Flutterby™! From 2016-07-01 to 2016-07-31

Soaked on the boat

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Waiting on the opening ceremonies

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Always worth a re-read: http://www.flutterby.com/archi...ndenceoftheThirteenColonies.html

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There participants in the scavenger hunt with the awesome dangles that Cynthia made!

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Serenaded with Sousa, in honor of the holiday.

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Didn't sleep well last night, up at crack o'dawn to help them wheel the dance floor into the trailers. Nobody here yet...

Just finished loading the floor on to the trucks https://youtu.be/t0MDm4WvHpo

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Dang, morning plans fell through, off to wander the waterfront before I have to catch the train to the airport.

[ related topics: Aviation Machinery Trains ]

Well, glad I decided to head for the airport with some buffer, delays at Union Station on the UP Express to YYZ

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The signs are apparently not seasonal

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Goodbye, Toronto

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Great mural down the street from the hotel

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I try to text Charlene flowers when they catch my eye. From this morning's harbour-front walk.

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Waiting on a plane...

[ related topics: Photography Woodworking ]

Catching up, two from Shadow:

• An awesome bicycle trials jump: https://www.reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/4q9c83/what_a_jump/
• an animation of a camper/house truck concept thing that's pretty cool https://imgur.com/gallery/8Jbfi90

[ related topics: Animation Sports Machinery Pedal Power Bicycling Real Estate ]

Bagheera has not yet decided if he wants to forgive me for going away for a week

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography ]

We've been wondering whether the mint, oregano, or strawberries were going to win out on the roof...

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Went to Dan Nordbye calling at Circles & Squares last night. Had fun, but was reminded that straight square dancing is not my scene...

Phone poll about the Petaluma roads sales tax. No way to tell the pollsters "not while the Ranier crossing is still on the table".

[ related topics: Politics Furniture ]

Probably should have headed into SF to see Rich's cocktail robot at DNA lounge, instead undertaking a massive veneering project for my desk

[ related topics: Robotics Bay Area ]

Didn't check how long the ribs in the smoker had to go before I started applying the glue for this veneer job #questionablelifechoices

[ related topics: Heinlein Woodworking ]

Okay. Now I can have dinner. And then hit it with the iron again.

Fantastic exploration of gender and masculinity and how we force the binary with a crow bar. I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out

Why Can't There Be More Kissing In Porn?

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Movies ]

RT Queen Anne Greenways‏ @QAGreenways:

My patent idea positions car owner on the exterior to ensure ethical dilemmas are resolved in favor of pedestrian.

[ related topics: Intellectual Property Photography Ethics Automobiles ]

Pornography availability is associated with decreases in sexual violence. Of course the GOP is against it. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/11/...convention-internet-pornography/

[ related topics: Politics Erotic Sexual Culture Net Culture ]

Well, I was gonna try to get to the urban chat meeting in Petaluma tomorrow evening, but a square dance caller is sick, so...

Lies! This year I got two yellow pages from Frontier. Despite the "you can opt out" hogwash on the cover.

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NY Times: Too Old for Sex? Not at This Nursing Home

Good to see a nursing home actually talking about sex, and dealing with it.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our machines learning?"

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RT Raj Patel ‏@Rajio:

If you die in real life, you die in Pokemon Go. Be careful please.

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Awesome night calling for the Oaktown 8s. There was much laughter. And square dance.

Dear Amazon: Yeah, machine learning, big data and all, but why did this come up in a search for "plaque plastic"?

[ related topics: Books Photography Education ]

Nice to see more small craft in the turning basin.

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Geeez, ya can't even walk and text anymore without someone thinking you're playing Pokemon Go... #kidsthesedays

Soooo... an Oakland police officer's wife commits suicide using his service weapon. Circumstances are suspicious, but he's cleared by the Alameda County coroner. Shortly thereafter he commits suicide, same weapon, and leaves a note. That note starts to unravel a whole bunch of Oakland police officers who've been having sex with a minor in exchange for not arresting her for prostitution. I mean, right there is statutory rape, but we add the coercive element and let's not mince words: A whole bunch of Oakland police officers raping a minor. Aaaand, now it's crossed the bay: *TWO DOZEN* SFPD officers under investigation.

I'm all for sex worker agency. Prostitution is the combination of sex and free enterprise, and I've got no problem with either of those. It's the illegality that exploits sex workers, and right here we have a perfect example. The young woman in question was doing what she had to to get ahead in her socioeconomic position. But the police officers should bloody well know better.

At Least 2 Dozen SFPD Officers Tied to Teen at Center of Sexual Exploitation Scandal

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture Bay Area History Current Events Law Enforcement California Culture Pop Culture Guns Marriage ]

At Charles Stross reading at Copperfield's Petaluma. Many laughs.

Humming a nursery rhyme, hit "pocket full of rye", thought of ergot, and all of a sudden "four and twenty blackbirds" made sense...

"Good morning America how are ya?"

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Hoping to work with a library that isn't installed on my laptop, Amtrak is blocking the Ubuntu repos. Oh well.

[ related topics: Language Books Work, productivity and environment Trains Public Transportation ]

Kudos to Amtrak for the snacks on the bus bridge from Stockton to Martinez because of track maintenance. But: bummer, more bus than train.

[ related topics: Machinery Trains Public Transportation ]

Riding Amtrak always makes me feel like I'm in my 20s again. Only this time I'm coming back from Mexico to make a court date in Arcata...

[ related topics: Trains Bicycling Public Transportation ]

Setting up Windows 10. Someone on that team needs to do a few Ubuntu installs to see how to write a user-friendly installer.

[ related topics: Microsoft ]

Not only did she plagiarize large portions from Michelle Obama, Melania Trump's speech had a Rickroll https://mobile.twitter.com/son...064219021312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

What science says to do if your loved one has an opioid addiction:

“Rehab kills people,” Willenbring said, adding that the model for the 28-day rehab, Minnesota’s Hazelden Foundation, began offering buprenorphine maintenance itself in 2012 after a series of patient deaths immediately after treatment. Hazelden’s medical director, Dr. Marvin Seppala, told me when the rehab announced the change that using these medications is “the responsible thing to do” because of their potential to save lives.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Reddit: A final response to the "Tell me why Trump is a fascist".

It is amazing how many of my neurons are devoted to different syntax for identical semantics

Holy shit! Trump wants to help Putin reconstitute the USSR! http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016...&referer=https://t.co/HVHBlMEXq0

[ related topics: Politics Gambling ]

The wall that the Overton window was mounted in has been destroyed.

It's been a while since I registered a new domain, so I naively thought I could use my real contact info, like I have in the past... Sigh.

[ related topics: Invention and Design History ]

Veneer trimmed, waiting for the back glue to dry before I attach the ends

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Latest "Why Are People Into That" observing that blowjobber isn't an identity people use. Always thought provoking about subtle semantics.

The cat perch will be mounted against the ceiling with a singing bridge to it

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Gonna smoke ribs this afternoon. Thinking I should get a few more racks and see if I can rustle up some dinner guests...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Okay, it's on: ribs, corn bread, salad and what-not this evening at my place. Tell me if you're coming so I can figure out times.

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Dry fit of the bathroom vanity door, before carving

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Cat bridge installed

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Wish the cat could read, because while he's whining about treats that are too hard to get to... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licette

Bill Gates Calls - The Slingshot Channel Answers

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offers 100,000 USD for projects that improve things around condoms.

http://gcgh.grandchallenges.or...-next-generation-condom-round-11

The worlds first condom applicator slingshot gun. Just because you can doesn't mean you should, but why not?

[ related topics: Humor Movies moron Guns ]

Obama Created a Color-Coded Cyber Threat 'Schema’ After the DNC Hack. FACT SHEET: Presidential Policy Directive on United States Cyber Incident Coordination. U.S. issues guidelines for responding to major cyber attacks.

Whoah, wait: "white" is "an unsubstantiated or inconsequential event" and "black" is "poses an imminent threat to the provision of wide-scale critical infrastructure services, national government stability, or to the lives of U.S. persons"? Who wrote this, metropolitan police departments?

(And it's the Inkernet: The threat level is *always* high.)

Via /..

[ related topics: moron Law Enforcement Race ]

Ugh. My @LGUSAMobile V10 is stuck on the LG boot screen, even after hard reset. Googling says it's common failure mode. Bummed.

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When you go into the @TMobile store and every customer in there is dealing with the same bricked @LGUSAMobile V10 issue...

I thought Java was supposed to ... well... not "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" so often.

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Our very own Meuon does a presentation on MitM attacks for fun and debugging (YouTube)

his page for this

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Just going back through my GMail spam filter, and thinking about how both Google and the Web are over, but some great laughter:

Reddit: [WP] (Writing Prompts) You are running for President, and have begun to suspect that your opponent is really just three kids in a trench coat.

When you pay $80,000 to become an Architect

Yesterday the 1km arc at tour the france fell down

[ related topics: Children and growing up Spam Writing Monty Python Sports Architecture ]

Another reason why URL shorteners are evil: British Spies Used a URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents

Surely I can't be the first person who's juvenile-ly thought this...

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RT Seth Greenland‏ @sethgreenland

Not since the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact has anyone brought Nazis and Russians together as effectively as Trump. #DemsInPhilly

My Twitter stream is full of foreign policy and sex toys, and I keep misreading "Syrian" as "Sybian". This is confusing.

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture ]