kontextmaschine:

Now appreciating that the ‘80s Florida thing wasn’t from Miami Vice, that and “yacht rock” were responding to a real period vogue, like the late '70s Colorado thing or maybe '90s Seattle. Like, this:

was from 1982 (Miami Vice debuted '84), released as a single with the duh-its-about-cocaine White Line Fever on the B-side

To people younger than mid-30s: I really cannot emphasize enough that Grand Theft Auto: Vice City played a huge shaping effect on later ‘80s retro and those weird Scottish Ameriboos at Rockstar left the legacy that they have now set some of the actual America’s actual sense of cultural history

things I absolutely know better than to try myself but if I ever get to a point where I could approve them as projects might:

• Daft Punk pinball

lizardsister:

lizardsister:

lizardsister:

all throughout work today all i could think about was that picture of bugs bunny to the lyrics of bitch by meredith brooks

this one

it haunts & vexes me

i once got vagued about by a mutual because of this post because i was “making light of transmisogyny” or something like that

kontextmaschine:

This bar’s getting.… more busy after 11. I haven’t seen that for years, that’s the sign of a young adult clientele with social circles that include food service workers. That’s a very good sign.

we are so back.

This bar’s getting.… more busy after 11. I haven’t seen that for years, that’s the sign of a young adult clientele with social circles that include food service workers. That’s a very good sign.

kontextmaschine:

Always shocking to go back and realize how far aviation had developed and been integrated into the everyday working of the human world before basic principles of piloting and aircraft design were discovered.

Pretty much every failure mode – and there are a lot – was first encountered repeatedly in person.

Always shocking to go back and realize how far aviation had developed and been integrated into the everyday working of the human world before basic principles of piloting and aircraft design were discovered.

greater-than-the-sword:

greater-than-the-sword:

“Credit to the original artist” is not credit to the original artist

“Payment to the cashier”, I say, as I haul a TV out the door of the Walmart

Jews: do you maintain a capacity to return to your hometown for a funeral on 24 hour notice? How close to you does the death have to be that you’ll use it (or that you’ll be expected to use it?)

See, now I like when new shirts are tight cause it looks fine now and it’s only going to look better.

transgenderer:

I traded my roommate some perfume I didn’t like for a bunch of weed which is in spirit a Neolithic exchange. I will give you incense in return for the leaf that gives trance

Okay, mastered 「hose clamp straps」 and got my flagpole set up. Kinda cool application of simple machines to hold things in place with tension, reminds me of building a bike at that “Bike Kitchen” in LA.

Dude, vidya doesn’t lie, swinging one of these overhead is so much more effective at digging diagonally forward and down than a shovel.

Oh God, I have trimmed all the trees around the house so perfectly that this year’s new growth is proceeding in perfect accordance with and fulfillment of my plans, I just did a full circuit and there were only like five shoots that were not merely dead ends (I’ll trim them in winter, after their production gets sucked down thickening trunks on the way in fall) but actually in the way of things that could influence their growth to be less than ideal.

Also all the canopies I opened up huge gaps in in the upper backyard when I first started fixing their structure are filling in this year or next and it looks great, cathedral ceiling with two canopies meeting at the apex, if those trees grew so much since I arrived they were maybe even only 15 years established back then.

Also the black walnut in the lower back regrowing nice and bushy, it’s really still in the stage of getting enough sun for enough growth next year (an adult snapped a few years ago and this is shoots from the cut stump), plenty of legacy roots so it’s not gonna bottleneck on water or nutrients, just let that continue for a few years but keep an eye on developing some leader as a new trunk.

theothin:

bogleech:

nimbasa-city-gym:

corsolanite:

Safety first!

Buckle that shuckle

I feel like this is more for everyone else’s safety because a shuckle in a crash is going to be like an untethered indestructible bowling ball

Finding myself legitimately called upon to tote some things but I haven’t donated to public broadcasting lately

Forcing the knees straight (involved in a lot of variations of standing up) was the last movement I’ve really had to recover. I still have to pull on or prop myself against something rising from the ground, but with the help of a 65-step staircase in a nearby park it’s getting better.

I continue to find insanely great versions of common goods just by going on Amazon and getting the #1 item in the category, recent hits include bucket & mop and broom & dustpan sets and a detachable keychain.

Plus stuff where the variety as vs. any physical location is great, just got a teakettle that is exactly the aesthetic I was going for on like 4 different dimensions