Notices by Shiver Pee Timbers (deaduncledave@mastodon.social), page 14

Ugh. Day 5 of this cold^H^H^H^HFLU and now my body has decided to perform a factory reset on my GI tract. There isn't enough pepto in this house to soothe my scorn.

Get yer butts vaccinated y'all.

@bootjack: "Awful lot of work just for trolling."

52 years ago today Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee died in a cabin fire in Apollo 1.

The crew wasn't fitted for a launch that day, it was strictly on-pad testing, and so was designated AS-204. It was reclassified as "Manned Mission 1" in remembrance of the crew.

@interneteh aw poop, I was gonna ask fiddly brewery questions.

@interneteh !!! You brew yet own Mead?

The shape of the lamp is vital to calling the appropriate Ifrit. Even the smallest burr or blemish can unleash the most terrible demons, which is why the adept known as "Alladin" spent so much time polishing and venerating the vessels of his craft.

And then an upstart came along and proposed that specific markings, twists of the thumb, splotches of dirt could be used to CONTROL the people of the Flame.

Heresy!

And yet we stand here before his army of death, checkmated.

What now, friends?

Ah yes. The "coughing so hard we vomit" phase of a cold. Time to see if one can still get OTC Codeine from the pharmacy.

Sick with a cold has reintroduced me to the joys of Maggi sauce, which I'm liberally applying to my cup of chicken soup.

Also, I seem to have fallen asleep at my keyboard and it is now 1 PM. 😴

Fictional Alert Message

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HAS BEEN CALLED. COORDINATES TO READ NASA/AMC/NSC COMB DEC.
TIME OF COMMAND TO READ LL-59-07 ON DATE.
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CBW 9/9/234/435/6778/90
PULG COORDINATES DELTA 8997
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WILDFIRE ALERT HAS BEEN CALLED. REPEAT WILDFIRE ALERT
HAS BEEN CALLED. COORDINATES TO READ NASA/AMC/NSC COMB DEC.
TIME OF COMMAND TO READ LL-59-07 ON DATE.
FURTHER NOTATIONS
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PRESS BLACKFACE POTENTIAL DIRECTIVE 7-L2 ALERT STATUS
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
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Tele-surveyer: "Hi! I'm bla bla with the CDC and I'm calling with an important survey about immunization of children do you have-"

Me: "Imma stop you right there chief, I don't have kids."

Wife: [BITES BACK LAUGHTER]

TS: "Um... "

TS: "Are you sure? Could you go check?"

Me: "Do WHAT now??"

Wife: [FALLS OUT OF CHAIR]

@bootjack
Xbox Original. Kinda missing Crimson Skies rn.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/muggy-disney-parks-downed-at-t-towers-firms-tally-climate-risk

Corporations gearing up to profit from climate change. "More people will be getting sick. More people will need iPhones. More people will need home repair equipment, and loans to pay to repair their houses."

The most influential teacher I've known is my late father. He was born in northern Oklahoma to wheat-farmers who ran whiskey during and after prohibition across the Kansas border. He was a fine artist, photographer, mechanic, adobe contractor, and one of the most interesting people I've ever known. I have spent entire summers in his studio asking him questions about art, history, science, personal relationships, and who knows what else.

I try to live my life like him.

And I miss him terribly.

Most of the best console games were written for a system that is notorious difficult to emulate.

@OldManSteiner Hazelnut bough fame and noteriety after some limited engagements in Europe and tried to turn it into a world tour. Hazelnut is just Skrillex with a more conservative haircut.

@Gargron @ben0_o Very slick! Any way I can show support for this feature request?

How's everyone's weekend shaping up? Anything interesting happen today? I helped bake 40 meat-pies and finally got to watch Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

Which is fine, and good, and I'd prefer not to compare it to GOTG 1, also Kurt Russell wasn't anywhere as compelling a MCU villain as Jeff Bridges. =(

@meejah Regular white loaf this time, just demonstrating basic technique to a friend.