Couldn’t Sleep; Did a Cover Song

Oct. 21st, 2025 11:04 am
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I couldn’t sleep because a certain black kitten decided that he wanted to sleep on my face, precipitating a coughing fit that knocked slumber right out of me. So, here: a cover of “Bring On the Dancing Horses” from Echo & the Bunnymen, which I started recording the other night, and now was a fine time to finish it up. It’s a little more drum-heavy than the original version; what can I say, I like drums. Some people are like that.

For those of you too young and/or tragically unhip to have ever heard the original, here it is for compare and contrast:

Now I’m tired. I think I’ll try to go back to sleep.

— JS

What A Power Move

Oct. 21st, 2025 11:00 am
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A call came in, transferred from our tech support team, and by this time, the customer was already on the phone for an hour. The tech agent was able to get his service back up and running, but he was now asking for a large credit for the one day of service he was out.

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Oct. 21st, 2025 11:00 am
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(One of my uncle’s has a big problem with unleashing farts during family gatherings. He thinks it’s hilarious and brags about doing it all the time. We’re all tired of it as a family. One day, after he’s released a particularly smelly one, I call my 2 year old cousin over to try and put […]

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Oct. 21st, 2025 10:00 am
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So I work in a licensed restaurant, usually at the bar. I’m a guy with a slim build and light on the facial hair. I have one of those names that can be taken as a man’s or a woman’s, particularly in shortened form. E.g., while my name’s not Chris, it’s a good example of […]

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Oct. 21st, 2025 09:00 am
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I am 20 years old, and 6 and a half months pregnant when my car suddenly thuds and starts slowing down while I’m driving. I manage to pull into the edge of a turn lane for a fairly nice neighborhood before I lose momentum. I attempt to turn the key again to restart the car, […]

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That’s Some Laser-Focused Magic

Oct. 21st, 2025 09:00 am
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Adorable Children

I'm at the register scanning a family’s groceries. As I’m sliding items across the barcode scanner, their little boy, maybe four years old, suddenly gasps like he’s just witnessed magic.
Kid: "Mom! Look! That’s the red laser that turns things into groceries!"

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Oct. 21st, 2025 08:00 am
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When I was about 12 for some reason I asked my mom to sign me up for a modeling/make-up class at a department store about 20 miles from my house. Since I was not really into clothes and make-up, this was an odd thing for me to want to do and highly inconvenient for my […]

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Yam-Bushed By Entitlement

Oct. 21st, 2025 07:00 am
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Customer: "I want yam fries."
I blink, because we have nothing even close to this on the menu.
Me: "Ma'am, we don't have yam fries on the menu."
Customer: "I know, but I want some anyway."

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Color Pooling

Oct. 21st, 2025 01:03 am
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When you craft with variegated yarn, it can cause color pooling. Some people dislike this, but planned pooling may be used to create fancy designs without switching yarn.  A friend tipped me to some websites for it.  If you'd like to play with the concept there are many online colourpooling generators/planning tools: https://magicneedles.in/blogs/guide-more/what-is-planned-pooling and https://mathgrrl.com/crochet-color-pooling/ are both great, and https://plannedpooling.com/ is the original.
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So I was just thinking. We haven't found any definitive proof that there's any other life in the universe.

We're also limited by the speed of light. We can only see out into space via the electromagnetic spectrum. And every wave in that is also limited to the speed of light. Meaning from Infrared, to X ray, None of the light we can see via that means has traveled to us any faster than the speed of light.

This means that the vast majority of the stars we're seeing, and listening to with radio telescopes, we're seeing and hearing as they were millions or even billions of years ago.

We also know that radio waves (and lightwaves, but an extent) dissipate with distance. For example, the TV and Radio waves that have been transmitted from earth since say the 1930's or so have been traveling away form earth all this time, and are now our earliest transmissions are about 100 light years away. But, at that range, they're so diffuse that they'd be very difficult to pick up. Like if you had an old TV with a set of rabbit ears, you would still see mostly static. Meaning that even if transmissions from other worlds were out there in the Radio spectrum, the signal would probably be so weak we might not be able to pick it up.

So I'm thinking that any other species out there that has developed as far as we are, but hasn't developed FTL space travel is probably never going to hear from any other species unless they just happen to develop very close together, because light and radio communications are just not powerful enough to be used over any interstellar distance. Even just talking to Voyager 1 takes 24 hours for us and it's barely outside our solar system.

Further, any species advanced enough to have FTL travel is going to have to have developed communications that work at FTL speeds. And we're just now barely starting to fathom the most nascent concepts of what might possibly make that work. Like using quantum entanglement to send data, which we have done, but only just and in a very, VERY limited way.

Point here being that right now we probably don't even have anything like the technology to listen for interstellar communications between other species. So even if there are species all over the galaxy chatting back and forth, I'm thinking we just don't have anything like the tech needed to listen.

It's entirely possible we're the equivalent of someone trying to use a cup on a string to listen to someone else's cellphone conversation. No matter how hard we try, we just don't have the tech to hear.
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This poem is spillover from the June 4, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Public Places" square in my 6-1-24 card for the Pride Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred and [personal profile] mama_kestrel. It is an alternate universe crossover of Polychrome Heroics and Schrodinger's Heroes.

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Poem: "And Everything Collapses"

Oct. 20th, 2025 11:30 pm
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This poem is spillover from the September 5, 2023 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from [personal profile] dialecticdreamer and [personal profile] see_also_friend. It also fills the "Adversary" square in my 9-1-23 card for the Story Sparks Bingo Fest. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred and [personal profile] mama_kestrel. It is an alternate universe crossover of Polychrome Heroics and Schrodinger's Heroes, based on the Edison's Mirror dimension created by [personal profile] dialecticdreamer -- she's currently running a story arc in that, so check it out.

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Today's Cooking

Oct. 20th, 2025 11:20 pm
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Tonight I made the blueberry muffins again.  This time I added a teaspoon of freeze-dried lemon powder.  The lemon flavor is there, if subtle.  I may try this again with honey instead of maple syrup.

Straight out of the bag the lemon powder is intense, sour, and surprisingly floral.  It lacks the bitter notes I was expecting, as it comes from complete lemons peel and all, so if you want that you'll need to use fresh zest.  Advantages of the powder are that it's not overwhelming, it's dry rather than wet, it's not so acidic that it's liable to curdle things as fresh lemon juice can do, it can't spill, it should have good shelf life, and unlike lemon extract it contains no alcohol.  I'd like to explore more uses for this.  One suggestion was making lemonade or stirring it into tea, and yeah, it does smell like lemonade powder.  If you like sour flavors, you could certainly use this as a dusting ingredient for candies or cookies.

Poem: "Cause a Riot of Color"

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:45 pm
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This poem is spillover from the May 6, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from [personal profile] fuzzyred , [personal profile] see_also_friend, [personal profile] labelleizzy, and [personal profile] wyld_dandelyon. It also fills the "Riot of Color" square in my 5-1-25 card for the Colors Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred and [personal profile] mama_kestrel. It belongs to the Shiv and Big One threads of the Polychrome Heroics series. It follows "Babes in the Pineywoods," so read that first or this won't make any sense.

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The Wheelhouse - Week 13 - 2

Oct. 21st, 2025 12:05 am
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 Some people attended "No Kings" rallies this weekend. 

I did not.  I attend the "Yes, Supreme Evil Overlord" rally. I was the only attendee.  I had a sign with my picture.  

It's only a matter of time though before the streets are flooded with people calling for me to claim my rightful place as ruler, of everything!   ;) 


Until then though, you are stuck with me reminding you that you have until tomorrow to get me those Accusations as well as your choice on who should get the antidote!

Oh yeah, and of course there is a little writing competition going on as well.  Maybe you might want to participate in it!   ;)  therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1206077.html

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f you need a bye though, there are still 2 contestants who have some to hand out! (2 each):
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[personal profile] legalpad819 

So if you need one, let them know and they will tell me!!

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How is your week going so far?

A Lack Of Interest In Math

Oct. 21st, 2025 03:00 am
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Customer: "What's the best interest rate you can give me for [saving account]?"
Me: "For that, it would be four-point-five percent."
Customer: "Four-point-five, is that it? I was at [Other Bank], and they offered me four-point-ten!"

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This poem came out of the October 1, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] siliconshaman. It also fills the "Energy" square in my 10-1-24 card for the Fall Fest Bingo. This poem has been sponsored by a pool with [personal profile] fuzzyred and [personal profile] mama_kestrel. It belongs to the Shiv thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

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Monkey See, Monkey Shoot

Oct. 21st, 2025 12:00 am
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Manager: "Why didn't you put [Student's Name] through to the consideration list?"
Me: "Oh, that guy? Look, we only have two intern spaces, so they need to go to the very best."
Manager: "What's wrong with [Student's Name]? He's the son of a friend, so I kinda wanted to give him a chance."

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