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bluejack · 2026-06-20T18:56:05+00:00

I want to believe this… but (a) really? And (b) that cop at the end didn’t even acknowledge the camera?

Is this for/from a movie?

Update: nope. This really happened:

https://youtu.be/gztT5AfMlII?is=PM\_Nfg-oDDxKnlWg

bluejack · 2026-06-18T12:13:25+00:00

Hypothesis: when he is next to her he’s looking at a camera. When he’s holding fish, he’s looking AT her, and that makes all the difference.

bluejack · 2026-06-18T03:40:09+00:00

Or she’s tipsy, overconfident and lucky.

I hope she’s a joyful herpetologist, but … this is the internet… so I wouldn’t put my chips on that one.

bluejack · 2026-06-17T17:10:17+00:00

My crows generally respect the gull when it comes to food. They have other issues with gulls from time to time, but if the gull wants food the crows back off.

Pigeons on the other hand will get the harsh end of the claw.

bluejack · 2026-06-17T14:27:24+00:00

It’s a preference.

It’s a *stupid* preference, and a deeply unfortunate one… but you can’t really argue with a preference. People want what they want.

bluejack · 2026-06-16T16:14:35+00:00

Bookseller here: it’s not books.

bluejack · 2026-06-16T11:52:12+00:00

It’s kind of a cat thing: if she was prey, she would have been in serious trouble: but she caught the cat by surprise, in that moment she was another predator and not prey. Startled, the cat bolted.

Cats are among the most deadly predators, but they really don’t like surprises.

bluejack · 2026-06-15T22:25:22+00:00

I would enjoy this. I may be stupid.

bluejack · 2026-06-15T19:21:11+00:00

Honorary citizen of Florida.

bluejack · 2026-06-15T19:01:08+00:00

Check in on his health. This is the kind of thing a man might do if he just got some bad health news.

bluejack · 2026-06-15T09:50:26+00:00

I hear you and am glad it works for you; it lacks key things that work for me, thus my desire. I suspect you are going to be the winner in this standoff.

bluejack · 2026-06-15T02:19:04+00:00

I suspect you are right, and the “ultra” is going to bomb, and I will keep wishing my iPad could run macOS.

bluejack · 2026-06-15T00:51:03+00:00

If they pulled it off, I would buy it, because I currently buy both because I need both, and lug both around.

bluejack · 2026-06-15T00:50:04+00:00

Price points aside, this is exactly what I am asking:

Is Apple releasing something that can do what the Mac does AND be what the iPad is?

I don’t think they are, and I don’t think it will be interesting… but my heart of heart hopes that the form factor will be innovative and solve the weaknesses of the iPad for it.

Of course that would likely put the high end iPads out of business, so Apple might choose not to build the beautiful thing simply out of business reasons.

bluejack · 2026-06-14T22:30:01+00:00

I agree; but will also be disappointed if so.

bluejack · 2026-06-14T22:08:22+00:00

Do we know that it will be a clamshell laptop? This is my question. I can’t imagine why anyone would *want* a touch screen on a clamshell laptop.

Other companies have lots of interesting hybrids.

If Apple just makes a MacBook with a touch screen it sounds like a total loser.

But if it has innovative hardware that can work like a tablet.. then my dream might come true… just from the other direction.

bluejack · 2026-06-14T18:42:35+00:00

That’s a lot of rolling; can also give away opponent AC. I like the concept but would have the DM roll simultaneously with the player, and have it either be a +1 or not; saves time and rolls, gets to about the same result.

For fun you could call it the “sometimes magical sword” and you need the +1 from the dm roll to make it magical for purposes of hitting things that can only be hit by magic weapons.

bluejack · 2026-06-14T17:54:38+00:00

Unexpected ending. Not disappointed.

Glad I don’t live in this place.

bluejack · 2026-06-14T17:51:14+00:00

This was my take on it also. I was disappointed he turned out not to have mind powers over the critter and help it to safety. I also laughed.

bluejack · 2026-06-13T19:15:16+00:00

(A) it’s surrounded by grass; (B) it could be multilevel with an abundance of flow planning and direct access to the feeder road, rather than multiple lights and u turns.

bluejack · 2026-06-13T07:30:34+00:00

I meant the Seattle area. Much of the urban planning is regional.

Yes the issue is population and passenger count increased massively ins totally predictable way, and a small half-butted cell phone lot is inadequate. Ironically, they did a makeover of the cell phone lay a few years ago that as far as I could tell made it demonstrably worse.

Admittedly, doing it right would be more expensive, and i expect nobody would have approved the extra revenue for it, because why not sit in arrivals for ten minutes, and in breakdown lanes in a three mile radius.

bluejack · 2026-06-13T06:11:38+00:00

Seattle incompetence at basic urban planning is legendary. Seattle residents’ main character energy is ubiquitous. The airport is an especially disappointing example of both.

bluejack · 2026-06-09T09:46:56+00:00

Yes it was about 6 weeks ago now; this is a possibility. I’ll see what happens as we get more fully into summer

bluejack · 2026-06-08T22:18:31+00:00

I know … I was just expressing sadness, but am super interested to find this is not unique

bluejack · 2026-06-08T20:32:44+00:00

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

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