Hope you’ve already got any Valentine’s Day stuff planned, because it’s tomorrow.
Why would you try to bring this back?
Make sure to drink it all up by Ash Wednesday.
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Well, at least we’ve got that straightened out.
The things they can’t do? Like stairs?
Facebook (now Meta) got in deep shite for something similar.
No farm is illegal on stolen land!
Not safe inert helium?
I’m 100% waiting for someone to get stuck because the batteries run out.
As it’s Valentine’s Day, I’ll give you two cocktails to decide between
Love & Murder
- 4 parts (1 oz) Campari
- 4 parts (1 oz) green Chartreuse
- 4 parts (1 oz) lime juice
- 3 parts (0.75 oz) simple syrup
- 4 drops saline solution (5:1 water to salt ratio, or just add a small pinch of salt to the glass you’ll be pouring it into)
Add all the ingredients to your shaker with ice, shake until chilled and combined, and strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass
Pink Squirrel
- 1 part (0.75 oz) creme de noyaux (almond flavored creme liquor, you can sub out Amaretto here, but it won’t be pink)
- 1 part (0.75 oz) white creme de cacao
- 2 part (1.5 oz) heavy cream
Add these ingredients to a shaker with ice, shake until chilled and combined, and strain into a chilled glass. Garnish for this is traditionally some freshly grated nutmeg.
I’ll lave which one you decide to go with up to you, it’s not like I have any control over your choices. Hope your weekend goes as you desire.
Do you ever feel like you have too much straight booze, and not enough mixers? I sure do. I don’t have Chartreuse of any color, Crème de Noyaux, or creme de cacao, and my bar cabinet is already in imminent danger of shelf collapse. And the vermouth is crowding out everything else in my fridge door…
Ah, for me the key is a basement bar that has a full set of shelves to hold bottles. Most of my collection fits there, with some that sit on the bar, and a couple that are tucked beneath the bar. I don’t have creme de noyaux, but I do have all the other mixers.
The blue curaco I bought when I was first getting into bartending took a damned long while to kill, as there’s no good reason for it to exist.
Sorority girls aren’t a good reason?
Brett knows.
OMG I remember that.
There was a brief time in my life where I used to make cocktails by the pitcherfull using blue curacao.
EvilSheldon:
Wasn’t in college when I turned 21, and there aren’t exactly sorority girls around here.
That was….a night.
Do you remember who else was on that zoom? Probably Western Sloper.
*sniffle*
*pours out a 40 in remembrance*
Damn, is WS no longer with us? How did I miss that?
No longer ASSOCIATING with us.
I’m w JI on sloper. Eek. RIP.
No longer ASSOCIATING with us.
Oh hell, you mean he came to his senses? Maybe stopped drinking as much? As long as he is on this side of the grass, all good.
Oh. Well. I mean, when you put it like that… Yes.
His loss on not reading your Friday serial.
In Before times, I’ve certainly *used* mixers before, but I’ve never purchased or owned any. I remember using orange bitters for something, once.
Were I to get or win a few $billion here or there, I’m confident I’d eschew extravagant and silly spending, largely due to my upbringing and never being ‘poor,’ where such displays are rather common when fleeing that bottom income bracket.
I suppose I understand the impulse to take a bath in Crème de menthe or Chanel No. 5, but I believe I could stave it off. (There are infinite future possibilities where I could be (easily) convinced to turn some monetary charm on, so I won’t say I wouldn’t *ever* be overly-indulgent, but it’d be rather rare.)
Most liqueurs and accent bottles will last for a very long time. So early on, when I was buying a bottle of liquor, I would pick up one bottle of a liqueur or accent as well. There’s also lots of ways to substitute and swap out ingredients when it comes to making a good cocktail.
I would not recommend bathing in creme de menthe… seems like it would be… sticky.
I don’t have any gay booze like White Claw or white zin.
I used to have tons of mixers and liqueurs around at all times, and I loved learning new cocktails to mix. I still remember most of them.
Then I got a little burned out with it and switched mostly to just sipping some kind of nice liquor on the rocks (or on one of those big ice spheres).
I actually got in touch with my inner Russian or something and switched to vodka these past couple winters. There really is something satisfying about coming in from the freezing cold and sipping vodka. It just fits for some reason.
Not before somebody who hurts him or herself sues. “I was standing at the corner and without any warning the shoes propelled into the intersection where I was struck by a passing car.” BTW they will also sue the driver of the car as well, because “insurance”.
Yup. I remember “shooting squirrel” back in high school. And, some of it was pink!
I suddenly feel naked and unwell…
Pink Squirrels always make me think of Crystal from the early seasons of Roseanne. “And keep ’em coming.”
“Our commitment is to long-term, methodologically sound research on issues and conditions that shape people’s lives,” a spokesperson for the agency said. “That work will continue through the Gallup Poll Social Series, the Gallup Quarterly Business Review, the World Poll, and our portfolio of U.S. and global research.”
Polls are a hoax.
Unlike stripper poles, which are real.
I survived Florida.
“The things they can’t do? Like stairs?”
My career as a robot collaborator is over before it starts.
De rigueur:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZL6RGkPjws
Always a great reference, ToG!
Amazing how easily amused people used to be.
For rhy (and no, I don’t absent myself from this):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgOdMSIAH1Q
Happy birthday to Woodchipped Wednesday!
‘E-bike for your feet’: How bionic sneakers could change human mobility
Or, here’s a thought, use your legs.
Yes, I see some cases for the disabled, etc., but if you want to get stronger, build endurance, etc., you have to do the work. Paying for a gadget to work for you isn’t helpful.
“Doing the work” is a white supremacist concept perpetuated by the patriarchy, Grummun.
Usually when I see someone on an e-bike, my first reaction is “cheater!” But then if it’s some old guy or overweight person I figure if that’s what it takes for someone to extend their years of exercise or to get started exercising, then it’s probably a good thing.
You should see the hills around here… Although there are a couple of steel-calf regulars bicycling the old-fashioned way.
Yeah the e-bikes I’ve tried here can’t make it up any of the hills that surround downtown where I live. Sometimes I see some college kid huffing and puffing up one of those streets but attempting that would probably put me in the hospital.
Yeah, I have been thinking about buying a eTrike, as a way to get riding again.
I like that idea. Bit afraid of falling over and breaking something these days.
Dear Glibbies hive mind.
I’m being a temp property manager for Bro#2 until I get this fucker sold.
It has a gopher-sized hole in the dirt at the foundation that’s letting water into the basement (quite a bit). I don’t know if the foundation itself has a hole in it, or a gap in the mortar or what (like, I don’t know if the foundation itself is damaged). It’s a field-stone foundation (old house, normal around here) that’s been tuck-pointed, but obviously not well, since I still have this issue and I’m not sure it’s NOT a rodent digging the hole.
What trade would I call for this? Plumber? Mason? Foundation? It seems like a tiny job for companies like that. No, I don’t want to half-ass it with steel wool and spray foam, but I will if I have to.
https://flexsealproducts.com/
Foundation guy first
Mike Rowe has been advertising for a foundation company around here. Who knows, you might hit the jackpot.
Stairs? Nooooooo
I thought about using that one, but the taint of the later games has me leary of it. I did see that Prime Gaming was giving away Tiny Tina’s this month, so I can verify that’s terrible without paying money.
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands did not hold interest, didn’t finish it. Which is really disappointing, I think Assault on Dragon Keep is the best of the BL2 DLCs. BL3 I at least finished, although there is very little interest in replaying. BL4 is going to have to go on an 80% sale before I think about picking it up.
One of the last videos games I played. Good stuff.
Have some tendentious sophistry
I have a challenge to all the patriots out there who fly “Don’t Tread on Me” flags and talk about upholding the Constitution. This is your moment. You’ve spent your entire lives talking about resisting tyranny. Now it is happening right before your eyes.
Pretti was not just a cosplay patriot. He dared to exercise the First and Second Amendment rights you claim to believe in. And they killed him for it.
What are you going to do about it?
Appeal to magic.
served as Southern California chair for John McCain’s primary campaign
Grifter for a grifter – yeah, your opinion means jack-shit to me.
We could point the author to the Angry Cops video where we walks through the incident moment by moment explaining why everyone involved is a asshole but the shooting was awful, but lawful.
Mmm-hmm. Sorry, Chris, but you’re not my ally and you’ll never con me into thinking otherwise. I know full well that you would chuck me into a gulag and throw away the key the minute you had the power to do so.
I’d argue that the tyranny was letting in millions of illegals that nobody voted for.
Wild CardThird Amendment, Bitches!“He dared to exercise the First and Second Amendment rights you claim to believe in.”
So if I want to keep it real and guard against tyranny, I have to exercise my rights in foolish ways?
Cool. I’m going to go packing up to the next cop I see, tell him to fuck off, get pushy, and after I explain that I’m just “exercising my First and Second Amendment rights” I’m sure he’ll back off and wish me a nice day.
Put it on instagram!
Paying for a gadget to work for you isn’t helpful.
Like those motorized mini “exercycles” on the teevee. How does that build strength? I suppose there could be some tiny circulatory benefit.
The Hawaii Chair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9_amg-Aos4
Where is the source of the water? Rain? Melting snow? Broken/badly bent water line? Did the water cause (erode the hole) the hole?
I’m not exactly sure. I’m hoping it’s not a water leak because the house is vacant, but it’s winter so we left the taps dripping. The water bill is UNREAL. But then, it’s proportional to ours, so…
Yay!
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/micky-dolenz/2026/belly-up-tavern-solana-beach-ca-434f8b9b.html
Boo! 😢
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/bud-cort-dead-harold-and-maude-1236659856/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKwnE_jR8l8 🐆
Soary; better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPqxNzhyp7w
Mojeaux-
I had a water-in-the-basement problem once which was caused by:
a) an improperly sloped roof gutter which was overflowing
b) an improperly graded area which kept that water from draining away from the foundation
Things to look at, maybe.
This isn’t a distress sale, but it does need to go on the market. I’m trying to get it ready. It has new HVAC, new water heater, new roof. Like I said, the basement has been tuck-pointed. Other than this hole, it’s structurally sound.
I had it cleaned out, including old carpet. I need to get a cleaning service and lawn service in there, which would be the only two things I needed, and Bro2 isn’t interested in repairs, but I talked him into at least looking into it.
Earth science is far more sparse on hard data than most people realize. The chemistry of it especially so. It has only been a handful of people in the petroleum industry for the last 20yr or so that have been looking at it and no one has paid much attention to them.
Earth’s crust is a thin film of scum floating on top of an unimaginably vast ball of Iron? and other heavy metals. We dont know the composition of the mantle, outer core or core with much certainty. We use surface pressure chemistry to make educated guesses but under millions of atmosphere pressures the physical and chemical properties of matter are very different.
The iron is a thousand miles or so below the mantle, which itself has a lot of iron locked up in its constituents.
What they performed IMO was basically a kid’s experiment using super duper expensive equipment. ‘Suggests’ and ‘estimates’ and ‘simulations’ are doing a lot of work in that article.
We actually do know quite about the upper mantle, especially the portion that lies directly underneath the crust that effectively acts as the ‘sole’ of the continents and plates as they slooooowly slide around the earth and grind against each other. A lot of the knowledge has been extracted from the many bits and slices have been squeezed out onto the surface here and there, though generally they are badly mutilated and waterlogged (by mantle standards). There’s a fresh chunk of it that’s being actively extruded onto the surface on a weird island on a plate boundary between New Zealand and Antarctica.
But as you said we can only simulate through computer modeling and other means to understand how these chunks acted and reacted in high heat under millions of atmospheres of pressure. And simulations only for what lies below.
I didn’t see any mention of helping cripples in that Nike story. NPR is cripplephobic!
A hero arises
In 2018, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), then a little-known organizer, defeated 10-term Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.) in New York’s 14th District. Now, we may see a similar victory in San Francisco: A younger, tech-savvy progressive, very much in AOC’s mold, is challenging a party stalwart and calling for a new era of Democratic leadership.
The establishment candidate is state Sen. Scott Wiener (D), a mainstream California Democrat seen as the heir apparent to Pelosi. The insurgent is Saikat Chakrabarti (pronounced “shoi-cut” like “boycott”), a founding engineer at Stripe who cashed out after the company became a multibillion-dollar tech giant. He went on subsequently to become a left-wing political organizer.
Chakrabarti co-founded Justice Democrats, the organization behind progressive primary challengers like Ilhan Omar and Cori Bush, and ran Ocasio-Cortez’s congressional campaign before serving as her chief of staff. Chakrabarti and Ocasio-Cortez are buddy-buddy — he calls her “Alex.” Both worked on the 2016 presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
The salvation of democracy is at hand.
This is that guy that wore the eyebrow-raising T-shirt…
https://forward.com/fast-forward/427361/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nazi-adolf-hitler-subhas-chandra-bose/
*spits imaginary coffee*
I wholeheartedly approve of the Dems continuing to march off the cliff to the left.
PS. WTF is with all the many assholes getting rich thanks to American sort-of free markets only to turn around and demand the removal of all freedoms from everybody else? What kind of sick minds follow that path?
Mainstream for CA values of mainstream. Remember, Ed Buck was a kingmaker in CA, before he was convicted of killing black male prostitutes. So Weiner seems on brand for middle of the road there.
Chakrabarti launched his campaign long before Pelosi announced her retirement, framing his message as a challenge to both President Trump’s authoritarianism and what he calls a complacent Democratic establishment. “We are in this era where we need new ideas, we need new leaders, we need people who are going to push the party in a new direction,” he said.
That’s what Mao said.
New ideas, like trying the same shit that’s been done before and killed millions, bit this time for realsies.
EPL round 26, relegation tier update. There were some changes from the midweek games.
Safe: none
Realistically safe: Arsenal, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool
Safe for now: Brentford, Everton, Bournemouth, Newcastle United, Sunderland, Fulham, Crystal Palace, Brighton
Danger Zone: Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Nottingham Forest, West Ham United, Burnley
Toast: Wolverhampton
Changes, as far as I can remember: Liverpool moved up to Realistically Safe and Burnley moved out of Toast and into the Danger Zone. Also, Nottingham Forest has now fired 3 coaches this season.
I left off the bottom tier:
Relegated: none
Man, the Nottingham Forest vs. Tottenham game I’m attending next month will be lit. As will I.
Forest could win Europa League, Spurs win Champions League, both get relegated and England would have two Conference teams in the Champions League next year.
Unlikely that it all happens, but that it could happen is awesome.
I’ll be in Tottenham’s stadium, and I’ve been warned not to root for the visitors. I plan to act as a clueless American out for a cultural experience, which is exactly what I’ll be.
Got taken, as an American visitor, to a Tottenham game c.
1980. Game was boring as hell but crowd-watching was exciting.
New ideas, like trying the same shit that’s been done before and killed millions, bit this time for realsies.
It just needs more cowbell.
I may have a new user name on Zoom tonight.
Damn, Trump must be crushing it.
That was my immediate thought.
PS. WTF is with all the many assholes getting rich thanks to American sort-of free markets only to turn around and demand the removal of all freedoms from everybody else? What kind of sick minds follow that path?
Impostor syndrome?
Survivor’s guilt?
Stockholm syndrome?
Sociopathic narcissism?
Attention from the popular kids
I saw the Little Death Bombs open for Sisters of Mercy.
I’m watching the latest “Sousou No Frieren” and naturally the rating and warnings pop up when I start it.
It gets the “drug/alcohol” warning. I assume because some tavern scene in the fantasy adventure may show some NPC drinking a beverage with the contents unknown.
I’ll follow up here if one of the main characters starts shooting up heroin.
What an absolutely useless waste of time for everyone involved…
“Earth’s core may contain 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen”
But how many right whales is that?
75 million giraffes.
How many courics?
Believing he has passed the world’s biggest stool, he reaches out to the “European Fecal Standards and Measurements” office, headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. The institute concludes he has the world record, weighing in at 8.6 courics – a fictional measurement unit (approximately 2.5 pounds) named after journalist Katie Couric.
1 bono
This will be cited to ban smoking.
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/7mrtVi56Uc
😁
https://www.tiktok.com/@robbneal27/video/7591276028849409310
SOund on
Perfect North in Indiana! Fun fact: Three Olympians have called that “mountain” home.