“I40”

Happy Birthday?

I came across a ~2014 era memes folder on my NAS and found a few of them in there. Otherwise, I’d have never remembered they existed.

Just gonna have to swipe right and find out.

Nice, and yeah, definitely. Until my senior year English class, the only books were were allowed to use for any reading assignment were Shakespeare or Newberry award books.

Definitely different experiences, but yeah, agree. Generally, I only like to listen to the audiobook after I’ve read it (unless there’s no other option). It’s difficult for me to not miss important plot points when I’m listening to it, but that’s probably just my ADHD.

If you do, post it!

He could just be on vacation? Someone just pointed out earlier today he hasn’t posted in 2 weeks.

No clue, but it very easily could have come from the one I grew up in.

The_Picard_Maneuver is MIA, so I dove into my ~2014 era meme folder and am posting some golden oldies

The genre doesn’t exist, but it should: “Bedtime Stories: Narrated by Morgan Freeman and Stepehn Fry”.

Seriously, this. I can’t stand to read “the classics” but I love reading things that interest me. Would be nice if schools recognized that and encouraged reading just for the sake of it rather than forcing kids to trudge through endless stanzas of “ye art incorrect and thou must protest this injustice. Oh Horatio! Oh, lamentation this! Lamentation that!” Like, fuck, I lost the plot 3 pages of lamentations ago.

Just let kids do book reports on Harry Potter (or whatever’s cool these days). At least they’re reading and their brain cells are firing.

Provided it’s got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories, and a lot of players have “sleep mode” that will either set a timer or stop it after the current chapter. Seems like an easy way to get people into them, IMO.

I have two of Stephen Fry’s autobiographies on audiobook and would basically let his smooth voice lull me to sleep. 😆

Someone with musical talent, please start a band and name it “Lesbian Space Crimes” 😆

I still call it trashy.

Probably just smells like old upholstery. Taxidermied animals don’t really have a smell

I think I’m just gonna get some Pi Zeros + cameras and just roll my own. Probably use the NoIR versions and some cheap IR illuminators. Feed those into Zoneminder.

Bonus points if I can find some old CCTV cameras, gut them, and fit the pi camera to those optics.

That’s a real hero move, and I appreciate it.

Commenting so I can remember to check back for any suggestions. I’ve basically run into this problem:

I was thinking that or they just have a lot of them.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2022/05/18/iconic-photos-give-rare-glimpse-of-smithsonians-storage-rooms/

Neat. I find it interesting that you’re encouraged to touch the exhibit at all. Usually that’s very discouraged.

And in some unfortunate cases, not tidy.

4. Not everyone is a goddamned literal Nazi.

Is Disney in the wrong here? You betcha. Are they a shit media conglomerate? Oh, boy, yeah. Are they anywhere close to what’s depicted here? Not even remotely.

Goddamn, it’s like people around here call everything and everyone they don’t like a Nazi. Starting to not even sound like a word anymore.

Edit: To clarify: There are enough actual Nazis in the world as it is. Stop inventing new ones.