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  1. Going to the Dr soon for the first time in 4 years, basically just to get a referral for a vasectomy. Feeling pretty good at 36, but my younger siblings are currently pissing out kidney stones and incapacitated from back pain. Hopefully I inherited all the healthy genes. That shit does not sound fun.

  2. On 5/25/2024 at 1:00 PM, Hank Kingsley said:

    Very fitting that Royce White couldn’t make it in the NBA due to serious mental health issues and now he’s this close to a United States Senate seat.  

    Wow, I didn't know he was THAT Royce White. If you fail at your chosen profession, run for office as a GOP, I guess.

  3. 19 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I can shovel snow and put more clothes on.

    The heat wasn't a problem before we had kids - we would just veg inside.  With kids comes various activities, sports and otherwise.

    I was at home with a one year-old all last summer. Good times. I don't know if it will be any easier with him being 2, but at least he's in daycare now. I was really starting to lose it by August.

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  4. 2 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

    I've had this same conversation and idea. The wife, and moreso her family, have "no use" for a diverse vocabulary. Ironically, she's a great communicator, which illustrates that accumulating an inventory of language doesn't always facilitate getting one's ideas across, or vice versa.

    But the purpose of language to communicate nuances tactfully, elegantly or artfully is lost on them. "Just use the simple word." 

    Succinctness has its place but the increasing disdain for language, as you note, isn't without consequences. If only monotony and boredom.

    But I think that notion dovetails with an insecurity and a fear of words, which is just a fear of ideas, that extends into book burning. It is increasing, and spoiler alert, in Texas and Florida the most. That could go full CR as well; I digress.

    I've recently renewed my interest in writing and started noticing these things, so I also started a list of words. I save the ones I come across that have a delightfully specific meaning.

    Altricial was one, a zoological term describing animals born helpless and requiring significant care until older. It struck me it can apply to many people well-past childhood.

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  5. Was out of town last week, so I only just resumed my work on the cabinets. Waiting for the last couple shelves to cure, but started to put up my doors. I'm really pleased overall, except the fit is just slightly off on some of the doors. I'm not sure if they were this way before (certainly possible, all I could see was the painful honey oak), or if not keeping track of specific hinges threw it off just a little bit. Any suggestions to perfect the alignment?

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  6. I need to sprinkle some classics into my non-fiction. I don't know that it's fair to mention any that I particularly hated, since they were primarily in high school and I was "forced" to read them. I have tried to start The Sound and the Fury a couple of times without picking up much steam.

    Top 3 are...

    1. 100 years of Solitude- It's been a decade since I read this, and I'm hopefully going to Colombia in a couple months, so due for a re-read.

    2. 1984- I'm a glutton for punishment I guess, because well-done books/shows/movies that are terrifying and depressing are often my favorites. 

    3. East of Eden- My now-wife gave me this to read when we first started dating, so fortunately I loved it just as much as she did. Multi-gemerational stories seem to capture my attention (see #1).

    Catch-22 and A Brave New World probably round out the top 5. Man, I really need to read more.

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  7. I feel like most people are at least passingly familiar with dinosaurs and animals of the ice age. But the time between produced some really weird shit that hardly anyone knows about. Paraceratherium, gigantopithecus, fucking entelodonts? Aka giant rhino-giraffe, sasquatch and hell pig. Terrifying.

  8. Prehistoric shit is my jam, so I picked this up at the library and I know I'm going to love it just a few pages in. Rach chapter, he describes a specific location of a given epoch/era as if you are there, observing the landscape and its inhabitants.

     

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  9. May be a pen-raised escapee, but given the craziness of that storm, a bird blowing in from the Katy Prairie seems possible. Definitely looks like a bobwhite, despite the odd coloration.

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  10. Cross-post from birding thread. It's moments like these when I really wish I was a photographer, and not just holding my phone up to my binoculars. This red-tailed hawk pulled a purple martin right out of the house. Its comrades were not pleased.

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  11. This red-tailed hawk could not give fewer fucks about the dozens of purple martins mobbing it as it calmly landed on the side of the house, jammed its talons into a hole and pulled out one of the birds.

     

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  12. I'm confused if people are unaware of these facts, don't believe them, don't care or don't think that it will impact them or their offspring. It baffles me, honestly.

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  13. And by will have devastating consequences, I mean is having devastating consequences currently. It's not just a turtle going extinct here or there. Biodiversity loss will harm future generations of humans. So I believe that while population decline may put a financial burden on generations such as my own, fewer people consuming less is a good thing long-term, for both people and the planet.

    Insect populations plummeting

    North America has lost 3 BILLION birds

    All wildlife populations collapsing

    Massive loss of natural habitat

    Fisheries are depleted

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  14. 2 year sleep regression is underway. I don't know if that's a typical thing, but he will NOT fall asleep in his crib. Once he's out, he can be moved there and will usually sleep through the night. 

    I'm ready to get back to sleep training and let him cry it out, but my wife is understandably reluctant, because there is a 50/50 shot that he will work himself up into a coughing fit and puke everywhere. Fun stuff.

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