Haven’t done this in a while, I’m inviting people to send me asks. Even if they’re half-baked. Probably better than the baked-wrong stuff I’ve been discarding.
You know The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-1978) was really of its time because the idea someone would become a [calculates] Forty Million Dollar Man today out of being a government employee is laughable
What it really was was a post-Vietnam fantasy that if the government ruined your life it would feel at all driven to make it up to you
Also, its Bigfoot stuff and the X-Files nicely bookend a period of Weird vogue: as an ‘80s kid the Bermuda Triangle and spontaneous combustion seemed like real dangers, my mom was into near-death experiences (which in retrospect yeah, that’s disassociative anaesthetics plus advances in emergency medicine that made once-hopeless cases recoverable), the alien-abduction classic Communion was 1987
You know The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-1978) was really of its time because the idea someone would become a [calculates] Forty Million Dollar Man today out of being a government employee is laughable
What it really was was a post-Vietnam fantasy that if the government ruined your life it would feel at all driven to make it up to you
You know The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-1978) was really of its time because the idea someone would become a [calculates] Forty Million Dollar Man today out of being a government employee is laughable
yorickoid-deactivated20230204:
are the new people made of cells? Can they get cancer? Can they die of old age or can you replace parts indefinitely?
hanging around the maternity ward peering at the babies and asking a passing nurse this
Thinking about Friends (1994-2004) and how the mid-90s were like the last point it woulda made sense for a wannabe actor to settle in New York
Snoop Dogg coming out of the gangsta era rich and famous for rapping about pimping, then taking the outlaw level down to “your weed guy” and forming a cheeky tag-team with Martha Stewart is a perfect distillation of the ‘90s ideology of racial progress
Seen a lot of stuff accounting for Florida Gov. DeSantis’ spending on teacher salaries as buying labor peace with a critical state-level Democratic constituency, but remember Dubya’s domestic policy also relied on education grants with “No Child Left Behind”.
I think a key thing is state/federal education funding is effectively a subsidy to (Republican-voting) exurbs, which face operating AND construction costs without mature property tax rolls, from (Democrat-voting) established centers of wealth
Huh, okay, if I keep up on my iron (it seems to take ~2hr to work through and clear the associated energy delivery issues while creatine only takes ~15 mins for its) I think I could go back down to 2 scoops/day
I’m kind of worried if the aerobic energy issues keep recurring, because the creatine helps replace it with anaerobic but that works by burning fat and I’m honestly starting to run low; I could probably go through 2 more multi-month processes of relying on it but I’d come out a little emaciated after the second
And chances are I catch XBB.1.5 before this set of echoes even fully clears
I dunno if it’s cause it’s a warm winter after a reasonably wet year, or a mast year, or what, but the trees right outside the windows are seeing branch-tip and leaf bud growth like they usually don’t before mid-February at earliest
Huh, okay, if I keep up on my iron (it seems to take ~2hr to work through and clear the associated energy delivery issues while creatine only takes ~15 mins for its) I think I could go back down to 2 scoops/day
I’m kind of worried if the aerobic energy issues keep recurring, because the creatine helps replace it with anaerobic but that works by burning fat and I’m honestly starting to run low; I could probably go through 2 more multi-month processes of relying on it but I’d come out a little emaciated after the second
“Wishing You A Happier New Year!…”
Untitled, 1/1/1952
Series: Jim Berryman Political Cartoons, 1928 - 1963. Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015
TIL that all (northern hemisphere) thoroughbred horses celebrate their birthday on Jan 1st.
via reddit.com
happy birthday to every horse
Aaah, the fat is receding and muscles are developing to the point the only soft parts of my body are from an inch beneath the pecs to the waist and the immediate vicinity of the armpits
