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ᴅʀ. ʙʟᴀʙ ɴᴏᴛᴇʙᴏᴏᴋ @blabnotebook

Pseudo-public out-of-lab-notebook. Displaced Arts & Scientist / Notional Reference Librarian / (Ad hoc)²Everything ‘til I get out of Dutch. Formally yours, etc.

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“I do a lot of very interesting work with a microwave.” overcast.fm/ Y77u6hv-c Revisiting a delightful @capnmariam/@terryborder conversation, wherein a conversation Re: competitive food programming is ever derailed and Terry suggests I’ll not sell many cookbooks w/ my “recipes”.
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As someone who long leaned on both, every once in a while I have "Music" and "Podcasts" open on the same screen and am furious anew about the encrappening of the world by the native app dissolution of iTunes. Oh, that the mandate of "Don't Make Things Worse" were broadly shared.
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It’s kinda wild to realize that Kevin McCallister, Lydia Deetz, and David Rose all have the same (step)mother.
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A wild situation of being a visitor on another branch's site is suddenly realizing that you are on the same call as someone 10 feet from you, who you normally talk to from 3000 miles away, is compounded by being a loud talker and watching him looking for why he is getting reverb.
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(He put it together when I said I'd been on the East Coast for 2 weeks and looked around and pointed. I had not realized it was him either but he speaks at a normal human volume.)
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I approach all interactions with insects with a “you come at the king you best not miss” energy, which, considering the limitations of my aim, may explain why I will cede the occasional corner to the ones that are clearly spider-kings from among spider-men. It’s their party now.
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Once, in a rental car, I worried I damaged an old phone battery by being plugged in as I hit the ignition BUT as the outboard brain had been struggling to come back online today, I figured why not try Johnny5’s boost, and Lo! TechnoJoy!

ALT Dancing Robot GIF
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Being asked by a boss to tender an apologetic explanation toward ‘being the bigger person’ is wild. Like I don’t think we need to go through a whole Archimedean displacement exercise to even just know that at a glance: like it’s not a subtle difference. They’re very small! [sɪɢʜ]
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I appreciate the grift that FasTrack can charge a $5 ‘toll evasion penalty’ despite the fact that I would have happily chucked 20 quarters into a bucket, Turnpike style, or handed the cash to a collector if the option had not been removed for financial reasons I assume.
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I thought my scofflaw days were behind me, but I guess not. youtu.be/n1TNLU-ydLA

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days

http://wangchung.comRe-recorded version of the Wang Chung classic...

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(I always have the quarters: “Die Hard w/ a Vengeance” is maybe the best one.)
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Jᴜɴᴇ – 2023 Mᴀɴ ɪs ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀ ᴏғ Eᴜʀᴏᴘᴇ⁽⁺⁾ Oɴʟʏ ᴛʜᴇ Mᴀʀɪɴᴇ Mᴀᴍᴍᴀʟs sᴡɪᴍ ʙᴇғᴏʀᴇ ʜɪᴍ Oᴄᴇᴀɴs ᴀʀᴇ ɴᴏᴡ ʙᴀᴛᴛʟᴇғɪᴇʟᴅs
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Around 30 killer whales were spotted in Monterey Bay over weekend -- with no clear explanation why so many had gathered.
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There’s a Farmer’s Fridge jar of Thai Noodles in the safe (for a hot second [literally] I thought it was a mini mini fridge) in the closet of room 826 of a hotel in downtown Houston. (Is this the kind of thing one lets a place know about? It’s sealed so not ⚠️☣️⚠️. So sorry!)
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I love being on the road, but hooboy: it makes the home temperature feel like that much more of a relative heaven. (I used to give it a pass because if I was there it was at NASA and cool (🆒🆒🆒) wins over cool (❄️) but Houston was PARTICULARLY like a dog’s mouth this week.🔥)
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My unexpected last day at this job site is post hotel checkout so my bag is a lil’ extra full: so it was that a lady just walked by me and said: You look like you’re going camping: that bag is THICK! (I replied that it makes me look smaller and we both chortled appropriately.)
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There has been a lull in my travels the last bit so on one hand I have definitely noticed the degree of difference in steerage having lost some status from my 🌏satellite heydays. But also, I got pulled out of a pre ✔ line for a random patdown and was like, “We’re back, baby!”
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There is a weird relief in suddenly fixing the incorrect resolution setting of an external monitor that has been down sampling too much. The fuzz had been discomfiting enough I began to consider seeing an eye doctor for the first time since 2010 pre-laser-work retina scannings.
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Eastern Standard Temporal Hegemony delightfully means teaching a course online at 5AM to other people for whom it is also 5AM because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (It’s nice inasmuch as we’ll all have full days of work after this 🔥🕯🔥)
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Though I appreciate that work from home call center situations are more efficient than alternatives, the rooster crowing in the background of this guy struggling with my hotels dot crom situation does not inspire the most confidence vis-à-vis the giving up of my credit card info.
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Overlapping the portion of my day spent putting out fires with the portions of my day just after setting up a couple separate automated processing workflows in parallel is of key importance to the pulling off being 3 people simultaneously. {🧞,✨,🧞‍♀️} →🥼 ʟɪʟ’ʀᴀsᴄᴀʟs sᴛʏʟᴇ
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I made a reference to my BlahBlahGinger method of maintaining ‘presence’ in two simultaneous meetings to a younger person and had a sudden realization that maybe the Far Side is not AS ubiquitous a reference base as it once was. (I felt the ʷᵉᵉagony of being Thagomized.)
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