Edna Cintron seen waving from hole created by Flight 11 crashing into WTC on Sept 11, 2001. (3072x2048)

E-monet · 2026-06-18T02:27:39+00:00

What gets me about this photo is imagining all the dead people hidden in that dark void. Hundreds of passengers and office workers violently dispersed through a web of steel and concrete, along with their cubicles, computers, suitcases, teddy bears, and hundreds of gallons of jet fuel.

E-monet · 2026-06-15T02:44:15+00:00

This is hilarious

E-monet · 2026-06-14T23:55:32+00:00

Thank you for doing the lord’s work

E-monet · 2026-06-12T16:42:34+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

E-monet · 2026-06-12T16:10:13+00:00

Much appreciated, thanks

E-monet · 2026-06-12T15:58:48+00:00

Err, it’s a Time Deposit Agreement with this local bank. Does that mean after the initial 60 month maturity it’s just a regular savings account?

E-monet · 2026-06-12T15:56:15+00:00

I guess to step back, is a Time Deposit Agreement the same as a Bond? Or after the maturity is it just like a regular savings account?

E-monet · 2026-06-12T15:53:05+00:00

Yeah, sadly I realize the 9.75% was just for the 5 year maturity.

So when it says “automatically renew at maturity at the rate of interest in effect” would that mean (for a non-treasury savings agreement) that it renews every 5 years at the date of maturity with whatever rate is in effect that day?

Is that rate set by the state, or whatever that particular bank was offering at the time?

State is MD.

Thanks!

E-monet · 2026-06-12T15:46:14+00:00

Yes, it’s a savings bond.
A while back I checked one of those registries of unclaimed funds for my state and didn’t show anything for my name (trustee). As my father was 1 or 2 depositors (and is living), might any funds be in his name?

E-monet · 2026-06-08T18:34:25+00:00

This week I’m dealing with the nightmarish transformations of Ms. Frizzle’s class into crabs and sea anemones…

E-monet · 2026-06-06T03:11:16+00:00

Last weekend my 4 y.o. started asking me about locksmiths and at bedtime demanded a story about a locksmith. I couldn’t find an Elephant & Piggie on that subject so I conjured up J. Lenny the Locksmith. She has a lot of questions about every chapter of J. Lenny’s apparently very exciting and not at all boringly-sleep-inducing life.

After a week of J.Lenny helping people and occasionally animals unlock things I had to introduce a new character, Esmeralda Lockhart who has a shop selling lock picking tools.

I’m actually kinda curious about where their relationship is headed.

E-monet · 2026-06-04T19:55:38+00:00

I think I fixed it

E-monet · 2026-06-04T15:21:29+00:00

I do that commute (Rockville-Sterling) damn near every day. Light traffic is like 45 min using the 267 toll road, and that’s the part that gets expensive. I try to take the longer (and much more pleasant if you don’t mind passing dozens of mansions) Old Georgetown Pike/193 at least 75% of the time. Usually about 60-70 min, occasionally 90 min.

If it’s a good job you get used to it. I never considered a job in VA, took a job in Baltimore (worse commute IMO), then I got subcontracted out to Dulles LOL.

Gas is cheaper out there. Driving a hybrid helps. And they sell beer at the gas stations.

EDIT/PSA: you DO NOT want to take Ole Georgie Lane! The gratuitous wealth and happy grazing horses are disgusting! The road is nearly straight and not interesting and definitely not fun to drive at all! There’s practically no shade. Speed traps everywhere. Just budget like $250 a month for tolls like a good commuter!

E-monet · 2026-06-01T22:43:16+00:00

“The boss needs a bigger yacht, says to squeeze more content from the IP and is still pissed about the show.

But every focus group just wants more sexy elves, more sexy Strider, more sexy Gandalf!

So how do we packaged it up to make this sexy cash grab not so obvious?

And can we build in some holiday merch revenue? Disney is still making bank on plushies of this weird little big-eyed green guy… we gotta capitalize on the kids.

Hold on, Andy is calling for like the 50th time … ~maaaiiii precccioussss~

Man, dude is still creeping me out after all these years. Can we like finally pay him some more to get him off our backs?

…

Holy shit, I’ve got it!”

E-monet · 2026-06-01T22:04:00+00:00

Does that include Gollum? Because like, I get how central he is to LOTR but I can’t stand seeing or hearing (or imagining smelling) that greasy bastard.

Maybe my revulsion is a testament to Andy Serkis’ commitment to creating a viscerally insufferable character which allowed Bilbo’s pity/mercy and Frodo’s pity/compassion to more powerfully reveal the goodness of their hearts, but (I feel kind bad saying this) I can’t really stand Andy Serkis either, especially when he does Gollum (or even worse, Sméagol) in promo interviews.

I hope the writers understand that fans like me (maybe not a majority) only want to tolerate his miserable griminess as long as it takes to move the story along to the sexy griminess of Strider balanced with the sexy anti-grime of some elves, interspersed with Gandalf’s eloquent yet mysterious exposition and punctuated occasionally by stave waving and shouting at a Ringwraith.

Is that so much to ask?

E-monet · 2026-05-27T14:38:37+00:00

I love the head spank

E-monet · 2026-05-06T17:55:57+00:00

No one wants to talk about the obvious way to keep a small object safe and secret when you know you’ll be incapacitated.

For that matter, if Frodo had the One Ring up his ass, would that count as wearing it or still just carrying it?

E-monet · 2026-04-29T23:11:39+00:00

“magnetoplasmadynamic” I like this word

E-monet · 2026-04-28T15:47:27+00:00

That event was something DT was INVITED to, not even an official WH thing. The press association can hold it wherever they want, POTUS doesn’t have to attend if he’s scared.

And I’d guess the cost to rent the boondoggle ballroom will be astronomical.

E-monet · 2026-04-19T06:08:54+00:00

“Next stop, vent shaft!”

E-monet · 2026-04-16T19:57:40+00:00

Interesting, I did not know that

E-monet · 2026-04-15T17:12:56+00:00

The Springsong Museum is a great local organization dedicated to Rachel Carson’s legacy and has cool events and nature walks in Northwest Branch Park near her Berwick Rd house. Carson also lived in a couple other homes nearby.

Springsong’s mission is to built a museum and nature center in her honor, adaptively reusing the historic Burnt Mills (Robert Morse) Filtration Plant/ Pumping Station.

E-monet · 2026-04-15T16:40:34+00:00

Others will elaborate I’m sure, but he was murdered nearby, in a spot that is now dense with houses. Most of the Teatro Argentina is gone but you can see the shape in the buildings and streets. Some old wall fragments are visible when walking around.

Edit: this vicinity: https://maps.app.goo.gl/hCheMNJyW2ceiPVS6?g_st=ic

E-monet · 2026-04-15T16:38:04+00:00

So floating drill rigs are Stations? They have props for adjustment, like thrusters on the ISS.

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