What’s on your mind?

[yaxomoxay]

A tome of that sort, packed with primary sources must be an absolute treasure trove, but one used mainly for reference, I'd imagine.

Enjoy.

I think it should be used as a reference, but knowing myself... I'll read it cover to cover. I am still working on the 50+ volumes from the DoS on the Nixon era... (I am halfway through volume 2). It's truly fascinating stuff (and online, for free).
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In theory, you could use any book past 3-4 lb to bash someone's skull in, particularly near the temple or base where the bone easily fragments from the rest, and may injure brain tissue leading to massive hemorrhaging.

I think that's it's the shielding option that makes some book very different type of weapons than others...

 

[decafjava]

I think it should be used as a reference, but knowing myself... I'll read it cover to cover. I am still working on the 50+ volumes from the DoS on the Nixon era... (I am halfway through volume 2). It's truly fascinating stuff (and online, for free).
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I think that's it's the shielding option that makes some book very different type of weapons than others...

To think I thought the pen was mightier than the sword.

 

[Apple fanboy]

300 posts a week? Wow! And here I am pondering if I am spending too much time on PRSI (answer = yes).
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It's going to be 101F (38C) here... I don't see no winter

Grrrrr

 

[0388631]

Still need to sort through photos. I procrastinate too much.

To think I thought the pen was mightier than the sword.

Technically, a pen is more dangerous than a sword because it's up close and personal. Make it a fountain pen with serrations and it'll tear flesh and arteries with each entry and exit of the stabbing movement. Can't really conceal a sword unless it's a euphemism for something else, in which case it isn't "stabbing" at that point.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Dinner is on my mind.

 

[JamesMike]

Dinner is on my mind.

Just pull a pork sirloin pork roast out of the crockpot and now making gravy from the juices for the mash potatoes.

 

[Apple fanboy]

Dinner is on my mind.

Anything nice? I had fresh pasta with those sausages you all love on here! Might sound horrible to you, but for me its my one night of chicken breast a week, so happy days!

Mind you I have a hog roast on Friday....
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Just pull a pork sirloin pork roast out of the crockpot and now making gravy from the juices for the mash potatoes.

Yum!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Just pull a pork sirloin pork roast out of the crockpot and now making gravy from the juices for the mash potatoes.

Sounds lovely, and do enjoy.

Pork sirloin roast? Yum. Haven't had that in ages.

Monkfish was on the menu here.

The monkfish was poached in milk with garlic and leeks, the stock having been started by melting some anchovies in butter.

Thinly sliced roast potatoes to accompany, and this was served with rapidly boiled French beans, which were finished off in a sauté pan with butter, finely diced shallot and finely diced garlic.

Very tasty.

 

[LizKat]

The options for tomorrow... weatherman speaks with forked tongue lately. Oh I think I'll have some of that cloud-to-ground stuff, sure.... with a side plate of the usual stuff I'm consigned to eating when the power goes out, thanks.

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[0388631]

Pork sirloin roast? Yum. Haven't had that in ages.

I want to say it's been a good decade for me. I've made it by skirting it out and stuffing, rolling it. Just haven't had it roasted in whole in a decade, I'd imagine.

 

[LizKat]

This evening a 50+ years old man was struggling to push his car in the middle of the road, feeling sorry for him i have decided to help and we pushed the car on the left side of the road for the safety of him and others. I can feel my back was hurting but the guy just walked away without saying one single word or thank you , amazing.

Wow... wow! Honestly sometimes you have to wonder. My grandma and I helped an old woman pick up all the oranges dropped through a grocery sack into the snow by the newsstand once in the freezing rain, we even told her to keep the nylon fold-up sack we'd gathered the fruit into, handed it to her, said good night and get home safe, and she just took it and turned on her heel and stomped off down the block.

"If that don't beat all," my grandma said. What else was there to say.

 

[0388631]

Yep. Some people are asses. To them they're being normal. Socially inept at best.

Day three or four of not going through a few thousand photos.

 

[0388631]

Anyone recommend a large book of crosswords and word searches for adults? Not adult orientated, but aimed at an older crowd? Preferably advanced and or complex words? Cue the young people asking what the hell a word search is, and if it's a new startup.

 

[0388631]

Stepped outside with a cup of tea only to scramble back in. Something has died or sprayed something that's caused the odor in the air to smell of burnt beef fat, skunk, rotten fish and many other things. I smelled something strange about 2 hours ago when I went out to throw the trash into the bins.

Combination of low air temperature, high humidity and cloud cover, no wind allowing it to linger.

 

[Gutwrench]

This evening a 50+ years old man was struggling to push his car in the middle of the road, feeling sorry for him i have decided to help and we pushed the car on the left side of the road for the safety of him and others. I can feel my back was hurting but the guy just walked away without saying one single word or thank you , amazing.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Several winters ago (6?) a high school kid was stuck in the snow at the end of my street. While deadlifting the front to rock it out of the drift and to push it backwards a lightning bolt of pain shot through my right arm. My bicep tendon ruptured. A few days later I was in surgery and my flipper was out of service for almost six months.

 

[LizKat]

Day three or four of not going through a few thousand photos

Ugh. Write a short story about them... and the disposition of them... maybe it will give you the nerve to act out whatever you come up with...

"As the last of the photos drifted into the old well..."
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Use them to stuff lawn pillows...

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If you're old enough to come from a family where the elders had full attics and kept.every.thing up there, the most exasperating discoveries (short of boxes of pieces of string too short to save) have to be boxes of photos from four generations back where there are no names, no dates, the shots are interior, not of any rooms in any homestead anyone can identify, and of non-holiday events like weddings or wakes and one hasn't a clue if looking at invited guests, sympathetic mourners.

Sometimes they're fun if they're photos where some of the subjects are recognizably kin. Good for at least a sort of parlor guessing game at a family reunion. It is pretty comical though watching everyone there try to make sure they hand the box on before people start leaving.

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[Scepticalscribe]

Ugh. Write a short story about them... and the disposition of them... maybe it will give you the nerve to act out whatever you come up with...

"As the last of the photos drifted into the old well..."
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Use them to stuff lawn pillows...

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If you're old enough to come from a family where the elders had full attics and kept.every.thing up there, the most exasperating discoveries (short of boxes of pieces of string too short to save) have to be boxes of photos from four generations back where there are no names, no dates, the shots are interior, not of any rooms in any homestead anyone can identify, and of non-holiday events like weddings or wakes and one hasn't a clue if looking at invited guests, sympathetic mourners.

Sometimes they're fun if they're photos where some of the subjects are recognizably kin. Good for at least a sort of parlor guessing game at a family reunion. It is pretty comical though watching everyone there try to make sure they hand the box on before people start leaving.

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Which is why whenever I took photographs, I wrote on their packet (or, sometimes on the back of individual photos), when they were taken, where they were taken, who can be found in them, and what the occasion was that gave rise to the sequence of photos.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Ugh. Write a short story about them... and the disposition of them... maybe it will give you the nerve to act out whatever you come up with...

"As the last of the photos drifted into the old well..."
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Use them to stuff lawn pillows...

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If you're old enough to come from a family where the elders had full attics and kept.every.thing up there, the most exasperating discoveries (short of boxes of pieces of string too short to save) have to be boxes of photos from four generations back where there are no names, no dates, the shots are interior, not of any rooms in any homestead anyone can identify, and of non-holiday events like weddings or wakes and one hasn't a clue if looking at invited guests, sympathetic mourners.

Sometimes they're fun if they're photos where some of the subjects are recognizably kin. Good for at least a sort of parlor guessing game at a family reunion. It is pretty comical though watching everyone there try to make sure they hand the box on before people start leaving.

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Could also a Criminal Minds episode in which the pictures are not of your family but souvenirs that a multi-generational family of serial killers (yours) has taken from the scenes where hideous acts of murder were committed...…… you might have the key to over 200 cold cases...

 

[LizKat]

Could also a Criminal Minds episode in which the pictures are not of your family but souvenirs that a multi-generational family of serial killers (yours) has taken from the scenes where hideous acts of murder were committed...…… you might have the key to over 200 cold cases...

Sometimes when those old photos get passed around at reunions now, generations later, the related conversations reveal secrets that were pretty well kept back in the day. We had a few of those little tidbits turn up while sorting through photos of some neighbor's engagement party i think it was. Everyone in the photo long since passed on, except maybe a few people who were kids in the pics.

"Oh that's Polly, remember her?"
"No."
"Across the way, grandma's neighbors' oldest daughter, Joe and Melia's kid"
[Shrug]
"Yeah, she was sweet... always wondered if she knew Joe used to beat her mother."
"What???? Who told you that?"
"Grandma's cook... their cook used to tell her about it."​

You know what they say... pas devant les domestiques...

And the other thing... "little pitchers have big ears."

 

[Tech198]

At the moment, moving out..

 

[AngerDanger]

At the moment, moving out..

One of my favorite Billy Joel songs.

Whoops, wrong thread.

 

[D.T.]

The options for tomorrow... weatherman speaks with forked tongue lately. Oh I think I'll have some of that cloud-to-ground stuff, sure.... with a side plate of the usual stuff I'm consigned to eating when the power goes out, thanks.

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We're good till Saturday, then it's supposed to get a little nasty, so we'll be staying in, watching some horror flicks, making wings and popcorn

Today is super nice, hit the gym this morning in the 'vert, air even had a tiny touch of coolness

 

[LizKat]

We're good till Saturday, then it's supposed to get a little nasty, so we'll be staying in, watching some horror flicks, making wings and popcorn

Today is super nice, hit the gym this morning in the 'vert, air even had a tiny touch of coolness

Popcorn, sí! Maybe I should make it while the power's still on. So far it's still just overcast here, so whatever they forecast is already a bit late to the plate, which is fine by me.

 

[AngerDanger]

Yesterday on a whim, I posted a video to social media. It sorta blew up, and even when I woke up this morning, it was still being commented on as frequently (albeit in many different languages).

It's kinda funny because a lot of people are asking how I did it, possibly assuming I used practical effects, but it's all dead-easy VFX—a one-point track and, like, four frames of rotoscoping.

Apparently it's pretty spooky, so I apologize to my dearest @keysofanxiety for sending it.

Spoiler: you've been warned

EDIT: It's currently at 277.4K views, 11.5K likes, and 709 comments. Just that.

 

[LizKat]

^^ As long as you take your hand out of the garbage disposal before turning it back on to see if the chicken bones will chop up this time, you should be fine, darling.

I mean do you ever wonder if anyone would think to cop one of your creations and stick pins in it with a couple voodoo imprecations?!