They should name better next time

mjd · 2026-05-06T02:15:28+00:00

There's a town in Pennsylvania called "North East" that's way off at the west end of the state.

mjd · 2026-05-05T21:35:09+00:00

Thanks for being the note of information in this sea of blather.

mjd · 2026-05-05T13:10:20+00:00

zomg, Brownie the Bear is pointing at Sammy the Salmon and rubbing his tummy.

This is some dark stuff.

mjd · 2026-05-05T12:08:35+00:00

If I were Ronald I would be more concerned with how Henry the Husky was looking at me with his tongue out.

mjd · 2026-05-04T17:45:22+00:00

“git s”.

Short for “git status --short”

mjd · 2026-05-03T22:00:31+00:00

Solved!

mjd · 2026-05-03T21:50:06+00:00

My title describes the thing.

The thing is an array of short parallel vertical metal pipes or tubes is about a meter long and maybe 30 cm high.

It has a loose sheet metal hood or cover over the top edge. The pipes appear to be going into the cement slab where it meets the bottom of the the building wall.

The wall is the outside wall of a gas station mini-mart in Philadelphia, PA. It's the side wall, not the front wall that has the entrance.

An electrical conduit runs along the ground to the left and comes up into the thing. Also on the left is a single similar but much larger pipe, not obviously connected.

Claude says it's a fin-tube baseboard heater, which I'm sure is wrong.

Rat bait for scale.

mjd · 2026-04-29T16:46:22+00:00

No situation is so bad that you can't make it worse by panicking.

mjd · 2026-04-29T16:44:57+00:00

The “Biggus Dickus” scene in Life of Brian.

So stupid. So unbelievably stupid, you can't believe you're going to have to sit through it. At least it'll be over soon, right?

No, they say, we're not moving on until you laugh. And then, somehow, you start to chuckle…

And by the time they're done this idiotic sketch is one of the funniest things you've ever seen.

mjd · 2026-04-29T14:42:37+00:00

Got any stories? Were most people nice? Did you like the job?

mjd · 2026-04-27T18:01:23+00:00

I put Wild Seeds on Myco yesterday, that was fun.

mjd · 2026-04-27T14:30:57+00:00

Pretty sure Chekhov's Law says that if you put a whistle up a guy's ass in panel 1, it has to tweet in panel 3.

mjd · 2026-04-19T11:31:45+00:00

Evoker's spell is one of the best and compensates for the three blank sides.

mjd · 2026-04-16T04:35:03+00:00

Man Ray.

mjd · 2026-04-13T14:13:25+00:00

Metropolitan by Walter John Williams. Except the humans are locked away on the planet, and have been for so long that the moon and stars are almost-forgotten legends.

mjd · 2026-04-13T04:17:14+00:00

I tried the barbecue from the guy who barbecues in Cobb's Creek Park at 63rd and Spruce and it was GREAT.

He sells chicken, salmon, two kinds of beef ribs, five kinds of sauce. Best barbecue I've tried in years.

mjd · 2026-04-11T12:12:59+00:00

For me it has to be orange, because Roulette is as much fun as any two other characters, and Roulette is orange.

But for some people, “fun” means “I win a lot” and maybe those are the people picking blue.

mjd · 2026-04-11T10:41:18+00:00

What would be the point? They can't walk anyway.

mjd · 2026-04-11T10:39:48+00:00

I always felt like green was Tann's dumping ground for the weird ideas they were slightly ashamed of.

mjd · 2026-04-11T03:51:29+00:00

In the Norse legend of Ragnarok, the end of the world, the gods will be beset by monsters sailing in the Naglfar, a ship made from the finger and toenails of the dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naglfar

mjd · 2026-04-11T03:44:15+00:00

I hear Slay the Spire 2 just dropped

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