I have incidentally challenged myself to wrote about the loss of my dog while using Sgt. Pepper’s as a soundtrack. I could skip it, because – 01:00 AM GMT
… but I am inclined to go there! I have already too much shit to do this month and there are domestic spats, reflecting stress. – 01:01 AM GMT
But grief is transient, and grief challenged is reflective of the moment of challenge, not the loss. The closer in time to the moment… – 01:04 AM GMT
…the mo’ that remain. – 01:04 AM GMT
Inadvisably I say, self, “challenge accepted”. – 01:05 AM GMT
I am clearly a masochistic idiot. – 01:05 AM GMT
@mattcanale @PRISM_NSA oh, phew, I am so relieved – 01:07 AM GMT
RT: @YourAnonNews: 1 of these guys spies on his country, executes w/o trial & drones kids. The other is Putin Via @Fawkxy pic.twitter.com/PiysaS3qH8 – 01:13 AM GMT
RT: @reppep: Thanks, @Shpantzer!s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhance… – 01:17 AM GMT
@jackwilliambell no, it’s incontovertible. – 01:18 AM GMT
awwmigaw the weather is like a pipe of dreams – 01:21 AM GMT
@mwhybark @jackwilliambell bosh, except for speling – 01:22 AM GMT
@Cabbage_Babble more for me! – 02:30 AM GMT
@poupou there could be prunes – 02:33 AM GMT
@telemetrist according to tonight’s broadscast, that crazy play last night should have produced an out on the baserunner. – 02:47 AM GMT
good lord i have reflected on how awesome Prince is like a thousand times more per month since I added him on Twitter. And I mean this as a – 07:57 AM GMT
Good Thing. – 07:57 AM GMT
“So you had better do as you are told // You better listen to the radio” the more i think about this Apple gig the better he gets. Fuck yes. – 08:32 AM GMT
Elvis Costello, that is, the, like, polar opposite of Prince. Although a Prince music-directed Costello gig would be worth many things. – 08:35 AM GMT

@imontheradio no home alone eeeeeyaaaaaagh face? CONGRATS! – 06:38 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm does that mean Dr. C is a mutant? note 2007 credit. scottcolburn.com/credits.html – 06:48 AM GMT
RT: @conor64: I wish Obama would have fought as hard to close Gitmo as he has to bomb Syria. – 06:53 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt dibs on Gravity, then! – 06:55 AM GMT
@iasshole @manwhoyells “what haunts me, is that in all the faces of all the gummi bears, I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy.” – 02:57 PM GMT
@VictorMourning this collection, no longer open, was Seattle’s best: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones’_Fantastic_Museum // but there are others. – 06:09 PM GMT
@DanEngler i don’t think so. @manwhoyells? – 06:27 PM GMT
@billbarol that’s what I get out of it. should be an amusing launch cycle. – 06:38 PM GMT
RT: @GlennF: Costello: “I can’t play this!” Launches into discourse on national security. #fakeapple – 06:40 PM GMT
so if it’s plastic, why bother with a case? – 06:44 PM GMT
@telemetrist ahem: lookoutlanding.com/2013/9/9/47120… – 06:59 PM GMT
RT: @PRISM_NSA: The #iPhone5S: $299 for 32GB, $399 for 64GB, cost of creating an international fingerprint database? Priceless. – 09:35 PM GMT

So, nerds, bring it. Gimme the spreadsheet Westeros slash, the good stuff. No fucking character driven nonsense. – 05:28 AM GMT
@sara_clarke well, in script, “whoever pays,” which, yes. And on the Wall (or Council) “for the Realm,” which, bullshit, but OK whatever – 05:30 AM GMT
@middleclasstool hope you dig the journey. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the short stories. Can’t get enough of ‘em. That ReSearch was helpful as a kid. – 05:31 AM GMT
@sara_clarke right! – 05:31 AM GMT
@sara_clarke well, the voyageur trade supplied Europe with raw materials for non-winter clothes too – pelts and grease also make felt. – 05:32 AM GMT
@sara_clarke so there’s a basis for a resource-based trade. No heavy industry though. Limited evidence of Roman demand for felt. Or none. – 05:33 AM GMT
@sara_clarke right! I’ve got some lovely mud over ‘ere! you lot on the ‘orse can stick it, roight! – 05:34 AM GMT
@sara_clarke i thing the show and GRRM uses the wasteland goth girl (wilding? I’m discarding show terms, so bear with) to get that voice in – 05:35 AM GMT
@sara_clarke … but she’s presumably outside of whatever feudal raver matrix they have going on, so we can’t trust her, clealrly – 05:36 AM GMT
@sara_clarke ah, but the voyaguers served the North. The Spanish lands were oriented toward GOLD BABY because of war debt. – 05:37 AM GMT
@sara_clarke unluckily for the Mexicans they actually had Au. So, anyway, economy drives war! I think we agree. Why is this war going down? – 05:39 AM GMT
@sara_clarke I know, there are some gestures, but they’re pretty pro forma. – 05:39 AM GMT
@sara_clarke well yes, exactly. There is some jocularity in my voice on this stuff. – 05:40 AM GMT
I totally wish I had marched up toGRRM in the airport trin the other day and been all, “your ecomoic underpinnifpgs of Westeros mystify me” – 05:41 AM GMT
no I don’t, I did the right thing by leaving him alone, even if I will always regret it. – 05:42 AM GMT
“Aren’t you the guy that wrote Sandkings? And Nightflyers? And Fevre Dream? And Armageddon Rag? Damn I love those books!” – 05:43 AM GMT
“What have you been writing lately?” – 05:43 AM GMT
@sara_clarke exactly. House Tullys today, House Starbucks tomorrow, dude, I mean my lord, can you, like, tip next time? – 05:44 AM GMT
@sara_clarke granted there are pressgangs and mandated service and fucksake probably slavery because Romans & pseudo-Achamenid-Persio-Greeks – 05:46 AM GMT
@sara_clarke ah, there it is. I have been sloughing names because old. – 05:48 AM GMT
@sara_clarke right! the show definitely doesn’t, but I haven’t read the books yet, so I did not know. – 05:49 AM GMT
@sara_clarke hoped they would, as two antecedents, Silverberg’s Majipoor and Aldiss’ Helliconia, did include good economies. – 05:51 AM GMT
@ardaniel Janice, thanks, sorry for slow uptake, had my rant on – 05:52 AM GMT
@ardaniel THIS THIS YES THIS are there graphs and shit? – 05:52 AM GMT
.@ardaniel “(or, at least, that I know enough medieval history to make up a convincing cover story for him).” YES EXACTLY THANK YOU – 05:57 AM GMT
@sara_clarke yeah, we know about crazy skylady sister but don’t recall a maiden name for the women. – 06:04 AM GMT
@LeVostreGC @sara_clarke úre éaren béon ábýgen (forgive the grammar) – 06:49 AM GMT
@LeVostreGC ah! all that translation time and you weren well in, of course – 06:50 AM GMT
@LeVostreGC also, in case you missed it: freelanceacademypress.com/pdf/EconomyArt… (the retconomics thing I wanted, more or less) – 06:54 AM GMT
From that retconomist essay: “What many historians think today, however, is that the driving factor behind the Recovery was the environment” – 07:16 AM GMT
In reference to a centuries long period of good weather in medieval Europe. Summer wys a cumin in, if you will. – 07:17 AM GMT
So the thesis is elegant & obvious: the resource competition setting the Starks athwart the Lannisters with a soupçon of mad bad equerries? – 07:18 AM GMT
WINTER IS COMING – 07:18 AM GMT
So, like, duh. Excellent retcon, really, maybe the best ever. I shower thee in sestercii and denarii. Or I would I mean. If I had any. – 07:20 AM GMT
@tracicle but innit more spring is on its way for you Southrons? – 03:00 PM GMT
@tracicle ah! I see. I thought perhaps you guys were traveling too. Have some raclette and Vaudois white wine for me! – 08:14 PM GMT

No updates for this day.

RT: @DanEngler: Bore witness today to the passing of one of the smartest dogs that ever lived. RIP Mr. Rocket, faithful friend, troublemaker extraordinaire. – 07:04 AM GMT
@jessedorje Today (well, 6 hours ago) a vet killed mine. – 07:05 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt technically, she’s right – nondigital radio wash static can include space stuff. ‘course, i would guess that’s drowned in-city. – 07:16 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt with independent cognition, feeding on human radio-wave spectrum energy dissipation – 07:24 AM GMT
@hell0jed you should feel free, dude. The way you hated that gig was reason for you to have quit a long time ago. – 07:41 AM GMT
RT: @vperezlb: I’m heart broken,losing my best friend,the smartest, sweetest, happiest dog I’ve ever known. It’s not fair. pic.twitter.com/fExS1FHNpf – 07:42 AM GMT
@ardaniel @hell0jed we also had a beer on Wednesday and I told him then too. we spoke of you as well! – 08:13 AM GMT

Kansas City museum: the silt-hidden cargo of an 1856 steamship wreck, the Arabia: online.wsj.com/article/SB1000… // awesome – 01:16 AM GMT
The earliest American Whybark, Caspar D. Weiberg, is said to have died in the Philly yellow fever epidemic of 1793. thingsmagazine.net/?p=10782 – 01:23 AM GMT
@BitterOldPunk i’ve got ONE MORE silver dollar – 01:30 AM GMT
@BitterOldPunk & hugs. read only last tweet b4 responding. I used to cover “midnite rider”, which is a cover itself. had my ears reset too. – 01:35 AM GMT
old punks 1/1 pic.twitter.com/3a7c1s4vgS – 09:00 AM GMT
2/1 pic.twitter.com/Wx11RBT1Rx – 09:00 AM GMT
3/1 (Fish Tales) pic.twitter.com/TGqDRILQ56 – 09:01 AM GMT
@harryburgan i agree with everything you say except for “are people,” damn the damnable law itself – 09:06 AM GMT
yes! punrsockim! – 09:16 AM GMT
dat rain – 09:27 AM GMT
sending the pup off today 🙁 pic.twitter.com/kSrIVZITcU – 06:00 PM GMT
@poupou @esinclai we are sad. 🙁 – 07:13 PM GMT

Lost Sausages of the Great War:

The Gaurdian reports that the “quantity of cow intestines used in manufacturing airships was so enormous that making of sausages was temporarily outlawed in Germany.”

Seriously, if you were ever amused by my prior LTA posts, this is worth a read.

Optima? with bad kerning. naw. – 05:33 AM GMT
RT: @ftrain: “The result was a ban on sausage-making in Germany and German-occupied territories.” ediblegeography.com/the-lost-sausa… – 05:38 AM GMT
Prior LTA observers are well advised to read that last link. – 05:38 AM GMT
delightful thunder! – 03:17 PM GMT
Heard lightning rip overhead, south to ground in the north. Now, DSL is down. Darn it. – 03:59 PM GMT

This shark thing in the New Yorker is beautifully written. – 12:43 AM GMT
@GlennF well, it makes that claim. i define its politics as precisely that; we differ. I make no effort to convince you of my viewpoint. – 12:44 AM GMT
@GlennF pescriptivist! 😉 – 12:46 AM GMT
@GlennF the Economist’s effort to identify itself as “pragmatic” is accurate from their viewpoint. Pragmatism accepts extant power. – 12:47 AM GMT
@GlennF that’s a conservative, rightist stance. it is also self-camouflaging. I’m not looking for a beef here; my perspective is not theirs. – 12:49 AM GMT
@GlennF and now I’m selling my viewpoint. STOP THAT, MIKE. – 12:50 AM GMT
@GlennF ah, I see. Try this: The Economist, to me, is neither centrist nor free of ideological slant; it is far to the right of me. – 12:53 AM GMT
@GlennF I go through this every night with Marketplace, FWIW. Standing in the kitchen cutting onions, arguing with the air. – 12:54 AM GMT
@GlennF lastly, I’m really not trying to beef with you about one of your venues. It’s AWESOME you get to work for them. – 12:57 AM GMT
@GlennF They a real locus of high-quality work. But I have had this specific issue with the publication for years, as friends can testify. – 12:58 AM GMT
delightful celebration and anticipation of old pal’s old band: avclub.com/articles/why-u… – 01:13 AM GMT
Outrageous! My darling wife has blanket denied me the opportunity to display my own severed appendages pickled and labeled in our home. – 03:40 AM GMT
Outrage! – 03:40 AM GMT
Also, and a propos of said discussion, the smartest dog in the world has a ginormous tumor. – 03:43 AM GMT
@marikamalaea pix or it didn’t OW STOP HITTING ME OW JOKING OK OW – 03:50 AM GMT
@GlennF that is indeed the claim that they present. – 05:19 AM GMT
nothing like unseating a toilet to start the day, no sir! – 04:12 PM GMT
@moniguzman mike’s chili parlor, ballard – 04:13 PM GMT
@EricIndiana you would indeed be the expert on this – 10:34 PM GMT

whoo feelin the 4am travel / chore day whoooooo – 12:02 AM GMT
did i just hear the NPR lady confuse Bashar al-Assad and Saddam Hussein? – 12:10 AM GMT
@hell0jed you should! I just got in bed, 4am did me in. cc @arthurwyatt – 04:02 AM GMT
it is good to be home even. the beauty of coastal OC is amazing. but give me pebbles, ferns and mist if you wanna keep me. – 04:41 AM GMT
it was so hot. It was very much like the Mexico of my youth, except, you know, Orange County. – 04:42 AM GMT
@ftrain wide-area environmental control networks include a feature to precisely control open window angles. Archimedes’ mirror, now aimable. – 03:08 PM GMT
@ftrain (prior tweet is fiction, of course) – 03:09 PM GMT
@paulconstant Kindle division’s being renamed Fahrenheit 451, devs are known as “firemen” – 06:06 PM GMT
@GlennF I think it’s inaccurate to say “it’s neither,” but accurate to say “it says it’s neither.” To me, it’s ultra-hard right. – 10:45 PM GMT