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Among the foundational texts of Stretchosity.

Added lights to the patio. Previously Now with lights That work! And are automated!

It was my first gumbo. I’m pretty happy with it.

That looks yummy!

Making a chicken filé gumbo

Breakfast at the Mayberry compound. I made homemade biscuits while Al manned the flattop. He cooked bacon, hashbrowns and a scramble w/sautéed onion, bell pepper and cheese. We had honey peppered smoked salmon, which a few of us mixed into our scramble. Mmmmm! Now I don't see this as a bad thing, but I tend to cook just slightly more than needed. Is 18 eggs, 15 biscuits and a pound and a half of bacon really too much for 5 people? 😀 I believe that there should be leftovers for everyone to take home.

IMHO that’s the master plan to sell Venezuelan oil at a much higher price than its value, and making fracking profitable again. The wheel will keep spinning, some countries will face a much tougher time than others. Nothing new under the sun.

The Strait of Hormuz is closed for the foreseeable future and Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Iran, and possibly several others have already had their oil infrastructure hit and set on fire. We just had ~20 million barrels of oil per day get taken off the world market, and if the blockade continues long enough they'll have to start shutting down all the oil fields when storage starts running low. Once the oil fields are shut down they'll take weeks to months to restart production. Oil will not be available at any price. What we have here is what Iain M. Banks refers to as an Outside Context Problem in his Culture series novels.

It's interesting that your 717 seems to have a slow blow fuse, while mine has a fast blow fuse.

Gimme an F...... RIP to Country Joe McDonald 84 isn't a bad age, but still from complications of Parkinson's...so, yeah, Fuck that disease too.....

Thank you for this. As I’ve posted I’m an annual watcher of the film and adjustments for the adaptation I’m big thumbs up on. My one comment to her breakdown is the subversion extends to the fact that the film ending is not done (as much as possible) for a next scene (or utility for a people/nation). It’s in private. It’s potentially redefining the hero’s journey internal and that’s why I’ve compared to [side glance] Taxi Driver. Course I know practically nothing about Arthurian legends and British foundations so what do I know about Chivalry/Knighthood? I like movies.

A lovely Sunday drive...

"I think I found a market for these old SCSI cables."

It's proportional to my head.

The new cars seem like a complete disaster. Not only are they dog-slow without the downforce of the old cars, the boost button stuff is just dumb. Formula 1 really whiffed on a 50/50 split.

Nice Mirra, but where's the rest of your monitor?

In the UK we get hardly any fossil fuels from Iraq, <1%. The the thing that hits global oil prices, and hence fuel prices - is the cost per barrel of Brent Crude. So it hits everyone globally - including the US. Most energy supply companies hedge by buying ahead, usually at least 6 months and up to a year. So there is a lot of intertia in the price of fuel and gas. The fuel taps don't just turn off overnight.

Fill your gas tanks, shit just got real. Oil infrastructure in the Middle East is starting to go up in flames. North America will probably be OK, but Europe & Asia are likely to have fuel shortages soon.

I've missed this thread until now, but been a fan of The Charismatic Voice for a while. I enjoyed this episode a lot. In a similar vein, I go on bents of Drumeo's "For the first time" series, which can be pretty analytic depending the drummer.

Not sure if this is widely known, but I only found out about it today on The Norman Bates Memorial Soundtrack Show. Seems the first three Space: 1999 episodes were stitched together and released theatrically in Italy. And they got Ennio Morricone to do the soundtrack! It's very different than Barry Gray's. Import CD purchased, below is a sample, and the whole thing is streaming on some Hungarian site. Fun! Ex. (put on your seat belts)

Not great, but Barry Manilow charting in 2026 wasn’t on my bingo card, so adding here. No critical endorsement implied.

His milkshake brings all the Hutts to the yard...

Such fun!