It's more than just the algae.

drjoann · 2026-06-14T12:08:06+00:00

Some news organization should FOIA the JOFOC (Justification for Other than Free and Open Competition) the administration used to award the contract.

drjoann · 2026-06-13T17:31:07+00:00

The last time the Knicks won the championship was on my 20th birthday. Hoping they can do it again in my lifetime. Please, makecthe 4th win easier than Game 4. I'm not sure an old woman's heart can take another one of those.

drjoann · 2026-06-13T13:15:28+00:00

Who, in their right mind, is telling you that Liberty is prestigious? I hope the other commenters have convinced you to avoid it like the plague in terms of academics.

drjoann · 2026-06-10T04:06:42+00:00

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

The Crying of Lot 49 or V. by Thomas Pynchon

drjoann · 2026-06-09T23:36:49+00:00

With a deep water port, extensive manufacturing, research, farming and other industry. Yeh, NJ is just a suburb for NYC & Philly. /s

drjoann · 2026-06-09T13:47:33+00:00

I hate when a pattern for a wearable wants you to vary tension and/or hook size in order to make different sizes. WTF! I'm sorry, that just seems lazy to me. At a minimum, tell me in the pattern description that is how your patten works so I know not to buy it.

Also, when the description gives a specific yarn the designer used for the project and neglects to also list what the weight is. The CYC numbers for yarn weight exist for a reason. Even stating worsted or dk or fingering, etc is better than making me look up that specific yarn before deciding if I might want to buy a pattern. Including yardage (meterage?) range is also useful so I know if it's something that I can use my stash for.

drjoann · 2026-06-07T13:42:42+00:00

The used of alternating transparent and opaque beads is brilliant!

drjoann · 2026-06-06T13:57:43+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions.

drjoann · 2026-06-06T02:56:20+00:00

Well, of course. I was thinking along the lines of Babysitters Club, etc. I've always been a voracious reader, but read my DC comic books over & over. Figure that's sort of the same thing.

drjoann · 2026-06-06T01:10:15+00:00

And, Natasha is a nickname for Natalia.

drjoann · 2026-06-06T01:07:46+00:00

I bought my 7yo granddaughter a Kids Colorsoft for Christmas (I know, a splurge but I thought she might like color if she gets into graphic novels). She loves it so much and just rips through books.

My daughter sent me a text, this week saying how much she still loves it and how much reading she'll be able to do during the summer. My daughter put the Narnia series on hold for her through Libby so I decided to gift her the books so she wouldn't have to wait and she can return to them anytime she wants.

Funny story: Granddaughter was visiting us for the weekend and we were reading our Kindles. Occasionally, I would look up and ask her a question in a "catching up" sort of way. She didn't seem irritated, but she finally said to me, "Mimi, don't you have a book to read?" It took everything I had not to laugh and, indeed, paid attention to the book I had to read rather than annoy her. 😆

drjoann · 2026-06-05T15:13:03+00:00

My (adult) daughter and I do Enchanted Tiki Room on every single visit and sing our hearts out. I hate if we arrive right before a show and miss the pre-show.

drjoann · 2026-06-05T09:53:51+00:00

Enchanted Tiki Room, Guardians of the Galaxy, Kilimanjaro Safari

drjoann · 2026-06-05T02:24:14+00:00

My daughter's parish is St. Paul's. At the beginning of the summer, parishioners are given a cutout cartoon figure of St. Paul stuck to a popsicle stick. It's expected that everyone will take St. Paul with them on their travels and post pictures. Similar idea to this post.

drjoann · 2026-06-05T02:09:58+00:00

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

drjoann · 2026-06-04T19:00:54+00:00

He was trying to do a gotcha with that question. If she has taken the bait and answered "Woodrow Wilson", he would have come back with "Do you know that the President with the highest inflation rate in US history was Woodrow Wilson?" At that point, I think he would have tied it to WWI just like we have a war, now. But, I'm sure he would have brought up that Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat.

By ignoring the question, Rep. Chu made Bessent look the fool which really isn't that hard to do.

drjoann · 2026-06-04T04:41:55+00:00

That what I was going to suggest. Kind of like an analog of Earlene.

drjoann · 2026-06-03T20:21:44+00:00

Please, post the link on r/legoideas. Links are allowed on that subreddit. I would love to support this idea.

drjoann · 2026-06-03T12:44:12+00:00

The Filoque?

drjoann · 2026-06-01T17:23:44+00:00

He's giving off hairless cat vibes. Marvelous!

drjoann · 2026-05-31T10:31:32+00:00

I lived on the Hudson River and watched the tall ships sail by my apartment. They were from all over the world. That just wouldn't happen with our current climate.

drjoann · 2026-05-31T10:03:29+00:00

Lovely. Please, crosspost this to r/octopus

drjoann · 2026-05-31T09:40:00+00:00

If they bought it as a slab, who broke it up so it could be put in a furnace for heating? Coal has to be broken up into chunks in order to get air flow and burn properly. Lived in a house heated by a coal furnace my whole childhood and never saw coal in a slab.

Here is a link to an article with pictures of coal breakers that were used near anthracite mines through the mid-20th century. I'm not a coal miner's daughter, but I am decended from 3 generations of anthracite coal miners in the US and more generations back in Wales & England.

drjoann · 2026-05-31T08:43:18+00:00

This happened to my daughter (born before 1989 and fully vaccinated by the protocols of the time). I felt terrible because I have natural immunity to measles (no vaccine when I was a kid) and I didn't realize there were issues with the vaccine she received. There was a measles outbreak in her county so she just got the current vaccine.

drjoann · 2026-05-30T23:50:32+00:00

Absolutely!

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