I want to ride my bike to the park and hike a little but I assume my bike won’t be there, or it will be there without a seat when I return to it, if not this time, then next time. I don’t want to ride with a pannier, much less heavy ineffective locks.
How do event operators fund and staff their bike valets and what would it take to build a network of fixed operators?
I assume both the efficacy and land-use and even just the capitol expense of “better racks" is a lost cause.
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MastodonThe original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good. Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social (opens in a new tab)Sonny & Cher, "I Got You Babe”
The Zombies, “Care of Cell 44”
The Beatles, “Good Morning Good Morning”
Harry Nilsson, "Gotta Get Up”
Kid Koala, “Music for Morning People"
Elvis Costello, "Welcome to the Working Week”
I always wondered what the incredible theme song to https://cocaineandrhinestones.com/ was and this week amongst all the great posts and tributes about Dolly I learned that it is the 45 of Jolene played at 33 rpm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doz1QJ7LwjA.
Cocaine & Rhinestones | The podcast about the History of Country MusicCocaine & Rhinestones is a podcast about the history of 20th Century Country Music and the lives of those who gave it to us. Every episode is created by Tyler Mahan Coe.Cocaine & Rhinestones (opens in a new tab)Jolene at 33 rpmThanks to everyone who watched and liked this video. Here is an mp3 of the track for you as a gift. Cheers! https://www.dropbox.com/s/nb9mlmtn4isol3y/Jolene%...YouTube (opens in a new tab)That this works really well even at the wrong speed is apparently as well known as it is that the Dark Side of the Moon is a great Wizard of Oz companion track.
What a fun pickin’ pattern. I’m gonna finally learn how to play it.
About fifteen years ago some friends and I started signing our posts dictated but not read, or DBNR, as a bit, about how people with power casually make decisions impacting the rest of us with whatever information is on hand and without asking for more beforehand, or particularly caring how things turn out as a result, or, indeed and more literally, reading their own dictation.
So, it is fun as a poster’s defensive opening, “do not reply, I don’t care, I didn’t even read it myself.”
We got bored of the observation and moved on. It looks like the last time I did it, without much enthusiasm, was five years ago?
Little did we know.
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• Switched from American-style knife and fork with dominant hand swap maneuvering to standard fixed knife in dominant and fork in alternate handed meal consumption. Use napkin to fix fork inaccuracies on non-ambidextrous systems after upgrading. Beta users can also spoon/fork now.
• Posting now requires “command-return” where it used to require “return”. Use command-return a second time or bang on the escape key to un-full-screen every other app this error transfers to.
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gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)getting a lot of “infosec discourse” vibes from the shadows on the cave wall this morning as the sun rises so I’m wagging my finger in the direction of the entrance to the cave ⃔ ☝🏼⃕Mastodon (opens in a new tab)Trying to find a gd post I know I made and it isn’t this one or the nonsense I boosted moments ago and I’m giving up on finding what I wanted but anyway, imho, this finger wag should be a standard ligature or whatever.
My mom has never acknowledged the times I used to sneak out of the house to do crimes. I’m pretty sure she knew or at least knows now (thanks, Sis) but she sure doesn’t post about it. Respect.
It was fun how everyone rallied around Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains" yesterday. Someone cool in chat suggested Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore’s “Vintage Season” ( https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20220847) as another great story-about-a-house and I enjoyed it last night.
Vintage SeasonEverybody seemed to want the old house during May—and seemed willing to pay fantastic prices for the privilege. Strange tourists they were, too. The Café Society of another time. The 1992 American film Timescape, also titled Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, was loosely based on Vintage Season, though with a happy ending substituted for the somber conclusion of Catherine L. Moore's original.--Wikipedia.fadedpage.com (opens in a new tab)TWCSR reminded me of PKD’s Autofac ( https://www.philipdick.com/mirror/websites/pkdweb/short_stories/Autofac.htm), which made for a pretty good if only kinda sorta related (as per) episode of Electric Dreams ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6902176/), which I really wish had expanded into a modern day Amazing Stories. Neither, unfortunately, are quite old enough to be able to share directly.
AUTOFACphilipdick.com (opens in a new tab)A few gardening wins to celebrate:
This fiddle leaf we inherited from friends leaving california came to us with a three braided trunks and a healthy tight dome of branches and leaves. It grew and grew and grew and then one day a few years later with consistent care, seemed to have exhausted the soil and dropped nearly every leaf.
Heartbreaking.
I pruned a lot of the branches back to the trunk, including one of the three all the way down to nothing but a dead stump. Or so I thought.
We also had a monstera that was just out of control so we split it off to a new pot and left nothing but a stump of the repotted original.
It returned strongly and that was how we learned that new growth leaves don’t have the characteristic finger-length fringe that mature growth has. Neat!
A worker at the garden center we go to took one look at picuters of our struggle before this and explained that house plants are generally ground growth in forests and prefer shade.
Well I’d been blasting ours with direct sunlight, which explains the scorched leaves I worried about but had no idea how to fix. We have shears in the windows, so now we use them.
I also think that plants know seasons by day length and temperature so I stopped closing the curtains at night and open the ones I do close as early as possible so that they get the maximum duration of daylight, first through shears and then in “direct” shadow. Seems to help?
I think I need to tackle soil chemicals and fertilizer next and don’t really know where to start.
Feeling emboldened with a pair of gardening shears, I took about 2/3rds of the height off of our stalky, spindly rubber plant and put the strongest bit in some water for two months, which I changed whenever I watered the rest of the plants.
As foretold by people who know, the bit in the water started to root so I planted it. Meanwhile the now-shorter planted plant began to bush out like I wanted it to. Huzzah!
None of these are, I think, difficult to care for plants in California, and this thread is very much "area man follows basic advice after 20 years of repeatedly disregarded exposure.” Alas and nevertheless.