Final Weekday Memes...until Monday

So it goes...

Famed director David Lynch has left the building. Keep it weird in his honor.

(In case you don't get the Pabst Blue Ribbon reference, Blue Velvet is available to stream on Prime Video.)

Meme Dump...

It's all relative...

It's 24°F and sunny out there, which is warmer than it's been for several days, and it's supposed to get above freezing sometime around lunch and hang in the mid-thirties until after sunset.

That's gonna feel downright balmy. Tomorrow's going to get into the forties!

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Tab Clearing...

• Weird family moves to Russia to escape immigrants and lesbians. Madcap hijinks ensue. Seriously, this story has it all, including a plan to support a family of five by selling caramelized nuts in a country where you don't speak the language, and the quote "Jesus is our lawyer."


• Fapping to Clippy is not only a sad indictment of our atomized modern society, but also the title of my band’s next album. (The band's name is Virtual Boyfriend Dystopia, fwiw.)


• Canadian jailbreaking?

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Overheard in the Office...

Me: "I'll bet even if you live smack in the middle of downtown Unalaska you can't get much in the way of same-day Amazon deliveries. The produce department at the local Safeway's probably pretty weaksauce, too."

On the other hand, the actual middle of nowhere's a fairly short walk away, where you could just do whatever right out in the open and there wouldn't be anyone around to care but some bored seabirds.

Midweek Memery

Heavy Mettle

The upside: A 9mm this heavy with a good trigger is really easy to shoot well.

The downside: Not cheap.

The full review can be found here.

Who down wit' P.I.D.? Yeah, you know me!

Gorillafritz has an excellent post on the importance of positive target identification in averting tragic, and potentially fatal, mistakes:

"Let me start by saying that no one in this situation did anything wrong. The cop was trying to make sure a boy wasn’t going to kill himself. The homeowner was legally defending his residence from a suspicious intruder approaching the back door of his house. Some frazzled nerves, poor training, or a couple more pounds of pressure on either weapon’s trigger would have resulted in a tragic outcome.

How do we prevent situations like this from going bad?"

Go read the whole thing.

Your house is not a free-fire zone. Use a flashlight. If you don't have a flashlight... well, you're wrong ...but if you don't have a flashlight, turn on the lights. If the power's out, ask "Who's there?"

Don't just shoot at shapes and shadows.

Meme Dump...

Misread

Elsewhere on the web, someone wished a blessed Feast of The Ass to those who observe.

I misread that as the "Feast of Ass" and I was like “Hey, not my thing, but I’m not the Fun Police. You do you, Boo.”

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Memes, Memes, Memes!

RX: "Next thing you know, you'll be snorting fat lines of grated parmesan."
Me: "You say that like it's a bad thing."

Tab Clearing...

• Jim Grey's first impressions of the Nikon 35Ti he purchased from me. (It's a really neat camera but I have reluctantly come to accept I'm not a wide-angle street shooter and it's nice to see it go somewhere it'll get some use. I still have my Kodak S1100 XL nostalgia camera if I want to give it another try.)


• The Volvo 122S 5-door wagon.


• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

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Meme Delivery...

These are the people who call other people "snowflakes"

Imagine being assmad about the sign language person. “Show me on the Binky doll where the mean disabled person hurt you…”

"That person is doing sign language to make me feel powerless" is such a fricking bonkers take.

Lady, you need to go touch some grass, stat. You've been hittin' the culture war sauce a little too hard lately it seems.

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Fire's Long Reach

I was going to be spending the week dog-sitting for this Very Good Girl and her brother while my friend was out in Hollywood doing Hollywood stuff, but that's been cancelled. I mean, not only was the meeting he was going to be attending rescheduled, but the house where he was gonna crash for the week burned down.