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Feb. 12th, 2018 10:27 pm35 days until the Vernal Equinox
I forgot to put the story about how Falco saw Marianne (?) eating some antipasto and decided he wanted some too. I also found out that the state of emergency in France officially ended last November, replaced by new draconian antiterror laws.
I found a fine example of how not to instagram your European vacation: a shot of gray skies over a gray tarmac inside a gray airplane with gray rain on the window. Michael says it depicts soul-crushing isolation perfectly well.
I also found out what I'm missing by having an ad blocker. I said that the reason Instagram was taking so long to load is because they were trying to find my Asian soulmate. I'm not sure where that came from, as I was looking for a picture of what turned out to be a red-shouldered hawk. I also got an ad for what I can only assume is an airline in China, which makes slightly more sense.
I had a thought about someone writing music for airports and it turns out that's a thing, written in the distant past of 1978, maybe not quite that age in which air travel was considered a wonderful new thing and people dressed up to fly. And then there's Music for Real Airports, which depicts the brave new world of 21st century travel, the need to show up two hours before your flight, the machines that take pictures of your genitals, the overpriced food that is on par with the food in Avernum, the cranky passengers, the seats designed for people who are no more than five feet tall, the fact that if you're not obviously of western European descent, you're lucky to be allowed to land at all. I'd say something about air travel being further proof we live in a dystopia but the Donald Trump presidency is proof enough.
The last time Michael was on a plane, he brought a can of peanuts and almost missed his flight because of the metal detector. I think Southwest, for example, expects you to smuggle food aboard and could probably replace their flight attendants with monkey butlers or automata and prerecorded messages accounting for every possibility to save money. Although monkey butlers are unsanitary and get stressed out.
I wouldn't know any of these things; the last time I was on a plane, there were two Germanies and two Yemens.
I had a friend who was really into ambient and electronic music. I say "had" because we had a falling out for reasons that don't make much sense but at least they were reasons.
I did learn about BT and Future Sound of London and Yasume via him, so I guess that's a positive.
He never brought up Brian Eno and I couldn't ask him even if I wanted to.
fun fact: a large amount of power outages are caused by squirrels. When they do get electrocuted and rehabilitated, they have spiral reverse mohawks.
We had a mink who decided that instead of hunting for his food, he'd instead try to break into someone's house and eat the food in his kitchen. We released it; it hissed at Rob and then ran off into the wilderness. I'm not sure where Jack is, but we had the mink so briefly that it doesn't matter. We released the screech owl as well.
Rodos can handle exceptionally high amounts of lead in their system. This may or may not be because they're well-adapted for urban environments.
Emily says "you can bring a picture of me and talk to it."
Christine says "you can't go on a road trip by yourself. That's sad."
Taylor says "Yes you can and yes it is."
Taylor drove all the way from Arizona and Christine once drove by herself to Pennsylvania and it got really boring.
Emily says the goose looks like he has depression.
She's been to Ecuador, Croatia, and Bosnia and other places.
Lauren said that the Thursday people have their own names for the turtles, for instance, the spotted turtle is Galaxy (I know him as Spot) and the terrapin is Bandit.
Diana, or perhaps Deanna, or perhaps Diana with some kinds of accent markigns on it, has a boggle, which is a beagle and boston terrier, not any sort of goblin. Deanna looks a bit like Leah, and had a shirt with stripes and roses on it and a pendant of a wolf's head.
Kara has a white mouse.
Someone brought in two birds, Feo and Caqui. Feo means "ugly" and Caqui means "Japanese persimmon."
burning question: what do you think Douglas Adams would have to say about 21st century air travel?
I forgot to put the story about how Falco saw Marianne (?) eating some antipasto and decided he wanted some too. I also found out that the state of emergency in France officially ended last November, replaced by new draconian antiterror laws.
I found a fine example of how not to instagram your European vacation: a shot of gray skies over a gray tarmac inside a gray airplane with gray rain on the window. Michael says it depicts soul-crushing isolation perfectly well.
I also found out what I'm missing by having an ad blocker. I said that the reason Instagram was taking so long to load is because they were trying to find my Asian soulmate. I'm not sure where that came from, as I was looking for a picture of what turned out to be a red-shouldered hawk. I also got an ad for what I can only assume is an airline in China, which makes slightly more sense.
I had a thought about someone writing music for airports and it turns out that's a thing, written in the distant past of 1978, maybe not quite that age in which air travel was considered a wonderful new thing and people dressed up to fly. And then there's Music for Real Airports, which depicts the brave new world of 21st century travel, the need to show up two hours before your flight, the machines that take pictures of your genitals, the overpriced food that is on par with the food in Avernum, the cranky passengers, the seats designed for people who are no more than five feet tall, the fact that if you're not obviously of western European descent, you're lucky to be allowed to land at all. I'd say something about air travel being further proof we live in a dystopia but the Donald Trump presidency is proof enough.
The last time Michael was on a plane, he brought a can of peanuts and almost missed his flight because of the metal detector. I think Southwest, for example, expects you to smuggle food aboard and could probably replace their flight attendants with monkey butlers or automata and prerecorded messages accounting for every possibility to save money. Although monkey butlers are unsanitary and get stressed out.
I wouldn't know any of these things; the last time I was on a plane, there were two Germanies and two Yemens.
I had a friend who was really into ambient and electronic music. I say "had" because we had a falling out for reasons that don't make much sense but at least they were reasons.
I did learn about BT and Future Sound of London and Yasume via him, so I guess that's a positive.
He never brought up Brian Eno and I couldn't ask him even if I wanted to.
fun fact: a large amount of power outages are caused by squirrels. When they do get electrocuted and rehabilitated, they have spiral reverse mohawks.
We had a mink who decided that instead of hunting for his food, he'd instead try to break into someone's house and eat the food in his kitchen. We released it; it hissed at Rob and then ran off into the wilderness. I'm not sure where Jack is, but we had the mink so briefly that it doesn't matter. We released the screech owl as well.
Rodos can handle exceptionally high amounts of lead in their system. This may or may not be because they're well-adapted for urban environments.
Emily says "you can bring a picture of me and talk to it."
Christine says "you can't go on a road trip by yourself. That's sad."
Taylor says "Yes you can and yes it is."
Taylor drove all the way from Arizona and Christine once drove by herself to Pennsylvania and it got really boring.
Emily says the goose looks like he has depression.
She's been to Ecuador, Croatia, and Bosnia and other places.
Lauren said that the Thursday people have their own names for the turtles, for instance, the spotted turtle is Galaxy (I know him as Spot) and the terrapin is Bandit.
Diana, or perhaps Deanna, or perhaps Diana with some kinds of accent markigns on it, has a boggle, which is a beagle and boston terrier, not any sort of goblin. Deanna looks a bit like Leah, and had a shirt with stripes and roses on it and a pendant of a wolf's head.
Kara has a white mouse.
Someone brought in two birds, Feo and Caqui. Feo means "ugly" and Caqui means "Japanese persimmon."
burning question: what do you think Douglas Adams would have to say about 21st century air travel?
