870 pts · August 14, 2021
#30 OK, so you dump out some M&Ms and arrange them in an attractive, symmetrical tile pattern. You eat the ones that don’t fit the pattern, but only in groups of three that are the same color or colors that coordinate. Then you keep selecting groups of three to eat, in a way that lets you keep the symmetry of the pattern. Eating only two, or rearranging the remainder into a new pattern, is also OK. Easter M&Ms are best for this, because they’re all pretty.
Yes! I’m astonished at how good his American accent is.
Evil boomer checking in: I have been tipping 20% at sit-down restaurants for years. If I eat out alone I sometimes tip higher, because I’m taking up a two-person table. Since the pandemic started, I’ve been tipping even for counter service and drive-throughs because restaurant workers have tough jobs and the whole tipped wage thing is grotesquely unfair.
I really like the bottom edge on the last four – is it some type of invisible cast-on, or did you turn up a hem?
No, when you said “the boomers” it was clear that you meant ALL boomers – you don’t get to walk it back now. As @AyatollahBahloni and @Morigel eloquently pointed out, baby boomers don’t all behave the same way, and never have. Barack Obama and Tim Walz are boomers, for pity’s sake.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/08/woman-arrested-iran-undressing-protesters-psychiatric-institutions-rights-groups
#4. Is that… pillow ticking? They made an interesting choice there. (Ticking is a kind of cotton or linen fabric that is used to cover feather pillows. It’s woven very tightly so that the feathers can’t escape. It often has that distinctive stripe pattern.)
About Trump’s age and standards — No, I don’t hold him to a higher standard than other elected officials. (And I’m not a Democrat, BTW.) But his age shouldn’t get him a free pass on anything: either he’s capable of doing the whole job or he isn’t. And if he isn’t, he should have dropped out of the race. I was sad when Biden dropped out, but I think he did the right thing: I don’t think he had the energy to hold such a demanding job for four more years.
About Puerto Rico — I expect you’re right that PR was in bad shape before: even a Cat 4 storm shouldn’t have been able to wipe out the entire power grid. But the man was president and his idea of helping was to go down and throw paper towels at people for a photo op? Yes I do hold him responsible (I didn’t say solely). Also, a couple of sources said he wanted to sell or otherwise get rid of PR after the storm.
OK, I’ll play… A. You think the insult was just to the island? Not a flex: Hurricane Maria left PR devastated and Trump’s response was abysmal, so if PR looks bad today a lot of it is his fault. B. Trump or his people DID approve that line: all the speeches were vetted before being fed into the teleprompters. C. Trump has threatened to use military force against the “enemy within” – and the military tend to kill people. At the least, he doesn’t care if the people he goes after happen to die.
This has been known for a while: “Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.” That’s from a 2015 Vanity Fair article ( https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/donald-trump-marie-brenner-ivana-divorce ) that the NYT linked to just yesterday ( https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-fascism.html?searchResultPosition=9 )
“Welcome, sulfur dioxide / Hello, carbon monoxide / The air, the air / Is everywhere” 🎶
One may debate whether newspapers should or should not endorse candidates. But if, at a tipping point between democracy and dictatorship, the owner of a paper personally stops a 48-year precedent of endorsements, it is logical to think that he is in favor of dictatorship.
Have you looked at W. W. Grainger or McMaster-Carr? They’re the industrial suppliers that a former colleague preferred. (I have no affiliation with either of them; I did make a similar reply to another commenter here.)
Have you looked at W. W. Grainger or McMaster-Carr? Both of them have the items you mentioned – though they only have plastic pallets and I have no idea how they compare on price. I have no affiliation; they’re just the companies that a former colleague preferred.
And having ready access to the details of friends’ lives that you have forgotten even though you care about your friends and really thought you were paying attention? (I think the creep factor outweighs any benefits, though.)
It’s extra scary when they don’t even bother trying to cover up the corruption – as if they *know* they’ll never be held accountable.
Maybe the students could arrange for them to be ripped apart in a tornado, washed away in a flood, burned up in a wildfire, or destroyed by other “acts of god” 😉
Disgusting, indeed! And as a side note – $3 million? That’s $54.54 per bible, which suggests more sleaze and corruption. I have a nice KJV with a ribbon bookmark, color maps, and a box, and it was $25.
Not unlike the plot set-up for “Major League” – with bonus possums
I once wrote to MassDOT to ask the rules for two-lane rotaries – did the cars in the inner lane or the outer lane have right of way? They replied that there were no rules.
Seriously, who color-codes a map this way? The blue-to-white-to-red gradient suggests negative-to-zero-to-positive, but all the numbers are positive. So areas with no coloration have a *higher* incidence of Alzheimer’s than some areas with a darker color.
Wow, that’s some telephoto lens! You can see the time lag between the video and when the audio reaches the photographer.
Please consider trying again with something nicer, such as 4-ply worsted-weight pure wool yarn (preferably not superwash, which can be a bit slippery). Also try decent needles with a bit of grip – maybe birch or bamboo. I agree with @FluxSagrie about why knitting may be easier than crochet. And I’m happy to try to help you start that second row. Sorry if I’m being pushy, but I find knitting to be really useful as stimming and for dealing with stressful situations. And you can make pretty stuff!
The Cleveland Orchestra, named one of the Big Five in the 1950s and still, according to a NYT review in 2023, “at least on a technical level, the finest in the United States.”
Thank you! I’ll give them a try. It would be nice to be able to work happily with alpaca. Pure merino lace yarn can be a bit fragile, and BFL can be a bit wiry. I like merino/silk blends, but there aren’t a ton of them around.
Me, too! I can knit lace; why can’t I crochet a stupid rectangle?
My floor blinks at me, too! That looks lovely. Are you using Addi Rockets? I gave up on lace-weight alpaca before those were introduced; maybe I should try it again. (Since it has NO loft I would just scrabble futilely at the next stitch to be knit and weep quietly.)
#30 OK, so you dump out some M&Ms and arrange them in an attractive, symmetrical tile pattern. You eat the ones that don’t fit the pattern, but only in groups of three that are the same color or colors that coordinate. Then you keep selecting groups of three to eat, in a way that lets you keep the symmetry of the pattern. Eating only two, or rearranging the remainder into a new pattern, is also OK. Easter M&Ms are best for this, because they’re all pretty.
Yes! I’m astonished at how good his American accent is.
Evil boomer checking in: I have been tipping 20% at sit-down restaurants for years. If I eat out alone I sometimes tip higher, because I’m taking up a two-person table. Since the pandemic started, I’ve been tipping even for counter service and drive-throughs because restaurant workers have tough jobs and the whole tipped wage thing is grotesquely unfair.
I really like the bottom edge on the last four – is it some type of invisible cast-on, or did you turn up a hem?
No, when you said “the boomers” it was clear that you meant ALL boomers – you don’t get to walk it back now. As @AyatollahBahloni and @Morigel eloquently pointed out, baby boomers don’t all behave the same way, and never have. Barack Obama and Tim Walz are boomers, for pity’s sake.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/08/woman-arrested-iran-undressing-protesters-psychiatric-institutions-rights-groups
#4. Is that… pillow ticking? They made an interesting choice there. (Ticking is a kind of cotton or linen fabric that is used to cover feather pillows. It’s woven very tightly so that the feathers can’t escape. It often has that distinctive stripe pattern.)
About Trump’s age and standards — No, I don’t hold him to a higher standard than other elected officials. (And I’m not a Democrat, BTW.) But his age shouldn’t get him a free pass on anything: either he’s capable of doing the whole job or he isn’t. And if he isn’t, he should have dropped out of the race. I was sad when Biden dropped out, but I think he did the right thing: I don’t think he had the energy to hold such a demanding job for four more years.
About Puerto Rico — I expect you’re right that PR was in bad shape before: even a Cat 4 storm shouldn’t have been able to wipe out the entire power grid. But the man was president and his idea of helping was to go down and throw paper towels at people for a photo op? Yes I do hold him responsible (I didn’t say solely). Also, a couple of sources said he wanted to sell or otherwise get rid of PR after the storm.
OK, I’ll play… A. You think the insult was just to the island? Not a flex: Hurricane Maria left PR devastated and Trump’s response was abysmal, so if PR looks bad today a lot of it is his fault. B. Trump or his people DID approve that line: all the speeches were vetted before being fed into the teleprompters. C. Trump has threatened to use military force against the “enemy within” – and the military tend to kill people. At the least, he doesn’t care if the people he goes after happen to die.
This has been known for a while: “Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.” That’s from a 2015 Vanity Fair article ( https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/donald-trump-marie-brenner-ivana-divorce ) that the NYT linked to just yesterday ( https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-fascism.html?searchResultPosition=9 )
“Welcome, sulfur dioxide / Hello, carbon monoxide / The air, the air / Is everywhere” 🎶
One may debate whether newspapers should or should not endorse candidates. But if, at a tipping point between democracy and dictatorship, the owner of a paper personally stops a 48-year precedent of endorsements, it is logical to think that he is in favor of dictatorship.
Have you looked at W. W. Grainger or McMaster-Carr? They’re the industrial suppliers that a former colleague preferred. (I have no affiliation with either of them; I did make a similar reply to another commenter here.)
Have you looked at W. W. Grainger or McMaster-Carr? Both of them have the items you mentioned – though they only have plastic pallets and I have no idea how they compare on price. I have no affiliation; they’re just the companies that a former colleague preferred.
And having ready access to the details of friends’ lives that you have forgotten even though you care about your friends and really thought you were paying attention? (I think the creep factor outweighs any benefits, though.)
It’s extra scary when they don’t even bother trying to cover up the corruption – as if they *know* they’ll never be held accountable.
Maybe the students could arrange for them to be ripped apart in a tornado, washed away in a flood, burned up in a wildfire, or destroyed by other “acts of god” 😉
Disgusting, indeed! And as a side note – $3 million? That’s $54.54 per bible, which suggests more sleaze and corruption. I have a nice KJV with a ribbon bookmark, color maps, and a box, and it was $25.
Not unlike the plot set-up for “Major League” – with bonus possums
I once wrote to MassDOT to ask the rules for two-lane rotaries – did the cars in the inner lane or the outer lane have right of way?
They replied that there were no rules.
Seriously, who color-codes a map this way? The blue-to-white-to-red gradient suggests negative-to-zero-to-positive, but all the numbers are positive. So areas with no coloration have a *higher* incidence of Alzheimer’s than some areas with a darker color.
Wow, that’s some telephoto lens! You can see the time lag between the video and when the audio reaches the photographer.
Please consider trying again with something nicer, such as 4-ply worsted-weight pure wool yarn (preferably not superwash, which can be a bit slippery). Also try decent needles with a bit of grip – maybe birch or bamboo. I agree with @FluxSagrie about why knitting may be easier than crochet. And I’m happy to try to help you start that second row. Sorry if I’m being pushy, but I find knitting to be really useful as stimming and for dealing with stressful situations. And you can make pretty stuff!
The Cleveland Orchestra, named one of the Big Five in the 1950s and still, according to a NYT review in 2023, “at least on a technical level, the finest in the United States.”
Thank you! I’ll give them a try. It would be nice to be able to work happily with alpaca. Pure merino lace yarn can be a bit fragile, and BFL can be a bit wiry. I like merino/silk blends, but there aren’t a ton of them around.
Me, too! I can knit lace; why can’t I crochet a stupid rectangle?
My floor blinks at me, too! That looks lovely. Are you using Addi Rockets? I gave up on lace-weight alpaca before those were introduced; maybe I should try it again. (Since it has NO loft I would just scrabble futilely at the next stitch to be knit and weep quietly.)