wait until you get to the part about the Ginkgo tree

they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea

its existence is so good, the moment something touches it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FmCAs9HFlA

I only got through the original Hyperion, it had great ideas but boring as hell execution. Anyways I always wanted to know, is the Shrike traveling in time backwards? Isn’t it’s destiny in the past?

The robins, song sparrow, and chickadee are alive and well in my part of the PNW. Mostly the noise of modern life drowns them out, so you have to know when and where to find them. Song sparrow are super cute and have a great song. I have a couple pairs that live near me. One in my front yard and one in the back. They call back and forth most of the day. It’s wonderful

I am old enough to remember when Metallica was a garage band and wasn’t radio friendly.

The first time I ever heard them was a live bootleg and I remember Hetfield asking the crowd who was hearing them for the first time “loud cheering” then asking who was recording it for a bootleg “loud cheering and screaming” then he said

you better fucking share that shit with your friends!

I will never forgive them for what they did to Napster.

IMO one of the greatest punk songs ever written

The Stars and Stripe of Corruption

Peak Dead Kennedy’s exercising their freedom of speech while being forced to censer their album cover

Looking at the wikipedia page makes me think it has kinda stopped evolving and has not changed much since the fossil age.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo and more specifically https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo_biloba

It is the last living species in the order Ginkgoales, which first appeared over 290 million years ago, and fossils very similar to the living species, belonging to the genus Ginkgo, extend back to the Middle Jurassic epoch approximately 170 million years ago.

you can always answer how likable they are?

Ever time I see someone wearing their pants almost around their knees, I reminded myself about this fact.

I have been in the room where seasoned doctors are talking to junior doctors like this, I think its normal. Sometimes people that are really smart can dumb down their subject of expertise in a way that an outsider might seem like they are talking down to someone

You fool!

My truck is named Ole Gregg because it’s creamy color, like Bailey’s from a shoe

{thinking} Captain’s log. Commander Hoek here, on a thirty-six year mission to the Crab Nebula. We’ve made this trip dozens of times. {He stops recording his thoughts and addresses the audience} You know, they say sometimes people go crazy on these long trips. They get the… {He records another thought into his log in a distorted voice} SPACE MADNESS. {He stops recording and faces the audience again, smiling} Heh. Space madness.

Body width 8-10cm.

OMG those are small little guys

My grandfather’s grandfather would have called them tatanka. Basically thunder beasts. The creature that demands your respect and attention. Who has the power of thunder when they move together.

It was considered the greatest challenge for a hunter to take one alone.

People forget their places sometimes.

I’ll admit it’s been awhile but about 10 years ago, it could be a thing. One guy needed almost a week of hands on to get it right.

I have been IT support for medical researchers and that application is a BEAST. Installing and configuring it can be a nightmare. Especially when the researchers aren’t proficient in it already. Watching someone who is good at it is like watching the pinball wizard.

Everything is alive and we are just a group of people riding on the back of a great big turtle

I hope Cancer Orb is just a screamo cover of The Beatles Waiting for the Sun