Paper Butterfly Forge

From a click bait article about how wonderful Edmonds Washington is. Mt Rainier looming over the seaside town is pretty funny. It's like a fever dream of what people think it is in Edmonds. I think those buildings are also wrong. :)

Remembering a random scene in #superman for no reason at all.

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Found an old engraving of the white house in an old book. I think it was from the 1800's sometime after the civil war?

I mean, it still happens? I stood in line at a DMV office behind a lady who had her drivers license with her first and last name reversed because her visa was filled out incorrectly by someone. I don't remember if it was by her or a government officials. But it was an extremely loud conversation.

We ended up seeing the Art of Manga exhibit. Recommend!

I don't think you can have variations with digital files. The seller probably has it listed as a physical item. They probably email you the digital file.

Cover art by Quentin Stipp features a robot and two humans walking into a forest and towards a tall building with red tubes that have burst through the upper levels and into the sky.

Our 19th anniversary issue of Clarkesworld features original fiction by Isabel J. Kim, Fiona Moore, H.H. Pak, Greg Egan, Liu Maijia, Carrie Vaughn, and Phoebe Barton.

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Taking a scan of a book cover before upcycling it. The paper was disintegrating, like that scene from the time machine. :) I'm going to be fixing the spine, etc. and turning it into a journal. I liked the sticker. :)

Fooling around with #inkscape this morning. It's a free drawing app if you need one. (The image is of a McGuffey reader on a tag template.)

Watching the 1st #amazingrace episode. They should have a season with the #dirtyhands crews.

Really good movie.

Bicycles.

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

"Pediatric
In children with seizures, leucovorin may increase the number of seizures that occur." From the Mayo clinic website.

My screenshot of the news picture, seems to have lost some pixels. But the colors remain, strange and blotchy.

It's crossed my mind for a while that the US media has been using old pictures/photoshopping his pictures for a while. For the UK pictures, they just seem a bit 'off'. Is the makeup really that blotchy in real life? Or is it 'enhanced' to look that way?
Screenshot of news pic.

Canceled my hulu this morning. I've had it forever. I can't cancel a disney theme park or a cruise, the very idea of being around that many people induces a stress headache.

It's tough but worth it in long run.

Hood River Oregon

Bluesky is now 20% random posts by people refusing to acknowledge the news of the day, 30% people reacting to the news & main characters of the day, & 50% exhausted artists trying to sell their work with strained, cheerful posts.

Nevertheless, we persist.

Throw a coin to your Witcher if you can.

So weird to see the events of yesterday above the fold vs. the 9/11 events/stories on news sites. I'm looking at the abc news website right now.

Covid and flu shots today!

I just got a referral to get hearing aids. LOL

I'm kinda curious about how Washington state was weighted for moodys. Like did they put all the Amazon, Boeing and Microsoft sales in Washington state?

The Secret of the Alarm Clock
The Emergency Exit Staircase
The McMansion Mystery
The Mystery at the Beige Inn
The Secret of the Ranch Dressing

Booked a covid shot appointment. We shall see if the washington state rules prevail! Definitely over qualified for the BMI and the sedentary federal reasons.

The best ones, the padded envelopes you need to usually order from their website. The flat rate ones are best for heavy items.

Google ad on Reddit about using their AI to understand Shakespeare. I gotta tell you, Shakespeare isn't that complicated. It's one part mistaken identities, one part soap opera, and one part sword fights. If you can follow the plot of General Hospital, you can figure out Shakespeare. :)

I read Golden Age stuff in my teens in the 80's. Even then it felt like it was written for someone else besides me.