pleasant housewarming dinner @manwhoyells & KT’s new place with @DanEngler and Viv. What a beautiful rental, amazing remodel. – 05:58 AM GMT
Unfortunately, we saw an apparently-impaired person, in charge of a toddler, execute a horrific life fail as we drove in. – 06:00 AM GMT
Apparently stumbling drunk, she crossed one street without shepherding the child wandering behind her, or holding his hand or carrying him. – 06:01 AM GMT
noticed she was drunk-seeming as she wobbled around on the corner before going to cross the next street, turning to tell the child to come. – 06:02 AM GMT
He didn’t, she noticed the light changing, and then ran and half-assedly picked him up to run across just after the walk signal expired. – 06:04 AM GMT
Three quarters of the way across the street, they fell, hard, she face first, he head first. Double skullplant. Thankfully, traffic stopped. – 06:05 AM GMT
They lay for a while, it seemed like a looooong time. someone ran out and tried to get them out of the road, eventually picking the kid up. – 06:07 AM GMT
The kid is just howling. She is sobbing and apparently incoherent. The guy that moved them gets back in his car. She can’t even sit up. – 06:08 AM GMT
These were nice-looking well-dressed white people. The kid was wearing a new blue tee shirt and shorts, and she was wearing stylish jeans. – 06:09 AM GMT
Just before I had noticed them I noticed a guy on a bike in the same crosswalk as them, sort of yelling at them. He seemed upset. – 06:11 AM GMT
I thought it was kind of weird, until the toddler appeared from under the noses of the idling cars. – 06:12 AM GMT
Now I think the guy on the bike saw she was drunk, and was yelling at her to take care of the kid. – 06:12 AM GMT
All I can say is I sure hope that woman is not that kid’s mother, because that was straight-up child abuse. – 06:13 AM GMT

@gjcharlet @CocoGoesOut did someone say “Come Back to Louisiana”? youtu.be/uwVW6gb0yg4 – 12:02 AM GMT
attention @LeavittAlone reddit.com/r/pics/comment… – 12:11 AM GMT
on iOS good god, what dreams! – 01:53 PM GMT
1. Running into Kenny Rogers in the men’s room and singing a duet of “Silver Wings” with him, the whole song, correct lyrics and all. – 01:54 PM GMT
2. having my iphone swapped for another by a street magician / scammer on the green of what my dream said was Boston Common (it was not). – 01:56 PM GMT
3. watching from the Not-Common as a jet flew backwards into a supposed building. Surprise! just a holographic ad for a sports drink. – 01:58 PM GMT
5. wandering in confusion through a strange and exclusive restaurant, trying to find a wayward bandmember. – 01:59 PM GMT
4. where’d four go? – 02:00 PM GMT
6. Grabbing Viv! Like hubba hubba yow! Yes, that kind of dream, about my wife. 🙂 – 02:03 PM GMT
seattle.craigslist.org/est/art/398992… – 09:07 PM GMT
seattle.craigslist.org/see/clt/399330… – 09:10 PM GMT
“This chair has been instrumental in enjoying untold episodes of Star Trek” … seattle.craigslist.org/sno/fuo/397407… – 09:15 PM GMT
on iOS @johnpstrohm richlandbombers.com (Richland is a town in Washington which was instrumental in developing the first atomic bombs) – 09:26 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm but you are right regarding B’ham I think. – 09:27 PM GMT
@DanEngler this may actually represent evidence of your qualification for parenthood – 11:43 PM GMT

@AlpacaQueen77 for some values of teenage, yes. I was 23 that year and the 1980-1986 stuff, culminating with Damaged, was still on the deck. – 12:42 AM GMT
SUMMER RAIN SMELL – 08:42 AM GMT
@ezrakilty good, excellent, perspicacious point – 08:56 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 someone who is 19 in 1989 who bought Damaged in 1982 when they were 12 would still be listening to it. – 03:17 PM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 plus, there are some classics from 1984-1986 (My War, notably). on balance, yes, a suburban 14-yo might indeed be listening. – 03:21 PM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 yeah, that’s pretty much a perfect way for that to go down. – 03:21 PM GMT
@sugarfreak how else they gonna gather the pure? leather doesn’t tan itself. – 03:35 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough @middleclasstool @gjcharlet while in the green and pleasant land, I sent GJ a souvenir apron from Soane’s a couple years back. – 07:11 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough @middleclasstool @gjcharlet this: soane.org/shop/Apronl_-T… (because ColdChef) – 07:12 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough @middleclasstool @gjcharlet so my larger point is he welcomes dodgy gifts from the UK. – 07:12 PM GMT
Good day at Goodwill. 1/x pic.twitter.com/vjaaRx3UYa – 09:58 PM GMT
2/x pic.twitter.com/gi8oYBlatE – 09:58 PM GMT
3/x pic.twitter.com/R6Y5yfa5Tm – 09:59 PM GMT
4/x, 100 year old cast iron no. 3 skillet pic.twitter.com/luAsp6M86A – 10:00 PM GMT
5/x pic.twitter.com/3gzRRhwGA2 – 10:00 PM GMT
Two separate Le Creusets, the skillet, a bunch of measuring cups, a patented apple slicer. – 10:01 PM GMT
@yakyunightowl true indeed! for camping the score is that 6.5 inch skillet, sweet find. – 11:18 PM GMT
man, scrubbing and reseasoning can take a lot out of a man – 11:28 PM GMT

referring to someone as a “prick” is a highly effective way to get me to unfollow you. – 12:10 AM GMT
@jbacon bloody-minded literalist;) – 01:35 AM GMT
@dansinker stop that! – 01:36 AM GMT
i think i can frankenstein an airplay to analog projector networked video playback “system” or perhaps junkheap from old crap I have in hand – 03:28 AM GMT
networked video -> networked playback device (iphone, ipad, mmmmaybe preintel mac laptop) -> s-video out -> crappy projector -> screen – 03:30 AM GMT
variables include playback device video capacity, contortions to achieve s-vid playback, portability and placement of playback device – 03:32 AM GMT
We do have a pre-iphone video-capable ipod, with an s-video out dock. So I think that might be the bom bom jiggity. Power and sync remain. – 03:34 AM GMT
Screen: dumpstered. Projector: crazappy awful $10 Buy.com device. This is the true craphound a/v theatre experience. Oh yeah. – 03:36 AM GMT
@sara_clarke isn’t that part of the Romulan backstory? I have no idea why I think that. Maybe the Vulcans were the underclass? Hot blood etc – 05:20 AM GMT
@sara_clarke that is correct. but somehow they are related, (TOS canon). ergo there’s a shared evolutionary history, implying shared planet. – 05:26 AM GMT
(via MeFi) John Boorman’s tilt at LoTR. whooo cinetropolis.net/the-great-unma… – 06:05 AM GMT
on iOS RT: @brownpau: o hey new achewood achewood.com/?date=08092013 – 03:05 PM GMT
happy day! – 03:05 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt I became concerned when Anthony Lane liked it, given his usual issues with genre films. Still going! In fact, gonna ask you! – 04:41 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt … Did we see D9 together? Seems unlikely. Anyway, wanna go despite your disavowal? – 04:42 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt that works. I’m not a big opening weekend filmgoer so there’s some time. – 04:45 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt oh, I see. Tonight’s out (baseball) but Sat is poss. If H is out maybe I should beer / feed you anyway. – 04:51 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt so yeah,see you Sat for whatever, movie or whatnot. Grilling or something. – 04:52 PM GMT
I will forever associate the Go-Gos with the Germs thanks to Don Bolles. – 05:06 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt dig it. Txt thread started. – 05:08 PM GMT

@arthurwyatt is that a squatter tower? – 12:40 AM GMT
tiny cat just sliced me up good trying to keep the dewormer away. fine. – 12:41 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt filled with steampunk magii, starveling muatndis plague victims, and office drones. Get me an hour with the crimelord. – 01:09 AM GMT
@mwhybark @arthurwyatt “muatndis” hoo boy i have no actual – 01:09 AM GMT
@deathmtn i… i … i may be hungry – 01:10 AM GMT
@BitterOldPunk aw, you’d be the best thread bud. fair enough! – 01:11 AM GMT
parts of me are turning a summery pink. this historically is not a good thing. – 01:13 AM GMT
@NekoCase yes. it seems more to be expected than cuckoo to me, but who needs ‘em anyway? – 01:32 AM GMT
@NekoCase I mean, everyone means well, but being brave means accepting risk. – 01:34 AM GMT

@LeavittAlone @arthurwyatt /shakes head sadly, listlessly wipes cafe table surface, turns away – 12:03 AM GMT
RT: @fantagraphics: Our own @kristyvalenti tracked down Jem & the Holograms creator Christy Marx to verify her letter in L&R #11: fantagraphics.com/index.php?opti… – 12:05 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @LeavittAlone /drops dishrag, flees into scullery – 12:17 AM GMT
RT: @CalebWilde: Death positive cake pic.twitter.com/Ry3bxMAGWG – 12:18 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt as in the Magicks of Megas-Tu? – 12:21 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt Sulu’s Woman – 12:33 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt The Megans later were the “bad girl” antagonists in stillborn teen drama Rolling Rock High. (no, I just made that up) – 12:35 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt it was due to his frustration with onscreen depictions of tri-d chess, a puny yooman game to be sure – 12:38 AM GMT
@madamjujujive oh you must be wondering about the mipplefreep and zahzizah craze. ask @LeavittAlone, he’s solid on the beam. – 12:43 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt a peg mount! well at any rate – 12:44 AM GMT
@gjcharlet so what you’re telling us here is that someone is rong on the twitters, and they are a sassy child somehow related to you – 12:45 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt “memory tapes” tyvm – 12:50 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt it was a sweet, sweet jam – 12:52 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt “why did you claim it was a rice picker? Why not an upholstery robot, or oyster sexer? I found this to be hurtful, Jim.” – 12:54 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt and the crowd goes wild – 03:33 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt they did, to be sure, show him the money – 03:34 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo @brundlefly i know, who would marry that g- oh – 04:18 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo @brundlefly lucky there are some clones around – 05:32 AM GMT
@brundlefly @arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo I myself was quite taken with the intent alien attention to industrial design, and the floaty pool bit – 05:39 AM GMT
@brundlefly @arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo because, water, you know, is the thing they are roombaing right on outta there so why not float some – 05:41 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @brundlefly @mcgee_gorgo fun thought game: Jack’s foobaw team/game/end of the world baloney is about the Gotham Bumblebees – 05:43 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @brundlefly @mcgee_gorgo or whatever they were called in the Batman: Rebreather thing – 05:43 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @brundlefly @mcgee_gorgo they are thirsty and have a limited grasp of organic chemistry. GREAT design sense though. – 05:44 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @brundlefly @mcgee_gorgo it’s all about the branding. Fiji Water writ planetary. total cobranding opportunity. flushed away. – 05:45 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @brundlefly @mcgee_gorgo and what about Sam Elliott’s numberless clones up there? Aren’t they jealous of Jack? – 05:47 AM GMT
@brundlefly @arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo some sort of communistical neoinsectoid mechanist hive mind, no match for monkeys we. oh except for – 05:49 AM GMT
@brundlefly @arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo Gravity’s got a heavy of weight on its shoulders now yeah boyee. Elysium’s asylum’s no escape. – 05:51 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @brundlefly @mcgee_gorgo ex term in ate – 05:52 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @brundlefly @mcgee_gorgo that was just about keeping the mfr pipeline open. after shift from iphones to idrones, no stopping! – 05:54 AM GMT
@subbes give him time. – 05:55 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @Joakim_Ziegler @brundlefly @mcgee_gorgo good god, isn’t it time for a vanity Shakespeare project or something? – 06:13 AM GMT
This Bruce Sterling NSA rant is pretty fucking awesome. medium.com/geek-empire-1/… – 12:43 PM GMT
on iOS RT: @johnmoe: “See you driving round town with the girl I love and I’m like ‘Hello!”/ guess the change in my pocket wasn’t enough and I’m like ‘Oh well!'” – 03:27 PM GMT
violent full-body nostalgia for a summer evening in 1983, brought on by unexpected exposure to Psychedelic Furs song – 10:37 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm you may have been there! It was a house party at Jan’s while Edgar was housesitting. There was some Bryan Parking too. – 10:55 PM GMT
@johnpstrohm for some reason that hot summer those songs felt like air conditioning for the adolescent soul, in a good way – 10:57 PM GMT
@alan_maguire i feel my hand moved of its own volition to click the “accept” button on the t&c page – 11:02 PM GMT
RT: @burritojustice: How to tweet from a Newton MessagePad 2100 burritojustice.com/2013/08/07/how… cc @newtontalk @QuadzillaNET – 11:30 PM GMT
@burritojustice @newtontalk @QuadzillaNET @brownpau epic. i salute you. – 11:30 PM GMT
@selfstyledsiren @mcgee_gorgo discovered within the year that my spouse and a friend have never seen Night of the Hunter. Unacceptable. – 11:32 PM GMT

@ezrakilty this may be comforting, but it is in error – 05:11 AM GMT
@ezrakilty I have concluded that removing the adjectival qualifier improves the accuracy and retains aspects of the comfort – 06:05 AM GMT
@ezrakilty additionally, flickr.com/photos/gandara… – per axiom – 06:11 AM GMT
@ezrakilty quite – 06:23 AM GMT
Greg is suing Keith and Henry (and other folks) which was really only to be expected, except for the Henry part, I think. – 06:38 AM GMT
Thought experiment: do you think Jeff Bezos reads the physical paper edition of either The Seattle Times or The Washington Post? – 01:20 PM GMT
now, do you think Jeff Bezos reads the online edition of either The Seattle Times or The Washington Post? – 01:21 PM GMT
My (truly unfounded on evidence or knowledge) guess is that over the past two years he has read stories from the WaPo more than the Times. – 01:23 PM GMT
… and possibly only ever touched a physical paper in incidental situations. – 01:25 PM GMT
With that in mind, what do you think today’s odds are of an extensive critical investigation into Amazon’s business practices by the WaPo? – 01:26 PM GMT
So my thinking is that while Bezos may not be directly engaging at all with the paper on an editorial basis, Amazon will benefit directly. – 01:28 PM GMT
The net effect will be to smooth the way for legislative efforts that concentrate the national retail economy directly to Amazon. – 01:30 PM GMT
He didn’t buy the paper to save it, he bought it to eliminate an obstacle to Amazon’s long-term business goals. Any saving is incidental. – 01:32 PM GMT
ha! @supertoy sounds awesome! I love that she knows some Voight-Kampff! – 01:40 PM GMT
.@JoeTheDough yes. i like it. it has a long way to go in usability and info clarity. I am the most Neanderthal person, like 99th percentile. – 04:49 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough I am adopted and that is why I did it! – 04:50 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough although what I hoped for was, like, the ability. to isolate to geographic sublocality at the village level: nope. – 04:52 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough on the other hand, there is a geo view that crossreferences based on member’s disclosed localities… – 04:52 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough … which is a free-from list, so the hit clusters reflect common usage over the site population and one individual … – 04:53 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough … may reappear in several locations each time they specify a place. That said, the grossest range of geography … – 04:54 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough … like at the US half-state size, say an area of 200^2 miles, was accurate enough to indicate the general regions. – 04:59 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough the obvious problem there is that a 100 mile radius around London includes B’ham and Brighton, so … – 05:04 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough … the geo info might boil down to “you are a Briton, sirrah! Pip pip!” – 05:04 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough but like for US $99, do it, why not? We can celebrate our shared cavemanliness. @LeavittAlone wonder if there’s a Mefi group. – 05:06 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough here’s a geo view screenie (ipad) for the US upper south pic.twitter.com/02UmuUP3LA – 05:18 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough … and for the UK (will zoom again and post) pic.twitter.com/58ZZNLxh8j – 05:19 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough 2/5 pic.twitter.com/tWgwyGJJdS – 05:20 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough 3/4 (sorry, maths is hard) pic.twitter.com/kgbPl6Yp0e – 05:21 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough 4/4. the purple callouts are single results. Oh, I should get a hover pic. pic.twitter.com/JexDmurvSR – 05:22 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough pop up w/ individual results (blurred) pic.twitter.com/W5EIkD5gQS – 05:28 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough … so geo is useful, but you are looking at self-reported data rather than the hi-rez locality info showing DNA clusters per se – 05:29 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough … but in my case, the Virginia and North Carolina locality info was exactly correct, if insufficient to scry the hamlet. – 05:30 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough still no idea where my Neandertal cave is though. Puny humans. – 05:31 PM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 no no no Zoom is for the olds just us olds – 05:32 PM GMT
Hodads, dig Endless Summer, via Debbie D @Wfmu wfmuichiban.blogspot.com/2010/09/sandal… – 11:59 PM GMT
on iOS

@GlennF maybe we can go on a discovery and research trip to Ithaca for um work – 05:25 AM GMT
Freddie, 1986, shot by another friend. pic.twitter.com/d9ipsLUV0N – 05:29 AM GMT
Day of hours engaging with the American landscape and roadways was so well-spent. Cascadia is the place, but our road is just like Kansas. – 05:43 AM GMT
@sara_clarke the James Blish (with JA Lawrence in unclear portiin) episode adaptations of TOS. Bantam PBs, 1969-1980 at a minimum. – 06:38 AM GMT
@praguepainter well, Freddie died at least ten years after Sid but I appreciate your noting the Swollen Foot classicist thing. – 06:39 AM GMT
@praguepainter shit son I could have introduced you to Freddie if I had had the insight. it’s beyond me and i fucking HATE IT when it’s thus – 06:41 AM GMT
@praguepainter oh my god dude just sitting on the porch the chord changes were straight endorphin shots – 06:43 AM GMT
@praguepainter again, awesome insight, totally new xray on this tale. where have you been my last 20 years? no wait I actually know – 06:44 AM GMT
@praguepainter MIDLIFE CRYSIS – 06:45 AM GMT
@NekoCase rise above we gonna rise above – 06:49 AM GMT
@praguepainter well, it was pretty locals only. I’m not sure I’d look at LW age 20 and say “suburban, straight-laced.” – 06:58 AM GMT
@praguepainter ha ha well turtles get nice bridges then. I think I’ve told you, there’s a bton guy settled in Prague. – 07:00 AM GMT
@praguepainter Noah Lucas, Harmony kid. runs a bar and a hostel. I will hook you up if you want. – 07:01 AM GMT
@praguepainter AND (also I know I mentioned this) my darling fuckup and dead man of a guitarist and depressed motherfucker Karel Trubac – 07:02 AM GMT
@praguepainter was from Prague and oh my love for him could not save him from himself. the fucking artist. – 07:03 AM GMT
@praguepainter AWES i will at least make sure he knows you are tribe then – 07:04 AM GMT
@praguepainter post crosspost on FB, hope it’s joyful. Noah is thoughtful but has always been action oriented. His bro Austin is working … – 07:11 AM GMT
@praguepainter … a country crossover punk music career, was just in Prague. Their pop Bob Lucas was a regional seventies singer-songwriter. – 07:12 AM GMT
@praguepainter Bob: boblucasmusic.com Austin: austinlucasmusic.com – 07:14 AM GMT
@praguepainter I actually really dig Austin’s stuff. 2nd gen boho, I guess. – 07:15 AM GMT
@praguepainter totally. his name means TRUMPETER, and arrrgh. He was a goddamn pain in the ass drugged up sad baby who was also a genius. – 07:18 AM GMT
@praguepainter I can’t save drugged-up sad baby genii. The baby’s the one what’s gotta chuck the bottle of sad. He couldn’t. Still sad. – 07:19 AM GMT
Here’s a 21st century irritation. My parents visited recently. they were here and in Yakima over about a week. – 07:34 AM GMT
Yakima is their hometown. Among other things, when there they try to visit this speciality butcher, The Matterhorn. maps.google.com/maps?safe=off&… – 07:37 AM GMT
The Matterhorn specializes in N. European-style cured meats, like a Germanic counterpart to Salumi. My fave thing there is a cured beef. – 07:39 AM GMT
“Bunderfliesch” in some German-speaking parts of the works and “viande secheé” in French-speaking Alpine areas. “Meat candy,” some say. – 07:41 AM GMT
Anyway, the folks brought back a pound of this, sliced into sub-mm pieces. I wanted to review, rate, suggest, and reccommend! – 07:43 AM GMT
but since this is a deli and not a restaurant, it is effectively invisible. To be clear: this place is as legit and amazing as Salumi. But. – 07:45 AM GMT
No Urbanspoon, no Yelp. er, that I found. – 07:45 AM GMT
video reportage from that slum tower in Venezuela. Attn @arthurwyatt vocativ.com/08-2013/the-wo… – 03:59 PM GMT
on iOS @mubay lulz – 04:46 PM GMT

Camping! pic.twitter.com/Mwe4XpIlj6 – 11:31 PM GMT

some sort of 3/4 isometric unit-management interactive hex game of The Wicker Man, reskinnable as a Burning Man sim – 05:09 AM GMT
@poupou try the health care, i hear it’s tremendous – 05:33 AM GMT
@praguepainter tiny celebrants on Summerisle or the playa – 12:56 PM GMT
@subbes aw. we just took a pooch leg (well, a couple months ago). I tell people it was a shark attack. – 01:04 PM GMT