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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

He really is that stupid.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Consistently wrong since 2002

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Bark louder, little dog.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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You are here: Home / Pet Blogging / Cat Blogging / Respite Open Thread: The Blog’s Three Favorite (Non-Controversial) Subjects

Respite Open Thread: The Blog’s Three Favorite (Non-Controversial) Subjects

by Anne Laurie|  January 22, 20205:13 pm| 178 Comments

This post is in: Cat Blogging, Dog Blogging, Duck Blogging, Nature & Respite

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Like this guy, I am tired of watching Republicans behave badly.

Bat-eared fox disapproves pic.twitter.com/grMZ3kYJdd

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) January 21, 2020

pic.twitter.com/A9iffpkQLy

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) January 17, 2020

No matter the size, cats will be cats?? pic.twitter.com/EXaVWGNGaa

— Akki (@akkitwts) January 16, 2020

Click on pic for full effect:

An incorrectly assembled whippet. pic.twitter.com/CVAAOL3efV

— Jonathan Best (@jonnnybest) January 18, 2020

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178Comments

  1. 1.

    oatler.

    January 22, 2020 at 5:21 pm

    Bread…good! Fire bad!

  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 5:22 pm

    Bat-eared fox disapproves

    He most certainly does!

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 5:23 pm

    re: image # 2 up top.  I had no idea Cole was wearing pink nail polish when he met his beloved Penelope.

  4. 4.

    eclare

    January 22, 2020 at 5:29 pm

    Much needed, thank you!

  5. 5.

    trollhattan

    January 22, 2020 at 5:29 pm

    The whippet pics all deserve a look. What a goof!

    Whippet good.

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    @WaterGirl: And has such feminine hands!

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    Someone get that kitty a dishwasher box, right away!

  8. 8.

    Mathguy

    January 22, 2020 at 5:33 pm

    Sighthounds have some of the goofiest poses because of their ridiculously long legs and flexibility. Our saluki has ended up in similar positions to that whippet, as have our whippets. They are so much fun to watch when they relax.

  9. 9.

    Roger Moore

    January 22, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    OK, I can see one uncontroversial topic: animals.  But where are food and snark, the other universally popular topics here?

  10. 10.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 5:43 pm

    Titles in a half-shell, let’s all sing ’em!

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    @Roger Moore: You consider food uncontroversial?  Brave man.

  12. 12.

    dm

    January 22, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    William Gibson has a new novel, Agency, a direct sequel to The Peripheral.  I’m letting it soak up all my media-time, since I view watching the impeachment hearings as an act of futility in the near term (in the medium term, I’m hoping this seals the fate of a number of Republican Senators).

    Mini-spoiler for Agency: we’re living in the worst timeline.

  13. 13.

    ruemara

    January 22, 2020 at 5:45 pm

    @Roger Moore: I can give you one more cats & some food, but you’re on your own for the snark.

    Respite Open Thread:  The Blog's Three Favorite (Non-Controversial) Subjects Respite Open Thread:  The Blog's Three Favorite (Non-Controversial) Subjects 1

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    January 22, 2020 at 5:46 pm

    Floriduh man woman weather.

    Cold with a chance of falling iguanas, Miami National Weather Service warns

  15. 15.

    brantl

    January 22, 2020 at 5:51 pm

    I’m pretty sure all whippets are mis-assembled; too much bone, not enough meat?

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 22, 2020 at 5:52 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    You consider food uncontroversial? Brave man.

    Peas in guacamole. I rest my case.

  17. 17.

    Yutsano

    January 22, 2020 at 5:53 pm

    @ruemara: My dear lady, I have not yet begun to snark!

    I’m just gonna be lucky if a taxpayer doesn’t end up on the wrong end of it.

    @SiubhanDuinne: I thought we agreed to never speak of that again…

    Also: FTFNYT.

  18. 18.

    scav

    January 22, 2020 at 5:56 pm

    Those Celtic enlaced hound drawings suddenly look like life-studies.

  19. 19.

    prostratedragon

    January 22, 2020 at 5:58 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    Never tried them. How are peas in guacamole?

  20. 20.

    piratedan

    January 22, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: hah! pineapple on a pizza…. is a hot dog and sandwich? ye gods!!!!!!!!!

  21. 21.

    Mnemosyne

    January 22, 2020 at 6:01 pm

    My lower back and sciatic nerve still hurt, but two PT sessions did help a lot. I can actually walk a fair distance without being in agony, so I think I’ve turned the corner.

  22. 22.

    Roger Moore

    January 22, 2020 at 6:02 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Peas in guacamole. I rest my case.

    That’s not controversial; that’s wrong.

  23. 23.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 22, 2020 at 6:04 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: A “vodka martini.” Enough said.

  24. 24.

    Baud

    January 22, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    Whippet. Whippet good.

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 22, 2020 at 6:06 pm

    @Baud:  There wolf. There castle.

  26. 26.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2020 at 6:08 pm

    @piratedan:

    pineapple on a pizza….

    I fail to see a problem here.

  27. 27.

    sab

    January 22, 2020 at 6:08 pm

    Husband got the senior flu shot (double dose) at the same time as the new shingles shot. He was feverish and barfing for two days afterwards.

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 22, 2020 at 6:12 pm

     

    @prostratedragon:

    How are peas in guacamole?

    Dunno. How are things in Glocca Morra?

  29. 29.

    Yutsano

    January 22, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Awoo?

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 22, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    @Roger Moore:

     

    A point, you have it.

  31. 31.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    @sab: So the senior flu shot doesn’t cover more strains of the flu, so they don’t have to hedge their bets with the magic 8-ball quite as much?

    What good would a double dose of the same strain do?

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 22, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    An oxymoronic contradiction in terms if ever there was one.

  33. 33.

    Yutsano

    January 22, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Secondeded.

    And again: can we never speak of this atrocity again?

  34. 34.

    Aleta

    January 22, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    @dm: Arrived in the mail today!

  35. 35.

    chris

    January 22, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    @dm:Did you see this? M. John Harrison reviews Agency and @GreatDismal hisownself is impressed. So was I and the book is next in the cue.

    Totally gets it. More than I ever expected it to be gotten. And a bit more than I’d previously gotten it myself, actually. https://t.co/l5GZ26jdiD— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) 22 January 2020

  36. 36.

    Aleta

    January 22, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    @ruemara: cats on an open-faced bun ?

  37. 37.

    Ruckus

    January 22, 2020 at 6:18 pm

    @sab:

    The shingles shot(s) weren’t bad at all but every time I’ve had a flu shot in the last 20yrs I’ve been almost declare-able for 4- 5 days. I don’t think most medications agree with my constitution. But then I am weird so whatta ya gunna do?

  38. 38.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 22, 2020 at 6:20 pm

    @Yutsano:

    I thought we agreed to never speak of that again…

    I don’t think I was a signatory to that agreement, although I have no quarrel with it.

    How about raisins in tapioca/rice pudding/oatmeal cookies?

  39. 39.

    NotMax

    January 22, 2020 at 6:20 pm

    @Gin & Tonic

    A drinking recipe for the ages.

    ;)

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: The first two get you the guillotine; there is room for debate on the last one.

  41. 41.

    Montanareddog

    January 22, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

     

    An oxymoronic contradiction in terms

    Which is tautological way of saying the same thing twice, I believe

  42. 42.

    chris

    January 22, 2020 at 6:26 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: My Nana put raisins in her meatloaf. Which she always burned. Strangely, I still like raisins in some food like oatmeal raisin cookies.

  43. 43.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 6:27 pm

    @chris:

    :: shudder ::

  44. 44.

    prostratedragon

    January 22, 2020 at 6:30 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    Are they whipped up in a paste?

    Hopefully things in Glocca Morra are doing better than around here these days.

  45. 45.

    SiubhanDuinne

    January 22, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    @WaterGirl: Not sure I can agree. It’s easy enough (though rude) to eat one’s way around the raisins in a white pudding; but raisins in cookies often disguise themselves as chocolate chips and by the time one figures it out, it’s TOOOOO LAAAAATE.   #WhyIHaveTrustIssues

    (BTW, ICYMI, I did answer your “How did I NOT know this?” question at the end of the morning open thread. Somewhere around comment #144.)

  46. 46.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 22, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    Haha, that fox is amazing!!

    In respite news, I just sold a short story I’ve been having a real hard time with!

  47. 47.

    Montanareddog

    January 22, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    @chris: given the length of time a meatloaf is in the oven, hardly surprising that the raisins were burnt. Was your nana using an English cookbook?

  48. 48.

    Ohio Mom

    January 22, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    The reason the senior flu shot is a stronger dose is that oldsters make 50-75% fewer antibodies in response to the flu antigens in the vaccine.

    So giving them more antigens gives them the same level of protection that younger people get from the regular vaccine.

    (this info was just a google away).

  49. 49.

    dm

    January 22, 2020 at 6:33 pm

    @chris: I hadn’t.  Thanks for the heads-up!

    I just re-read The Peripheral in preparation for this release, and I’m glad I did.

  50. 50.

    Dan B

    January 22, 2020 at 6:33 pm

    @WaterGirl:  When you are over 65 most immune systems weaken so you need stronger to develop a strong resistance.  I got the extra strength and spent the evening moving my arm around and over my head because friends said this years version hurt for days.  I only felt minor achiness, phew!

    And I see I’m not the first to respond…

  51. 51.

    Roger Moore

    January 22, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    vodka martini

    Them’s fightin’ words.  A martini must contain enough gin and enough vermouth that both contribute to the taste of the final drink.

  52. 52.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    January 22, 2020 at 6:41 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Yay you! IMHO, short stories are hard to write.

  53. 53.

    chris

    January 22, 2020 at 6:41 pm

    @Montanareddog: Sorry I was unclear, the meatloaf was burnt as were most things she cooked except for vegetables which were boiled to mush. An awful thing, you’ll agree, to do to canned peas.

    But funnily enough she baked like an angel. Her cakes and pies were wonderful and I’ve never quite managed to duplicate her shortbread.

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    January 22, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    @sab:

    This won’t help for this year, but next time ask them if they have a thimerosol-free version of the shot. I have a mild reaction to thimerosol in eye products and didn’t think that it would make a difference for vaccinations, but this year the nurse gave me the thimerosol-free flu shot and I did not have local pain or a fever with it.

    Of course, I also GOT the flu, though it was a fairly short run (about 4 days). But IIRC there’s a strain running around right now that wasn’t in the shot, so that was just bad luck.

  55. 55.

    chris

    January 22, 2020 at 6:43 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Well done! When and where can we read it?

  56. 56.

    Mnemosyne

    January 22, 2020 at 6:44 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Yay! I have one out for consideration but I haven’t heard anything back yet. The call for submissions doesn’t close until the beginning of February, so I assume they’re still hoping for better submissions to come? At least I didn’t get turned down flat.

  57. 57.

    Roger Moore

    January 22, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    @chris:

    as were most things she cooked except for vegetables which were boiled to mush.

    So she did learn from an English cookbook.  As the old joke says, the English do know how to cook.  They just don’t know when to stop.

  58. 58.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    January 22, 2020 at 6:48 pm

    @WaterGirl: Seconded

  59. 59.

    Montanareddog

    January 22, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    @Roger Moore: that’s an old joke I have never heard before. But I like it!

  60. 60.

    schrodingers_cat

    January 22, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    OT not impeachment related but not non-controversial either.

    I just wrote up a rather lengthy blog post on the Citizenship Amendment Act passed in December and have included some of the more interesting protest signs from the protests in December. I have also sent a link to AL and she will front page it on Balloon Juice soon but if you can’t wait

    Here is the link from my blog.

  61. 61.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 6:50 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Uncontroversial =/= crime against gastronomy. :)

  62. 62.

    Sab

    January 22, 2020 at 6:53 pm

    @WaterGirl: They think we olds have wimpy immune systems, so really need to blast to get a response. I know my immune system ain’t what it used to be. Just don’t double up on powerful vaccines.

    Speaking of which.Step-daughter is having marital problems. Sortof ex came back and took all the chihuahuas. Byebye cheerful little yappers. Good for them (YAP!) Good for us (less YAP!) I kindof miss the little guys, but much less loud.

    Pittbull mix is now an only dog. Never been that before. Is she sad. I don’t know.

    I offered to walk her. LOL. My step-daughter doesn’t think I am up to handling her. I had a 120 pound german shepherd from five months to DOD at twelve years. Also a 100 pound lab. Also a 90 pound boxer/husky.

    So I took her for a brief walk up the block. Step-daughter watching, dog checking over her shoulder.

    Hilarious. Yes I coyld actuallyhandle the pup.

    Then we got to the serious questions. Is she vaxxed, since I

    want to take her out beyond our street into the Metropark.

    Well, no. Expensive.

    WTF! My step- daughter, who would move heaven and earth to protect her kid, can’t be bothered to vaccinate the family dog.

    WTF. People are awful. Even those we love.

  63. 63.

    Roger Moore

    January 22, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Of course, I also GOT the flu, though it was a fairly short run (about 4 days). But IIRC there’s a strain running around right now that wasn’t in the shot, so that was just bad luck.

    That might be a sign the vaccine targeted the right strain but worked imperfectly.  The vaccine doesn’t always take, and sometimes when it takes it doesn’t produce a complete response.  If you get a mild case of the flu, it may be because you got only partial protection from the vaccine.

  64. 64.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 22, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    @dm: I hope I can jog my brain enough reading a synopsis, since I read The Peripheral through the library when I did and there’s a wait list. Going to a speaking/signing event for Agency next week, whee!

  65. 65.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 6:56 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I get your point about raisins possibly appearing to be chocolate chips.

    But tapioca and rice pudding are all about the texture, and throwing raisins in just screws that up the texture completely!

    I had not seen your reply, but just found it.  I think you may have left out a word.  Did THEY know about your arm and not tell you until about 3 weeks in?  Yikes.

    So glad you can do everything again and that you healed so well.  Sorry about the weird angle though; it would have been nice if they had gotten that right.

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 6:56 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Congratulations!!!

    edit: how does one “sell” a story?  Is that different than being published?  Because you get paid for it?  Or do they then “own” the story?

    Inquiring minds want to know.

  67. 67.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 6:57 pm

    @sab: Alert Dr. Jennifer McCarthy MD and her sidekick Dr. Paltrow!

    ETA – And Dr. Wakefield!

    ETA ETA – And Dr. Oz, Dr. House, Dr. McDreamy, Dr. McSteamy, Dr. Loomis, and Dr. Phil!

    (Sorry, not yelling at you.  Made me think of antivax loons, and that hit a nerve.)

  68. 68.

    Bill Arnold

    January 22, 2020 at 6:57 pm

    @dm:

    William Gibson has a new novel, Agency,

    Dang, I mentioned elsewhere a week ago that that novel was to be released, then forgot to buy a copy. Done, and glad you’re enjoying it.

  69. 69.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    @Ohio Mom: Thanks for the info!

    I will studiously ignore the slight slap on the wrist. :-)

  70. 70.

    chris

    January 22, 2020 at 6:59 pm

    @Roger Moore: Haha! Good one.

    She grew up with a cook/housekeeper so her mother didn’t cook. Nana probably did learn from an English cookbook when she got married and was faced with the necessity. Fortunately my grandfather liked burnt meatloaf and mushy canned peas. He said it reminded him of his boarding school and university days.

    And there was always dessert to look forward to after soldiering through the burnt offering.

  71. 71.

    TomatoQueen

    January 22, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    Oooo. Raisins in oatmeal with a little cream yes, granola yes, rice pudding yes, tapioca not really besides tapioca is only good for pie fillings, and whodahell puts raisins WITH choccy chips in oatmeal cookies? That is just vile. Raisins or choccy chips if you must (not really) but not together.

    Vodka is for pie crust.

    Pineapple pizza is for children.

  72. 72.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    @Sab: There are people in the world who see dogs very differently from the way I do.  Possibly the same people who believe animals can’t feel pain.

    Or, more charitably, possibly people who grew up on a farm and view animals far differently than this city girl does.

  73. 73.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 22, 2020 at 7:03 pm

    @Mnemosyne: totally depends on the magazine. Some places send out all their acceptances at once; some do a rolling basis. I think most places send out rejections on a rolling basis though. If you’re using Submission Grinder or similar, you can get some stats on your fellow submitters.

    @chris: I’ll be sure to let you know when it’s out!

    @WaterGirl: technically you usually sell first worldwide publication rights, but it’s the idiom.

  74. 74.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:05 pm

    @Yutsano: Head of Richard Nixon?  Futurama

  75. 75.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    @TomatoQueen:

    Pineapple pizza is for children.

    So are children’s books, but I still like them!  (but I am not a pineapple on pizza person)

  76. 76.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 22, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: the smaller the piece, the higher the standards, seems to be the rule of thumb for… all artistic media?

    Plus you have no wiggle room to talk about all the cool other stuff that’s going on ?

  77. 77.

    Sab

    January 22, 2020 at 7:06 pm

    @WaterGirl: Dunno. I get flu shots every year. Even if they miss this year, might help next year.

    I only had flu once, No it is not a bad cold. It is much worse, I was an American in Europe on my junior year abroad. I was really sick, with a high fever. Being young  I didn’t think I was actually at risk. I rode it out, shuddering with fever in my room.

    Kids in the US have actually died with similar symptons. Died iin their parents home. Flu is real. It is more than a cold, Yes it can kill you, even if you are young and healthy.

  78. 78.

    trollhattan

    January 22, 2020 at 7:08 pm

    @Ruckus:

    Shingles shot (the first version) was the most painful motherfucker I’ve ever had. Not at first, but by the time I propelled myself to the car it felt like an armload of battery acid and hornet venom. Just had to sit there until I could gather myself to drive.

    But my granny used to suffer from shingles and I was happy to trade the one-time agony for avoiding that malady altogether [fingers crossed].

  79. 79.

    trollhattan

    January 22, 2020 at 7:11 pm

    @Sab:

    IIUC there’s some evidence the flu shot can ramp up your immune system enough to fend off other things. I’m willing to spin the wheel because the flu is no joke, and maybe a cold or something else is avoided as part of the bargain.

  80. 80.

    misterpuff

    January 22, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    @dm:  The Peripheral was the shit. I’ll have to check out the new one.

  81. 81.

    Betty Cracker

    January 22, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    @chris: Never heard of putting raisins in meatloaf! There’s a Cuban ground beef dish called picadillo that contains both raisins and olives, which sounds weird, but it’s really good!

  82. 82.

    Montanareddog

    January 22, 2020 at 7:14 pm

     

    @trollhattan: I was just going to post about that, while assuming I was being unscientific. Since I started getting the flu shot every year, I have not had a cold either. No doubt, I will go down with one next week.

  83. 83.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 22, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    @TomatoQueen:

    Vodka is for pie crust.

    King Arthur’s baking school says drink the vodka, use water for your pie crust.

  84. 84.

    MomSense

    January 22, 2020 at 7:20 pm

    Every other person was coughing or sneezing at the symphony concert last night.  By about 3pm today I was feeling like crap.  Also, too the dog just puked.  She literally walked through a whole house of wood floors to get to the area rug.

    I’m going to bed.

  85. 85.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    @WaterGirl: Boldly going against a royal decree? :)

  86. 86.

    germy

    January 22, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    The flu can sometimes progress to pneumonia.  A flu shot can protect against both.

  87. 87.

    CarolPW

    January 22, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    @WaterGirl:  Stereotype warning! I grew up on a farm, and animals were of great economic importance for income and food, and all livestock therefor received regular veterinary attention. Pets were a different classification (things we don’t eat and so can get attached to) and they received equal veterinary attention. You know, when you get those cute Easter chicks as a farm kid you get to watch them grow up and can ruin your mother’s carnations by feeding the inside leaves of the buds to them, instead of having your folks dump them in the nearest park after a couple of months.

    The people most intent on maintaining the health and fitness of their dogs that I have met are those that use them for herding livestock, because their livelihood depends on them. They don’t dump them in the woods or at the pound because they don’t match the couch or got too big.

  88. 88.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Baking school?  On a horse?  You’re using coconuts!

  89. 89.

    hilts

    January 22, 2020 at 7:24 pm

    RIP to the great Terry Jones

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/22/terry-jones-monty-python-founder-and-life-of-brian-director-dies-aged-77

  90. 90.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    @MomSense:

    Also, too the dog just puked.  She literally walked through a whole house of wood floors to get to the area rug. 

    I’m not not laughing.  Feel better.

  91. 91.

    chris

    January 22, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I think the raisins came from WW2 rationing. She said once that raisins were always available but bananas were a rare treat. Probably a good thing as she might have out bananas in the meatloaf.

    I looked up picadillo and I thank you. I’m going to try the Cuban version first but there are many more.

  92. 92.

    NotMax

    January 22, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    Totalyl slipped out of the brainpan at the time last week, so a belated R.I.P. for Windows 7.

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    germy

    January 22, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    @hilts:
    Mr Creosote – Deleted Scene
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhTJhxvJmSE

  94. 94.

    BruceFromOhio

    January 22, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    This post and these comments are why this blog remains awesome.

  95. 95.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    @chris: Banana bread – but the bread is meat!

  96. 96.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    @MomSense: I’m thinking of not going out again until March. :-)

    I’m sorry you are coming down with something.  May you can head it off at the pass.

    God knows why dogs and cats do that, but my house is all hardwood floors and throw rugs, except one room with carpeting, and we all know where everybody pukes.  At least you didn’t step in it.  Small favors.

  97. 97.

    Mo MacArbie

    January 22, 2020 at 7:32 pm

    Oatmeal raisin cookies are the best cookies. They’re health food too, so you can eat five.

  98. 98.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    @CarolPW: Fair enough.  I was thinking more of the view of dogs and cats as “outside” animals rather than family members.

    But point taken.

  99. 99.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 7:35 pm

    @NotMax: That and XP were the only good ones, in my opinion.  After DOS, of course.

  100. 100.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    @Mo MacArbie: Yes!  The good calories from the oatmeal and raisins cancel the bad calories from the butter and sugar.  That’s just science!

  101. 101.

    VFX Lurker

    January 22, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I can actually walk a fair distance without being in agony, so I think I’ve turned the corner.

     

    YAYYY! Great news.

  102. 102.

    chris

    January 22, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    Happy Bert yesterday. We were both a little shackwhacked from crappy weather so it was perfect for a big walk. Cold though so an hour was enough.
    Also the closest I’ll ever get to a selfie on the net.

  103. 103.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    @WaterGirl: All hail MS-DOS 6.22!

  104. 104.

    Luciamia

    January 22, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Huzzah!   And I got a cartoon in Funny Times.

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    Betty Cracker

    January 22, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    @chris: I had no idea there were so many versions, so thank you! ?

  106. 106.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 22, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: King Arthur Flour. In Vermont. But you knew that.

  107. 107.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    @chris: How does being shackwacked compare to having cabin fever?

  108. 108.

    Quiltingfool

    January 22, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    @WaterGirl: Gee, I thought my cat was unique!  If she barfs on the hardwood floor, it is only because she couldn’t get to the area rug in time.

  109. 109.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 22, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    @Luciamia: nice, congrats!

  110. 110.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: But what about the horse and the coconuts?

  111. 111.

    MagdaInBlack

    January 22, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    @CarolPW:

    Thank you.

    Farm kid here.

  112. 112.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 22, 2020 at 7:40 pm

    @Mo MacArbie: There is no more heartbreaking moment in human existence than thinking you’ve taken a chocolate chip cookie, taking a bite and finding that it’s oatmeal-raisin.

  113. 113.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2020 at 7:41 pm

    @WaterGirl: Win 10’s fine, Vista suffered from requiring more resources that many existing PC’s had at the time.  Many of the bells and whistles in Vista ended up in Win7.  My the time Win7 came out PC’s had more memory and processor power and drivers were available for more devices.

  114. 114.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: As long as you have 640k, it’s fine.

  115. 115.

    J R in WV

    January 22, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    @ruemara:

     

    Are there not two cats in that lower photo? Or am my eyes cornfuzed?

    I have listened to way too many Republicans lying the past couple of days!!

  116. 116.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: No one will ever use up 640KB of RAM!

  117. 117.

    oatler.

    January 22, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    My Greek aunt used to put ground beef, grapes and pine nuts in her turkey stuffing. There was a reason we drank retsina.

  118. 118.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2020 at 7:45 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Exactly, and anything you need to store will fit on a 360kb floppy disk.

  119. 119.

    CliosFanBoy

    January 22, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: I hate Guacamole so I’d be happy to pee in some.

  120. 120.

    CarolPW

    January 22, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    @WaterGirl: Even farm families who would never let an animal in their house make sure those outside animals get their shots. I too have issues with people whose pets are never allowed inside, but that happens more than just on farms. Dogs outside on chains 24/7 happens in way too many places.

  121. 121.

    J R in WV

    January 22, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    In respite news, I just sold a short story I’ve been having a real hard time with!

    Woot, huzzah, congratulations!!!  Don’t harm your carpal tunnel coding, you may need it for more artistic activities!! Huzzah!!

  122. 122.

    chris

    January 22, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Shackwacky is when you can only go out for brief periods because of snow, freezing rain, high wind, etc. Cabin fever sets in when you can’t go out at all. Fortunately I don’t live there.

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    Luciamia

    January 22, 2020 at 7:48 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I miss floppy discs.

  124. 124.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:48 pm

    @oatler.: Mmmmm retsina.

  125. 125.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    @chris: I see.

  126. 126.

    BruceFromOhio

    January 22, 2020 at 7:50 pm

     

    @WaterGirl: OS2 or GTFO

  127. 127.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:50 pm

    @Luciamia: 5.25″ or 3.5″ floppies?

  128. 128.

    Bill Arnold

    January 22, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    Science! (A couple of stories)
    The wisdom of crowds of fisher[men|women].
    A model ecosystem fish story (January 21, 2020)
    Scientists unexpectedly witness wolf puppies play fetch (January 16, 2020)

    The discovery comes as a surprise because it had been hypothesized that the cognitive abilities necessary to understand cues given by a human, such as those required for a game of fetch, arose in dogs only after humans domesticated them at least 15,000 years ago.

  129. 129.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    @Luciamia: My gf at the time was very happy when I got a hard disk, she said hard was much better than floppy.

  130. 130.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    @BruceFromOhio: 1994–1996: The “Warp” years

  131. 131.

    J R in WV

    January 22, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    There’s a Cuban ground beef dish called picadillo that contains both raisins and olives, which sounds weird, but it’s really good!

    Living in Key West 1970-72 we instantly loved picadillo, the raisins and olives make it sweet and sour, along with the tomatoes and onions. On yellow rice with ice cold beer, hurray! Authentic Cubano food is the nuts!! Fried plaintain, also too!

  132. 132.

    Luciamia

    January 22, 2020 at 7:55 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: 3.5. Loved that satisfying “chunk” when it slid into the slot.

  133. 133.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    @Luciamia: And you could throw them like frisbees without the paper sleeve flying off.

  134. 134.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    Apparently there’s a How It’s Made segment on stuffed olives.  Seriously?

  135. 135.

    J R in WV

    January 22, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    There is no more heartbreaking moment in human existence than thinking you’ve taken a chocolate chip cookie, taking a bite and finding that it’s oatmeal-raisin.

    Our local bakery makes a cookie they call their “Trail Mix” cookie, just enough batter to hold the nuts and fruit together. We keep some on hand for every morning with hot coffee or tea. Recently I bought my standard two dozen, we put some in the freezer to make them last longer.

    It was a disaster, because someone put several pounds of dark chocolate chips in that batch… fortunately no one was allergic to chocolate, but they were way too sweet compared to the standard Trail Mix cookie blend. Not that we didn’t eat them…

  136. 136.

    Roger Moore

    January 22, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    That and XP were the only good ones, in my opinion.

    Windows 2000 was the first version I liked.  Win 3.1 was a pointless addon to DOS; it was ugly and nowhere near as useful as all the other WIMP interfaces I had used (MacOS, NeXT Step, various flavors of X11).  Win NT gave it more solid underpinnings but kept the awful GUI.  Win 95 and 98 kept the rickety DOS underpinnings but had a nice GUI.  Win 2000 finally combined the solid underpinnings of NT and the nice GUI of 95/98 to make a really solid PC operating system.  Given how badly MacOS 9 was performing at that point, it finally gave Microsoft a better OS than Apple.

  137. 137.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 8:11 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    Yes!  The good calories from the oatmeal and raisins cancel the bad calories from the butter and sugar.  That’s just science!

    I have now wiped the slate clean from you being a bad person on the morning thread. :-)

  138. 138.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 22, 2020 at 8:13 pm

    @BruceFromOhio: OS/2 with Workplace Shell was the best PC OS.

  139. 139.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    @CarolPW: I clearly painted with too broad a brush, by being careless and unclear.  My apologies to all.

  140. 140.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    @Luciamia: I would have thought it was more of a clunk sounds than chunk sound, but it was many, many moons ago, so I may be remembering wrong.

  141. 141.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 8:24 pm

    @WaterGirl: Wha?  (searches) BwHAhHahahahhaha!!!  I’d missed your reply.  I’m still terrible! ?

    ETA – suggesting a few sets of jumping jacks would’ve been worse.

    Seriously, I wasn’t going for mean, just absurd.

  142. 142.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 22, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    On the same day that CBS announces Reince Priebus as a news analyst, they have to correct his on-air falsehood.As journalists bemoan the increasing blurriness between fact and fiction, these same newsrooms must do some soul searching. pic.twitter.com/s41vcJVzDc— Eric Schultz (@EricSchultz) January 22, 2020

  143. 143.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: I absolutely knew you weren’t going for mean!

  144. 144.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    @Roger Moore: Win NT 4 used the 95/98 GUI.

  145. 145.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    @Patricia Kayden:

    the increasing blurriness between fact and fiction 

    Are different media outlets in a battle for the most ridiculous, wrong-headed way to say “lies?”

  146. 146.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Cartwheels after a broken wrist and arm???  Definitely worse than jumping jacks, where your weight is, you know, on your feet and not the, checks notes, wrist and arm!  :-)

    I knew you were being silly, as was I.

  147. 147.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    @WaterGirl: Hehehe

  148. 148.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 8:31 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I had totally forgotten about OS/2!

    This is a nice little walk down memory lane.

  149. 149.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    @WaterGirl: Oh.  I’d forgotten which bones broke.  I was just thinking jumping jacks shake the body more.  I chose the more absurd thing on accident.  Ya me!

  150. 150.

    dww44

    January 22, 2020 at 8:36 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: Didn’t know about the addition of Reince Priebus, but it has been obvious to me for some time that the Edward R. Murrow CBS News is no longer and the network is busy doing its best to rebrand itself as a conservative friendly broadcast news network.  Sad!

  151. 151.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    @dww44: That ship sailed loooong ago.  The big 3 networks were drooling over Gulf War I 30 years ago.

  152. 152.

    NotMax

    January 22, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    @Luciamia

    Two words: zip disks.

    ;)

  153. 153.

    Amir Khalid

    January 22, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    @NotMax:

    I switched to Windows 10 with the new laptop just in time.

  154. 154.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    @NotMax: 8″ floppies or GTFO.

  155. 155.

    CarolPW

    January 22, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    @WaterGirl: Were good, no problems. Not talking about corporate farms where your assumptions would be largely correct, and for them animals are just tools or replaceable parts. But for small farms/ranches I think a lot of people assume that because we actually eat animals we personally know (and I knew everyone of them I ate when I was at home) it must indicate a general disrespect for animals when it is quite the opposite. When I was a kid I couldn’t imaging eating an animal I didn’t know, because all kind of bad things might have happened to it and who would have wanted to eat that. These days I don’t eat animals I know, but for all the meat I eat I know the person who raised it.

  156. 156.

    Roger Moore

    January 22, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    You’ll get my audio cassettes when you pry them from my cold, dead TRS-80!

  157. 157.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2020 at 8:54 pm

    @Roger Moore: My IBM PC had a cassette port.

  158. 158.

    Immanentize

    January 22, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: that sir, is epic

  159. 159.

    Amir Khalid

    January 22, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    And a whopping 64K of RAM, no doubt.

  160. 160.

    NotMax

    January 22, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    @Amir Khalid

    Had a strange technology interlude a couple of days ago.

    Remote for the TV went on the fritz, which also caused a “Not Available” message to flash on and off in the corner of the TV screen. Removed the batteries, mashed all the buttons on the remote several times in case any of them were partially stuck, left the remote (sans batteries) overnight to make sure it fully discharged. Inserted batteries the next day and all returned back to what passes for normal.

    Taking it as a warning though, so plan to include a replacement same-branded remote with the next order of baubles from Amazon. At under eight bucks, can splurge on that to have around just in case.

  161. 161.

    Immanentize

    January 22, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    My first programming effort was read cards. My second was punch tape.  My third was punch cards.  Omni 8. I am so old

  162. 162.

    Ruckus

    January 22, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    @trollhattan: 
    Have had shingles. Up my neck and the side of my face. Fun times. The shingles shots that I got were spaced 2 months apart and were no big deal. Other than someone poking me with a very small but sharp stick I had no side effects. That’s what medicines are like for me. Either they don’t adversely affect me at all or I’m in the 2 or 3 % at the bottom of the label, where it says the possible side effects – and you start reading from the bottom, worst to least worse direction.

  163. 163.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 22, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    @Ruckus: Cheating Death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert DFA!

  164. 164.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 22, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Yes, but it came standard with 16kb, you had to pay extra to get it up to 64kb.

  165. 165.

    NotMax

    January 22, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    @BilinGlendaleCA

    Going back many years, wangled borrowing one of the few extant at the time stand alone units designed to handle 36 inch floppies* to play with as part of a project/demonstration in grad school. No case on the floppies, one treated them the same a one would a record.

    *Memory says 36 but there’s a possibility they were 24. For sure remember it was one of three such machines then built.

  166. 166.

    Feathers

    January 22, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    I’m going to the William Gibson signing/reading in Cambridge next week. Did it through online, only to discover that, unlike previous times I’ve done this, if you bought the ticket that includes a copy of the book you can only pick it up at the signing. Ugh. I like having read the book before getting it signed. Am rereading The Peripheral instead.

    Note: Harvard Bookstore does still have tickets available for next week’s signing. It’s at the Unitarian church, you have to buy the tickets online.

    Raisins: Oatmeal, rice pudding: yes. Oatmeal cookies: yes to my Aunt Kay’s, no to everybody else’s. Also, I do like them in trail mix/kitchen sink cookies. Tapioca: don’t recall. I do like raisins in savory dishes. I have a great recipe for turkey breast with dried fruit and orange juice done in a roasting bag.

  167. 167.

    Duane

    January 22, 2020 at 9:13 pm

    Reince Preibus has to be the worst idea in the history of CBS. His name is a bad idea. CBS must want people to ridicule them. Maybe he’ll do a dance.

  168. 168.

    Gbbalto

    January 22, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Absolutely! I would be ok with oatmeal raisin cookies if they didn’t disguise themselves as choc chip.

  169. 169.

    Feathers

    January 22, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    @Immanentize: My mother tells the story of her first job(s). She was an Army brat, so she got an on base data entry job. The first summer she entered data, which was recorded onto a punch tape. The second summer she entered the same data (she recognized her annotations), recorded onto punch cards this time.

    So much fun going to an MIT screening of Our Man Flint. The flashy movie punch card machine got huge whoops and cheers with a pockets of standing ovation. Highly recommended if you haven’t seen the film.

  170. 170.

    Ruckus

    January 22, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @Immanentize:

    When we started using numerical control machines in the early 70s it was punch tape using a teletype tape punch. That progressed to an Apple II that had an editor that we could create the programs with and a tape punch. Much better than the teletype because you could see/fix your errors on the screen so you didn’t have to splice in fixes. There was no way to send the program to the machine from the computer electronically. Things have improved just slightly these days…….

  171. 171.

    Anne Laurie

    January 22, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    @sab: Husband got the senior flu shot (double dose) at the same time as the new shingles shot.

    Huh, my GP said I could get *either* the flu shot or the first-of-two new improved shingles shot.  (I chose the shingles vaccine.)   She said I’d have to wait a minimum of two weeks before getting a flu shot, in that case.

  172. 172.

    Anne Laurie

    January 22, 2020 at 9:34 pm

    @Feathers: I do like raisins in savory dishes.

    Only time I voluntarily eat raisins is in biryani.

  173. 173.

    Ruckus

    January 22, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    @NotMax:

    I believe they were 24 inch.

    I’ve build molds for the front door of a 1inch mag tape storage unit, the reels were probably 12-14 in dia. This particular unit auto threaded the tape, using a low pressure air blast over an airfoil shape which guided the tape through the heads, so no one had to touch the tape and get oils from their hands on the tape. Mainframes used rooms full of these tape drives.

  174. 174.

    WaterGirl

    January 22, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Sounds like you may have had the better GP!

  175. 175.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 22, 2020 at 9:48 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Just before Christmas I bought a portable hard drive – one of those ~3″x4″ units. 5 terabytes. I paid $89.99.

  176. 176.

    NotMax

    January 22, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    @Ruckus</a.

    The remove by twisting an pulling stack o' discs drives for main frames were 24. These may well have been 36 as they were intended for recording and playback of video. Whole shebang had been designed and built by Sony.

  177. 177.

    Miss Bianca

    January 22, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    @Bill Arnold: Cool, thanks for the links! I need a few good non-political journal articles to read.

    Been working all day on cuts in the script for “Much Ado about Nothing”, and first binging on, and then avoiding, political news.

  178. 178.

    Immanentize

    January 22, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    @Feathers: The Immp and I will be there.

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