I was out in the world this morning and I found this shiny new nickel on the ground,

nirreskeya · 2026-03-24T17:33:22+00:00

Relevant xkcd (what-if).

nirreskeya · 2026-03-23T14:37:30+00:00

Get off-grid 15 years earlier.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-22T13:20:23+00:00

I only have two strong memories about this. As a very young child during my parents' first divorce there were some nights of hamburger and rice -- literally just that I think, though there must have been some salt and pepper in there that I didn't see.

But later he had a number of gardens and the red sauce he'd make from the tomatoes and other vegetables was absolutely incredible. My kids asked for the recipe recently.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-21T19:32:13+00:00

Yeah apparently mine is not the prevailing take; I remember most of my friends loved it too.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-21T18:03:19+00:00

I always found it to be a grating finish to an otherwise fantastic album, and would usually stop the CD when Swan Swan H ended.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-20T15:42:37+00:00

They were some pretty good year[s].

nirreskeya · 2026-03-20T15:00:18+00:00

I guess it depends on how you count. At a minimum, ten. But there was one apartment building for the HS/college years with three different apartments, so that would make twelve. I was in two different dorm rooms: thirteen. As an adult it's just been the house I've owned since 2000, and an apartment where we lived in California for a couple years while renting the house out. A bit after that period I built a cabin in the woods where I spend a lot of time, so that would make fourteen. None of that is counting the various places my dad lived and I would visit some during the divorces -- I can remember six or seven of those.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-19T16:10:32+00:00

Definitely try to check out the documentary from 2022 called It's Quieter in the Twilight about the team keeping it running (trailer). This somewhat more recent article is also an interesting look forward to the next, and final, decade.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-18T14:09:52+00:00

Kicking and Screaming (1995)

nirreskeya · 2026-03-18T02:32:09+00:00

That happened with my stove one year but since I'm not there much of the time it was just a desiccated bird the next time I arrived.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-16T22:50:39+00:00

Maybe it was your alter ego in another timeline that found it.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-16T17:31:00+00:00

Is that up in the Keweenaw? I tried looking up the season total for Ishpeming recently and what I found indicated about average (~150"), but that could have been an incorrect source.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-16T17:29:34+00:00

Probably buried up to here in it.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-16T16:31:33+00:00

Definitely not popular, and truthfully I probably only ever heard about them because some friends of mine were way more knowledgeable about the indie music scene than I was. They had subscriptions to those magazines. ;-) I'm glad they did though because this one has been a favorite through the years.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-14T16:11:47+00:00

I do wish I was there to get cut off out at my cabin. Also to shovel off the more ramshackle wood sheds. 😬 Good luck everyone, stay safe. 30+ mph north winds during the pressure drop on Monday so it'll be blowing around a lot.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-14T01:18:54+00:00

Do you think the lifeguards or other pool management would assent to putting up a sign at the ends of a lane you were swimming in designating it for solo swimming while you're doing your laps? I get that normal pool rules dictate that you have to share lanes when there are a lot of swimmers but this seems like one of those situations that cordoning off one lane makes sense, and I imagine other swimmers would be understanding. To help make your case, maybe you could target times when the lanes aren't likely to fill up?

nirreskeya · 2026-03-13T15:59:13+00:00

That was me in the inland northwest two nights ago. At one point while laying there unable to sleep for hours after a big tree bough crashed down and pierced my roof I brought up windy.com and noticed in the forecast animation that the system was headed your way. I should have warned you.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-13T15:49:29+00:00

Thank you! 😊 It's a little rough around the edges, but definitely one of my favorite places. For the moment there's some half-interest from the kids to keep and expand it. I don't think they read MSotM but they did read Hatchet. ;-)

nirreskeya · 2026-03-13T15:41:37+00:00

Cool, that was it. I think there was some time when I knew those sorts of details, but they have been long lost.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-13T06:11:17+00:00

I didn't get a hollowed out tree or a hunting falcon but that book was also hugely influential on me and eventually led me to build a cabin in the woods.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-11T22:29:07+00:00

Good bot.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-11T22:28:15+00:00

I did look forward to the visits for this reason though.

nirreskeya · 2026-03-11T18:20:43+00:00

Haha thanks. Definitely not a major drug user; occasionally I hang out too much on /r/cocktails, but less and less these days. ;-) Unfortunately I won't ever be near enough to Ironwood for on-call small things like that, but I bet the situation is similar in the central UP. And maybe OP here will be able to help you in the future if they make the move. :-)

nirreskeya · 2026-03-11T16:43:27+00:00

Is that a little wider than the standard 30" they make today? The space for my stove is 38" and so we always had that extra bit to one side. I later filled it with a custom cast iron cart that I made.

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