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Do you still pay for things with cash? Have you been somewhere recently where they don’t take cash anymore?

I always try to have cash on me in case I meet a homeless person or Big Issue seller, but I tend to always pay by card. (Which means I wouldn't notice if anywhere didn't take cash.) I have to remind myself to use cash occasionally on a 'use it or lose it' basis. (I don't want to lose it.)

Have you ever used a photobooth? Are they still around where you live (where’s the nearest one?)

I have used them many a time, every time for getting some sort of official ID - passport, drivers' license, student IDs etc.

They don't seem to be around any more. There used to be one in Tescos, and in the Post Office but it's not there now (neither the photobooths nor the Post Office.)

I assume that now everyone can take photos on their phone it's no longer profitable for the photobooths to exist. Which is a shame, because it's actually quite difficult to take a photo on a phone that is acceptable for use in official documents.

dine

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princessofgeeks

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petra

MyNoise.net has a zillion soundscape generators. If you need background noise, I highly recommend it.

I also feel like, "Here is a page with a zillion soundscapes. Which do you choose first?" is a personality test.

( My answer, if anyone's curious )

Which ones call to you?

Current Mood: calming down
Current Music: Meadow Land soundscape -- mostly birds and water

lannamichaels

The dilemma: the Postal Service's song Such Great Heights. Is the line "they will see us waving" or "they won't see us waving". On listening to the official release, it's pretty swallowed and I go either way although I think "they will" makes more sense in context.

Lyrics videos differ.

Live version, 2013 sounds a lot like "won't". Okay but that has instruments, let's pull up an unplugged... okay that's "will". But that's 2023 and also it is common for bands in general to sing lyrics differently live.

There's also a known issue with several artists, of which I will not name names (Bob Dylan), where the official lyrics are clearly different from what is sung in the officially recorded version, so I'm hesitant in this case to trust any lyrics websites without knowing where they're scraping it from.

I assume at some point, this was officially clarified?

I can't even list this under my misheard lyrics nonsense, this one is not my fault and it has been not my fault for 23 years. I really think it's "will" but "won't" is a very cromulent hearing of their pronunciation.

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recadreuse

From Volume 6 of the manga.

Sample:

( Wise in Teachings )

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princessofgeeks

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rmc28

(aha, this post-by-email has finally appeared!)

Books on pre-order:

Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell (1 Dec)
Unrivaled (Game Changers 7) by Rachel Reid (1 Jun 2027)

Books acquired in May:

and read:
1. Darksight Dare (Penric & Desdemona) by Lois McMaster Bujold
2. Grumpy Fake Boyfriend by Jackie Lau
3. Four Weddings to Fall in Love by Jackie Lau
4. Radiant Star (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie [1]
5. Big Red Tequila (Tres Navarre 1) by Rick Riordan
6. Platform Decay (Murderbot 8) by Martha Wells [1]

[1] Pre-order

Go me, I read everything I acquired this month. I did not read a single borrowed or previously acquired book but I have two library books awaiting my attention now I'm past the month boundary.

I bought Big Red Tequila on the first day of the month but got distracted and didn't pick it up again until the last few days. Rick Riordan's adult detective Jackson "Tres" Navarre has a lot of the sass and stubbornness of his teenage demigod Percy Jackson, the book is a lot longer but the pages turn just as quickly. There are six more books in the series ...

sholio

I admit that I watched this mainly out of (morbid?) curiosity about what Nicolas Cage as Spider-Man would be like. Mostly I think it was about what you'd expect that to be like.

( Spider-Noir - just the first episode )

dine

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ineptshieldmaid

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ranunculus

My recent reading has either been complete fluff, or about soil management. Books with "No Till Farming", "Soil Biology" and "Bio Char" in the titles. Reading about the advances in our understanding of soil biology has been fascinating and useful. All this reading, plus watching what is going on in my own garden, is continuing to alter the way I garden. That plus the very warm spring we have had here means that I have tomatoes that have flung themselves up their trellises. Many are well over 4 feet tall with big thick stems, and have their first crop of tomatoes growing rapidly. Some have struggled to set fruit, possibly because we are still getting swings of temperature that are 40 or more degrees F. between day and night. Today it was 95F during the day, but the forecast low is 55.
Chores for tomorrow are to finish unloading the fourth pickup load of wood compost, and start digging a ditch for a new faucet. While I'm putting in a faucet I want to install a underground box for valves. It is long past time to set up timers on my beds. I've got all the stuff to do it!
My solar stuff was supposed to be here Friday, didn't come, was supposed to be here today, but no word. The tracking on it just says "In Transit", which isn't very helpful.

mrkinch

It was a beautiful morning, no clouds or wind and heading for 60 degrees. Everyone is still singing, if in somewhat reduced numbers. Chris spotted a Barn Swallow, the first we've seen there, and there were a number of Double-crested Cormorants, quite high, flying from the Bay to the Reservoir. U and Chris had a surprise selasphorous hummingbird wave; we wondered if they are already migrating. At the top of Lower Packrat there was a noisy woodpecker nest that U and Chris also heard from the upper trail, Hairy Woodpeckers, we think. I couldnt find it, of course, but there is a huge snag just up the hillside that sounded as though it was the source. ( The list: )

Walking back we noticed two Common Ravens being noisy in a big oak just off the road, then U noticed a third bird, a Great Horned Owl! Ravens frequently harass Great Horned Owls, whom I'm sure would happily eat baby Ravens if they had the chance, but in this case it seemed less that the Ravens were trying to make the owl depart and more like they were playing with it, entertaining themselves. Eventurally they got bored maybe, and moved off. The Owl had not moved.

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Quick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!

EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.

musesfool

Bedtime is repealed!

I must say, I really am enjoying the Mayor Mamdani experience. And go Knicks!

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Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Mets vs Mariners on tv

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ladybusiness

It's hard to write about an advanced reader copy of one of the most coveted science fiction releases of the quarter. I tried, multiple times, to collect some thoughts about Platform Decay, the latest release in The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. I failed, every time, because my love for this series is immense, but also hard to quantify. Finding the words to describe sincere emotions? Ugh. Therefore, Platform Decay is already out, and you can read it now via your library or favorite indie bookstore!

Platform Decay is the eighth entry in The Murderbot Diaries, following our hero as it stages a high stakes rescue on Corporate Ringworld. It's working apart from its usual allies, it must infiltrate and escape the station with several squishy humans, and oh right, a former enemy asks for its help, complicating the extraction. Nothing can go wrong!

(Things immediately go wrong.)

To make matters worse, it's also dealing with an emotional health module. What's more stressful than a hostage situation in corporate territory? Mobile therapy. Murderbot must protect its humans (no pressure), avoid corporate forces that would love to slurp its kidnapped humans into corporate slavery (assholes), and navigate across a hostile station where one mistake could cost it everything (business as usual!). ( Read more... )

conuly

We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.

We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.

We were very tired, we were very merry,
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head,
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.

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princessofgeeks

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Current Mood: ecstatic

shadaras

Posted about the aikido seminar yesterday during the period of time DW was having trouble actually posting posts, so idk when that got out of the cache relative to when people check in on their DW feeds.

It's also getting warm again after the weekend that was weirdly chilly/rainy for the end of May, but hey that went well with "do physical activity in a space without AC for most of the weekend".

Apparently it has been a full year since

hafnia and I started our origfic series which wasn't supposed to get this long or complex or include a second generation of story ideas about their kids. xD (The ones up there are shorts, but we do have novel-length thoughts about them all too...)

Summer plans continue apace. Apparently my twin is going to be in the area around our birthday? Which is cool, especially since my mother informs me that he did not realise it was going to be so close to our birthday when he first made the plans (with other friends of his who happen to be relatively nearby), but hey once he knew he was all "okay, I think I can extend my stay until our birthday so we can celebrate together". So! That'll be neat, should be a good time.