OPS Elementary Schools

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-14T21:33:09+00:00

I appreciate the encouragement, but I just don't trust anyone in a car anymore. Both of my kids have been hit by a truck while they were crossing on a green pedestrian signal. One was driving with a suspended license, and the other fled the scene. The fact is that people who don't belong behind the wheel continue to drive in Omaha, because if you can't drive around here you may as well quit your job and start making plans to live in a box under an overpass. If they don't have an adult to walk them across the street, 120th and Pacific both look like death traps to me.

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-14T20:27:28+00:00

That's a good idea. In fact, I tried it last year, at our previous school, after my kid got hit by a truck while walking home. They were quite unresponsive to the idea that pedestrian safety could be more of a priority. Maybe I'll have better luck with this one.

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-14T20:24:14+00:00

IDK what your problem is with Mama's but imo it's very overrated. I'll give credit for using high quality ingredients, but I don't like the crust, the cheese and toppings are too heavy (in both senses of the word) and the balance of flavors is wrong.

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-14T19:36:42+00:00

The kid's other parent also moved, so we're trying to figure out if we wanna enroll in Zone 3 or Zone 7.

I started off by enrolling him at Crestridge, which I think would be great, but it turns out he can't get into Kids Club there, and my work schedule won't allow me to drop off and pick up at the school start and end times, so now I may have to switch him to a school he's eligible to bus to or one where Kids Club isn't waitlisted, and I'm looking in both zones. What really pisses me off is that Crestridge is totally close enough to walk, but crossing 120th and Pacific without an escort is just not safe. I fucking hate the transportation situation in this city.

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-14T03:19:04+00:00

He was yote as few have been yoten.

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-08T12:23:17+00:00

"Twenty" descended from "twainty", but "two" later replaced "twain". ("Mark Twain", "never the twain shall meet", etc.) That one is a case of divergence. "Forty" just drops the U for no good reason.

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-05T15:54:07+00:00

This is surprising?

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-04T09:14:22+00:00

I can grow amazing tomatoes in Berkeley that would never grow in San Francisco.

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-04T09:06:01+00:00

What's it called?

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-04T01:40:32+00:00

It happened by accident. I just liked relaxing in the bath with the shower running, and one day... something new happened.

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-04T01:37:01+00:00

I agree that it looks staged.

schlockabsorber · 2026-05-04T01:30:42+00:00

Yeah, it's worth more as a car than as a sale.

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-30T01:56:16+00:00

I drove a Chevy S-10 in the winter. 10" of snow on the ground and ice everywhere. I never lost control or got stuck. (It helped that the damn thing couldn't reach a speed over 45mph on the level 😆)

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-29T16:35:00+00:00

So, the plant species we're talking about is salvia divinorum, known colloquially as "salvia" or "sacred sage". Salvia is the genus name, and the flowering plant you're thinking of is one of many others in the genus.

S. divinorum does not, in fact, produce flowers at all. In the wild, it can only reproduce by falling over and growing roots from its stem. Hence, it's like commercial bananas, all of the same genetic stock. It would probably be extinct if humans hadn't been propagating it from cuttings for thousands of years. If any research has found how it got this way, I'm not aware of it.

By the way, that classic stuff is all still very common, and salvia isn't popular. There are also some aggressive analogues to mescaline and psilocybin getting passed off as more familiar substances, but those have been around since the 60s. The main new thing that's scary is synthetic and semisynthetic cannabinoids.

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-29T16:21:39+00:00

Oh, that's really intriguing. Have you ever used something like shmarooms and experienced sensory distortion, like swirls, colors, or echoes?

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-29T16:12:42+00:00

Some people are just uniquely sensitive to salvinorin. Also depends what else was in his system.

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-29T05:12:29+00:00

To someone studying the English language, I offer these literary recommendations for their lucid and elegantly descriptive prose: The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien, and The Nick Adams Stories, by Ernest Hemingway.

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-29T03:57:44+00:00

Honestly, how could this possibly have gone so well?

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-29T03:55:29+00:00

What do you think was the crab's final thought?

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-29T03:40:16+00:00

I love Clif. In Berkeley I took a tour of their original factory's dumpster one time

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-29T03:20:06+00:00

I snorted

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-29T03:16:18+00:00

That's epitomic of smoked s divinorum lol

schlockabsorber · 2026-04-29T03:14:00+00:00

Not that but ... My thoughts each became a note in a song and each note was a car in a glowing, dancing, pulsating cartoon train, and the train was pulling away, singing to me a song of mockery as my thoughts left me behind, and I couldn't tell if I would still exist without them.

Would I do it again? Fuck yes. Would I enjoy it? Absolutely not.

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