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I gave that one up real quick the day I missed a step.

For a delirious second I thought of a different SG500. oh and

Ohgoodnessno. Daylight at the shopping mall. And good shoes, because sometimes there was a woolly mammoth to kick out of the way. This was back in the day of the beehive hairdo — some of which featured real bees. Brought out the best effort in us kids.

Happy birthday, Harper! I hope we get to see some more blade-wielding poses soon!

Age, actually. Gravity is one mean, patient *itch.

When I was young, great sport was to be had racing the escalator sessiles by bounding up the down escalator.

Not sure where else to put this, but somehow, researching my latest vice has become a whole lot weirder. From a review of Ashton small cigars: indicating the side you’ll go into my mouth. from...

today, a wine aged thirty-three. Shown with a Havarti/Emmental/ mushroom bagelburger w/ mustard-shallot Béarnaise.

Stand right; walk left is the pluralistic solution. It’s the same on moving walkways. Being able to stack my pace onto the ssllooww machine pace is of value.

This is a simple imperative to build a better escalator.

A true 20x has optics max 7 mm across. Don’t settle for made-in-C**** garbage that advertises 20 or 30 power but is half an inch (or more!) clear aperture. A loupe is more versatile than some USB thing.

Public whistlers.

That, and herpes.

The thing that still shocks me is that the stuff appears to have spooky powers of migration. They’ve found microplastics in sedimentary layers and polar ice cores far older than our century of plastics.