Blogging is definitely easy in/easy out.
Oooh, going for walks is one of my favorite things. Definitely easy in/easy out.
The cost side of it can be addressed by building the worlds in Minecraft or Dreams or something like that. Doesn't address the innocuousness issue, though, if Second Life is anything to go by.
It's too bad that wasn't signed by Opinionated Eazy-E.
Also I checked the IP address before commenting, to make sure it wasn't some gross troll who we don't know.
Clausterphobia = fear of a secularized Christmas?
Grading proofs on a screen is so much harder than grading them on paper. Ie harder to maintain concentration.
9 made me chuckle throatily. A commuter moved across the carriage.
Apparently pwned by The Good Place.
Simone: Hopefully, none of you is claustrophobic. Jason: "Clausterphobic? Who would ever be scared of Santa Claus? Oh! The Jewish."
Clusterphobia: Fear of living in the US in 2020.
Both links in the OP go to the same "hottie" link.
whoops. Will fix when I'm back on my computer.
I kind of want a penjing, but also know I'd neglect it or stop seeing it.
I had to look it up, but they're very pretty.
https://youtu.be/Y53k5YCL93c Bosnia train link
The worst dissertations are about public opinion in foreign policy.
I prefer to think of my trolling as svelte and nimble but maybe that's just male privilege talking.
On the svelte, all the trolls were nimble.
Looks to me like the train goes through Montenegro and Serbia, not Bosnia.
The "easy in, easy out" framing has prompted me to think about my relationship to drumming. It was my hobby to play drums, and I think I mucked it up by converting it into my part-time job (at some point I was earning ~25% of my income from music). And I came to think of moving and setting up the drums as a huge annoying chore.
Then, I pulled myself mostly out of the music scene two years ago, once I knew we had a baby on the way. Since then, I've played two or three gigs (just one-off cover shows), and it was so much fun. I got a huge mood-improvement boost, too—the equivalent of like five days' worth or exercise all at once.
More recently, I've finally gotten around to setting up the drums in my basement, so that I can hop on whenever, even if just for five minutes. All of which is to say: heebie is exactly right.
Question: does anyone remember an article, I think that it may have been in "Boys Life" in the late 70s or very early 80s, about a guy who had created a gigantic Lord of the Rings diorama? I've looked through the article index for BL and no dice, as it were. And of course I've googled every keyword I could think of. This has been bugging me for years now.
I only read Boy's Life for the comic about the prod oppressed by the giant robots.
Are you sure they were prods? I would have thought that Beanpole at least was Catholic.
I don't know what I was trying to type there.
26. You are right, I have only now looked at any of the words there beyond the title.
Train leaves before dawn, and about 30 minutes in, the mountaintops in the distance catch the gold of the rising sun, the other golden hour in the unreasonably scenic distance. I would love to try the trip.
Nobody has insight into who buys a 10-inch model of a huge diesel generator case? Or this thing:
http://www.dhsdiecast.com/mobile/Lenco-2000-4-Row-Potato-Harvester-142/productinfo/TR-POTATO/
I mean, aspects of my life would be pretty incomprehensible to explain to someone 100 years ago- my work life is usually focused either on arcana of computing, or working out how best to represent some rudimentary molecular-biological reality to a computer.
And I guess the impulse I had to buy another road bike that I don't need because it was nice and seemed like a bargain considering the campy groupset is not that different- beautiful and potentially useful.
Oh wait, I'm beginnig to understand-- here's a scale model of the Lun Ekranoplan:
https://www.anigrand.com/AA4014_Lun.htm
Farmers buy that kind of stuff. Retired ones or interested who had to get a different job.
One of my favorite books, Trustee from the Toolroom revolves around the miniature mechanics community. Recommend.
There was a guy murdering women on Hinterland who was really into both miniatures and controlling women.
This post keeps making me think of the Thorne miniature rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago.
https://www.artic.edu/departments/PC-15/thorne-miniature-rooms
40. I remember those! "Master craftsmen to Ms Thorne's specifications," HGTV before the fact. I wonder if her contemporary California rooms are particular places.
A couple of those might be escapes or harsh commentary- the Jacobean sitting room.
I only read Boy's Life for the comic about the prod oppressed by the giant robots.
Dink and Duff 4 Life
I'm still mad at the Art Institute of Chicago for having pawned American Gothic during the time of my visit.
40: here's the dark version. I saw an exhibition of them a few years ago. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/oct/27/frances-glessner-lee-unexplained-deaths-dollhouse-true-crime
Also this piece seems relevant and may possibly have been posted here before...
https://unherd.com/2020/03/self-isolation-is-feeding-my-warhammer-addiction/?=refinnar
44: Oh my! Those are quite something. Now I want to know why the lady who died at the icebox also had the oven open.
41: I thought you might be familiar, but it's so tucked away in the museum, it would by an easy thing to miss.
44: The protagonist of Hereditary made dioramas of that sort, recreating traumatic moments in her life.
Artists that create miniature versions of the world is a recurring theme in Steven Millhauser's work.
47. That's right about Hereditary! Fantastic and disturbing movie, except for the copout ending.
I did not know about Millhauser, looks very interesting. Would you starting with the stories or one of the novels?
49.2: Probably best to start with the short stories -- you will be able to determine if it's your kind of thing. I started with Edwin Mullhouse -- I ultimately decided I loved it, but I'm not sure how I would feel about it now.
The problem with the Thorne miniatures at the Art Institute is, they're located next to the first bathrooms you encounter. So it's very easy to pay your admission and wander downstairs to use the bathroom and then boom you've lost two hours marveling at tiny living rooms and tiny grand cathedrals.
44: Yes. There was a brief discussion on the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death here two years ago. I saw it at the Renwick when in DC for the 2018 Women's March.
52: ah, I thought they might have come up here before.
Bolivia, essentially a mining country, naturally attached considerable importance to the uses of nuclear explosions for exploiting mineral resources, and therefore hoped to be able to benefit from those techniques with the support of technical assistance and economic co-operation.
Nukes for Cocaine would be a good plan.
We were going to nuke PA a gas storage cavern but you little bitches were all 'secondary activation coming out of people's stoves wah waah waah'.
54: Viva Bolivia y su litoral! just got a lot more literal
There's a wilderness area in Pennsylvania that reflects our deep commitment to respecting the natural world plus the need to not have anybody live there just now because of some messy work attempting to develop a nuclear-powered airplane. They say it's fine to camp for a day or two.
You see what kind of nonsense I have to put up with.
I got to wonder if anybody even tried to sketch out how heavy a nuclear-powered plane would have to be in order to adequately shield the crew and people on the ground.
I can understand the "there's a war on and to beat the Nazis we need to take some risks with the new superweapon". I just think that by the 60s when somebody shouted "Are you more afraid of cancer than the communists?" more people didn't shout back "How much cancer?"
The book I'm reading isn't great but this line is good. The part about servo-motors is in reference to some heavily-armed robots.
Now that all three ekranoplans had shut down their engines and the missile bombardment had stopped, Hope could hear the surf behind her, the wind blowing through palm trees ahead, and beyond that, the high-pitched wine of thousands of servo-motors heading their way.
Stupid question. Of course it's porn. I should have asked what type of porn.
63:. "hi-pitched wine" ?
Is that the expensive kind?
Not porn, just fluffy sci-fi by the guy who did the Magic 2.0 series.
Rammed by a Robot 3: Back to Perfection
Rammed by a Robot: Episode IV - A New Hope
Episode V - The Robot Strikes Back. In the Butt.