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It was all worth it…

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Some folks believe Twitter is degrading discourse and actively making people dumber. There is much evidence of this (Exhibit A: @realDonaldTrump). However, the following tweet redeems the whole enterprise, IMO:

Speaking of food, thanks to all who submitted squash recipes in response to my request for gourd grilling techniques. I went with the foil packet method since the squash I had was on the small side, and I added grape tomatoes, onions and garlic and seasoned it with salt, pepper and fresh thyme:

Ta-da! It was delish.

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    different-church-lady

    I’m sure that bonehead from PricewaterhouseCoopers feels so much better now.

  7. 7.

    different-church-lady

    By the way, it’s completely wrong that Twitter is making people dumber. It’s merely leveraging their inherent dumbness in a more streamlined fashion than previously possible.

  11. 11.

    evodevo

    @debbie: Huh? There are a LOT of animals that lay eggs. Only a few species of MAMMALS that lay eggs. Or did I misunderstand?

  13. 13.

    Nicole

    Hall & Oates and Tears For Fears are going on tour together this summer. I’m a little overly excited at the prospect.

  14. 14.

    efgoldman

    @XTPD:

    ONLY mammals can produce milk

    You never drank salamander milk? It’s the trendy thing at some NYC and San Francisco restaurants.

  19. 19.

    XTPD

    @efgoldman: Usually when people eat/drink that type of thing, they’re held back a grade or 4 early on and eventually put in the special class.

    Or die.

  20. 20.

    MomSense

    Here is a last minute science project for the students in your lives. Sten Odenwald from NASA is crowd sourcing gravity data.
    The deadline is tomorrow morning but even if you can’t meet the deadline, there are cool math links.
    Here’s the link. spacemath

  23. 23.

    different-church-lady

    @MomSense:

    Sten Odenwald from NASA is crowd sourcing gravity data.

    [Looks at feet]

    It appears to be working here in the Boston area.

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Sab:

    Yuck. That platypus would be cooking it’s own offspring.

    Pretty sure there’s something in Leviticus against eating Monotreme Custard.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Here are some pictures of baby platypuses (or platypi?), and they are really quite cute.

    I think baby monotremes are known as “puggles,” but will gladly wait for Mighty Trowel or Debbie in Oz or one of our other antipodean commenters to set me straight.

  28. 28.

    Mnemosyne

    I’ve been telling myself that I’m only excited about all of this Disneyworld stuff for the kids, and then I found out I can go to an ice cream social with Princess Tiana and was on the phone in a flash to sign up.

    Now my co-workers are saying they’re going to take up a collection to get me a character autograph book of my own. ?

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    Now my co-workers are saying they’re going to take up a collection to get me a character autograph book of my own. ?

    Awwwwwwwwwww…..

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    @Mike J:

    I had an AOL e-mail account back in the day. It might still be “active,” if I could remember the password.

    My RWNJ brother still uses his AOL e-mail account and (I think) might still use AOL as his browser app. Greater proof of his nut-job-iness does not exist.

  34. 34.

    MattF

    Speaking of laying eggs, Tom Waits was interviewed by the NYT, and told a story:

    “I was a firefighter when I was 19 or 20. I was trying to get out of the draft and I thought of it as a good place to hide. I was working out of a fire station in a tiny town called Jacumba. There was an enormous amount of preparation and training that was like rehearsing a play … pretending to fight fires, learning how to dig a hole if you are cornered by a fire. … One night at maybe 3 a.m. the bell sounded. This was the real thing. I slept in my clothes and only had to put on my boots, and down the pole onto the truck and the siren was blasting and I am hanging onto the ladder and my heart is going like a drum and I am panting hard. It was late and all of a sudden the aroma of fried chicken envelops our truck and we begin to slow and there it is, roaring and crackling: a chicken ranch on fire. The old farmer couple, Mom and Pop, are holding each other in silhouette as their world burns. … The captain says: ‘WAITS!!! Take that hose and start putting out some of these chickens.’ So there I am aiming at these flying, screaming, burning chickens, and I had never seen a chicken fly before, but boy can they fly. … There had to be a hundred or so of them and the blast of water would douse the fire and they would come crashing to the ground — and then another and another. There was no time to think or prepare.”

    Here it was, as Waits closed out his story, here it was again, here was where songs come from: “It was an emergency,” he wrote, “and when dealing with emergent behavior there is nothing to do but respond. I was in the moment. And it was not the fire I imagined or dreamed of. It was the fire I got.”

  35. 35.

    Mike J

    @Steeplejack: At the time, the alternative to AOL was knowing how to install a winsock.dll and know which program to get to do what. Download a browser and have a few thousand sites, mostly compsci majors who put up “I have a web site” pages, you could go on IRC for chatrooms if you knew how to navigate them, there really weren’t good IM programs until we moved it off the mainframe and onto unix boxes and then opened it to the internet.

    So no, I wouldn’t tell anybody to seek out AOL now, but at the time it was a good alternative for people who really didn’t give a shit about how the internet worked.

  36. 36.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I think baby monotremes are known as “puggles,” but will gladly wait for Mighty Trowel or Debbie in Oz or one of our other antipodean commenters to set me straight.

    There was never really a need to give baby platypuses a name because nobody ever saw them down at the end of their burrows. The only people who did see them were scientists or zoo keepers and they usually just called them baby platypuses (note the plural).

    Baby echidnas have been long called puggles since they are rather more gregarious and more often seen.

    With the advent of nature documentaries sticking their cameras up platypus burrows, baby platypuses have now generally come to be called puggles as well.

    As for being cute, it’s worth remembering that male platypuses are poisonous. Almost the only mammal that is.

  37. 37.

    Keith P.

    A tomato stuffed inside of a squash stuff inside an eggplant. I call it a “Turdsomethin'”.

  38. 38.

    Josie

    @Mnemosyne: My oldest son and daughter-in-law (a travel agent that specializes in Disney) took me to Disneyworld several years ago. I have an autograph book filled with special signatures that I would not trade for anything. Have fun and feel like a kid again. It’s great.

  39. 39.

    mainmata

    I’m a regular Twitter user but coming from a family of newsies I am very choosy about who I follow and, as a result, I see a lot of high quality tweets. I don’t follow the Large Orange Moron, of course. But I do love your wonderful and usually very witty blog posts, Betty so there’s that. (Oh and I do follow you on Twitter.)

  40. 40.

    XTPD

    @Viva BrisVegas: Venomous, you mean. It’s strong enough to kill dog-sized mammals, but in humans it’s “merely” hyperalgesic; the only way to alleviate the pain is to sever the affected nerve.

  41. 41.

    chopper

    unfortunately for some of us, cooking an egg in the milk of its mother isn’t kosher.

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