jonah
Formalist, Lacanthrope, anti-architect. He/him. Ambient infrastructure / infrastructure ambiance at archive.org
- Five-year-old had a dream/nightmare about “the long owls” (which he emphasizes by stretching his hands apart vertically). They: - are nocturnal (sure) - are taller than anything - are also known as the “virtrix” (sp?) - can assume human form - have, and I'm quoting here, “hundred-pack abs”
- giving my small son unfettered access to the Lego has resulted in seraphim, please advise
- big deal, I can do that
- A few substitutions, a few missing pieces. Rebuilding my childhood Lego sets
- North, in Providence. Opened in a formerly-loved space, kept it, served some of the most complex but straightforward food I've ever eaten. The "Almost Boneless Whole Fried Chicken" is one of the best presentations I've ever had in my life. I think about it all the time.
- This device was invented by Wilson Call, who, according this 2016 article leading up to his 100th birthday (he passed away at 100 in January of the following year): - was an architect who designed 3000+ structures - mined uranium and skinned skunks for $2 a pelt www.bakersfield.com/archives/arc...
- He also wrote a 150-page book about the entire process of inventing and marketing it, which we have on @archive.org! archive.org/details/anat...
- MOST T.V. SETS ON TODAY’S MARKET ARE ALWAYS ON AND ARE ACTIVATED BY AN ELECTRONIC BEAM. SINCE THE T.V. IS ON BUT ASLEEP, THE COMPONENTS ARE WIDE AWAKE.
- I’m at the Hot Dish Competition
- Reposted by jonahToday's vintage find -- a Hugh J. Hayes printing block from 1948 (image flipped horizontally for your benefit):
- to celebrate his fifth birthday we experimented with Barry Lyndon-style illumination
- Reposted by jonahWANTED TO STAY UP AND SEE SANTA! WANTED TO SEE AND I SAW! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK, DAD! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK!
- My father has outdone himself in the realm of whaling-themed serveware
- here pictured with our charcutertree
- If you're looking for a nice fireplace video tonight, or really anytime, we have an excellent three-hour fire with lots of crackling on @archive.org -- streaming, or to download for later: archive.org/details/TheB...
- the machine translation of the tracklist of the CD of the songs from the play based on the kid's book series about "the world's oldest motorized regular public transport system in continuous service" (Kristiansund's Sundbåten, which I do recommend you ride if you are ever in Kristiansund)
- also that whole part of Norway is possibly the most beautiful places in the world so, recommended, regardless of your feelings about Sundbåten specifically
- when you're doing Networking™
- The kid has developed a serious interest in carnivorous plants so I picked up a few easy ones. Now, to lure bugs into my home, I guess?
- Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke, and a grateful nod to the noble porpoises that saved him after he fell asleep on a surfboard and drifted out to sea fifteen years ago, without whom he might not be with us today www.theguardian.com/film/2010/no...
- New on Flickr Commons -- magic lantern slides from meteorologist and theosophist Clement Lindley Wragge, who invented naming tropical storms web.archive.org/web/20171118...
- The sun, the moon, and spiders. A set of glass "magic lantern" slides from 1922, from Flickr Commons partner Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira. www.flickr.com/photos/auckl...
- in the ~hour of sleep I got (ref bsky.app/profile/arch...) I had an incredibly vivid dream in which the plot was that we had to stop some group who were instantiating an ancient evil by "killing ghosts" in order to produce a computational resource that they were using to mine bitcoin? Much to ponder
- A THANKSGIVING TALE According to the earliest record I can find, about fourteen-and-a-half years ago, I wondered: Does anyone know if I can buy a gravy boat that has a little sculpture of a boat in the center, so when it's full of gravy the little boat appears to be sailing on a sea of gravy?
- the immortal @john13.bsky.social provided this vignette of the lives of those doomed sailors: "Captain's log: Week 12. This endless sea of gravy has broken our spirit. What breeze there is is like opening an oven door. The air suffocates us. This delicious hell is driving us mad."
- I continued, from time to time, to mention this idea. At Thanksgiving in 2015 I mentioned it to my sister, who recalls it as a submarine, whose periscope would emerge from the gravy surface. At some point, this transformed idea was mentioned to my father.
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View full threadAnd every year since and hence, the Gravy Sub will emerge at the turning of fall to winter to remind us that all is folly. Also it is incredibly top-heavy and the level of the pouring spout is far below the depth of the internal chamber.
- the traditional depiction of the pilgrim hats is a nineteenth-century fictionalization of seventeenth-century pilgrims and puritans and such a depiction is properly called a “spurious buckled capotain”
- Two weekends left! It's so cool!
- the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club has announced their fall open houses (Nov 15-16, 22-23, 29-30, and Dec 6-7) and I cannot strongly recommend enough that you go if you like over-the-top model train things www.cgmrc.com/events
- TODAY Kid (4 years old): "DAD! DAD!" Me: "What is it?" Kid: "I will never die." (goes back to playing with his Oscar the Grouch outfit, which is a fuzzy grey sweater and a plate for a hat)
- Abridged notes from the hdparm man page
- as another update we now know the exact leather used in the construction of the 1979 Arion Moby Dick
- I'm on CNN (with a light bulb in front of my face)!
- From @cnn.com: Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...
