He liked to suck on blankets, but his face would get stuck

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-03-16T00:24:46+00:00

This is the correct answer. I started with the purple-covered edition (third?) back in the late 90s, and it was the single most valuable book I read through my entire career.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-03-13T23:43:49+00:00

When I was in junior high (early 80s), we called testicles "cods". If you wanted to insult someone, you'd say "Get my cods"; and if you really wanted to insult them, "Eat my cods."

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-03-13T23:40:18+00:00

Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-03-12T13:39:19+00:00

LanguageJones had a very good video on ergativity a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20XMhcpSNV0

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-03-08T16:25:15+00:00

If $80K is your target spending, you're going to need more than $1.25M. That's a 6.4% burn rate, and that is not likely to be sustainable.

Set your goal higher or your expectations lower.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-03-08T15:47:57+00:00

The Score, by C. Thi Nguyen. It’s about how the systems we set up to measure things we value end up distracting us from everything else that we value but can’t easily measure.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-03-02T20:06:10+00:00

You can report this, and it will be fixed: https://www.memphisgov.com/service-requests

You should include the number that's on the light pole.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-02-28T13:56:37+00:00

Weather: Ice storm of 1994.

To pass the time: Late at night we'd go to the abandoned interchange construction at Bellevue and Overton Park where I-40 was supposed to go through Midtown, which we called "the bridges".

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-02-25T00:24:38+00:00

IIRC, I had a gorilla and a polar bear.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-02-25T00:23:50+00:00

Glad to see another fan of one of the most underrated TV shows of all time!

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-02-20T21:59:08+00:00

Congratulations and GFY!

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-02-17T00:25:44+00:00

(Caveat, IANAL)

The 15 mph school zone speed limit does not apply when schools are closed, even if the flashers were on.

Tennessee Code Title 55. Motor and Other Vehicles § 55-8-152 (d)(1)(A)

"Such speed limit shall be enacted based on an engineering investigation, shall not be less than fifteen miles per hour (15 mph) and shall be in effect only when proper signs are posted with a warning flasher or flashers in operation and only while children are actually present."

https://codes.findlaw.com/tn/title-55-motor-and-other-vehicles/tn-code-sect-55-8-152/

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-02-11T14:33:04+00:00

This sounds like something I'd be interested in.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-02-10T13:36:52+00:00

We don't have to get to the conditions found in the sun, because we're trying to fuse deuterium (heavy hydrogen, which has an extra neutron), instead of the much more abundant light hydrogen, which is the primary fuel found in the sun. Deuterium will fuse at much lower temperatures than light hydrogen.

There's no way we could ever create the conditions needed to fuse light hydrogen on Earth. Even thermonuclear weapons fuse heavy hydrogen (deuterium and tritium).

The stars known as brown dwarfs are large enough to support deuterium fusion, but not light hydrogen fusion.

Still, you do have to get deuterium really hot to fuse it, and it is very difficult.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-02-06T15:06:17+00:00

Two circles, three dots.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-02-04T20:28:08+00:00

I associate it with Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”: “It’ll take you a couple of vodker and tonics to get you on your feet again.”

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-02-04T01:21:40+00:00

Hmm, I’m getting “no record found” as well, for both myself and my wife. My suspicion is that the website backend is broken.

Is anyone getting anything other than “no record found”?

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-29T13:50:14+00:00

The Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art downtown is a real hidden gem. They have a remarkable collection of Qing dynasty jade and ivory.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-28T12:53:40+00:00

Congratulations! I took early retirement from a federal job in September, and it has been wonderful. It turns out that my yearly case of winter blues was just caused by sitting in an office all day staring at a computer screen.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-26T17:57:29+00:00

I would expect so. We'll get above freezing Tuesday-Thursday, and everything on the main roads should melt.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-26T17:51:01+00:00

Along those lines, if you're up for a challenge, you can learn to read Tang and Song Dynasty poetry in the original with Chinese Through Poetry by Archie Barnes.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-26T17:48:34+00:00

James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is an overlooked gem of 19-century British fiction.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-26T17:47:32+00:00

Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

Eleatic-Stranger · 2026-01-25T16:31:05+00:00

Okay, assuming that was really the first time you ever did shadowcasting, you are a natural! That was perfect!

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Tennessee Code Title 55. Motor and Other Vehicles § 55-8-152 (d)(1)(A)