but... what's the left cookie supposed to be?
My only comfort is that the rat is facing the other direction.
Sometimes I think the internet needs an Alec symbol to shine anytime Technology Connections needs to be invoked.
I imagine it would be like the bat signal, but look like hand painted LED Christmas lights or something.
"Beverly, I had the entire yankee candle line programmed into the replicator."
Mae Martin's dad and his puppets feature in a recent episode of Mark McKinney Needs a Hobby
Mark McKinney from The Kids in the Hall (SNL, Superstore and more) has a series on CTV in which each episode has him trying out a new hobby by spending time with a mentor. In series 1, episode 6 his mentor is James Chatto who is Mae Martin's dad. They show a brief clip from the prize task.
!Mark, James, and another puppeteer
Just before the reveal I said to my wife, "I half expected them to tap Mae's dad for this" since I didn't recognize him by name.
Sadly, I'm not sure how to watch it legally outside Canada or a VPN's Canadian IP.
Those are the 3 I'm most excited for. I didn't know Bryan Fuller was a MSTie, but I'm also 0% surprised. Kumail probably had to become a MSTie (if he wasn't already) or else Jonah would have surely driven him mad over the years. Even before he wore the yellow jumpsuit.
Also glad to see that Emily is involved.
Data is the only person that could beat Micheal Winslow on his own turf.
MST3K Turkey Day Potluck of the Stars Marathon | ALL THANKSGIVING DAY
The 30 second promo for Turkey Day just went up. Just when I thought maybe there wasn't going to be anything this year.
> Hosted by Jonah Ray, this year’s marathon features celebrity MSTies David Dastmalchian, Mike Flanagan, Bryan Fuller, Mark Hamill, Matthew Lillard and Kumail Nanjiani and MST3K stalwarts Joel Hodgson, Felicia Day, Emily Marsh, and Mary Jo Pehl, all of whom will share a favorite MST3K episode with their fellow fans. The fun starts bright and early at 5 am ET on November 28 on Shout! TV and The MST3K Channel.
I stand-corrected. This is peak torture for everyone.
If the Lwaxanas had laser pointers attached to the side of their heads and Gul Madred was a child. this would be peak torture for Picard.
Yeah, when I was a kid it was weird when a household didn't own a set of these.
Sad story. The poor otter heard about the Crab Nebula and went for a feast. But it got as far as Eagle, and realized it made a terrible mistake. All the crabs are back home!
Nothing against Rebecca Romijn (and I kind of love that 2 O'Connells have bridge crew roles on Trek right now), but Paramount should have shelled out the cash for a time machine so that 1960s Majel Barrett could have reprised Number One.
NOT Poisoning Rivers Since 1997
Wasn't "What the Frak" a real shirt made in the BSG era?
Right now the DEA is not going after state marijuana because of a memo issued during the Obama administration. That can be revoked at any time.
Sam Bond's is closing after almost 30 years. I feel like this is one of the most iconic closures since Max's.
Also how many were false positives?
I haven't done much image generation but I've had a couple times when LLMs have rejected one of my prompts because it sounds sketchier than it is. I don't remember specifics but it would amount to something like, "I can't get this motor up to full RPMs, how do I kill the governor?"
My wife has a stack of 9 mostly finished quilts that just need bindings and thread burying, all set to get finished and given out between now and the end of the year.
As of yesterday the stack is down to 8 because the lap quilt destined for my workstation is currently getting its binding.
Fun fact: discs can herniate multiple times even after you've shrunk half an inch in height and think all the cream has been squeezed out from between the cookies.
Deno2 and typescript. For no particular reason the release of Deno2 has prompted me to build a web app in my spare time. I mostly a sysadmin, I haven't written anything but APIs and utility scripts for at least 5 years.
My view during morning meetings
I'll go ahead continue today's trend of awesome orange kitties.
Our Laszlo (aka Zozo) likes to show up early in my work day so he can watch all the little faces during my morning meetings while using my wrist as a pillow. Then we turn on some youtube cat tv if he sticks around after meetings are over.
Is including one of these with every ballot really cheaper than a sticker?
Ok this is more disappointing than infuriating, but I've been voting for 26 years and just once I want the state or county to give me a frickin' sticker.
Former Bob’s Burgers actor Jay Johnston was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for his role in the January 6th US Capitol riot.
> Johnston... previously pleaded guilty to a felony count of interfering with law enforcement during civil disorder in July 2024.
> The 56-year-old actor was initially arrested in June 2023 after the FBI tweeted a photo requesting information about his identity. He is alleged to have led a group to the “front line of rioters confronting the police who were defending the entrance” to the Capitol, helping to launch an assault against a group of officers.
McDonald’s busted ice cream machines can now be fixed — legally
For the next three years, anyways.
> US Copyright Office granted an exemption allowing third parties to diagnose and repair commercial equipment — including the ones that make your McFlurries.
> The decision is part of the Copyright Office’s final rule granting exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This exemption-making process happens every three years and is supposed to ensure that the DMCA doesn’t negatively impact people trying to use copyrighted material.
Worth nothing that DMCA exceptions are reviewed on the same 3 year cycle and are frequently revoked. So if you're a McD ice cream fan, enjoy it while you can.
5 Things Wizards Are Sick Of Hearing
Youtube decided to surface this classic Alasdair Beckett-King video for me, now I'm passing on the favor.
Proof that LCARS runs on top of Hannah Montana Linux
If that doesn't work try sudo systemctl restart engines && sudo engage
Mot's Pouch
I know we've already done Mot's apple sauce, but I pictured the Mott's Apple Cannibal as Mot. Now you all have to see it too.
I need human looking hands
Does anyone know where I can buy 3 to 5 pair of normal looking human hand (or finger) gloves within the next week or so?
I finally thought of an idea for a Halloween Zoom-based costume contest to go as an AI generated person, and one of the key ingredients of it is WAY too many fingers. But as I've searched for non-monster looking latex costume gloves and I'm coming up empty. I assumed I have lots of options but that none would fit my XL sized hands. But instead I just find zombie, ape, alien, or skeleton. Some of the 4 finger alien gloves could work, but its not quite what I'm going for.
Update: Thanks all. Between magic trick thumbs, dismembered prop hands, and tiny novelty hands I should have what I need to put my costume together!\ Update 2: I just placed an order for 14 hands and 10 thumbs. I love Halloween.
30 years of Bort
I happened to notice today that the "Itchy and Scratch Land" episode of The Simpsons aired just over 30 years ago (on Oct. 2nd, 1994).
That means that, for a full 3 decades now, I have checked every single gift, souvenir, and tourist shop I've been in for a Bort plate. Its not obsessive and I'm not going out of my way, but if I see a rack of novelty license plates I make a point to look for Bort.
Anyone else, or am I alone in this particular pop culture predilection?
Missed Connection
Thought about posting this to lemmybewholesome, but thought it might not fit everyone's definition.
The ‘Taylor Swift’ Guitar Smashed by Man After Paying $4,000 for It Was Not Autographed by Singer
A video of a man destroying a 'Taylor Swift' guitar as a Texas charity event has gone viral — but the guitar was not autographed by Swift.
The weird get weirder. He apparently spent $4000 to smash a guitar that was next to a signature.
> A man who for some reason smashed up a guitar with a hammer in Texas may have thought it had been signed by Taylor Swift — but it was not, in fact, an official Swift-certified guitar.
> But contrary to media reports, the guitar the man destroyed had not been signed by Swift — and was not a certified official guitar used by the singer, a source close to her merch company confirmed to Variety. The organization that held the auction, the Ellis County WildGame Dinner, presented the guitar with a signed CD insert but the guitar itself was not signed.
A North Carolina dam failure is imminent after water levels at the Broad River rose 10 feet in only a few hours from Hurricane Helene.
> Some North Carolina cities were forecasted to receive 10 times their monthly rainfall amount.
> The emergency flash flood warning issued by the NWS says that at least 3,000 people are at risk of emergency flooding downstream of the Broad River and Lake Lure Dam
This is in additional to the flash flood warnings happening all over the state.
My deodorant retired to Cypress after a long career in Adventure
Thanks to Costco fueled bulk buying, between the last time I bought deodorant and this week, my deodorant changed from the Scent of Adventure to the Scent of Cypress.
So is Cypress the sum total of adventure or an overdue respite?
I guess my new station runs Wordpress
I've semi-recently started a career mode game that uses (among others) Stockalike Station Parts and FreeIVA. I finished a station in LKO and was tooling around in the command module when this screen caught my eye. Even from across the room I recognized the output from the ps command.
!Hey Val, what's that screen showing
So I floated over and first noticed that it's upside down compared to other things in the room
When I got closed and looked at the post image it was obvious that this the Apache Litespeep workers serving up a wordpress site. My head canon is that one the Kerbals runs their website on the computers of Hotel Kerbalfornia.
Lovely Man. He wants to have you for dinner.
I don't know why my brain connected Trump's "a concept of a plan" and his obsession with Hannibal (Lecter, but I went with Smith), but here you go.