What’s on your mind?

[Scepticalscribe]

My parents; yesterday would have been my mother's birthday, and this morning - a lovely late summer morning, dappled sunshine shading into the afternoon - I paid a visit to the cemetery where they rest in order to spend some time there - and it was actually quite lovely, extraordinarily restful, and tranquil.

 

[mtbdudex]

Hmmm, 10 million vehicles, of which a significant portion are fully autonomous drive capable.
Ok… not Elon but some nefarious people / group somehow get ahold of Tesla computers and does who knows what with vehicles … boggles the imagination

Yea, similar to this .. auto updates and all

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Brilliant.

However, it occurs to me that a cat might have solved that particular problem.

We have a cat (<-- see left). It only deals with birds that are already on the ground. Birds in the trees are too difficult.

 

[Crowbot]

We have a cat (<-- see left). It only deals with birds that are already on the ground. Birds in the trees are too difficult.

Yours is a "plains cat". Mine loved trees.

 

[rm5]

Did this recording session (of a rehearsal) this afternoon with a mid-school music ensemble. They needed a keyboardist and a drummer, so they brought me and a drummer in, but they also needed a recording. They want to use the recording/video as promotional material, so I also recorded the whole thing (and they had a videographer come and film). So I was doing three things at once - recording, playing, and doing the clapper board for the cameraman, it was fun! Was interesting trying to do this in a classroom though, this is how I had to set it up—I didn't have the mics set up when I took this picture, but I had them sort of where I was standing. The bass player was off to the left out of the picture, and I had two horn players sit far to the left, and two far to the right to get a good stereo image. Anyway, it was a lot of fun, I'd never done anything like that before!

 

[maflynn]

So today is my kid's last first day of school. Time has flown by and as I cry as I listen to Harry Chapin, I'm so proud of them.

 

[Lioness~]

I thought ABBA finally had done their last stuff. They will never die 😲
So new Agnetha Solo music, a whole album?

Where do we go from here?

New blog post: Where do we go from here?

abbaomnibus.wordpress.com

 

[Apple fanboy]

So today is my kid's last first day of school. Time has flown by and as I cry as I listen to Harry Chapin, I'm so proud of them.

I prefer Ugly Kid Joe’s version.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

Yours is a "plains cat". Mine loved trees.

No, mine is a lazy cat. Any birds to be eaten need to be plucked, cleand and casseroled in a mild sauce ...
She won't even eat raw scraps from preparing chicken (thighs, wings, etc).

 

[Crowbot]

No, mine is a lazy cat. Any birds to be eaten need to be plucked, cleand and casseroled in a mild sauce ...
She won't even eat raw scraps from preparing chicken (thighs, wings, etc).

My mother used to cook up the chicken innards for him. He was a gourmet, too.

 

[DaveFromCampbelltown]

My mother used to cook up the chicken innards for him. He was a gourmet, too.

My cat can read one word - "Gourmet".
If the container of cat food doesn't have that word on it, she won't eat it.
I rather suspect that if I tattooed the word "Gourmet" on any of the local dogs, she would eat them, too.

 

[Lioness~]

My cat can read one word - "Gourmet".
If the container of cat food doesn't have that word on it, she won't eat it.
I rather suspect that if I tattooed the word "Gourmet" on any of the local dogs, she would eat them, too.

Please write ‘Gourmet' on your forehead with a non-poisonous pen, we don’t want to jeopardize the cat’s dinner, and report back. Or maybe assign someone close to you, to do so to us, if her lunch was to any gourmet satisfaction or not.

 

[VulchR]

No, mine is a lazy cat. Any birds to be eaten need to be plucked, cleand and casseroled in a mild sauce ...
She won't even eat raw scraps from preparing chicken (thighs, wings, etc).

Kittens have to be taught by their mothers how to eat prey - it is not instinct. This is why they return with 'gifts' - as kitten they would take prey back to their mothers to be shown how to eat it. Cats are so domesticated that many don't really know how to consume prey.

 

[maflynn]

I prefer Ugly Kid Joe’s version.

Nah, Harry's version is the classic and best

 

[decafjava]

Nah, Harry's version is the classic and best

Very nice song indeed, as for Ugly KId Joe their best song is "I hate Everything About You" and I have a few people in mind today.

 

[Lioness~]

Kittens have to be taught by their mothers how to eat prey - it is not instinct. This is why they return with 'gifts' - as kitten they would take prey back to their mothers to be shown how to eat it. Cats are so domesticated that many don't really know how to consume prey.

I wouldn’t be so sure of that - cats are very instinctual.

One cat I had was very inventive on his own.
We took him from his Mother and siblings very early, and he used particularly me as his substitute Mother and used my fingers and eartips as he would nursing on me.

At very small he was a mostly an indoor cat, but he hiked along with us when we were out.
After that it didn’t take long before he went out on his own and explored, and brought home some small preys as to show us how good he was. We didn’t taught him that, but he got a lot of love and confirmation when he did so.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Just a few hours left of British summer and we are still waiting for the summer to begin in regards to weather. Poor kids have been off school for 6 weeks and barely a day has gone past without rain and sub 20 degree temperatures. This has to be the worst summer we’ve had since 2007? Weather forecast for next week is sun now the kids are going back to school!! lol.

We took our kids to Spain and Sardinia for a couple of weeks so have at least seen some nice weather. I’d imagine most parents are like me when I think it’s about time school began again!

 

[Apple fanboy]

Very nice song indeed, as for Ugly KId Joe their best song is "I hate Everything About You" and I have a few people in mind today.

Another one I like of theirs. Just going to stick it on my Apple Playlist.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

My order of artisan, organic, hand-made, sausages.

They were due to be delivered today.

And I can happily report that they have arrived safe and sound.

 

[decafjava]

My order of artisan, organic, hand-made, sausages.

They were due to be delivered today.

And I can happily report that they have arrived safe and sound.

So much nicer than the manufactured, heavily processed sausages full of nitrates and salt.

 

[Kung]

My new MBP M2 Pro 16Gb/512GB is T-minus a few hours and counting.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

So much nicer than the manufactured, heavily processed sausages full of nitrates and salt.

Very much nicer, agreed.

Okay, they don't have a long shelf life (almost two weeks, unless some find their way to the freezer), as they are totally natural and lack preservatives, but they are absolutely delicious, and I like the idea of supporting small, local, good quality businesses.

Anyway, the order includes two packets of their delicious Italian sausages (with toasted fennel and chilli flakes), and one each of their wonderful pork and leek sausages, and their standard breakfast sausages, plus their own dry cured bacon rashers to accompany that.

They also do German bratwurst style sausages, and French style sausages (for cassoulet or lentil dishes), plus black pudding, and they pride themselves on the fact that the latter is made from fresh blood, which is unusual and rare these days; I shall place an order for some of these products as autumn approaches.

In winter, they will add Merguez sausages, and sometimes, venison sausages, when the latter is in season, to their selection.

 

[VulchR]

Just a few hours left of British summer and we are still waiting for the summer to begin in regards to weather. Poor kids have been off school for 6 weeks and barely a day has gone past without rain and sub 20 degree temperatures. ...

Love it. No heat stroke. And as a kid I used to love the rain. I think puddle-jumping should be an Olympic sport.

 

[VulchR]

My gripe for the day - Does anybody else get into a rage when trying to undo the multiple layers of plastic in most store-bought containers? I hardly produce any waste for the landfill, but a mountain of unnecessary plastic crap from food and other containers from the shops.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Just a few hours left of British summer and we are still waiting for the summer to begin in regards to weather. Poor kids have been off school for 6 weeks and barely a day has gone past without rain and sub 20 degree temperatures. This has to be the worst summer we’ve had since 2007? Weather forecast for next week is sun now the kids are going back to school!! lol.

For the kids, this must have been exceptionally frustrating.

And yes, I well recall that back-to-school weather, when the sun emerged in all of its golden glory, just as the kids had returned to school. Deeply depressing.

In college, we used to call that - and it used to happen with infuriating regularity - "exam weather".

We took our kids to Spain and Sardinia for a couple of weeks so have at least seen some nice weather.

There is a very good reason why sun starved people from northern Europe holiday in warmer (and sunnier) climes.

I’d imagine most parents are like me when I think it’s about time school began again!

Agreed.