Recent content by Stiff Clamp

various somaFM.com channels Also dub techno really creates an atmosphere of subdued intensity, brooding over some industrial landscape. The muffled beats are less intrusive for when you're preoccupied with work, or trying to get going in the morning before being fully awake. I lean toward the...

Had Chat GPT deliver a Biblical rendition of Primus' My name is Mud. Kind of grim.

Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles: Commentaries on German Folklore some newly-translated short folk stories in English for the first time author's commentary features too much judgy modern sensibilities IMO

BIG purse with a rhinestone buckle . . . 👜 I got a pink stun-gun just in case I'm in trouble . . . 🤳

Empty workplace nef

The Travels of Marco Polo . . . . (this edition features extensive commentary footnotes, also illustrations and maps) "Offers a sweeping panorama of Persia, China, Japan, and other lands in the last half of the thirteenth century." "Marco Polo (circa 1254-1324) was a Venetian traveler who...

Lack of sufficient oxygen can make natural gas flame green. Which makes sense in an underground pipe.

I have a small tray suction-cupped to my window. Has room for 2 finches. I keep it stocked with sunflower seed. A squirrel pulled the screen off the window frame trying to reach it. I found it on the ground. Must not have been fastened securely.

halp 🫠

Hmmm . . . Mozilla can use anything you type or upload with FF. (I've only seen the first 2 minutes of this video)

FiiO/JadeAudio JT1 Professional Studio Headphones, 50mm Diaphragms not sure why these have good reviews. I guess I'll see for myself soon. (Now $10 less than usual.)

Reminds me, I need to order a couple new PCs for this workplace. Woohoo. Unsupported OS is unsupported (Windows 7). Be a bit of an upgrade.

"At Padua in Italy they have a stone called the stone of turpitude, near the senate house, where spendthrifts, and such as disclaim payment of debts, do sit with their hinder parts bare, that by that note of disgrace others may be terrified from all such vain expense, or borrowing more than...

$2.70/gallon or so in Texas ( up from $2.58 )

Year or two ago, when there was flooding in Russia, these citizens in one town took things into their own hands and created a dam, or earthworks anyway, to shield their properties from the flood. However, the government found out . . . (uh oh) . . .and punished them for it! Maybe for...