Even the dogs know the truth about President Elon, and they aren’t afraid to tell it!
Sparrow the dog is trying to play it cool, and at first glance he seems kind of shy, but in truth he is really proud of the sign he put together for a recent protest in Rochester, NY. He asked commenter pika to share the photo with us.
x
These guys (Button and Acorn) appear to be mesmerized by something, maybe their Mom?
Is everyone having a lazy Saturday? I would be, but I keep thinking it’s Sunday!
Open thread.
WereBear
Pets do help :)
Scout211
Daylight savings time starts tomorrow. I knew there must be a reason why I woke up at 4:00 am this morning. I’m prepared, I guess.
Commence the debate that happens each and every time the time changes. Go for it, jackals.
And re: the theme of WaterGirl’s post, how are you preparing your pets for the time change?
WaterGirl
@Scout211: I don’t actually prepare mine, but I do coddle them for the next few days because they are always STARVING! :-)
Speaking of starving, Miss Willow has been eating like a piglet since her surgery 9 days ago. Has anyone else seen anything like that? Is that a thing?
NotMax
@Scout211
Pedant alert. No final s.
Daylight Saving Time.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Who cares? :-)
bbleh
Having a REALLY RELAXING Saturday for the first time in quite a while, thank you. Still some cold air here but spring is DEFINITELY in the works, and it all just FEELS warmer and more relaxed.
(Also feeling strangely optimistic about the whole political mess that we have all agreed not to mention in this thread. Oops, aw nuts …)
Professor Bigfoot
Went to Costco. They didn’t have the one thing on the list, but brought home multiple things that weren’t on the list.
Like the baguettes that were still warm from the oven. Some gigantic steaks perfect for the sous vide. Snacks for the deliverators.
I don’t think I’ve developed agoraphobia, but good Lord, it was good to get back home!
raven
@Professor Bigfoot: Clark Howard sez the way to save at Costco is to not get a cart!
Jeffro
they are DEFINITELY stealing from hard-working Americans!
I can’t decide which is the scammiest of all their scams:
And that’s just the big stuff. RFK Jr’s surely going to be profiting when HHS promotes “supplements” instead of actual, proven vaccinations. FBI Director Kash Patel (doesn’t that just make you laugh/cry?) is no doubt going to continue writing Orangemandias-worshipping children’s books.
Stealing, stealing, stealing.
or
Looting and arson.
(either works for messaging purposes!)
Baud
@Professor Bigfoot:
Costco is great, but always crowded.
Scout211
@NotMax: okay, but, but
So I am among the more common. LOL
NotMax
@Professor Bigfoot
Maybe just luck (I limit their purchase to holidays) but have never gotten an inferior nor tough steak from Costco.
MagdaInBlack
Deleted. Broke my own rule for today.
Professor Bigfoot
(since you already mentioned it— me too.)
raven
@Baud: Not always. I go at least three times a week and it’s not bad at opening. The new strawberry banana smoothie ain’t bad, I like the blueberry better but still. . .
WaterGirl
I have never been to a Costco. We got one here sometime in the past few years, but I have never been.
Professor Bigfoot
@NotMax: Nor I. These great thick slabs of beef are PERFECT for sous vide (130F) to the cast iron skillet cranked up insanely hot to get that quick sear and…. <sigh> they’re just too doggone big— we usually split one and there are usually leftovers to be turned into cheesesteaks.
In my youth I thought the “senior citizens” menus were there because seniors were broke… never thought there’d come a time when I just flat could not eat as much as I once did.
Baud
@raven:
Agree. Right at opening is the best time to go.
Professor Bigfoot
@raven: I’m usually there early on weekdays— I don’t know what species of madness convinced me to go on a SATURDAY AFTERNOON, but HOLY CRAP that place was packed.
Will try to avoid this timeframe in future.
(the baguettes— I literally came in, ripped a piece off, spread butter on it and- man, it’s hard out here for a breadhead)
prostratedragon
@Professor Bigfoot: Hear you there. It happened quite suddenly to me couple of years ago, but I’m learning to adjust|accept and waste less food.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: So nobody goes there any more.
zhena gogolia
@Professor Bigfoot: Mmm, sounds great. We have no good bread around here. (Well, I guess there’s a Costco somewhere, but I don’t know where it is.)
ETA: Looks like it’s too far for my lazy self.
NotMax
@raven
Do wish they’d bring back the option to order a veggie pizza at the food court.
Steve LaBonne
As on many Saturdays just got back from reading through string quartets with friends. That plus orchestra playing are probably the only things keeping my brain from rotting away completely.
Omnes Omnibus
@Scout211:
Don’t be common.
West of the Rockies
We had our sheepadoodle groomed yesterday. She is super floofy and bright. Took her for a walk around the lake today. Might as well have been escorting Taylor Swift based on the attention Ms. Sadie received. Me, not so much, even though I had shampooed right before we left.
KM in NS
I’m enjoying the extra daylight, no matter the grammar!!! Long, dark winter is an anathema to my psyche.
mali muso
We woke up this morning in Virginia to cars covered in dusty rainspots. Seemed kind of weird, but I just went through the carwash to rinse it off. Later today, I found out from a National Weather Service FB post that this was a phenomenon due to a dust storm in the Southwest (NM, TX, AZ) that got sucked into a low pressure system that crossed the country and came down as rain here on the eastern seaboard. Science!
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: I do.
Gin & Tonic
@Professor Bigfoot: I read that as “cheesecakes” on first pass and gagged.
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: Try East Lyme, where 395 splits off of 95.
Ohio Mom
@WaterGirl: You won’t be able to buy anything without a membership but you can certainly look around and eat free samples.
I’ve gone on occasion with friends who have memberships. Very little there is intersting to me, I don’t need mega packs of anything. I’ve heard their hearing aid department is fabulous, I’m keeping that in mind for later, assuming the rest of me lasts longer than my ears.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic: Okay, that’s closer!
WaterGirl
@West of the Rockies: What the heck is a sheepadoodle? A sheepdog poodle mix?
It’s impolite to ask how much a female weighs, so can I ask how big is she is?
WaterGirl
@mali muso: Wow, interesting!
I guess it’s better than bad air from the fires out west like we got a couple of years ago?
Ohio Mom
@mali muso: China has a big dust bowl, sometimes that dust lands in the U.S.
This planet of ours is a wild and woolly place.
Phylllis
Watching the Gamecock women run Oklahoma off their legs.
realbtl
52º and scattered clouds so fired up the convertible for a 25 mi run to the south end of Flathead Lake for mexican food. It felt goood.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
Guessing you can get a day pass at the membership desk then shop and see how it goes.
Don’t even try unless you have a lot of time–they’re immense, not organized necessarily how a sane person might, and item categories can mysteriously switch locations between visits. Also don’t go the first week of the month and consider a weekday.
I have good Costco-fu, my spouse utterly hates it but buys the gas regardless, usually fifty cents cheaper than anybody.
HinTN
@Professor Bigfoot: And there it is! The Whipple procedure I had to excise that pancreatic beastie has really changed my consumption levels. I was told it would take six months to a year (it’s been three months) to find the new normal but this self-identifying geezer can see the writing on the wall.
Nonetheless, it’s fucking great to be alive!
trollhattan
I put on sunscreen. Hah!
Going for a bike ride. I see you, spring, juuuuust around that corner.
bbleh
@WaterGirl: Pretty sure that’s whom The Simpsons were mocking in an early season when Marge went shopping at MonsterMart, “Where Shopping Is A Baffling Ordeal.”
Sure looked like a Costco of the time, anyway.
(Marge: “Oooh, that’s a great price for 75 pounds of nutmeg!”)
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Fair enough!
rikyrah
Had to work today 😞
I am done, but I hadn’t planned on losing today. I just wanted to bum around the house 🏠
rikyrah
@Scout211:
I am enjoying Ramadan Cat Tok. The videos crack me up 🤣, them being so confused why the family is up so early 🤣
trollhattan
@bbleh:
There’s a Costco “Business Center” next to the office that I call Sad Costco because there’s no food court, takeout food, beer, tire center.
Sad!
But they make up for that by having such compelling items as entire frozen goats and lambs, and 20kg boxes of frozen “chicken paws.” I take so many pictures there, just to amuse friends and family.
Gin & Tonic
@Ohio Mom: Some years back I went (snow) skiing in Australia. True story, they have mountains and some snow. Except the snow was mostly orange, due to dust storms in the central part of the continent.
West of the Rockies
@WaterGirl:
Sadie Is about 65-70 pounds. She is a therapy dog who works mostly with Queer kids/teens and young people. She is whip smart, very empathetic, easily startled by weird things (sprinklers, unexpected lawn toys), and a bit of a princess
Yup, old English sheepdog/poodle.
Martin
@Ohio Mom: You can use the pharmacy without a membership. Federal law.
kindness
Ran the pup. Doing yard work now. It’s full on spring out here in CA.
mali muso
@WaterGirl:
Yeah, this is better than the smokey air from the Canadian wildfires. I expect we will be seeing more of those as climate change continues to do it’s thing. :(
@Ohio Mom:
It’s really fascinating, isn’t it? When I lived in Mali, we used to get the dust from the Sahara Desert that would blow across the continent every year. I think I read somewhere that it makes it all the way across the Atlantic.
Marcopolo
Went to a Tesla Takedown. Maybe 20-30 folks. Dunno if that is good or bad but heard it was more than last Sat. And yes these events are happening every Saturday at your local Tesla dealership so I encourage jackals to go next Saturday.
if you’re on bluesky, Alex Winter, one of the organizers has a bunch of posts from the various protests today. It’s good to see all the energy & activity. Not recommending it but some folks in NYC took it all the way to occupying the showroom & getting arrested.
I am curious how many BJers took part in Stand Up for Science events yesterday, Tesla Takedown events today, International Women’s Day marches or congressional town halls. There was a lot going on today!
bbleh
@Marcopolo: went to Philly event. Was better attended than I expected, for 11:00 on a weekday — at least as good as a couple of the Saturday rallies I’ve been to, and they routinely get hundreds. And as usual for Philly, great signs! (One of the first I saw: “Science is real — Your tan is fake!”)
NutmegAgain
Awesome pets!
Emily B.
I have watched this this Canadian video three times already, and it has cheered me up immensely. (Apologies if someone else has already shared it.) It’s a remake of a commercial that everyone in Canada has watched…but that we in the US never found out about, because we’re just that way. Some background from the Guardian, including the original video (which is great, too).
Professor Bigfoot
@realbtl: That’s at the low end of my “drive it at all” range; but once it crosses 60 (as is forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday) she’s going topless!
MagdaInBlack
@Emily B.: I love it! Thank you!
Professor Bigfoot
@Emily B.: <snicker> I needed that!
Anyway
Sizes don’t work for 1 or 2 -person households. IMO
Anyway
Had hoped to attend yesterday’s science event but fires at work etc…so cool that Francis Collins attended (as reported by another jackal)
Josie
I have been experimenting with various sheet pan dinners. At some point I may write a book of sheet pan recipes. It’s a great way for a lazy person to fix a good meal. Tonight it’s chicken meatballs, sweet potatoes and broccoli. Since my son and I don’t eat beef or pork any more, my protein choices are chicken, fish, tofu, and beans. Add two vegies and you have dinner. The trick is to get the timing right for each part.
NotMax
@Anyway
YMMV. Works out just nifty for this one person household.
NotMax
FYI.
Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them.
WaterGirl
@Anyway: And the big stores overwhelm me. I am more of a mom and pop girl.
WaterGirl
@Josie: Pardon my ignorance, but what is a sheet pan dinner?
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: You cook everything on one pan — meat, vegetables, starch (if potatoes). Like chicken with broccoli and fingerling potatoes — everything in the oven.
ETA: The New York Times does a lot of these recipes. I’m too inept to make them work most of the time. Something always burns.
Josie
@WaterGirl:
I am lucky. My son loves the big stores and looking for bargains. He used to go to Sam’s, but we have switched to Costco (for obvious reasons). Sometimes he brings home stuff that almost overwhelms our small kitchen. He is the best bargain hunter even.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Presumably on a pan lined with parchment paper? Cuts any scrubbing afterward down to nearly nil.
Josie
@WaterGirl: Zhena explains it nicely. I have two big sheet pans. Timing and seasoning are the two variants. Tonight I did broccoli on one pan for 10 minutes and cut up sweet potatoes and chicken meatballs on the other. I added the second pan at the 10 minute mark and am cooking it for 30 minutes. That way everything is done at the same time.
Josie
@NotMax:
I use either parchment paper or foil and spray the no stick stuff on either one. Cleanup is a breeze.
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: They usually just say to oil it.
sab
@NotMax: Thank you for the remimder. Ever year I forget.
frosty
@WaterGirl: You should try it. When you have a lot of room in your pantry and checking account!
Finding room for 24 cans of diced tomatoes and another 24 of chickpeas can be a challenge.
WaterGirl
@Josie: He must have learned that from somewhere! :-)
WaterGirl
@frosty: Yeah, no. :-) I have a fairly small house, just over 1500 sq ft.
I had to get rid of my two HUGE house plants just so I could have a tree again this year!
NotMax
@frosty
Heh. Packs of 12 at my local store.
David Collier-Brown
@Scout211: Savings is a plural noun: saving is an adjective (a present participle)
Same concept, described in two distinctly different ways. The usage differences seem related to the speaker’s nationality.
brendancalling
Good to see about protests in Philly, and the sheet pan meals sound awesome.
The country band gigged last night, and while it wasn’t perfect, the stuff that I hoped would go well went off amazingly. We wound up in Phish territory more than once, and brought it back nicely. We’re in the middle of recording a few songs, so the drummer and I spent a couple of hours this afternoon laying down the backing vocals. I’m pretty excited about how it’s going. I’m gonna put up a bandcamp when it’s done.
David Collier-Brown
@NotMax: Joyce just got a new sheet-pan from Paderno the other week. Wonderful quality, sturdy, not tinny at all. Made in Nova Scotia, Canada.
dc
@Marcopolo: I went to the Stand up for Science rally in Raleigh yesterday. Lots of people, good energy, great speakers and fun signs.
Anyway
=) I meant to add a YMMV next to my IMO…
bbleh
@David Collier-Brown: The usage differences seem related to the speaker’s nationality.
Given that “the speaker” is singular, shouldn’t it be “the usage difference seems”? Or perhaps better that the speakers should be plural, given that the discussion implicates more than one.
Here to discuss the matter further is a panel of grammatists and grammarians, who also will explain the difference between them.
ceece
@Marcopolo: went to a small science event yesterday at a local college, no speeches, just signs and flyers and a little group activity with post it notes.
Nancy
WTFGhost
@WaterGirl: @NotMax, among others. Why do you ask?
@Baud: So, too, is Ikea.
@NotMax: Sure, you get the steak that gives up after two lousy days on the death march, but what happens to tender steak after… okay, Imma shut up now.
@MagdaInBlack: I hear you.
@WaterGirl: There’s about a 1% opium derivative in the air, much like Fillory.
@Professor Bigfoot: Multiple days of cheese steaks make up for lots of inability to “consume mass quantities.” You’re not a conehead, for heaven’s sake!
@Baud: That’s a filthy dirty joke, just begging to be made, is all I’m saying.
@West of the Rockies: Damn, but I wish I could walk a dog.
@Gin & Tonic: You *clearly* have never had truly amazing (yet somewhat gross) cheese cakes.
@Ohio Mom: Costco lets nonmembers buy, but there’s an upcharge, and you can’t be all shirty about them checking your receipts.
@Phylllis: Imma not gonna ask what that means, because my imagination comes up with something *far* more interesting than reality.
@trollhattan: Believe it or not, sunscreen stops being effective at about 25 million miles from giant fusion reactors. Just saying.
@bbleh: but that’s nothing compared to the price for 385lbs of bay leaves!
@rikyrah: In case you were worried, it’s still today – no loss… yet.
20kg of dead rooster seems like a good deal to me! Oh, you probably mean something less tasty.
@Gin & Tonic: I just knew those Aussies would find a way to screw up everything!
@Martin: Yes, but they don’t have to disable the auto-aimed machine guns for people who “abuse” (Trump’s words!) the pharmacy.
@zhena gogolia: I’m sorry, I’m flashing back on an old Cheech and Chong, “put some Crisco on it!” “Oh, that’s your answer for *everything* isn’t it?” (Um. Crisco is an… interesting, is a good word, *interesting*, sort of lube.)
@frosty: Friend, put 24 cans on top of the *other* 24 cans. I’m just *saying*.
@WaterGirl: If you only have one wooden plant, that’s easier to deal with than *tree* wooden plants.
@David Collier-Brown: Damn, I wish you were a cute woman, displaying knowledge and competence.
@bbleh: Friend, don’t harsh my mellow :-).
WTFGhost
@Nancy: I’d be glad to lend you freezer space – oh, wait, by “cool” you mean… never mind, Imma come back later.
WaterGirl
@WTFGhost: Comments with more than 7 links go into moderation.