What weird food habits did you have in your family when you were a kid? If you’re a parent, how would your kids answer that question?
I’m remembering that one summer when I went to day camp where the kids brought their lunches. My mom made a big batch of hamburgers on Sunday, and froze them, and so I had a desiccated frozen hamburger for lunch every weekday.
On good days the hamburgers were fully thawed.
My mom was great, and she was a wonderful mother, but she was not a good cook most of the time.
Disney’s new neural network can change an actor’s age with ease. The “production ready” neural net makes actors younger or older for film or TV. By Benj Edwards at Ars Technica
This made me happy this morning
This morning while walking the dog I saw one of the neighbor men in front of his house, getting ready to take his three-year-old daughter to school. I shouted, “Good morning,” as we do, and he smiled a little and nodded back, distracted.
I saw the little girl. I shouted, “Good morning!” to her.
She struck a pose, facing me, standing up straight, with her arms stretched out at her sides and her head held high.
Then I saw that she was wearing red tights, and a green top with triangular notches along the bottom.
“You’re an ELF!” I shouted, and she grinned broadly and nodded.
I hope your day is as happy as hers.
How can the Democrats claim to be pro-union and pro-labor and also do this?
The bill that the House passed forcing railway workers back to work requires the workers to take a deal they voted to reject before, giving them only one sick day a year.
US House Passes Bill Forcing Railway Workers Not to Strike
Ian Welsh:
People’s backs are to the wall. Since about 1980, the predominant policy in the US has been to immiserate workers, especially wage workers. This was possible because the New Deal and post-war eras had made workers well enough off that they had some surplus which could then be stolen from them.
But now a lot of people are up against the wall. Many full-time workers, especially at places like Amazon, live in their cars or tents, for example. There is nothing left to give.
People with nothing to lose are dangerous.
I have become fastidious about washing my hands, maybe even OCD, but I have also decided the dog and cats are sanitary, and I am still entirely clean if I have been petting the animals and letting the dog lick my hands and face.
That’s how it works. It’s just science.
I have become fastidious about washing my hands, maybe even a little OCD, but I have also decided the dog and cats are sanitary, and I am still entirely clean if I have been petting the animals and letting the dog lick my hands and face.
That’s how it works. It’s just science.
“You’ve got to vaccinate people against the hate”
MetaFilter: In Russia, China, Iran, and the United States, autocracy is stumbling and liberal democracy is looking resilient. (But in the US at least, the far right isn’t taking no for an answer.)
Noah Smith: “… although liberal democracy is the GOAT, each generation is driven to fuck around and find out.”
Also Smith: “People love to think of themselves as the inheritors of a great civilization. But I’d rather think of myself as the ancestor of a great civilization yet to come!”
Also Smith: We’re entering another period of conflict between great world powers. In those conflicts, there are no good guys, only bad guys and less bad guys. Hopefully, we’ll be the less bad guys this time.
A friend reminds me that I started getting healthy and fit after I attended a science fiction convention in around 2007, and saw that a third of the fans in attendance were using mobility scooters. I saw that for my own not-too-distant future if I didn’t lose weight and start exercising.
And so I did.
A few years after that convention, I attended another and was satisfied when I climbed a short flight of stairs two at a time.
That’s not something I’d do today. My wind and muscles would be able to do it easily, but my knees would protest.
Hello again, micro.blog! It’s me, Mitch Wagner, getting a fresh start on a new blog.
If you follow me on atomicrobotlive you can keep right on doing that, or you can just follow me here. I’ll explain what I’m doing later. I’m still figuring it out myself.
Would you like to see a one-minute video of Minnie running around the backyard and digging? Of course you would. 📷
Lake Murray in the morning, San Diego, CA, 7:40 am PT. A Day In The Life #adayinthelife
My home office needs a name. I am choosing between:
- The Room Where It Happens
- The Cockpit
- The Boom Boom Room
- The Dangerous Exotic Bamboo Tiki Lounge and Bowling Alley
Robert A. Heinlein’s Red Planet was the gateway drug to books for me. My 3rd grade teacher, Miss Kaufman had a little area of bookshelves in the corner of her classroom. I read Red Planet and a biography of Helen Keller and was hooked.
I told that story on Facebook a few years ago and in 2018 I heard from Miss Kaufman. She said she remembered me well. Holy crap. Mind-blowing for me. I imagine it was for her too – she remembered an 8-year-old boy and now she was messaging with a 57-year-old man, who was typing to her from a hotel room in Florida. But I expect she’s used to that by now.
I think my Heinlein addiction finally subsided, within the last three years or so. The supply is exhausted – he’s not writing any more – and I’ve reread everything a million times. I still do love history though.
There was a new Heinlein published in the last year or two – a previously lost manuscript – “Pursuit of the Pankera.” Supposedly pretty good, but I’m just not highly motivated to read it. It’s an alternate version of “Number of the Beast,” one of my least favorite of his novels.
