanism's really good, though

And I'm not sure if these kinds of books are your thing or not, but I really love Librairie Drawn & Quarterly in Mile End. They're a publisher of superhero-free graphic novel kinds of things and comics for (mostly) adults. I can't go in there without spending more money than I planned.

Have you had a smoked meat sandwich?? I LOVE those, and I've never had a good one outside of Montreal where they sell them by the thousands.

They're so good. Not anything like barbecue, more of a corned beef and rye kinda thing, only better

by the way, thank you again Markus for your Vossische Zeitung posts last winter. Those were fascinating.

self-deprecation can be so useful -- not only does it entertain bystanders and help keep you grounded, the responses to it are useful for gauging potential interest

I run into lots of South Germans at work, and I love telling them that my family came to the U.S. because they were sick of being Prussians

Always gets a laugh

Or borrow or buy yourself a copy of the book "Spy: The Funny Years". It may as well be titled "Trump: The Early Years"

Spy Magazine 1986-1998 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Spy Magazine 1986-1998

link to source, with links to pdfs of all the other issues to the left:

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A fella could spend an entertaining afternoon reading similar takes on Trump in every one of the 1980s issues. Thanks internet archive, thanks Graydon Carter

"Civic-minded New Yorkers have devised all manner of tributes to demonstrate just how strongly they feel toward Donald "Stinky" Trump because of all the things he has done for the city. Volunteer Trump mouthpiece Liz Smith, for example, rewards the highly leveraged vice king with shamelessly gushing weekly mentions of him in her error-ridden syndicated gossip column. And the city's readers have gratified the would-be president by keeping his book, Trump: The Art of the Deal, on the best-seller list for so many months (or is it his pals at The New York Times who see to that?). But perhaps the most heartfelt message to Trump is the one sent by the city's raw-boned ironworkers, who come into regular contact with the vulgarian builder. According to one ironworker close to SPY, whenever he and his fellow ironworkers repairing sections of the Manhattan or Williamsburg bridges see the ultraswanky, gold-encrusted Trump Princess cruising by below, they salute Trump, his yacht and his superswanky guests with the very singular, very personal gesture of a synchronized golden shower."

Speaking of golden showers, this is from Spy Magazine, December 1988: