@whybark aw – 12:36 AM GMT
amused at the one week where my non-baseball twitter account becomes a worldseries liveblog. afraid to go look at the baseball one. – 12:42 AM GMT
wow, do I really have to use an app to switch accounts? geez. – 12:44 AM GMT
@ob1quixote well, it is nice to get the umpshow rolling early – 12:45 AM GMT
@fantagraphics @xaimeh amazing – 03:49 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm is this actual approval, or dry irony? – 04:01 AM GMT
@esinclai hint: remember all those times hangin’ out with ol’ Tripmonster McGillicutty? – 04:03 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm hm. I believe I differ; unpaid labor is slavery. Despite any social comps. – 04:06 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm true! & volunteer exploitation of fans for gate work or envelope stuffing, less longterm payback. not slavery. – 04:09 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm sure, I get that. demand drives pricing. Pay to work is pay to play, though, I think, and reduces access to who can afford. – 04:10 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm and that reduces/restricts pool to kids of folks with money. Not desirable for society in long term. In my opinion. – 04:12 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm That said, I’ve run (paid) internships. If you actually follow labor law, they are awesome. Loved working with the students. – 04:13 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm absolutely. work is important, work networking maybe moreso. – 04:16 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm hmmm… like a campus paper or something but more outfacing, like a campus or training branch of enterprise X? ha ha like sports – 04:19 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm AHA HAHA sorry, wiping tears / given the structural issues with student athletics can be resolved for other industries, sure. – 04:22 AM GMT
Viv is watching cheezball horror on THIS and currently it is the ‘80s remake of THE BLOB. The terribleness, it is awe inspiring. – 04:25 AM GMT
@marikamalaea aw. they expected it of you, genius you. – 05:07 AM GMT
I didn’t live up to my dog’s needs, to my definition of minimum responsibility care requirements. not his, mine. I can’t possibly do kids. – 05:11 AM GMT
@surlygourmand “Beasts of the Southern Wild?” wait no banh mi – 05:15 AM GMT
I was delighted to combine “wife absence” and “leftover superfluity” into “feed to elderly neighbors” tonight. – 05:19 AM GMT
They’re wintering here for the first time sine we were neighbors and I adore them. She’s from Tennessee, he’s local, and been here. – 05:20 AM GMT
I think they have lived in their house since it was built. He was a Seabee electrician who built Guantanamo in the 50s, went on to … – 05:21 AM GMT
…a union electrician career and an extremely active life in a popular fraternal organization which is not the Deer or the Moose. – 05:22 AM GMT
He’s maybe six years older than my dad, but seems to be about 20 years up. He’s sharp as hell, and funny. He loves baseball. – 05:24 AM GMT
His stepfather was a big wheel at Boeing in prewar and just after; one of his childhood memories is being taken to the Frye plant crash fire – 05:25 AM GMT
@surlygourmand ha ha I had no idea you were Top Cheffing. But “Louisiana” and “Vietnam” sho nuff make me hongray – 05:26 AM GMT
@surlygourmand dear lord imma have to go get some! it’s past my bedtime! If only i hadn’t fed my pasta to the beloved olds – 05:30 AM GMT
anyway. I love my elderly neighbors and regret every day I don’t stop by. Today I did, and was reminded how awesome it is. – 05:31 AM GMT
@phirephoenix seconded – 07:21 AM GMT
@iasshole hoo boy I just sitesearched on “iasshole”. wrong username guess, but HILARIOUS LINKAGE. Drinks eventually, ok? – 07:29 AM GMT
Of course! pic.twitter.com/P3rLwLfasr – 07:11 PM GMT
pic.twitter.com/lo0myCW1TQ – 10:20 PM GMT

@surlygourmand Ortolan Monthly. – 02:46 AM GMT
RT: @michaelpollan: “the largest amount of money ever concealed in an election”: WA attorney general on contributions to fight GM label bit.ly/HfWlZi – 11:46 AM GMT
wow, that oligarchic bullshit is reason enough. Vote yes on GMO labels. – 11:47 AM GMT
@anildash when I was I kid, my parents literally limited the amount of time per day I was allowed to read to four hours. – 05:04 PM GMT
@anildash I ignored them of course – 05:05 PM GMT
@joshmillard smooth trombone jazz – 05:09 PM GMT

@poupou GLASSES YAY GLASSES – 12:12 AM GMT
@DanEngler right, so now you’re available for social calls and events? – 12:13 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt individual subcollective units of KLF are after my time, I am afraid. But this is delightful despite his questionable disco. 😉 – 12:16 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt ha ba I posted hat and had dyslexic anxiety: “did I tweet ‘before my time?’”I mean really I havemore than once – 12:17 AM GMT
@ardaniel ROCKSTAR ROCK STAR – 12:18 AM GMT
@baconmeteor don’t let the facts stand in the way of a good tomlumn – 12:20 AM GMT
@maxsparber fantastic – 12:22 AM GMT
RT: @maxsparber: In Jakarta, they train monkeys to beg on the street wearing dolls masks, creating NIGHTMARE FUEL: ufunk.net/en/photos/stre… – 12:22 AM GMT
@dansinker zztop, obvs – 02:08 AM GMT

@lorenacupcake @tinyfix of course! – 12:10 AM GMT
@lorenacupcake well, OK. But objectively true, innit? Helmets, for example (note: dead sibling, biking without a helmet). – 12:11 AM GMT
ha ha delightful OTM on 23andme. onthemedia.org/tags/23andme/ – 01:36 AM GMT
@kenningsa yeah, from my dream this morning. – 04:03 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/St… // page search ‘Vulcan’ and ‘Mach Loop’ – and enjoy the rest, too – 07:37 AM GMT
@manuel that low level flying eyecandy page is awesome. the “Mach Loop” bit sheds some light on my Vulcan low-alt experience. – 07:39 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt page author: shot of Macc in flightest after capture (at Italian airbase with burned airship hangar behind) led to a craniotomy – 10:38 PM GMT
attn @arthurwyatt dangerousminds.net/comments/post-… – 11:48 PM GMT

I was moving empty cardboard boxes around an empty field with an old friend, Dan Willems and some other people whom I did not know, when these oddly stylized creatures began running past us at the top of the field, right to left.

The creatures appeared to be something like a surrealist animator’s version of a fox, tail flying straight out behind and body and head roughly the same cylindrical shape and diameter as the tail. They were somewhat like stoles and somewhat like pencils or pipecleaners but larger, more like a midsize dog. They were mostly white but pied, with black muzzles and patches of red, brown, gold, peach and black.

Someone asked what the creatures were, and Dan explained that they were the souls of the dead, because the neighboring field was in the land of death. We all went to look over the hedgerow into the neighboring field and someone’s dog noticed one of the stole creatures running over into the field.
There was some consternation but the dog, a big black mixed lab,was playfully running around the field and returned when called.

“Hey,” I told Dan. “I bet Rocket’s over there.” I went up to the gap in the hedge that allowed access and stepped across. As I moved down the field, I heard the fading calls of the people I had been working with, but did not take any meaning from them.

At the bottom of the field there were three dogs, lying on their sides in the grass, backs toward the top of the field, still but breathing, moving their ears. At rest.

As I approached, I could see that the middle one was Rocket. He put his head up when I called him as I approached. He did not get up, or wag his tail in greeting. I put my hand out for him to sniff. Cautiously, he did so.

He reacted with supernatural alarm, leaping high and twisting back and away to land in a seated position several feet away from where he had been and away from the other dogs and where I was. As he did so his black saddle coat changed, flashing in the late afternoon sun, to a shiny labrador red.

I approached him again as he looked at me warily, and once again as I extended my hand to him he shied back. I called to him and held out my hand but he would not come.
Feeling terribly sad, I realized I shouldn’t push it further and said “You don’t want to,” whereupon Viv shook me more awake and told me I was talking in my sleep. I was able to tell her the entire dream, and did so in slightly less detail than I have just written it.

Mailer wrote coverage of Apollo 11? Holy shit. – 12:14 AM GMT
“Henry <3 Glenn” chucklingly reviewed on NPR Weekends or whatever they call weekend ATC these days. It’s over. – 12:43 AM GMT
RT: @LeVostreGC: RT to showe an affirminge flame – 06:47 AM GMT
“We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head” theherald.com.au/story/1848433/… – 06:51 AM GMT
on iOS Last via um @mubay I think thanks to the dumbass Tweetbot UI thing that hides accountname in favor of “real” name. Dumbasses. – 06:53 AM GMT
nope, credit due to @deathmtn – 06:54 AM GMT
@phirephoenix as apparently do I pic.twitter.com/Cz9AtRMucH – 08:18 AM GMT
@phirephoenix /shakes fist at goldang computronic oppressor delivery mechanisms – 08:19 AM GMT
Kitsune dream: mike.whybark.com/archives/00614… – 01:46 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt Cuaron, yo – 06:48 PM GMT
pic.twitter.com/90Vt1InaxS – 07:43 PM GMT
RT: @baconmeteor: “Tiny barometers in cell phones could tell you how high you are”. Presumably by singing it in a chorus of colors – 11:52 PM GMT
@mubay for gads sake. I still get irritated there’s no scale meter thingy – 11:53 PM GMT
@mubay seriously. what the fuck revenue stream does that privilege and protect? god dammit. – 11:54 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt in case of terrist killer whale attack, i think – 11:55 PM GMT

@Johnny_Dale 1. tie steak to rocket 2. launch to edge of atmos 3. track reentry 4. delicious vacuum cooked steak! – 12:59 AM GMT
@DanEngler what’s that? I can hear you, but I can’t see you! – 01:01 AM GMT
@DanEngler @mubay it’s the fricking cloud innit. o my sweet potatoe – 01:02 AM GMT
@hell0jed looks good! elbows, wrists – 06:04 AM GMT
@hell0jed lol – 06:04 AM GMT
@hell0jed I bet, I have been watching with interest! – 06:47 AM GMT
@BitterOldPunk ha ha I just watched my NPB team seal the deal for the, um, Japan World Series. No, they must have a different name – 08:19 AM GMT
@BitterOldPunk I should look that up and go down a shitload of research linktrails while I am at it – 08:20 AM GMT
@juv3nal sweet, Wai / Doyle izz the shizz – 08:24 AM GMT
@mwhybark @BitterOldPunk no I misunderstood. tomorrow’s game is the clincher. – 08:37 AM GMT
goddammit, i blew up an egg in the microwave – 07:44 PM GMT
@manwhoyells i know, but I have previously perfected the art, or so i had thought. erred, ran for 60 sec instead of 15 sec intervals – 11:07 PM GMT
@manwhoyells poaching in a coffee cup. water + lemon juice, heat for 1:00, pause, heat for 1:00, wait 15 seconds, crack egg into water, zap – 11:08 PM GMT
@manwhoyells important to wait on the water so you don’t get boiling water zooming out when you add the egg – 11:09 PM GMT
@DanEngler be thou comforted in the knowledge that Rocket loved it – 11:56 PM GMT

@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix the fuckers – 12:07 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 Stan Kenton! – 12:09 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix close observers had previously noted the Zippies and other such clickbait. Before there was such a concept, but – 12:11 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix I would, sight unseen, assume so. Although back then best I can tell it was not. – 12:12 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix I remember alternately hating it (long boom) and being inspired by it. they didn’t really get into the … – 12:13 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix consequences and outcomes of a “post-scarcity” economy in a thoughtful way, and scarcity is still around… – 12:14 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix … just not scarcity of labor. I subscribe to Marx when consulted on the long term consequences of such a sitch. – 12:15 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix well, yes and no. automation and IT increases the pool of qualified labor to perform local job X. – 12:17 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix and also the mobility of heavy industrial production environments. So in essence, it really is Karel Capek’s RUR. – 12:17 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix /knocks sand outen ear “huh? oh yes.” – 12:19 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix Morphology, longevity, incept dates? – 12:22 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix youtu.be/LSQdEkcm6zs – 12:23 AM GMT
@AlpacaQueen77 not yr target demo either – 12:42 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @phirephoenix more or less precisely. – 12:43 AM GMT
@mubay INVENTOR OF CLOUD ptui – 01:48 AM GMT
RT: @brownpau: Eulogy for engineer who worked on Saturn V Apollo 4 — while it was fully fueled on pad: zamiang.com/posts/2013/10/… (via metafilter.com/132940) – 01:54 AM GMT
@gjcharlet @elizarde did VICE snap ‘em up? – 01:55 AM GMT
Foyle’s War is on Amazon Prime. Eff yes. – 03:16 AM GMT
@gjcharlet “Decadence and Enlightenment: a Web Boondoggle” – 03:18 AM GMT
@esinclai nope, noted approving chatter here from our transatlantic cousins, thought, huh, keep in mind – 03:20 AM GMT
@esinclai no prior exposure. starting cold. – 03:20 AM GMT
@esinclai @azender we ran out of BBC mystery that appealed when we got ahead of Sherlock distro, been on the hunt – 03:22 AM GMT
@esinclai @azender OTOH also noted Prime has AHS, something Viv is waaay interested in. – 03:24 AM GMT
@esinclai ha ha. Hope so. Should book some facetime for Important Life Event Updates, please advise – 03:25 AM GMT
@esinclai @azender hm, good idea. My game plan was horror cheese as dinner theater from 10-1 to 10-31. turns out I fucking hate that shit. – 03:28 AM GMT
@esinclai ok! – 03:32 AM GMT
RT: @masterpiecepbs: Via @nytimesarts: Adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ is coming to MASTERPIECE – artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/wol… – 03:33 AM GMT
@iasshole like the film, then. great movie. – 05:15 AM GMT
@elizarde @gjcharlet funneee – 05:21 PM GMT
@gjcharlet “private property ahead” – 05:59 PM GMT

@gjcharlet @elizarde there’s the solution. put the mags in the car, drive to NOLA for a weekend, have GJ officiate at a pyre. – 12:45 AM GMT
@brownpau @collectorswkly AWESOME – 01:42 AM GMT
@mubay no, I did not draw this after I saw your tweet pic.twitter.com/X3SKpaFssB – 01:47 AM GMT
@mubay (where does P sleep, then?) – 01:48 AM GMT
@kenningsa geez, it’s been years. Cyberiad, Star Diaries (Tichy stories), and I think Tales of Pirx The Pilot, but those all lean humorous. – 11:54 AM GMT
@kenningsa seems I read at least one or two longer works beyond Solaris. I remember later thinking Ballard was somehow similar, not sure why – 11:56 AM GMT
@kenningsa must have read Futurological Congress and Return from the Stars. I bet that last one is the one that Ballard reminded me of. – 12:02 PM GMT
@kenningsa I just grab all the twitter and repost using IFTTT. I should do postprocessing but I always find something else to do when I try. – 05:03 PM GMT
@kenningsa Started doing it before Twitter offered exportable archives. Ideally, the blog would catch any online social content. – 05:04 PM GMT
@kenningsa realistically, formatting that content is too tricky. The objective would be to have a personal content repository. – 05:05 PM GMT
@kenningsa The actual human readable content starts in 2002 and fades out around 2007 iirc. The twitter hunks start in earnest around 2010. – 05:07 PM GMT

Sadly, I *hated* “Cabin in the Woods.” I had such high hopes! – 12:02 AM GMT
GIANT ARROWS core77.com/blog/transport… – 12:56 AM GMT
on iOS @kenningsa doubtful. the issue is my taste, not the skill with which the film was made. – 01:52 AM GMT
@kenningsa to clarify: I love @cstross’ Laundry stories, and I love Lovecraft’s mythos. But I identify withCharlie’s bureaucrats. – 01:57 AM GMT
@kenningsa “Cabin’s” loathesome bureaucrats are not meant for us to identify with. Which OK, whatever. Nihilism is something I like too. – 02:00 AM GMT
@kenningsa so the film’s underlying ethos is actually quite Lovecraftian: God is real, wants to kill you, so give up. Very black metal. – 02:01 AM GMT
@kenningsa and that’s not where I’m at. “God isn’t real, so never give up,” is more my speed. Totally old fashioned of me, I know. – 02:02 AM GMT
@kenningsa …and now I have spent more time on the film than I ever wanted to. ai ai cthulhu fhtagn! – 02:03 AM GMT
@kenningsa well now, I loves me some Lem, all flavors. – 06:58 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt P47 maybe. X-wing: Kate? What’s a late-war Japanese fighter? – 04:37 PM GMT
@kenningsa grew up reading them, at one point I had read everything that had been translated, like in the 70s. – 10:41 PM GMT
@kenningsa YT playlist of Lem adaptations: youtube.com/results?q=ijon… – 10:48 PM GMT
@kenningsa the German Ijon Tichy stuff is hilarious, well worth a look. – 10:48 PM GMT
@streetcrow @mcgee_gorgo sous les paves, le plage – 10:50 PM GMT