Made the bean soup tonight. Too bland, so I added more salt and pepper plus some liquid smoke. Tastes pretty good with an unfussy Bordeaux and sourdough toast.

That’s a pretty cool picture!

@wtg Lion Brand Fisherman’s Wool is decent! Yes, frogging is ripping because you rip-it rip-it rip-it.

Ha! I saw that earlier and told Sharon I was going to make it to serve at Sunday supper!

Steven Ford delivering the eulogy his father Gerald wrote: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/gerald-fords-son-delivers-fathers-tribute-jimmy-carter-117509397 And Jason Carter: https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/jason-carter-delivers-moving-tribute-to-his-grandfather-228881989755

Not necessarily good news, but a whole lot better than the alternative!

Oh no.

Link to video An interesting video (at least for those who find the history of technology interesting) about how Ethernet transitioned from coax to unshielded twisted pair. Big Al

I was in the thick of the massive development effort that made sure no catastrophe happened. Billions of dollars spent, but it should have been addressed over the preceding two decades.

I love vegetables and have coffee and chocolate every day, so this is good news. (The chocolate is milk chocolate, but never mind that. It's got polyphenols in it, plus a smidge of calcium and protein from the milk. I'm sure my statin will deal with the milk fat.)

I’m one of those weirdos who loves performing but still gets the shakes! Back around 2005-2006, I was preparing for a recital where I played several pieces. A year or so before I had had a major crash and burn stage fright event, so in preparation for the recital, I read as many books as I could find about dealing with stage fright. The Inner Game was one of my favorites. The recital went well btw.

Odd that it is new construction and also for sale. I wonder what the owner was thinking? Big Al

Ugh. "our way or no way" seems to be the mantra that's also spread to the current Republican party...

I have never signed up on FB, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, or TikTok. I had a Nextdoor account briefly but deleted it. Juice wasn't worth the squeeze, people post the nuttiest stuff. Like you, wish I had access to FB Marketplace and the ability to post stuff to sell on Nextdoor, but oh, well....I'll just have to live without them.

Good grief!! Re the ads.... can we please not be encouraging distracted driving anymore than it already is???

I don't want to know what they plan to do in there.