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a moment between a brother and sister, who also happen to be among the best kayakers in the world. The sister had just come in 3rd in the world among women, and the brother was about to come in first for men.

Isao Suzuki, Black Orpheus

The family continues to under-consume bananas.

Not bad for a budget system.

Just finished 3rd season of Only Murders in the Building Pretty entertaining.

I rescued what I believe is my grandfather's old table from my father's barn today: My grandfather went into a nursing home in 1994. My grandmother lived another 3 years but passed in 1997. My grandfather actually outlived my father by 6 months(!) There was a lot of chaos in my life between August of 2000 (when my father died) and uh ...today, really. At some point in the last 23 years I figured out that my father had grabbed a bunch of my grandfather's tools from the Vineyard and dragged them back here to the mainland. I don't think he ever actually did anything with them (he was already sick with the cancer that would take him.) I am far less inclined with anything involving woodworking than the previous two generations of men in my family. My grandfather build this house in the 50s, and expanded it in the 70s: (Seen here in regular digital, HDR, and Velvia 50, because I am a different kind of nut.) He also built this barn he called "The Doghouse": He also built the toolshed we moved next to it. My father, who was inhumanly energetic, invariably the smartest person in the room, and relentlessly competitive, was not going to be outdone. He built barns bigger than most people's houses: This was the "woodshed" he built, but he never actually put firewood in it. It turns out that he was even better at stuffing buildings full of ...shit, really. Meanwhile I'm barely qualified to assemble a shelf. Also I find most power tools kind of scary. Especially spinning blades. On the plus side, I still have all my fingers. Either way I'm dragging my grandfather's tools back to MV where they belong.

Favorite South African band. Went to school with the drummer. Probably not entirely PC 10 years on?

Not sure if this qualifies as a TV show, but I've been watching a few different YouTube series about off grid building and living. One is called 'Life Uncontained'. It's about a couple and their (eventually) two children. They build a home in rural Texas from steel shipping containers. Then later buy a plot of land as a vacation home and build a road, ready the land and build a cabin, again from a shipping container. They're a cute couple and very willing to get their hands dirty The second I just found in the last few days. It's called 'The Outsider'. It's a Father and Son who build a log cabin from scratch in Northern Ontario. Both are very skilled and I get tired just watching how much they achieve together. I find both shows fascinating. I know that the young couple make their entire living from their YouTube channel. And it's obviously a decent living. That's also quite fascinating to someone of my generation.

It's a 5 disc compilation that "only" lasts 1h 24min. It includes many tracks that aren't very popular, I wouldn't say they're bebop standards, but showcases extremely well the evolution from swing into bop, and features many jazz stars like Fats Navarro, JJ Johnson, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson and Dexter Gordon among many others. Very fun. It's available on Qobuz

Country Airs: The Original Version (Expanded Edition) Rick Wakeman 1986 https://album.link/i/1508393470 Example: I remember back in the 80s I was into Rick Wakeman (still am) and into New Age Music (kinda still am), and this album came out. It really showed his composition style and is ornamentation of cords and themes. Still really enjoyable as a Sunday morning listen. He has over 90 solo albums, so I don't think I will be doing a Discography run anytime soon.

Americana, Vol. 2 JD Allen 2022 https://album.link/i/1633349120 Example: I feel bad that I didn't start with Volume 1 of Americana. Anyway a very good Jazz/Blues Album with lots of flavors and styles on display. This made it into my queue last year, and as we know I am way behind. But happy to discover gems like this in the mix. Need to explore JD a little more, I like the style and this one is recorded well.

Ha, welcome to the uncontained family. I've been watching Spenser and Mac for about 5 years now ever since they first connected the two containers. Pretty amazing journey, and I learned a lot. I have enjoyed 'Michygoss' {Canadian} and the earlier videos from 'Cajun Country Livin'' {they must have gotten a marketing team this year}. Ed: I was using vv this thread for non-traditional things that I watch. But serial YT is pretty close to TV...

The hinged seat idea might work although it would make the space below far less usable for shoes, etc. I might opt for scrapping the existing vestigial bench altogether, sad as that may be. They could bring it back flush with the cabinets and either leave it walnut or else paint to match. Either way, I would make a couple of little bench stools that you can slide in and out as needed. They could be simple three sided inverted U shapes that are a little shorter and shallower than the cabinets and you can still stow shoes under them. Or just make two smaller stool cubes with a cutout hand hold that sit on either end. You could also leave the walnut the way it is and make stools of some sort, although I don't love the look. Oh, and bonus vocabulary and creative writing points for an excellent use of "vestigial."

And now for the Deluxe edition. It adds dual mono Golden Reference regulators and a motor w/ remote for the 47-step attenuator

Neener.

I waged war with a family of rats that were under the garden shed. I bought a rat trap, put some chocolate on. Next morning trap snapped shut, chocolate gone, no rat. Tried cheese - same thing. So I bent the trigger so that if you sneezed it snapped. Chocolate on. Same damned thing. The darned things are really clever - must have been using a stick as a tool to trip the trap so they could eat the goodies. The neighbour bought a "humane" trap, and all he caught was a hedgehog. Then my cat got on the case, and worked here way through the lot. Came in each time looking a bit battered (rats fight back), tail high and proud. On the deck a half eaten rat. Repeat four times. Rat problem gone

Oh, man. We got a live one here. FBI agents shoot and kill Utah man accused of making threats against Biden. I don't cheer when the FBI kills ...anybody, really. With that said, this guy was going for (in the parlance of our times) FAFO speedrun any% world record. With a side order of Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes. *Glossary: FAFO: Fuck Around, Find Out Speedrun: A term originating in video games, meaning beating the game as fast as possible. Now adapted to any task. Any%: Reaching the finish line in a game (or any other task) cutting any possible corners to get there as quickly as possible. Opposite of 100%ing. Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes: Exactly what it sounds like.

Still on 128kbsp internet for now. https://i.imgur.com/SnNidmm.jpg Also I am a terrible person.

Test post to see how the forum handles the Tak Tik: (Ed: looks like it works - sound on)

This sketch aired 30 years ago today.

Back to cycling stories. Apart from Casartelli crashing out and dying in 1995, the only Tour death in modern times was British cycling legend Tom Simpson. He died on the upper slopes of Mont Ventou in the 1967 Tour. It is a ball breaker of a hill, the temperature was high, and Simpson had been taking amphetamine, and his water bottle contained brandy - both diuretic. So dehydration and high temperatures is what did for him Apart from Casartelli and Simpson, there has only been two other deaths on the tour - and those are from the really early days. There are however fearsome crashes. Who could forget Johnny Hoogerland being propelled at speed into a barbed wire fence after being side swiped by France TV car in Stage 9 in 2011. Even so, with blood running down his legs, he managed to finish the stage inside the cutoff time, and spent the night in hospital getting 33 stitches to the wounds on his legs. He still got on his bike the next morning, and went on to finish the 2011 tour. Tough fellas, pro cyclists. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2013168/TOUR-DE-FRANCE-2011-Juan-Antonio-Flecha-collides-car.html

The Animaniacs turn 30 this year.

"I got something to say! I ate a gummy today and it doesnt matter much to me, as long as its red!"

There's Dartmouth, MA and Falmouth, MA. Then there's what appeared on a Cape Cod weather report: Someone's got a Fal Mouth indeed.

So I recently joined an invite-only group on Facebook. Voluntarily. This is akin to be agreeing to lights for a dubstep DJ ...in 2023. The reason I did that is MV is populated with Facebook Boomers(tm) and it's the only way they know how to communicate, apparently. The residents here are primarily fixated by what's going on in their back yard. This is a trait true everywhere, but a much more ...focused one on islands. This phenomenon is how we got UK rave culture 35 years ago, but I digress. The big hullabloo on MV the last few weeks has been the plight of Leo the dog, who went missing. Leo had a number of article written about him in the MV Times newspaper and was the subject of much discussion in the MV "Islanders Talk" FB group. I wasn't really paying attention to any of it (moving and the aftermath will put an impressive amount of stress on one's time) but I did see a followup post after the Leo found his way home: I made a joke about "that looks like Bark Flag to me" and ...exactly zero Facebook Boomers got it. I shouldn't be surprised. It's probably just as well I didn't follow by calling him the "Long Lost Dog of It."

Funny post on FB by a photographer friend, thought some might like....

Okay Colin - we get it, you got a new toy.... undefined - Imgur.mp4

I watched RedLetterMedia's Half in the Bag episode on the new Halloween movie. I love RLM as "background, folding laundry" content. At one point they were talking about the significance of the radio tower in the film. I looked up and saw this clip of the radio DJ: *sputter* That's an RE-20. You know, the mic I've used for (nearly) 25 years at this point. They have it pointing at the floor. I am irrationally enraged by this oversight. For some comparison, here's Paul and Stevie showing correct RE-20 use:

In Poland, People Are Roleplaying Americans https://www.sadanduseless.com/roleplaying-americans/?fbclid=IwAR0yMTUSbWZVVOHaiqcFOjj0ezrCU3HUh7M47_pnPwfsXhMVOmpGGcxIlCY

The main feature the foreground galaxy cluster, so massive (with visible and dark matter) that the light from more distant galaxies are gravitationally lensed into curved arcs. If you look deeply into the image you can find faint red dots - primordial galaxies that formed 600 million years after then big bang (so ~13.5 billion years ago) But you are looking at them as the were, 13 billion years ago But of course since then, they have receded further due to expansion of space. Somewhat paradoxically those far distant galaxies are now 32 billion light years distant, as a result of physics I used to remotely understand, but now rely on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe#Measuring_distances_in_expanding_space

Q: What would happen if Mikail from Single Power re-emerged as a boutique gaming PC builder? A: This.

Reality is coming apart at the seams.

As I was downloading the Costco app (because I lost my card). When you see it...

DJ Cummerbund is on TikTok!

^^^ Must sound great, too....TBM plus the XRCD! Still regret to this day when I went to Japan in the 90's, I went to a high end shop in Akihabara.....they had a whole display of TBM CD's, and I didn't buy one..... IIRC prices were pretty good too!

Godspeed, Suzanne Somers... Absolutely loved Three's Company as a boy. HS

Yeah, that was an emotional one. This is an ironic one (or unfortunate, I don't know which): Michael Chiarello -- famous food chef, died of complications resulting from an acute allergic reaction. What an awful way to go. I'll probably die of something stupid, like drowning in my own snot (I have a cold right now, and I had one of the hottest Chinese mustards I've ever had on my egg roll earlier, and the mustard loosened up my sinuses), so I am not being judgmental here.

Adam Yauch died 11 years ago today.

RIP a lot of images in this (and other) threads. My big loss of images is that I made the mistake of using photobucket back in the day.

I'm not sure why so many people are stunned to find out that Heddy Lamarr was a genius? I guess they still have a hard time realizing a person can be both beautiful and brilliant. I'm constantly a victim of this same stereotype.

Now Wait a Minute. There is a place in Cali named Whiskytown and I have not been there? https://www.parkrangerjohn.com/whiskeytown-national-recreation-area/ Will wonders never cease?

The following is going to be nothing more than a bunch of YT embeds. There's a newish member of the Mic Snobs TF2 community who is experienced as the Spy class and posted a short "frag video" to our Discord. You don't need to know what any of that means. The music he chose was so actively painful I commented how it made me want to die. He said it was a classic from "when [he] was 15 years old." That was 2007, apparently. I did the proper old person thing and went on a rampage in the music channel of our Discord, posting a bunch of songs from when I was ~7 years old. I'm not sure it will embed, but the frag clip with the "song" is here: https://streamable.com/37w5zo