Food #baking
Made lemon cupcakes with a “golden” Oreo and a whole raspberry inside, and lemon frosting flavored with the juice of one lemon plus a couple tablespoons of lemon curd, and half of them with pieces of freeze dried raspberries #baking
#31 2008 World in the Woods
I often think about doing another similar to this one.
#art #artist #oilpaint #traditionalart #fantasyart #landscape
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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
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#EmotionalIntelligence #Quotes
Greetings. Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 computer room late one night when the high Santa Ana winds outside started disrupting power. Hit after hit, very dangerous for the minicomputers, disk drives, and other equipment in that room, since we didn't have uninterruptible power supplies back then.
I made some calls and it was decided I should shut everything in the room down. Everything. I phoned the ARPANET NOC (Network Operations Center) at BBN and explained the situation, since I was about to shut down IMP #1 (essentially, a refrigerator-sized router) on ARPANET which sat in a corner of the room, and doing this could cause disruptions if done in an unplanned manner. The IMP was *always* running -- I had never seen it powered down.
I worked my way around the room, powering down terminals and disks, and printers, and the power supplies on the 11/45 (ARPANET Host #1 - UCLA-ATS) and the 11/70 (Host #129 [1+128 on IMP #1] - UCLA-SECURITY. Back then my email addresses were LAUREN@UCLA-ATS and LAUREN@UCLA-SECURITY -- no domains yet.
The usual roar of the machines gradually got quieter and quieter, until only the IMP was left. I pulled down the power switch. Now there was dead quiet except the hum of the lights, a situation I'd never experienced in that room before. Very odd feeling.
Suddenly I heard a click -- the IMP was powering back up by itself. Damn. I pulled down the switch again. Quiet for a time, then click and it came back up yet again. Before I started thinking about screwing around with its power cables or turning off breakers that could have unexpected effects, I called the NOC again to ask them if they had any ideas.
"Oh yeah. We should have told you! There's a little switch that controls auto-restart. Surprise!"
So I found and flipped that little toggle switch, powered down the IMP again, and this time it stayed down. I had turned off the ARPANET -- at least at UCLA. -L
This is a mindblowing and horrifying story about the police using pseudoscience to accuse people of crimes. Please read and share this widely!
https://www.propublica.org/article/911-call-analysis-fbi-police-courts
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#FemboyHooters eat your goddamn heart out. #Peckers is where it's at. My Kitavi w/ @AndavaLives's Alexis.
I know exactly who needs to hear this, so:
Hating LGBTQ+ people isnt bold or edgy or alt-anything. It’s one of the oldest hatreds out there, & almost every evil regime sharpens its claws on us
Precisely *because* we truly harm no one but make some deeply uncomfortable. Thus: an easy target enough will overlook, justify, or downplay.
So we used to have many more features on Patreon: media reviews, monthly playlists, character postcards, but fell beneath the patron-count that unlocked them.
We’re closer than we’ve been in months to getting those back—38 more patrons & it’s done, any tier.
⭐️Underground city. Swords.⭐️
Don’t miss this bestselling series!
An underground city, built centuries ago to ride out the devastating heat. And a solar engineer whose skills may be the key to saving her city…if she doesn’t get herself killed.
⭐️4.6 Goodreads average as of today
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