I feel the need to stick up for my Cub Scouts here.
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I feel the need to stick up for my Cub Scouts here.
Deserves to be a print!
I’ll take the snow over pollen any day.
(As I am buried in used tissues and antihistimines).
It’s in the print edition. A co-worker was reading it yesterday before a staff meeting. They can’t pull back all the copies.
Ahem.
An orange plastic tub with a white lid and orange handle. Special Kitty, 14 kg of scoopable kitty litter. Which is pumpkin spice scented. I only saw this abomination once, on the shelves of a Walmart. It is, by all practical measures, a terrible idea. A cat does not desire its litter to be scented with “pumpkin spice” and this may actually cause the cat to avoid using the litter box if they find the scent objectionable.
And pumpkin spice scented kitty litter.
Get well and soon, Tisiphone.
A book! A book! A white book cover with a black silhouette of city sky scrapers and a central chasm. The point of the chasm points to a red drop of blood which hovers over the white silhouettes of two people. The title is “Pagans” by James Alistair Henry. Other text on the cover proclaims “the Times top ten bookseller” and a quote “Enjoyably nasty and frequently very funny.” -the FT, and the following “Two cops. One killer. Hundreds of gods.”
Look what finally arrived!! (At the packet shop, which was then closed for carnevale/mardi gras and Ash Wednesday).
Can’t wait to read!
I worked with the Elementary GT teacher to put on a STEAM day at my kid’s school- lots of stations with volunteers (some pro’s and some parents with a sheet of instructions). The strawberry DNA station was so fun my parents volunteers called dibs on teaching it the next year. Kids loved it too!
Little victories
“A mind somewhat accustomed to the gymnastics of intelligence knows, like Pascal, that all error comes from an exclusion.”
— Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1942-1951
The Euro has been legal tender for over half of this person’s life.
“What currency does [fill in name of country] use?”
“They use the Euro. They are part of the EU.”
“Oh, like [names European country not in the EU]?”
“No— just, no, that country isn’t part of the EU.”
Overhearing the Fire Base Mayor talking on the phone to his sister. He’s trying to explain what is so different (and what we’ll miss) living in Europe.
He just explained to her (a grown adult) that multiple countries here use the Euro, including the one we live in and the one we are visiting.
Um, are you watching the event on delay?
Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After only a few million years for the most massive stars, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the supernova explosion that created this remnant would have been first seen in planet Earth's sky about 350 years ago, although it took that light 11,000 years to reach us. This sharp NIRCam image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the still-hot filaments and knots in the supernova remnant. The whitish, smoke-like outer shell of the expanding blast wave is about 20 light-years across. A series of light echoes from the massive star's cataclysmic explosion are also identified in Webb's detailed images of the surrounding interstellar medium.
🔭 Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (University of Gent)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26020...
At the Olympic Ice Curling arena in Cortina D’ampezza, Italy, Cory Thiesse directs Korey Dropkin as he sweeps the ice in front of a yellow stone passing the outer blue ring of the curling target while an official in a dark blue or black jacket and pants looks on.
They (Cory and Korey) had a great match against Norway and came away with the win on the last end.
Excellent thread
These are excellent dog ears!
Beautiful!! Love the books and the library and the joy in everyone gathered to celebrate.
Statue of Roland, in the main old town square of Bremen, Deutschland.
Oh, I’ve been to the “old” Bremen - maybe I need to visit New Bremen.
We also found a New Berlin, Texas during our time there. You know, in addition to New Braunfels , etc.
Or New Berlin, WI?
Two cocktails a bottle of water and a cut glass water glass sit on a table
Things got better.
But it’s been a hot minute since I went to happy hour on a workday.
Me: Why aren’t you in bed, asleep yet?
11-year-old: “When you’re not around I get crazy ideas.”
Good lord. 😬
Well, we’ll consider that as we look at the housing market in what may be our last temporary fire base.
I think my pre-ordered copy is lost in international shipping. Considering my options to try again… traveling to the UK is (unfortunately) not a near term option.
John Barry discusses the state of American medicine and education leading up to the influenza pandemic in part one of his book.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...
Mondale was a Minnesota guy through and through. Got elected to two terms as a Senator before becoming Carter’s VP.
