*hugs* *hugs* *hugs*

💜

I’m so sorry ❤️

I am sorry. <3

Best to you.

Hopes for strength in the way things are now, and hopes for strength in what's to come.

Good that you can have some time together, even if it's a bit rough. All the best.

I know this feel, and I wish you and yours all the strength and peace in the world.

*hugs and vibes* for you and your dad

<3

Positive and affirming energy to you!

Yeah I've spent an hour trying to explain to a retired mathematics professor that his doctor is changing his meds because of blood work. And I'm not sure he got it, we just gave up finally. It's cruel.

Thanks, everyone. We last saw him mid-2019, and while he'd had reduced mobility, he was still sharp. For obvious reasons, we couldn't visit. Now, towards the end of the evening, Dad's getting very depressed, saying stuff like "Please let me die".

I remember Dad replaced the batteries on this calculator just after he retired, and joked that he reckoned that these batteries would see him out. I haven't checked this one, but he used to note battery change dates on all his devices in pencil inside the battery compartment lid

❤ to you. We're there too. So hard, my mother was so meticulous and now she'll drop her drawers without a thought. She thinks I'm a girl she went to school with and wants her mother desperately.
It's the absolute worst.

My siblings and I are all rethinking our own end of life plans. Genetics keep our bodies alive too long.

I think they missed you.

we don't deserve librarians

Oh, book train sounding louder
Glide on the book train
Ooh-ah, ee-ah, ooh-ah
Come on now, book train

This is amazing!

Ooh the gravity hopper.

The only way this could get better if it made the pleasant chime running by as the trolley did in 'Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood'. Of course, it's a library, so.....

What a delight!

*Buttle

So fetch!

@GroggyGrognard that would be nice AR effect - opt-in, of course

😻😻😻

Happy!

@GroggyGrognard ++ my brain immediately went there as well

I have one friend who calls it a crudité, but he's a cajun who went to culinary school

We call it crudité, but asparagus sure wouldn't be included. And salsa and guac go with chips, not veggies.

@me3dia JOE BIDEN BROKE HIS WIFE'S CRUDITÉ WHAT PART OF THAT DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND DON'T VOTE FOR THE COMMUNIST FETTERMAN WHO PROBABLY CANNOT EVEN SPELL CRUDITÉ

I had a long standing Sunday night get together with friends, and I would call it crudité, but only to be a snobby asshole.

What luddité doesn't know crudité?

To-do lists are great for getting stuff done.

@chicobangs ++

"More like Trolley Opportunity amirite?"

living in the mostly-former-swampland that is illinois, this is my eternal summer status

Beauty.

AWWWW what a great car!!

Gorgeous, and a great story. That thing probably has more space in the trunk than many modern pickups in their beds.

Now _that_ is a Cruising Vessel

@wjcstp - surprisingly, the trunk is smaller than you'd think, and fairly useless for larger things - it's broad, but shallow, and tapers pretty drastically, and the lid does not lift very high. I carried a chair in it once, and had to use a half-dozen bungee cords just to keep it stable.

But the engine compartment was so huge, I could sit on the fender with my feet inside while working on the engine.

Isn't that Brad's car from Fast Times?

@kokogiak It looks really long from that angle, but I think those fins fooled me into thinking the trunk would also be deep

@dapete - close! Brad's is a 1960 model, a bit more rounded and subdued. There was one briefly in Raising Arizona, though. http://www.imcdb.org/i061748...

Those fins a positively *horny*...

OH OH OH OH this would make the best geology car oh my goodness!!!

- looks like it's smiling at road as you drive towards rocks, matching smile on face! ✔
- can look at rocks without stupid glass getting in the way ✔
- can reach out and touch rocks ✔
- can pile rocks in car ✔
- good with sand ✔
- can gently nudge cows out of the way ✔
- can sleep in with stinky feet outside car ✔
- can air out smelly geology packs ✔
- can air out smelly geologists ✔
- can blast AC/DC at antelope ✔
- can call out "ciao baby" at rocks as you drive away with hair streaming in wind and joy in your heart ✔

what a happy car!!!

@williwaw <3

I'm all about those wicker seats

@williwaw ****

"... reach out and touch rocks"
Depeche Mode intensifies

carpe diem

carpe carps

That reminds me. I need to change my slack profile pic.

Now kiss

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Wheeled cart! All it needs is a space for cartridge storage.

ooh, color!

ProTip: That's a two man roll on shag carpet. Guess how I know.

Almost had it - I had a Colecovision, instead.

@GroggyGrognard ooh, look who fancy! I have very specific memories of being blown away by the Colecovison Smurfs game.

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Call me Snake.

I heard he's dead, you know

I love big turrets and I cannot lie.

Believe me, I would definitely be wetting my pants if I knew I was going overboard.

This was part of a survival training class i did while in the Army. Not frame 6, but the rest of it.

This was a standard part of boot camp for US Navy back in '91. It works. If you had to stay afloat for a very long time for rescue, this could absolutely be the difference between floating several hours and several days.

I kind of hate the Navy for making me face my mortality so many times while I was so young.

Plus it makes it easier for horny fish to get to my jibblies!

Real sailors go Commando.

Jumping off a ship to inflate pants means you will likely dislocate your shoulders when they hit the water, thanks to today's ship sizes.

LOL

Hehehehe

You got to admire hope.

Having said that - reading AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE by Stuart Kaufman and MICROCOSMOS by Lynn Margulis would probably be a good 2-book starter set to help this dude see understand how and why we are still SO FAR from being able to program emergent properties into a physics / chemistry / evolutionary biology simulation...

Any good programmer is going to be lazy. They should just bootstrap with git clone physics_lite and work from there.

maybe start from the big bang, there's gotta be some academic code published on those kinds of simulations, then just like ...... let it run

Ah, the reckless ambition of youth, the jaded fatalism of age, once again they meet.

What if God was one of us, just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home?

Just learn Feynman diagrams, from there it's a piece of cake

I heard a guy pulled this off using TRS-80 Assembly Language back in the day, but the cassette drive failed when he was saving the 25th tape, and he just didn't have the heart to start over.

Let me know if your simulation recreates that too.

I always admired her style.