I explained to my husband earlier that no, we don’t plant vegetables in the garden yet even though the weather has warmed up. It just hailed. “See?” I said. “THIS is why we don’t plant yet.”
March. In like a lion, occasionally out like a lion too.
Bahaha, my average last frost date is May 30th, and I have approximately 700 flowers and veggies already growing in my summer kitchen. I am already overrun!
My spring first garden in Colorado Springs, lo these many years ago. Every plant looked like it had been pressed between the pages of an enormous encyclopedia.
Ah yes, one of my favorite scenes from “Second Hand Lions”.
For the asteroid, another option would be to post “Asteroid free zone” signs…
The one about teaching how to fish reminds me of a Terry Pratchett quote: “Build a man a fire, he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”
One of your memes is misspelled. The one about best friendships, because it ends with “government” spelled P E O P L E.
While a government is made up of people (and pests, parasites, and various ambulatory sociopolitical diseases), it is not the same thing. For example, while the criminals we hang are indeed people, that is not the reason we hang them. We do so to promote the public good, which is enriched by having fewer murdering, raping, thieving b*stards.
I do this at work all the time. The captions on the video *crawl* past, so I turn off the audio and read the transcript. All the passing scores, half the time.
I really agree with ‘I read faster than I can listen’.
I used to think having a video of some event or speech might be useful for the ‘No! did he really say that?’ kinds of questions, but with editing and deep fakes, I cannot count on that any more.
Not so much that, as I can read faster than somebody with an irritating voice can talk. And most of them are irritating. Not only the grating voices, the constant interjections of “uh” and “like” and “y’know”. One of my ex-girlfriends, every 3rd or 4th word was “y’know” and she talked constantly. If I could never hear that again it would be great.
That’s old-school. Modern videos (on YouTube, anyway) seem to use the “computer voice” option nowadays. Most of them seem to selected the default, but “swishy gay guy” and “loost denture guy” seem to be moving up in popularity.
You’d think since they had to feed it a text file to generate the audio, that would be what the speech-to-text thingie would give you, but nnooo, and it can’t even interpret YT’s own computer speech. Half the time all I get is gibberish, and the rest is “requires interpretation.”
Supplementary gripe: idiots who set the audio at about 150% speed, and the ones that set is at about 75% speed.
Primitives while aping the ones that they aspire to often confuse form with function. They create rituals based on memory and feeling rather than tested and true facts. They seek to appear as what they revere without a thought for the toil and trial it took for those worthies to get there.
Thus they confuse pretention with knowledge, prevarication with skill, and hollow words with deeds. Their lies are easy to spot for those with even a little experience of the world, for they are thinner than skin deep and unconsciously fall back on the chants and refrain they were taught.
It is sad to see such a miserable shelf, though. What knowledge lies hidden in those pages, locked away from the hungry eye? What spark of curiosity died to leave them turned away, as if shunning the one who put them there?
Pity the poor fool that leaves such treasures cast aside. A good book can be the doorway to the future. A better one changes you, as you look upon the world with new eyes. A great one may simply entertain, casting away the worries and cares of the workaday world. Books hold within their humble pages the chance for absolutely anything- why spurn them so?
Oh hiding the fact he has bought some of the most ridiculous books out there from politicians, it is also one way to get hide of all those copies of the collected wisdom of Nancy Pelosi.
I figured that since it’s a TV still in his office, he turned them for the camera so that viewers (including TheView-ers) wouldn’t have anything to laud or damn him over by the contents of the shelves. No “Eww! He reads Jordan Peterson!” or “Only Neonazis would have Thomas Sewell and ‘Art of the Deal’ so prominently displayed,” or “What kind of communist reads Chairman Mao?” or “The last time they had a guy with C. S. Lewis on his shelf, he was SUCH a Christian-Nationalist!”
Bahaha hahahaha! ”Better” in the monochrome sense, maybe. Or to people who will read the first thing that they lay a finger on.
Or don’t actually read anything but emails and the NPR site….
It would be better not to waste space with books at all. Shelve tchotchkies or college memorabilia or pictures of the kids. Books turned backwards are almost as useless as a model-airplane totem to a south-seas cargo cult.
Bahaha hahahaha! ”Better” in the monochrome sense, maybe. Or to people who will read the first thing that they lay a finger on.
Or don’t actually read anything but emails and the NPR site….
It would be better not to waste space with books at all. Shelve tchotchkies or college memorabilia or pictures of the kids. Books turned backwards are almost as useless as a model-airplane totem to a south-seas cargo cult.
As far as I know, she has never read an actual book and doesn’t care which one is which. The books all belong to her A honor roll kids who left them behind when they left home.
She is a very nice person, but definitely not a reader.
OTOH she has watched more movies and documentaries in the last year than I have in my whole life.
That’s how she gets her information. And she is up on the latest, so …
But, I never could watch YouTube until I found out you could speed it up. Still faster to read the book, but at least I don’t loose the gist of the thing while my mind wanders.
If one has already covered the book in pastel paper, turning the spine backward seems a bit excessive.
I would think that the fad for arranging your books by the color of their spines is still worse, but at least you can tell what the books are, even if you can’t find them….
I watch some of the HGTV shows. One of those commented to that exact question. They did it for staging to sell a house. They have random books. Or when they participate in remodeling project for an existing home or a home sold but remodeled before moving in, the spines are turned in. In all cases because it presents visually better against the totality of the remodel. Not that they expect home owners to actually decorate that way. That people have taken this as “the way to decorate” when they aren’t readers, does not surprise me. But if not a reader, why waste space on books? That is what pretentious table top books are for (we don’t have anywhere to put large picture books like this). Bonus for us readers if the book is actually read (I did, at an VRBO we stayed at. Book on Teton Grizzly 399.)
It has been a wonderful March Madness so far. (“Why not us?” INDEED).
Offspring survived (and thrived, methinks) trip to Atlanta on two Boeing products; came in 3rd in (regional?) student chapter competition in one aspect.
I liked the one I saw that claimed you are now allowed to bring screwdrivers and wrenches on Boeing flights, so you can help catch up on the maintenance…. I vaguely remember coming across a loose screw in some commercial flight, and asked the stewardess if they had the appropriate tool so I could correct the problem. ( It wasn’t serious, but of the “It annoys me that it isn’t correct” sort of problem ) She said ‘Sadly, no, but don’t worry, it’ll be taken care of on the next inspection.’ That did NOT get me to ‘not worry’ ….
Well, anything you can see from a paying seat should not be structural, just something holding the plastic decor panels in place. At least that used to be the rule.
But hey, Boeing. Engineering is raaacisss after all.
There was a Knights of the Dinner Table where falling your saving throw for a particular poison resulted in instant death, as well as D6 points of damage.
According To Hoyt 
I explained to my husband earlier that no, we don’t plant vegetables in the garden yet even though the weather has warmed up. It just hailed. “See?” I said. “THIS is why we don’t plant yet.”
March. In like a lion, occasionally out like a lion too.
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The average last freeze here is April 15, but the rule of thumb is not to plant tender plants until the mesquite blooms.
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Bahaha, my average last frost date is May 30th, and I have approximately 700 flowers and veggies already growing in my summer kitchen. I am already overrun!
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My spring first garden in Colorado Springs, lo these many years ago. Every plant looked like it had been pressed between the pages of an enormous encyclopedia.
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Ah yes, one of my favorite scenes from “Second Hand Lions”.
For the asteroid, another option would be to post “Asteroid free zone” signs…
The one about teaching how to fish reminds me of a Terry Pratchett quote: “Build a man a fire, he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”
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“My jacket got caught on a doorknob, so I got mad. Then I realized that I wasn’t wearing a jacket and got worried.”
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One of your memes is misspelled. The one about best friendships, because it ends with “government” spelled P E O P L E.
While a government is made up of people (and pests, parasites, and various ambulatory sociopolitical diseases), it is not the same thing. For example, while the criminals we hang are indeed people, that is not the reason we hang them. We do so to promote the public good, which is enriched by having fewer murdering, raping, thieving b*stards.
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We used to hang criminals, now we send them to DC.
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Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it’s the other way around.
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When offered video training, ask for the version for the hearing impaired. You get a transcript.
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I do this at work all the time. The captions on the video *crawl* past, so I turn off the audio and read the transcript. All the passing scores, half the time.
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I really agree with ‘I read faster than I can listen’.
I used to think having a video of some event or speech might be useful for the ‘No! did he really say that?’ kinds of questions, but with editing and deep fakes, I cannot count on that any more.
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Not so much that, as I can read faster than somebody with an irritating voice can talk. And most of them are irritating. Not only the grating voices, the constant interjections of “uh” and “like” and “y’know”. One of my ex-girlfriends, every 3rd or 4th word was “y’know” and she talked constantly. If I could never hear that again it would be great.
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That’s old-school. Modern videos (on YouTube, anyway) seem to use the “computer voice” option nowadays. Most of them seem to selected the default, but “swishy gay guy” and “loost denture guy” seem to be moving up in popularity.
You’d think since they had to feed it a text file to generate the audio, that would be what the speech-to-text thingie would give you, but nnooo, and it can’t even interpret YT’s own computer speech. Half the time all I get is gibberish, and the rest is “requires interpretation.”
Supplementary gripe: idiots who set the audio at about 150% speed, and the ones that set is at about 75% speed.
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I can’t create a tall building with many stories. But I could create a tall story with many buildings.
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Carp incoming. Launched by Paul Bunyan, aimed by Pecos Bill.
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But will you kill Colin in every building?
Seems if you are going to be consistent you should.
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“Handle every stressful situation like a dog. If you can’t eat it or play with it, just pee on it and walk away.”
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That or an electric fence.
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The dog’s philosophy: If you can’t eat it or fuck it, piss on it.
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The grammar scold in me delights in the “hoard/horde” disambiguation.
Just don’t let the horde get your hoard, or all our grammatical progress will be lost.
As will be your hoard, which would be pretty bad, too.
(Hm. Is it coincidental that we’re getting awfully close to April 15th?)
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So, streetwalkers work whored?
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They whored to amass their hoards. And it sometimes seems there are hordes of them. :-P
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The Groundhog would make a better President than Joe Biden as well.
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agreed
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He is smarter than Biden, too.
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The actual answer to the book question is that lawyers have a lot of tall books, so you fit them into short deep shelves by turning the spine upward.
I suspect that somebody in the family likes monotone white, though. Because he must have had the cash for tall shelves.
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No. It’s the new decorating fad, by people who’ve never read. No, not joking.
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Those monsters. Books deserve proper enrichment and regular dusting.
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Primitives while aping the ones that they aspire to often confuse form with function. They create rituals based on memory and feeling rather than tested and true facts. They seek to appear as what they revere without a thought for the toil and trial it took for those worthies to get there.
Thus they confuse pretention with knowledge, prevarication with skill, and hollow words with deeds. Their lies are easy to spot for those with even a little experience of the world, for they are thinner than skin deep and unconsciously fall back on the chants and refrain they were taught.
It is sad to see such a miserable shelf, though. What knowledge lies hidden in those pages, locked away from the hungry eye? What spark of curiosity died to leave them turned away, as if shunning the one who put them there?
Pity the poor fool that leaves such treasures cast aside. A good book can be the doorway to the future. A better one changes you, as you look upon the world with new eyes. A great one may simply entertain, casting away the worries and cares of the workaday world. Books hold within their humble pages the chance for absolutely anything- why spurn them so?
The answer to that only the fool knows.
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eye dee ten tee error.
all of them…
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blinks
The implication, that a retired Associate Justice of the United States has never bothered reading, is horrifying to contemplate.
But if you want true dread, consider that his replacement on the court is still an obvious downgrade.
Republica restituendae, et, Hamas delenda est.
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Oh hiding the fact he has bought some of the most ridiculous books out there from politicians, it is also one way to get hide of all those copies of the collected wisdom of Nancy Pelosi.
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I figured that since it’s a TV still in his office, he turned them for the camera so that viewers (including TheView-ers) wouldn’t have anything to laud or damn him over by the contents of the shelves. No “Eww! He reads Jordan Peterson!” or “Only Neonazis would have Thomas Sewell and ‘Art of the Deal’ so prominently displayed,” or “What kind of communist reads Chairman Mao?” or “The last time they had a guy with C. S. Lewis on his shelf, he was SUCH a Christian-Nationalist!”
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No, they really do this for decoration. They think it looks better.
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Living the sad beige life. Ugh.
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“They think it looks better.”
Bahaha hahahaha! ”Better” in the monochrome sense, maybe. Or to people who will read the first thing that they lay a finger on.
Or don’t actually read anything but emails and the NPR site….
It would be better not to waste space with books at all. Shelve tchotchkies or college memorabilia or pictures of the kids. Books turned backwards are almost as useless as a model-airplane totem to a south-seas cargo cult.
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“They think it looks better.”
Bahaha hahahaha! ”Better” in the monochrome sense, maybe. Or to people who will read the first thing that they lay a finger on.
Or don’t actually read anything but emails and the NPR site….
It would be better not to waste space with books at all. Shelve tchotchkies or college memorabilia or pictures of the kids. Books turned backwards are almost as useless as a model-airplane totem to a south-seas cargo cult.
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Yes it is a decorating fad. My sil has all her books this way. Covered in pastel colored paper and turned spine backwards.
Stupidist design fad I’ve seen in a while.
Actually, maybe the stupidest ever.
What is the actual point?
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Gah. How do you know which book is which.
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As far as I know, she has never read an actual book and doesn’t care which one is which. The books all belong to her A honor roll kids who left them behind when they left home.
She is a very nice person, but definitely not a reader.
OTOH she has watched more movies and documentaries in the last year than I have in my whole life.
That’s how she gets her information. And she is up on the latest, so …
But, I never could watch YouTube until I found out you could speed it up. Still faster to read the book, but at least I don’t loose the gist of the thing while my mind wanders.
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yeah. I watch them at double speed
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If one has already covered the book in pastel paper, turning the spine backward seems a bit excessive.
I would think that the fad for arranging your books by the color of their spines is still worse, but at least you can tell what the books are, even if you can’t find them….
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Perhaps a signal to like-minded folks?
Admittedly, when the opportunity to use one of the wall of books on a podcast came up, I took it.
All the right kind of people will go “ooooh, so lovely”.
Other kinds exist. I admit I find it hard to grok their aesthetics, and assume the worst.
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I watch some of the HGTV shows. One of those commented to that exact question. They did it for staging to sell a house. They have random books. Or when they participate in remodeling project for an existing home or a home sold but remodeled before moving in, the spines are turned in. In all cases because it presents visually better against the totality of the remodel. Not that they expect home owners to actually decorate that way. That people have taken this as “the way to decorate” when they aren’t readers, does not surprise me. But if not a reader, why waste space on books? That is what pretentious table top books are for (we don’t have anywhere to put large picture books like this). Bonus for us readers if the book is actually read (I did, at an VRBO we stayed at. Book on Teton Grizzly 399.)
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We have several shelves with sections that are the ginormous table top books…turned sideways and stacked, so they’re findable but out of the way.
Started doing it with the ginormous kids’ books that folks seem to buy on teh assumption yo u only have one or tw.
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I immediately assumed it was (1) a fashion fad created by (2) people who are afraid their book titles might show up.
Because (3) A lot of them are Very Bad Eggs and (4) The Narrative changes so fast that yesterday’s virtue signal title becomes today’s cancel-book.
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There’s a service out there called Books by the foot, if you just want the library look, in various colors…
cargo cults, man.
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Looks at Italian and Norwegian concerts. Dear Lord, I do NOT want to know what a Finnish balcony concert would look like!
Nightwish, Amorphis, Children of Bodom, Apocalyptica, HIM, Lordi, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica. And those are the milder ones!
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JPP
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that’d be a very crowded balcony but heck of a concert.
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Wouldn’t it!?! The thought of some of those guys and gals tossing themes and solos back and forth … Happy kitty sigh.
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The darned thing is that meme is far too true. What a fricking mess.
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Am I horrible that I laughed at the “Make the democratic convention a gun free zone”?
Also went aw on the cat gang “You pspspspsps the wrong gang”.
Lots of LOL this Saturday.
😉😁💕
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My favorites were the Peep Strikes Back and “I can read faster than you can talk” although the Keef Richards Hospital was also funny.
Thank you for memes, and Happy Easter!
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It has been a wonderful March Madness so far. (“Why not us?” INDEED).
Offspring survived (and thrived, methinks) trip to Atlanta on two Boeing products; came in 3rd in (regional?) student chapter competition in one aspect.
And tomorrow is Easter.
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Yeah, I bet the competition for exit row seats to get that extra legroom has dropped off significantly, at least on Boeings.
”Bolts? We don’ need no steenkin’ bolts!”
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I liked the one I saw that claimed you are now allowed to bring screwdrivers and wrenches on Boeing flights, so you can help catch up on the maintenance…. I vaguely remember coming across a loose screw in some commercial flight, and asked the stewardess if they had the appropriate tool so I could correct the problem. ( It wasn’t serious, but of the “It annoys me that it isn’t correct” sort of problem ) She said ‘Sadly, no, but don’t worry, it’ll be taken care of on the next inspection.’ That did NOT get me to ‘not worry’ ….
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Well, anything you can see from a paying seat should not be structural, just something holding the plastic decor panels in place. At least that used to be the rule.
But hey, Boeing. Engineering is raaacisss after all.
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Enjoy this intersection of church and squirrel:
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The instruments of the Lord are many and mysterious…..
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Amen!!!
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But how does the moose fit into this?
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[nervous look] ”It’s best to… ah…” [glances about] “…just keep your eyes on the squirrel, okay? Hey, look! A squirrel!”
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The warning about opening the box reminds me of a line from the original Portal (paraphrased from memory):
“Contact with any part of the floor during this next test will result in a black mark on your evaluation. Followed by death. Good luck!”
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There was a Knights of the Dinner Table where falling your saving throw for a particular poison resulted in instant death, as well as D6 points of damage.
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About what initials stand for — did they also tell you that ‘GFY’ means Good For You? :-P
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Animal Control: You released GEESE
Me: Emus were too expensive.
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Dad used to claim that he couldn’t load the dishwasher.
…
Mom doesn’t drink.
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